November 2012 - FOSDEM - lists.fosdem.org

FOSDEM 2013: NoSQL devroom - call for participation
by Ross Lawley 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

*Hi all, We're really pleased to announce the call for participation for the NoSQL devroom which is returning after a 3 year hiatus. NoSQL is an encompassing term that covers a multitude of different and interesting database solutions. As the interest in NoSQL continues to grow, we are looking for talks on any open source NoSQL database and / or any related topics. We are accepting talks of 25 or 50 minutes, to propose a talk please goto: http://bit.ly/nosql-devroom-2013 If you do not want to give a talk yourself, but you are interested in NoSQL and have some suggestions then please send ideas for topics to the mailing list, or if you want to help out please get in contact! Know anyone who might be interested in the devroom? Please forward them this email on our behalf. The devroom is scheduled for Sunday of February 3rd and has approx 80 seats. The call for proposals is open until Dec 14th and speakers will be notified by Dec 21st. The final schedule will then be announced by Jan 10th. Any changes will be announced on the mailing list: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/nosql-devroom Cheers, Ross*

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Call for Talks - Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2013, Brussels
by Dirk Craeynest 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Preliminary Announcement and Call for Talks 4th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2013 Sunday 3 February 2013, Brussels, Belgium Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/13/130203-fosdem.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ada-Belgium [1] is pleased to announce that there will be a one-day Ada Developer Room on Sunday 3 February 2013 at FOSDEM 2013 in Brussels, Belgium. This Ada DevRoom is once more organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe [2]. FOSDEM [3], the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting, is a free and non-commercial two-day weekend event organized each February in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide Free Software and Open Source developers and communities a place to meet with other developers and projects, to be informed about the latest developments in the Free Software and Open Source world, to attend interesting talks and presentations held in large conference rooms by Free Software and Open Source project leaders and committers on various topics, and to promote the development and the benefits of Free Software and Open Source solutions. At previous FOSDEM events, Ada-Belgium has organized some very well attended Ada Developer Rooms, offering a full day program in 2006 [4], a two-day program in 2009 [5], and another full day program in 2012 [6]. One of our important goals is to present Ada also to people outside the traditional Ada community. Our proposal for another dedicated Ada DevRoom was accepted recently, and now work continues to prepare the detailed program. We most probably will have a total of 8 schedulable hours between 09:00 and 17:00. More information will be posted later on the dedicated web-page on the Ada-Belgium site, and final announcements will of course also be sent to various lists and newsgroups. Ada-Belgium calls on you to: - inform us at ada-belgium-board(a)cs.kuleuven.be about specific presentations you would like to hear in this Ada DevRoom; - for bonus points, subscribe to the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list [7] to discuss and help organize the details; - for more bonus points, be a speaker: the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list is the place to be! We'd like to put together a draft schedule by the end of November. So, please act ASAP. We look forward to lots of feedback! Dirk Craeynest Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/-Europe/SIGAda/WG9 mail) [1] <http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium> [2] <http://www.ada-europe.org> [3] <http://www.fosdem.org> [4] <http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/06/060226-fosdem.html> [5] <http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/09/090207-fosdem.html> [6] <http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/12/120204-fosdem.html> [7] <http://listserv.cc.kuleuven.be/archives/adafosdem.html> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm

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Call for lightningtalks
by Tias Guns 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

Dear open source developers, It is my pleasure to announce this years call for lightningtalks. Lightning talks are aimed at projects that do not fit in one of the devrooms. 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. To apply for a lightningtalk, visit https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_lightningtalks.html More info on other ways to participate in FOSDEM 2013 at https://fosdem.org/2013/ Kind regards, Tias

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LibreOffice DevRoom @ FOSDEM 2013
by Italo Vignoli 04 Nov '12

04 Nov '12

FOSDEM 2013, Brussels, February 2/3, 2013 FOSDEM has been the first public appearance of The Document Foundation, after the release of LibreOffice 3.3 at the end of January 2011. The conference has been instrumental, so far, for the extraordinary growth of LibreOffice hackers community. FOSDEM 2013 should escalate what we have been able to achieve in 2011 and 2012! FOSDEM 2013 will be your next chance ever for a talk about LibreOffice at the largest European gathering of free software developers and advocates. Do you want to share your experience in starting to hack the code, or tell about the tweaks in your build environment, or talk about the code changes you have done or those that you have been preparing, or share some insight on your QA work? Or maybe what you plan for translation or infrastructure? Please submit your speech proposal on the wiki (http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Events/Fosdem2013) by adding the information on a copy of the table. We really like you to share in the way that fits you best, be it 5, 15 or up to 30 minutes. We might have to choose between the various proposals, as time is limited. So please give a clear description of your talk, including goals and target audience. The deadline is December 23, 2012. This will allow the DevRoom managers to spend most of their holiday time by putting together the schedule, which will be published in early January 2013 in order to allow early booking of flights and accommodations. FOSDEM is a free conference to attend, and we will try to seek sponsorship. But funding is limited, so please only request it if you cannot attend otherwise, and we will try to do our best to support you. LibreOffice DevRoom Come and hear about the growth and success of LibreOffice and how you can get involved in this exciting project at the cutting edge of Free Software. Hear from many of the core developers, work out how best to get your most annoying problems fixed, and find how best to get plugged into the team. Co-ordinate with your co-developers, get caught up with the latest developments all over the project, meet friends you've hacked with on-line, all this and more. If you're just a user and want to go deeper, to help improve things we'll have something for you too. When and where? On Sunday, February 3rd, 2013, from 09:00 onwards. We have to leave the room by 17:30 at the latest. More Info Wiki Page: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Events/Fosdem2013 Email for Questions: info(a)documentfoundation.org Discussions with developers and code hackers take place on libreoffice(a)lists.freedesktop.org Discussions with marketers for the organization of the DevRoom take place on marketing(a)global.libreoffice.org -- Italo Vignoli - Director phone +39.348.5653829 - skype italovignoli email italo.vignoli(a)documentfoundation.org The Document Foundation Zimmerstraße 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal Details: www.documentfoundation.org/imprint

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Wine project call for papers
by Jeremy White 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

> When announcing your call by email, please include > <fosdem(a)lists.fosdem.org> so we can link to it. Alternatively, mail us > with a URL to your call. Here's the Wine Project call for papers: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2012-November/097669.html Cheers, Jeremy

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