November 2010 - FOSDEM - lists.fosdem.org

World of GNUStep FOSDEM 2011 call for participation
by Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

Fellow GNUsteppers, the call for FOSDEM 2011 participation is out: Call for participation The GNUstep project and GNUstep related projects ("World of GNUStep") where luckily granted one of the rare devrooms at FOSDEM 2011. Now we are looking for people who want to give a talk, moderate a discussion, hold a hand ons (practice) / hacking session or organize a code sprint at FOSDEM 2011. The room at out disposal will be AW1.117 (capacity is 31 seats), on Saturday 2011-02-05 from 13:00 to 19:00. Please send your proposals to GNUstep discussion list ( mailto:discuss-gnustep@gnu.org ), the organizers (up till now just me) or - if you've got a wiki account - enter them right there: http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php? title=FOSDEM_2011&action=edit&section=6 . At first a title, a short summary, proposed duration and a preffered time slot would do, so we can start scheduling as soon as possible. see also: http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/FOSDEM_2011#Call_for_participation

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Mono Developer Room at FOSDEM 2011: CFP
by Ruben Vermeersch 10 Nov '10

10 Nov '10

Good news everyone! There will be a Mono Developer Room at FOSDEM 2011. We need your talks to make sure it's at least as big of a success as last year! We are looking for speakers to fill up the room, which we have on Saturday, February 5 (13:00 – 19:00). If you have made nice and cool things with or related to Mono and you want to show it to the world, this is your chance! If you're interested in speaking, please fill in this form: http://bit.ly/mono-fosdem-2011 Do it before Dec 25, as we’ll need some time to handle confirmations and finalize the schedule in time before the deadline imposed to us by the FOSDEM organizers. Also, please forward this CFP to whoever might be interested. Cheers and I hope to see everyone there! Ruben -- Ruben Vermeersch (rubenv) http://www.savanne.be/

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PostgreSQL@FOSDEM 2011 - Call for talks
by Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum 07 Nov '10

07 Nov '10

FOSDEM is one of the biggest Free and Open Source event held annually in Brussels, Belgium, and attended by around 4000 people. As in recent years, the PostgreSQL project will have a devroom where we will be presenting a number of talks. The event will be held on the 5 - 6th February 2011. We're looking for developers, users and contributors to submit talks for inclusion on the program. Any topic related to PostgreSQL is acceptable as long as it is non-commercial in nature. Suggested topics might include: * Migration of systems to PostgreSQL * Developing applications for PostgreSQL * Benchmarking and tuning * Administering PostgreSQL installations * Spatial applications * PostgreSQL hacking * Data warehousing * New features * Community & user groups * PostgreSQL tools and utilities * Tips and tricks * Replication * Case studies We will have a number of 45 minutes slots, and may split one or more into 3 back-to-back 15 minute slots if we receive suitable proposals. Please submit your proposals to: fosdem(a)postgresql.eu and include the following information: * Your name * The title of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be listed with ~250 from other projects) * A short abstract of one to two paragraphs * A short biography introducing yourself * Links to related websites/blogs etc. The deadline for submissions is 20th December 2010. The proposals will be considered by committee. If your proposal has been accepted, you will be informed by email within one week of the submission deadline. -- Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum German PostgreSQL User Group European PostgreSQL User Group - Board of Directors Volunteer Regional Contact, Germany - PostgreSQL Project

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CFP - Open Source Telephony Devroom - FOSDEM 2011
by Russell Bryant 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

Greetings, This is a call for presentations for the open source telephony devroom at FOSDEM 2011 - http://www.fosdem.org/. We will be holding a day full of presentations on development topics in the area of open source telephony on Sunday, February 6th. The schedule allows for presentations from 9:00 to 17:00. The room we have available will have a projector, wifi, and 59 seats. Please submit all proposals no later than 2010-12-10. Notification of accepted speakers will be provided by 2010-12-17. We will then work to have a schedule finalized by 2011-01-07. Talks should be submitted by fulling out the following form: http://goo.gl/9SWlz Please direct discussion about this devroom to the telephony-devroom mailing list hosted on http://lists.fosdem.org/. If you would like to contact the devroom organizer directly, please contact Russell Bryant <russell(a)digium.com>. Feel free to forward this along to any people or mailing lists that you think would be interested in this event. Thank you! -- Russell Bryant

