Things are moving forward on the organisation for next year’s Code Generation 2008 event.

The event web site was launched back in June and had a makeover in July. There’s been a steady flow of traffic to the site over the summer and the site has been updated as planning has progressed.

We’ve recruited some volunteers to a program committee this time around and that should help spread the load of reviewing and also help generate an even higher quality programme than CG2007.

We are very grateful to the following people who have agreed to participate in the session proposal review process:

• Pedro J. Molina, Capgemini Spain
• Laurence Tratt, Bournemouth University
• Markus Voelter, Independent
• Jos Warmer, Ordina
• Andrew Watson, OMG

We also started recruiting sponsors and supporting partners back in September. So far NT/e have signed up as sponsors (again) and IASA and Cambridge Wireless have signed up as supporting partners. Members of these latter two organisations will get a discount on their conference fees in return for promoting the event to those members.

With the Program Committee we’ve developed a call for speakers which was launched at the start of October. We’ve promoted this as widely as possible and have started to receive a trickle of session proposals. The deadline for submitting a session proposal is Friday January 18th 2008 so we expect the bulk of proposals to arrive in December and early January. If you have an idea but aren’t sure whether to submit it then you can visit the event web site for more information. If you’re planning on coming and have a topic you’d like to hear someone speak on but don’t want to do it yourself you can also send us your ideas and we will post them on the web site.

We’ve also identified our two keynote speakers. These are household names in the code generation community and will be announced on the web site later this month.

That’s it for now, more on CG2008 soon…