Program areas at LLVM Foundation
<educational outreach> the educational outreach program is our largest program and includes educational materials and events related to the LLVM project, compiler technology, and tools. We held two LLVM developers' meetings; one in london, uk and one in san jose, ca. A LLVM developers' meeting is an educational and technical conference that focuses on compiler and tools development, current uses, and future potential applications. The slides and video recordings are posted on the public website and made available for free to anyone. Our european LLVM developers' meeting was held in may 2022 in london, uk. This was our first in person LLVM developers' meeting since the covid-19 pandemic. We opted to have a small gathering of 150 LLVM developers with sessions over 2 days. This event featured talks, tutorials, student talks, posters, and round tables. The recordings of the talks and tutorials were made available for free on our website after the event. In november 2022, we hosted our LLVM developers' meeting in san jose, ca. At this event, we had 375 attendees over 2 days and a pre-conference day of workshops. This event featured networking sessions, technical talks, tutorials, lightning talks, posters, and a student research competition. All talks and tutorials were recorded and the videos and presentation slides were made available for free on the public website. The LLVM Foundation continued its participation with the google summer of code (gsoc) program through the organization of mentors. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the mentor summit was virtual. The gsoc program helps students become involved in the LLVM project by assigning each a mentor who can provide guidance during the three month project. This year we had 15 students participating. This program is a key piece in ensuring the long term health and growth of the LLVM project community.
<diversity & inclusion> the diversity and inclusion program aims to increase diversity and inclusion in the LLVM project, and the field of compilers and tools. The program is named community.o and the name symbolizes our efforts to bring developers of different backgrounds together within the LLVM project, field of compilers and tools, and open source. We hosted an online virtual summit which featured talks, workshops, and panels. All recordings were made available for free on our youtube channel after the event. In addition, we continue to support the women in compilers and tools meetup series with in person and virtual meetings featuring women in the field of compilers and tools.
<grants & scholarships> the grants & scholarships program was created to address the rapidly growing use of the LLVM project for academic research and compilers courses at universities around the world. The program is designed to support student travel to the LLVM developers meetings and other compiler related conferences that students may attend and present their LLVM and compiler related research. This was the seventh year of the program and we were able to support students to attend the LLVM developers' meetings and other compiler related conferences again as events are starting to be held in personl agian and travel is allowed.
The community health & infrastructure of the LLVM project provides infrastructure support and community initiatives to help ensure the longevity, stability, and quality of the LLVM project which is critical to the field of compilers and tools and our work within this domain.