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FOSDEM call for lightning talks
by Mattias 'Tias' Guns 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

To all open source projects, Lightning Talks are your chance for 15 minutes of fame: every free or open source project can apply for giving a lightning talk at FOSDEM. Our goal is to offer all the projects that do not fit in a specific main track or devroom the opportunity to speak. During exactly 15 minutes, one person gets to present the project or any aspect of it. All the lightning talks happen in a large room that can host up to 300 people. We hereby invite proposals for lightning talks, a talk can be submitted on the online form at: http://fosdem.org/2011/call_for_lightningtalks 2010-12-06: Deadline for lightning talk requests 2010-12-14: Acceptance notification of lightning talks 2011-02-05 to 2011-02-06: FOSDEM Feel free to spread around, The FOSDEM staff.

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FOSDEM call for stands
by Mattias 'Tias' Guns 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

To all open source projects, We offer a place for a stands in the hallways, to projects that want to present themselves to the visitors in a more personal fashion. Stands can be used to share information, demo software, sell merchandising, give away goodies and so forth. We hereby invite proposals for stands, a stand can be requested on the online form at: http://fosdem.org/2011/call_for_stands 2010-12-06: Deadline for stand requests 2010-12-14: Acceptance notification of stands 2011-02-05 to 2011-02-06: FOSDEM Feel free to spread around, The FOSDEM staff.

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[CFP] Data Analytics DevRoom
by Olivier Grisel 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Call for Presentations: Data Analysis Dev Room, FOSDEM http://fosdem.org - 5 February 2011 - 1pm to 7pm - Brussels, Belgium This is to announce the Data Analysis DevRoom co-located with FOSDEM. The first Meetup on analysing and learning from data, taking place in Brussels, Belgium. Important Dates (all dates in GMT +2): Submission deadline: 2010-12-17 Notification of accepted speakers: 2010-12-20 Publication of final schedule: 2011-01-10 Meetup: 2011-02-05 Data analysis is an increasingly popular topic in the hacker community. This trend is illustrated by declarations such as: ""I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I’m joking, but who would’ve guessed that computer engineers would’ve been the sexy job of the 1990s? The ability to take data—to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it—that’s going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades, not only at the professional level but even at the educational level for elementary school kids, for high school kids, for college kids. Because now we really do have essentially free and ubiquitous data. So the complimentary scarce factor is the ability to understand that data and extract value from it."" -- Hal Varian, Google’s chief economist Topics The event will comprise presentations on scalable data processing. We invite you to submit talks on the topics: * Information retrieval / Search * Large Scale data processing * Machine Learning * Text Mining * Computer vision * Linked Open Data Sample list of related open source / data projects (not exhaustive) : * http://lucene.apache.org * http://hadoop.apache.org (including MapReduce, Pig, Hive, ...) * http://www.r-project.org/ * http://scipy.org * http://mahout.apache.org * http://opennlp.sourceforge.net * http://nltk.org * http://opencv.willowgarage.com * http://mloss.org & http://mldata.org * http://dbpedia.org & http://freebase.com Closely related topics not explicitly listed above are welcome. High quality, technical submissions are called for, ranging from principles to practice. We are looking for presentations on the implementation of the systems themselves, real world applications and case studies. Submissions should be based on free software solutions. Submission Proposals should be submitted at fosdem.datadevroom(a)gmail.com no later than 2010-12-17. Acceptance notifications will be sent out on 2010-12-20. Please include your name, bio and email, the title of the talk, a brief abstract in English language. Please indicate the level of experience with the topic your audience should have (e.g. whether your talk will be suitable for newbies or is targeted for experienced users.) The presentation format is short: 30 minutes including questions. We will be enforcing the schedule rigorously. Sponsoring If you are interested in sponsoring the event (e.g. we would be happy to provide videos after the event, free drinks for attendees as well as an after-show party), please contact us. Note: "DataDevRoom sponsors" will not be endorsed as "FOSDEM sponsors" and hence not listed in the sponsors section on the fosdem.org website. Announcements Follow @DataDevRoom on twitter for updates. News on the conference will be published on our website at http://fosdem.org. Program Chairs: * Olivier Grisel - @ogrisel * Isabel Drost - @MaineC * Nicolas Maillot - @nmaillot Please re-distribute this CFP to people who might be interested. Online version of the CFP: http://datadevroom.couch.it/CFP People interesting in attending the devroom are invited to join the mailing list: http://lists.fosdem.org/mailman/listinfo/data-devroom This mailing list will be used for announcements but can also be used to let participants get to know each other and organize informal BoF or drinkups before or after the conference. -- Olivier http://twitter.com/ogrisel - http://github.com/ogrisel

