October 2012 - FOSDEM - lists.fosdem.org

First time attendee
by Samantha Kosko 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

All: Hi... my name is Samantha and I am trying to finalize all of my companies plans for FOSDEM and we are all first time attendees. We have been selected to have a stand and the event and wanted to get some feedback on what we should do with giveaways and staff for the stand. We have a limited number of people in EMEA that can attend and I want to make sure that i am using my resources as best as I can. If anyone has any information they can help me with on this ... i would be forever thankful! -- Samantha Kosko Field Marketing Manager @ 10gen, The MongoDB Company Twitter: @sam_10gen Zerply: http://zerply.com/samantha-kosko/public We are hiring!

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Announce Call for Participations Graph Processing DevRoom 2013
by Pere Urbón Bayes 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

Hello, apologies if you get more than one copy of this announce. This is to announce the Graph Processing DevRoom, second edition, to be co-located with in the FOSDEM 2013. The meetup will take place next 2 of February 2013, from 10AM until 19PM, room in building AW, more information will be available when we’ll have the final schedule. If you know an interesting project who must give us a proposal, please forward it to anyone who can be interested. Since 4 years graph processing systems are gaining an emerging impact for processing complex semi-structured and interrelated data sets. Graph databases like Neo4j, Semantic Web and Linked Open Data approaches like the DBPedia project, and large-scale graph processing like Apache Hama encourage each one of us to think about our problems in graph like structures. Thanks to the high quality open source implementations and outstanding community support, this movement is currently winning a lot of momentum within different developer communities. Related projects and topics We encourage you to submit talks regarding the next topics: Graph Representations and Storage, Distributed Graph Processing, Graph Query Languages and user-friendly APIs, Semantic Graphs, Graph Mining, Visualization, Benchmarking, Application of graphs and industry experience, Experiences on GIS, multimedia databases, BMP… Contributions expected from: Neo4j, OrientDB, HyperGraphDB, Tinkerpop Blueprints, gremlin, ArangoDB, Apache Giraph, Apache Hama, Apache Mahout, … This list is not closed, related topics are welcome. Should be noticed we look for high quality, technical submissions, ranging for principles to practice. Submissions should be based on free software solutions. Important dates (all GMT+1): Submission deadline: 23-12-2012 Notification of accepted speakers: 28-12-2012 Publication of the final schedule: 4-01-2013 Meetup: 2 of February 2013, Brussels, Belgium. Co-located with in FOSDEM 2013. People interested in giving a presentation or demo should send their proposal to [https://graphdevroom.busyconf.com/proposals/new] with the following information Their name, nick and a short bio The title of the presentation A short abstract describing the session The desired duration time ... in case of problems, please contact the room team at: graph-devroom(a)graph-database.org News Follow @GraphDevRoom on twitter to be updated with the latest news of the event. Wanna check how as the room last year, check http://www.youtube.com/graphprocessing or our cool website: http://fosdem.graph-database.org - The DevRoom team

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Fwd: FOSDEM CrossDesktop DevRoom 2013 - Call for Talks
by Pau Garcia i Quiles 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

Ooops, I had sent this to the wrong address ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles(a)elpauer.org> Date: Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 7:32 PM Subject: FOSDEM CrossDesktop DevRoom 2013 - Call for Talks To: devrooms(a)fosdem.org Hello, The Call for Talks for the CrossDesktop DevRoom at FOSDEM 2013 is now officially open. Please do not wait till the last minute! --8<--- * FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of Free Software contributors in the world and happens each February in Brussels (Belgium). One of the tracks will be the CrossDesktop DevRoom, which will host Desktop-related talks. We are now inviting proposals for talks about Free/Libre/Open-source Software on the topics of Desktop development, Desktop applications and interoperativity amongst Desktop Environments. This is a unique opportunity to show novel ideas and developments to a wide technical audience. Topics accepted include, but are not limited to: Enlightenment, Gnome, KDE, Unity, XFCE, Windows, Mac OS X, general desktop matters, applications that enhance desktops and web (when related to desktop). Talks can be very specific, such as developing mobile applications with Qt Quick; or as general as predictions for the fusion of Desktop and web in 5 years time. Topics that are of interest to the users and developers of all desktop environments are especially welcome. The FOSDEM 2012 schedule might give you some inspiration: https://archive.fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/crossdesktop_devroom.html <https://archive.fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/crossdesktop_devroom.html> Please include the following information when submitting a proposal: - Your name - The title of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be listed with around 250 from other projects) - Short abstract of one or two paragraphs - Short bio - Requested time: from 15 to 45 minutes. Normal duration is 30 minutes. Longer duration requests must be properly justified. The deadline for submissions is December 14th 2012. FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of 2-3 February 2013. Please submit your proposals to crossdesktop-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org (subscribtion page for the mailing list: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/crossdesktop-devroom ) -- The CrossDesktop DevRoom 2013 Organization Team* --8<--- -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)

