Votingresults for Meeting C++ 2016
published at 14.06.2016 08:55 by Jens Weller
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Last night the deadline for voting on the submissions for Meeting C++ 2016 ended. Its a huge success, 165 people have voted, distributing 8514 votes on 72 talks, so the average voter voted pretty much on 50 talks.
Results
The first result of this vote is the popular track, as pretty much only the very popular topics rise to the top. I first will notify the speakers which have been accepted within this week.
These are the 7 talks which made it in the popular track:
| Exploring C++17 and beyond |
| C++ Static Analysis |
| Functional reactive programming in C++ |
| C++ Core Guidelines: Migrating your Code Base |
| Want fast C++? Know your hardware! |
| The memory model in C++ |
| Implementing `static` control flow in C++14 |
Looks like a very good track to me!
The other 4 Tracks are the general, theme (gamedev), sponsors and my personal track for this years Meeting C++. There is an existing preselection, I hope to announce most speakers and talks within this and next week!
Selection
From 72 talks, only 21 can make it into the regular program, plus 7 talks that are able to go into my personal track, as its the 5th anniversary of Meeting C++ this year. Means, only 30 talks will be able to make it to the conference from 72. In the voting you could vote between 0 - 5 for each talk, which translates to -3 - +3 in vote weights. This is summed and then the average is taken, this average is what the popular track is based on.
The top 7 has always made it into the popular track, and again this is a list of very interesting talks. There were not a lot of submissions for the gamedev track, but a couple of other SG14 related submissions, so that this years theme track will contain gamedev and SG14 related talks.
One problem of the voting is, that only popular topics rise to the top, and then there is a long field of talks where the difference is marginal. Also, people vote very differently, and choosing only from the top voted talks would make a boring, but popular program. So selecting the general track is based on a mix of voting result, speaker and topics yet not covered.
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