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== Dates ==
== Dates ==
September 21-23, 2015. This is from Monday to Wednesday. Participants are encouraged to attend for all three days, but anyone is welcome for any duration of time. If necessary, invitation letters can issued.  
September 21-23, 2015. This is from Monday to Wednesday. Participants are encouraged to attend for all three days, but anyone is welcome for any duration of time. If necessary, invitation letters can be issued.


Excursions for the technology enthusiasts to ESOC, EUMETSAT and/or GSI are planned.
Excursions for the technology enthusiasts to ESOC, EUMETSAT and/or GSI are planned.
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       <td>FlexiBLAS - A Blas wrapper library with runtime exchangable backends</td>
       <td>FlexiBLAS - A Blas wrapper library with runtime exchangeable backends</td>
       <td>Martin Köhler</td>
       <td>Martin Köhler</td>
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      <td>Study of RTS of ML type with Octave</td>
      <td>M. Manzini</td>
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* the [http://www.graduate-school-ce.de/ Graduate School CE] has granted travel funds for invited speakers
* the [http://www.graduate-school-ce.de/ Graduate School CE] has granted travel funds for invited speakers
* the Institute [http://www.temf.de Computational Electromagnetics Labratory TEMF] offers further sponsoring, e.g. for travel grants
* the Institute [http://www.temf.de Computational Electromagnetics Laboratory TEMF] offers further sponsoring, e.g. for travel grants
* the [https://www.cst.com CST – Computer Simulation Technology AG] will financially support event (Catering, Coffee breaks etc)
* the [https://www.cst.com CST – Computer Simulation Technology AG] will financially support event (Catering, Coffee breaks etc)
== Questionnaires results ==
* All participants are compilers of Octave themselves.The main reason for them to participate to the conference is their interest in the development of Octave Core. Besides that also meeting the other developers in real life seems to be a motivation to join.
* The desired timespan for the conference is for almost all the participants 3 days.
* The amount of talks was to all participants adequate.
* 43% of the participants would like to have more code sprints for 57% the amount of sprints were adequate.
* Everyone liked the excursions, however 4 out of 14 participants thinks that the amount was too high.
* The poster session was appreciated by all participants and there is a slight request to extend it.
* There is also a request to define specific goals before the conference. The most proposed tool to share those goal is the wiki.
* About the financing of the conference: 8 of 14 participants do not care where the money is coming from. For those who care, they want the contribution of the conference fees to the financing as low as possible. For the other contributions there is no clear line.
* 10 out of 14 participants loved t-shirts and half of them thinks that we should stuff like this.


== Previous OctConf ==
== Previous OctConf ==
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== Next OctConf ==
== Next OctConf ==
[[OctConf 2016]]
[[OctConf 2017]]


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