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Call for Papers for the PHP room
by Lorna Mitchell 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Hi all We're pleased to announce that we've opened the Call for Papers for the PHP room at FOSDEM! The remit of the room is "PHP and Friends" so really, if it's related to PHP, then we'd like to know about it and consider including it! There's a simple submission form here: http://lrnja.net/W1A2Nk (it's a google docs form) and I wrote a bit more about the CfP on my personal blog: http://www.lornajane.net/posts/2012/php-at-fosdem-call-for-papers The call is open until the end of November, and we'll notify speakers (and FOSDEM organisers of course!) around 14th December. Please pass this around to anyone who might be interested in participating, and feel free to contact me with any questions. Regards Lorna -- Lorna Mitchell http://lornajane.net

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FOSDEM 2013 - Microkernels / Component-based OSes devroom
by Stefan Kalkowski 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

FOSDEM 2013 - Microkernels / Component-based OSes devroom *CALL FOR PARTICIPATION* http://fosdem.org/2013 The developers of several free and open-source component- and/or microkernel-based operating systems will meet at FOSDEM 2013 in Brussels, Belgium and will share a developer room. The devroom is currently looking for content in the form of talks related to the area of component- and/or microkernel-based operating systems. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * OS introduction to developers of other OS * Subsystems and architecture * Hardware and device drivers * Tools and languages * Release engineering and testing * Experience and learning from mistakes * Technical challenges * Community and life with an OS-project * Academia and education Please send your talk proposal(s) no later than by 2012-12-15 to: microkernel-devroom at lists.fosdem.org Make sure to include the following in your proposal: * title of your talk (will be printed in the FOSDEM booklet) * your full name (will be printed in the FOSDEM booklet) * a short abstract * duration of your talk (please, no longer than 45 minutes) The final devroom schedule (along with accepted talks) will be announced on the above mailing list on 2012-12-22. Moreover, the speakers will be notified via e-mail. The schedule will be also published on the FOSDEM web and in the FOSDEM booklet after 2013-01-10. If you do not want to give a talk yourself, you may still send suggestions for what else you would like to see, or do in the devroom. Please send your suggestions to the above mailing list. The devroom is scheduled for Saturday of February 2. The seating capacity of the room is 74 seats. Any changes will be announced in the above mailing list.

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Call for participation
by Tias Guns 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

Dear all, Want to be part of FOSDEM 2013? Now is your chance! - Want to be part of the main program? https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_main_speakers.html Our *call for main track speakers* is just extended with a deadline on December 1. - Want to man a stand in the hallways? https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_stands.html The *call for stands* has just opened, deadline on 28 November - Want to talk in a devroom? https://fosdem.org/2013/ The *devrooms* are announced and are sending out their respective call for talks in the coming weeks. Watch this mailinglist and our frontpage for the calls and deadlines - Want to talk at FOSDEM, without fitting the main tracks or a devroom? We also have *lightning talks*, short 15 minute talks. The call will be opened in the coming week; expected deadline around mid December. Looking forward to your proposals, The FOSDEM staff

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Call for sessions: cross-distributions devroom
by Wouter Verhelst 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

Hello World, This is the official call for sessions for the FOSDEM 2013 cross-distributions devroom. As in previous years, any session relating to distributions development is welcome. Since this is an opportunity for different distributions to cooperate, we're specifically looking for sessions that are of interest to people from multiple distributions; however, if you have something interesting to talk about that is of more interest to just one particular distribution, that is certainly welcome too. Sessions can be things like talks, roundtables, or BoFs; anything is welcome. However, please note that for roundtables or BoFs, I'd still like one or more people to step up as moderator, who'll be listed as 'speaker' on the schedule. If you want to hold a session in the distributions devroom, please send an email to the distributions(a)lists.fosdem.org mailinglist, containing the following information: - Your name - A (short) bio - (optionally) a picture - A title for the talk - A description of the talk (just a paragraph or two will do) - Your desired timeslot duration (30 or 60 minutes) - If you already have that information, your availability during the FOSDEM weekend to help us schedule the sessions. And this no later than december 20th, 2012, which is two months less one week from now. That isn't a lot of time, so please don't hesitate too long in proposing a session. Please also forward this call for sessions to your appropriate distribution-specific mailinglist(s), so we can actually get some sessions to appear. Thanks, -- Copyshops should do vouchers. So that next time some bureaucracy requires you to mail a form in triplicate, you can mail it just once, add a voucher, and save on postage.

