<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’ve been asked to explain a bit more. Birds of a Feather sessions are discussions led by 1 or more people on a specific topic. The presenter(s) typically provide a few slides to guide the discussion and someone takes notes. Anyone can attend a BoF and participate in the discussion. It is not meant to be a formal presentation where the audience just listens. BoFs usually have a goal such as brainstorming ideas to solve issues or plan future development.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As an example, at the last LLVM Developers’ Meeting in San Jose we had BoF sessions on: </div><div class="">Storing Clang data for IDEs and static analysis<br class="">Source-based Code Coverage BoF<br class="">Clang Static Analyzer BoF<br class="">Co-ordinating RISC-V development in LLVM<br class="">Thoughts and State for Representing Parallelism with Minimal IR Extensions in LLVM <br class="">BoF - Loop and Accelerator Compilation Using Integer Polyhedra<br class="">LLDB Future Directions<br class="">LLVM Foundation - Status and Involvement </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope this information is useful.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Tanya</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 14, 2018, at 10:03 AM, Tanya Lattner <<a href="mailto:tanyalattner@llvm.org" class="">tanyalattner@llvm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">We are looking for a few more Birds of Feather sessions for the 2018 Euro LLVM Developers’ Meeting in Bristol,UK to round out our program. If you are interested in organizing a BoF, please send email to <a href="mailto:eurollvm-organizers@lists.llvm.org" class="">eurollvm-organizers@lists.llvm.org</a> with the title, speakers, and brief abstract. It would be very helpful to have proposals submitted by March 22nd so we can finalize the schedule.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Tanya Lattner</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>