[Lisp-fosdem] considering submission on GCC-MELT

[Basile Starynkevitch]

Dea All,

I am interested in submitting a 60 minutes full presentation on GCC-MELT - see http://gcc-melt.org/ for more.

MELT is a Lispy domain specific language (and GPLv3+ implementation, as a GCC meta-plugin)
to extend and customize the GCC compiler.

However, I am unfamiliar with FOSDEM (never been there, but very interested!) and I want to maximize
my chances of being accepted.

Would a talk, for people knowing some Lisp dialect but unfamiliar with GCC technology, focused on
an overview of the MELT language and its pecularities (w.r.t. to other Lisp-like languages),
on implementation challenges and possible MELT applications, with some view on future work,
be relevant for FOSDEM ?

I am submitting https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15/event/2987

Should I submit slides (is PDF an acceptable format for slides done with e.g. LaTeX/Beamer ?)
and a paper (which length, which format, e.g. which LaTeX slide)?

Should the slides and papers be ready before the submission deadline (december, 14th, 2014) or
is a detailed abstract enough?

Do you have some related past talks (at previous FOSDEM, preferably Lisp related), as examples?

Apparently you already heard of MELT. What are the particular questions you want me to focus on?

Regards.

[Sanel Zukan]

Hi,

Just noticed you sent this mail to the list too.

I replied it directly to your mail, but if you have more questions or
things you would like to discuss, feel free to send it to this list.

Best,
Sanel