Microsoft’s Channel 9 just posted their first video from C++ and Beyond 2011. It’s a post-event interview that Charles Torre conducted with me, Herb, and Andrei, so even if you attended C&B in Banff, it’s something you have not seen. (Whether you want to see yet more of us is a different matter.) We hope you like it.
I mentioned in an earlier posting that we’d be posting photos from C&B in Banff, and those are now available at the C&B flickr site. Some were taken at C&B itself, others are of the surrounding area. If you have photos from C&B that you’d like to share, send them to us, and we’ll see that they get added to the collection.
Scott
August 25, 2011 at 9:11 am
Only pictures :(
You really should record videos of these sessions for those that couldn’t come.
August 25, 2011 at 9:43 am
Watch this blog or follow our twitter feed, because there will be videos made available for some of the sessions. For others, it’s just not possible, as explained at http://cppandbeyond.com/2011/08/15/the-road-ahead/#comments.
August 25, 2011 at 10:34 am
Technical difficulties, that’s unfortunate and surprising.
“For a variety of tiresome reasons, we’re not making the presentation materials or videos of the C&B 2011 technical sessions generally available”
I’m confused will you or will you not release the videos not affected by the technical glitch ?
What would the reason be to keep some information secret ?
It’s C++, an international standard (which means its for everyone)
It’s not launch codes for nuclear missiles.
Keeping session’s secret is just ridiculous and tiresome.
August 26, 2011 at 10:05 am
Pretty much all the documents associated with C++ standardization are freely available at http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/. My understanding is that the FDIS and the final standard are, per ISO rules, not freely available, because selling them is one of the ways the standardization process gets funded.
C++ and Beyond is not part of C++ standardization, and the decision whether to publish videos of the sessions is made my Herb, Andrei, and me. We’ve agreed to make videos of the Q&A sessions available. Beyond that, Herb decides about the availability of video for his sessions, Andrei decides for his, and I decide for mine.
I’ve decided that, first, I don’t want to publish anything that’s not complete, so if a video is only partial or is missing some audio, I don’t want to make that available. (It’d be like publishing incomplete segments of a book, and I wouldn’t do that, either.) Second, given the enormous investment in time and energy it took to create my presentations for C++ and Beyond, and given that the people who attended invested significant time and money to see them, I’m disinclined to make the content freely available.
I’ve come to other decisions for other presentations (e.g., my two talks at the ACCU conference in April, one of which I presented at last year’s C&B — see http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2011/05/presentation-materials-from-accu-talks.html). I make these decisions on a case-by-case basis.
Thanks for your understanding.
Scott