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Call for papers for the "MySQL & Friends" developer room
by Lenz Grimmer 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Hi, I sent out a call for submissions for our DevRoom yesterday - your help in spreading the word would be appreciated! http://lenzg.net/archives/319-Call-for-Papers-MySQL-and-Friends-Developer-R… [SNIP] It's that time of the year again — the nice folks at FOSDEM have granted us a developer room at their upcoming conference (February 5+6 2011 in Brussels, Belgium)! As usual there were more applications than they were able to accommodate, so we are very grateful for this opportunity for collaboration. Titled "MySQL and Friends", our room next year will be H.2213 with a capacity of 100 seats. It will be at our disposal on Saturday 5th, from 13:00 till 19:00. Like last year, we would like to set up a schedule of talks related to the MySQL server and the various projects that surround it. Each talk will last 20 minutes, plus 5 minutes of Q&A and a 5 minute break for switching speakers, giving us 12 slots in total to fill with excellent tech talks. Take a look at this year's schedule (http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/FOSDEM_2010_Developer_Room) for some examples! I hope we can assemble an even more exciting and interesting schedule for next year. Quoting from my last year's call for papers (http://blogs.sun.com/MySQL/entry/call_for_papers_for_mysql) We are looking for covering a wide range of topics that attract both MySQL DBAs as well as application developers that work with MySQL as their database of choice. Are you developing a new storage engine or other plugin? Do you want to share your experiences and best practices in administering or deploying MySQL servers? Did you develop a new method to scale a MySQL setup? Let us and the audience know about it! You can submit your talk proposal via this submission form: https://spreadsheets2.google.com/viewform?formkey=dC0zWWtJcmowWHFSbGUyLTk3b… The deadline for turning in your proposal is Sunday, 26th of December, 2010, after which there will be a voting and rating period to identify the most interesting and attractive topics. Please check the FOSDEM 2011 information page on the MySQL Forge Wiki (http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/FOSDEM_2011) for more details and don't hesitate to contact me directly, if you have any questions or suggestions. I look forward to your proposals! [SNIP] Lenz -- Lenz Grimmer | MySQL Community Relations Specialist EMEA Phone: +49 40 41267308 | Mobile: +49 172 7106443 ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG - http://oracle.com Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Rijnzathe 6, 3454PV De Meern, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschaftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment - http://www.oracle.com/commitment

