I messed up the pricing windows and it has gone into late registration pricing. I will fix that up. The ticket pricing will start at $225 for early bird.

In the mean time please participate in the reverse cfp. http://www.cconf.org/pfc/

I really want to give a talk about using libuv. It isn't a perfect library, but it is really one of the first to build a portable API for high performance event loops. (libev is great, and on *nix libuv uses it internally, but on Windows it doesn't use IO Completion ports)

https://github.com/joyent/libuv

Registration is all fixed up now with the new/correct pricing.

CCAN looks really promising. I really wish it would take off. IMO every language should have it's own PyPI/CPAN/Gems implementation.

Having dependency management tool for that will also be incredibly useful. (Is there anything like pip for C modules?)

The closest thing to PIP for C libraries is probably your distributions package manager, if you're on Linux. That can even get you the source code, I think.

The reason so many people are using C though is that they want more control that "import json".

I haven't seen a need for this yet in either my open source work OR my professional work. Though, YMMV