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FOSDEM2013 - Open Source Game Development: Call for Speakers
by Nils Kneuper 27 Oct '12

27 Oct '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 FOSDEM2013 - Open Source Game Development: Call for Speakers FOSDEM2013 will host a devroom centered on the development of Free and Open Source Games. Possible speakers (and topic suggestions) are invited to make their proposals. The game development devroom takes place on Sunday, February 3th, 09:00 - 17:00 (exact times might still change) in a room in building AW (76 seats). As topics anything regarding Open Source Game Development is allowed and wanted. This includes talks about game specific areas like AI development as well as community integration, artwork (graphics and sound), translations in the context of games, integration of usermade content, cross platform porting (e.g. to mobile devices like phones) or whatever else you might find. If you are interested in seeing a list of last years talks, please head over to [1]. FOSDEM is a conference centered on technical topics, as a result, the talks ought to cover technical issues that are relevant to open source game development. Speakers are encouraged to draw on their own experience as game developers in order to convey a message that is of interest to the game development community as a whole. The sessions are not limited to just holding a talk. If you have an idea e.g. moderating a discussion round, this can also be a session. People interested in holding a session should let that intention be known on the open-source-gamedev-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org mailinglist[2], with the following information: - - Their name - - The project they are associated with - - A (short) bio, to be put on the website along with their speaker name - - (optionally) a picture of themselves - - The title of their session (which will go on the website and in the booklet) - - A (short) abstract describing the session in further detail. - - The desired approximate duration for the session. - - The desired timeslot in which they want to hold the session. Suggested times for the duration are 45min. Please keep in mind that the times are *very* strict. So better go for less and assume some extra time to be used for discussions and questions. The desired timeslot is meant to help you preventing conflicts with other dev rooms in which you might have a talk or your travel arrangements. The deadline for submissions is December 16th, 23:00 GMT+1. The list of accepted sessions will most likely be published on the open-source-gamedev-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org mailinglist[2] until December 23rd, 23:00 GMT+1. All accepted speakers will also be mailed separately. For the devroom I am also looking for help regarding offering audio and possibly video recordings. FOSDEM can't provide us with the equipment, so if you have a cam or a usable voice recorder (last year a participant was able to do audiorecordings of the talks 2 to 8) and would be willing to record talks your help and support would be appreciated. For speakers please also state if you are fine with your talks being recorded and published on the FOSDEM servers afterwards. FOSDEM can not offer reimbursements for travel or hotel costs, so every speaker will have to cover the costs themselves. Looking forward to meeting you in the Open Source Game Development Devroom at FOSDEM 2013, Nils Kneuper [1] https://archive.fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/open_source_game_development… [2] https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/open-source-gamedev-devroom -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlCL5bUACgkQfFda9thizwVMHACfVkMSaE26PNhSaF5MxW0ZTMyL MXcAn0/+ww9Cr9fcag73zl9A2FcVUZl6 =BnXr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Accepted devrooms
by Tias Guns 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

Devrooms are 'developer rooms' in which open source communities can organize their own schedule, made of presentations, brainstorming and hacking sessions. Our goal is to stimulate developer collaboration and cross-pollination between projects. It is our pleasure and honor to announce that the following projects and topics have been granted a devroom at FOSDEM 2013: Both Days --------- * Cross Distro * CrossDesktop * Embedded and Mobile * Free Java * Legal Issues * Mozilla Saturday -------- * Apache OpenOffice * Community development and Marketing * FOSS for scientists * Graph Processing * Jabber/XMPP * Microkernels / Component-based OSes * Mono * PHP and Friends * Testing and Automation * The Wine Project * Virtualization * X.org Sunday ------ * Ada * BSD * Cloud * Configuration/Systems Management * Cross Distro * LibreOffice * MySQL & Friends * NOSQL * Open Source Game Development * PostgreSQL * Python * Smalltalk * Telephony In the coming weeks, they will announce their call for talks on various mailinglists (including this one). We will collect them on our website as well. We will also open our call for stands (a place in the hallway) and lightningtalks (15 minute talks) in the coming week. On behalf of the FOSDEM program team, Tias

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Easy work � deserving salary!
by fosdem＠lists.fosdem.org 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

Hello, A US e-builder IT company, located in Michigan, is looking for European personnell to act as intermediate chain for IT transactions overseas. Due to a large period of time that payment transactions takes between US and Europe, our company is searching for a personel in EU to save time in interbank transactions, for a part time or full time job. The earnings in return for a job is 3000 euro per month, for only 3 hours a day. Depending on your time implication, seriousness and correctness, the earnings could be increased up to 200 percent. If you are interested in our possible cooperation, please read the entire job description listed below: This job is all about: - accepting and processing payments from and to our clients from all over the world, with the help of banks and money transferring systems. - subtracting 4 percent from each transfer as a personal bonus. - running the preparation, delivery, and reporting transactions processes. - making sure that the payments and reports are payed out correctly and in time. This position is based on your location only, and no relocation is required from the candidate. This position does not involve any fixed working hours and is suitable for senior people or self-employed individuals. You don't have to invest anything. Requirements : 1. Elementary knowledge of money transfer systems. 2. The possibility to accept payments to your personal bank account: 3. Promptitude in sending the payment to the supplier(by using his preferred payment method). 4. Availability to check your email at least once a day. Let us know if you are interested in the position listed above and we will send you more details regarding this vacancy along with our corporate agreement and application form. This is Keven(a)eurobrussell.com our corporate email address, when you will make your mind write us here. Best regards

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