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accepted devrooms
by Mattias 'Tias' Guns 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Below you can find the list of accepted devrooms, also on http://fosdem.org/2011/news/accepted-devrooms We were very pleased with the devroom proposals we received, as many were collaborative proposals with ample opportunity for cross-pollination between projects. As a side effect, this did make the decision process even harder. We asked the devroom organizers to send a copy of their call for papers to this mailinglist, and in the near future we will collect the different calls on our website. Following devroom requests were accepted, and will have a room of varying size on Saturday or Sunday: * Accessibility The goal is to talk about and focus on accessibility across multiple distinct technologies and open source projects. * BSD The most notable Berkeley Software Distributions are perhaps the major open source BSDs (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD) which have themselves spawned a number of children. FreeBSD-kernel is also used in Linux projects like Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. * Configuration/Systems Management Mini-talks from real world case studies, brainstorming and hacking around configuration and systems management from complex virtual environments and cloud computing to desktops and laptops. * Crossdesktop The "CrossDesktop" developer room is a collaboration across KDE, GNOME and XFCE to host talks about common topics, freedesktop.org as well as interoperability. * Data Analytics Open Source tools for Data Analytics. This includes Machine Learning, Text Mining and Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Recommender Engines, Visualisation, Data Mining, Large Scale and distributed data processing, etc. * Distribution Miniconf As last year, the idea is that rather than having several distributions with their own respective and individual Developer Room, we will host mixed conference rooms where talks and sessions will be organized by topic, with contributors from all distributions attending and participating. * Embedded Focus on working with embedded systems, cross-compiling, low memory footprints and all that is related to running open-source software on low power or mobile devices. * Free Java With JDK 7 due to make an appearance, our goal is to provide a venue for the developers and users of the Free Java projects to collaborate and discuss on a range of topics from virtual machines through to deployment on FOSS operating systems. * GNU The goal is to promote discussion on the advancement of the GNU coding standards and maintainers guidelines as well as the packages implementing them, and strengthen the community of maintainers and developers. * Jabber/XMPP The Jabber/XMPP devroom brings together developers of XMPP-using applications. The room will be used for presentations and tutorials on the protocol itself as well as specific projects, hacking on XMPP projects and protocol development discussions. * LibreOffice Our goals is to present ourselves and collaborate on development topics, introduce the idea of the Foundation and make one more important step towards open and transparent processes. * Mono Mono is a software platform designed to allow developers to easily create cross platform applications. We feel that by embracing the successful, standardized .NET software platform, we can lower the barriers to producing great applications for Linux. * Mozilla Contributors and staff of the Mozilla Project will give presentations and lead discussions on different areas of the project, notably, the latest version of Firefox, hacks.mozilla.org, HTML5 demos, Jetpack Development, SeaMonkey etc... * MySQL & friends Talks and discussions related to the MySQL Server Ecosystem. We'd like to cover sessions about best practices (e.g. performance tuning, scaling, high availability) as well as introductions into related technologies and projects. * New challenges in Virtualization There are several projects related to virtualization and the many open problems it poses. This devroom aims to be a meeting point where developers of these projects can meet to reinforce their cooperation. * Open Source Telephony The purpose of this devroom is promote cross pollination between projects in the telephony space. There are a good number of open source telephony projects out there and their goals may differ, but they all have certain values in mind, such as standards and interoperability. * Perl We are going to organize presentations and hacking sessions on a number of Perl related open source projects such as Dancer, Mojolicious, Rakudo and Padre, as well as other Perl related projects such as Perl DBI and MongoDB. * PostgreSQL FOSDEM is the second most important conference for the European PostgreSQL community (after our own PGDay). The majority of talks will be developer talks, use cases, and PostgreSQL related applications are also welcomed. * Security / hardware crypto The goal is to to raise the awareness of OpenSC and smart cards in general. The room targets both "core" PKI related software people, who work on libraries other developers use, and developers of any software supporting private keys. * World of GNUstep The goal is to teach interested developers how to write cross platform applications or port Cocoa applications to Linux, BSD and Windows using GNUstep; share news about the latest development and plans on GNUstep; code sprints, hacking, discussing... The FOSDEM staff.

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Call for talks for the FOSDEM 2011 distributions miniconference
by Wouter Verhelst 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Hi, [a somewhat informal call for talks has preceded this one; this CfT does not change anything that was said there, but does add some information] This is the official call for talks for the FOSDEM 2011 distribution miniconference. Talks for this miniconference should have a subject matter that is relevant for distribution developers; for example, they could be about methods for packaging software, the organization and workflow of distributions, configuration management systems as relevant to distribution maintainers, etc. An affiliation with a specific distribution is not a requirement for a speaker. As was the case last year, during the coming edition the cross-distribution developer's room will have two rooms for two days. Interested speakers should send a proposal to the dist2011(a)lists.fosdem.org mailinglist. A proposal must include: - The title of the talk, - A short abstract, - The name of the speaker, - A short bio of the speaker And this no later than january 1st, 2011. Note that a paper is not a requirement. If there are more proposals than available time slots, talks will be alotted after discussion among representatives of the various distributions on the dist2011 mailinglist. Distributions are kindly invited to forward this call for talks to their relevant mailinglists. Additionally, we would welcome if distributions who will participate in the miniconference will let their intentions known on the mailinglist, so we can announce that at the proper time. Regards, -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html

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