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Call for Participation in the Smalltalk Devroom at FOSDEM2014
by Stephan Eggermont 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

Call for Participation in the Smalltalk Devroom at FOSDEM 2014. http://www.fosdem.org, please forward " A devroom for the Pharo, Squeak, Amber, GST, Etoilé, Seaside, Moose Smalltalk projects & Newspeak as derived language. Smalltalk environments offer a very high development productivity, unmatched by their successors. Come do some pair programming with us and experience yourself the advantages of a real OO environment" The meetup will take place Saturday, February 1, 2014, from 9AM until 5PM, building AW. This room has 72 seats, a VGA video projector and wireless internet. More information will be available later. If there are volunteers to record video content, the FOSDEM organization kindly offered to provide needed equipment & instructions. Please let me know if you would be willing to spend some time pointing a camera at a speaker. Proposals on content and format are welcome. People interested in running a session should send me an email at stephan ( @ ) stack ( dot ) nl with 'FOSDEM2014’ in the subject and 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 abstract describing the session in further detail. - The desired length of the session. - The desired time slot in which they want to hold the session. I will send out updates on a regular basis to the lists and anyone stating his interest. Suggested values for the duration are 55min, 25min, 6m40 (Pecha Kucha). The desired time slot is meant to help you prevent conflicts with other dev rooms in which you might have a talk or your travel arrangements. There are alternative, non smalltalk-specific tracks available: lightning talk and the main track The deadline for submissions is December 31, 23:00 GMT+1. Devroom related URLs: http://www.pharo-project.org http://www.squeak.org/ http://etoileos.com/ http://www.seaside.st/ http://smalltalk.gnu.org/ http://www.moosetechnology.org http://amber-lang.net http://newspeaklanguage.org/ http://www.esug.org First proposal already arrived: Stefan Marr proposed: I could give a presentation on SOM (Simple Object Machine) Smalltalk. I would especially go into detail of the Truffle-based and the RPython (PyPy) based implementations to show modern ways of language implementations with the goal of achieving high performance.

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Mobile schedule apps
by Tias Guns 22 Nov '13

22 Nov '13

Dear All, We love the mobile schedule apps! You can find a list of apps we know about here: https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/mobile/ Do you know about more apps? More platforms? Tell us about it! To thank the mobile app developers, and to stimulate the continued development of the apps, we are offering a free FOSDEM t-shirt to the mobile app developers! Here is the deal: - The app must work with the 2013 schedule (preferably pre-loaded) - Must be open-source, with browseable sources - Simple forks don't count, ports to other platforms do if build scripts are available - Only applicable to the developers that will be at FOSDEM in person To get the t-shirt(s), the lead developer of the mobile app should contact us on info(a)fosdem.org with the list of developers that will be at FOSDEM and that have made a significant contribution to the project. (We reserve the right to modify the conditions of the offer to avoid abuse or clear out ambiguities.) In name of FOSDEM, Tias This announcement on our website: https://fosdem.org/2013/news/2013-01-20-mobile-schedule-apps/-

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FOSDEM2014 CfP: Game development
by Nils Kneuper 27 Oct '13

27 Oct '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 FOSDEM2014 Call for Participation: Game development FOSDEM2014 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 Saturday, February 1st, 10:00 - 18:00 (exact times might still change). The room (incl size) and building are not known yet. 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] and [2]. 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. To submit a talk, please create an account at the conference's submission system [3] and select the devroom as the talk's track. Should there be any problems, please send a mail to the devroom mailing list [4]. In your submission, be sure to include: - Title and approximate length of the talk (in the General tab), - the correct track (should be the games dev, also in the General tab), - a short abstract (in the Description tab, please also list or associated project here). Talks should not exceed 45 minutes. To help us schedule, please indicate whether your talk is flexible in its length. Deadline for submissions is December 1st, 23:00 GMT+1. We will announce acceptance and hopefully a rough schedule before Christmas. This year the FOSDEM team plans to offer video recordings of every devroom. But they do need our help to accomplish this. The task required here is some people who tend to be in the devroom (almost) all day anyway and help with looking after the camera(s) and/or audio mixer while watching the talks. If a speaker does not want to be recorded, please tell me at latest right before the talk. The videos are planned to be shown on the fosdem website at [5] once the event is over. The planned license is CC BY-SA. If this does not work for you, different licenses might also be possible. FOSDEM can not offer reimbursements for travel or hotel costs, so every speaker will have to cover the costs themselves. For more and further information please make sure to subscribe to the mailing list of the devroom. The list was reset prior to the event so you will have to resubscribe to receive messages. Looking forward to meeting you in the Game Development Devroom at FOSDEM 2014 in Brussels, Nils Kneuper [1] https://archive.fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/open_source_game_development… [2] https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/open_source_game_development/ [3] https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/ [4] https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/open-source-gamedev-devroom [5] http://video.fosdem.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEUEARECAAYFAlJs6/0ACgkQfFda9thizwUb9wCdFJ3EPaSOkjhl+i5Te9hC/Z4G uzoAlA1AoahHJeRJd6mI8RlaOh3UY1Y= =20Tt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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CFP Valgrind developer room at FOSDEM 2014 (Brussels, Belgium, 2 February)
by Mark Wielaard 25 Oct '13

25 Oct '13

Valgrind developer room at FOSDEM 2014 (Brussels, Belgium, 2 February). FOSDEM is a free software event that offers open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renowned for being highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ hackers from all over the world. Taking place in the city of Brussels (Belgium). http://fosdem.org/ FOSDEM 2014 will take place during the weekend of Saturday, February 1st and Sunday, February 2nd. On Sunday we will have a devroom for Valgrind. Devrooms are a place for development teams to meet, discuss, hack and publicly present the project latest improvements and future directions. We will have a whole day to hang out together as Valgrind community. Please join us whether you are a Valgrind core hacker, Valgrind tool hacker, Valgrind user, Valgrind packager or hacker on a project that integrates, extends or complements Valgrind. Call For Participation We would like to organize a series of talks/discussions on various topics relevant to both core hackers, new developers, users, packagers and cross project functionality. Please do submit a talk proposal before Sunday December 8th 2013, so we can make a list of activities during the day. Some possible topics for talks/discussions are: - The recently added functional changes (for valgrind users). - State of the valgrind code base (core hackers). - Helgrind - basic design, problems and opportunities (core and tools). - Get feedback on what what kinds of new functionality would be useful. Which tools users would like to see and/or which new features for the existing tools. (valgrind developers and users). - Modify memcheck to report the last leaked pointer to a block integrate "omega" as a memcheck option or omega as a separate tool. - Better support compiled and JITted code. allowing the JIT compiler to indicate the link between the JITted code and the source code. - Valgrind and transactional memory. - How to add simple features (adding syscalls for a platform or VEX instructions for a architecture port). (new core developers). - Making Valgrind really multi-threaded, parallelising Memcheck parallelising the rest of the framework, and tools (for core hackers). - Should we continue to support MacOS? What about Valgrind on MS-Windows? Solaris? (attracting new hackers). - Redo the JIT framework to reduce baseline overheads? (core hackers). - Make Callgrind work sanely on ARM (core hackers). - Discuss release/bugfixing strategy/policy (core hackers, packagers). - Packaging valgrind for distros, handling patches, suppressions, etc. (packagers). - Valgrind/GDB integration (cross project). - Valgrind vs the compiler. Compilers like GCC and clang now have "valgrind like" features -fsanitize=address|thread|undefined. How does valgrind complement or improve on these features? - Eclipse and other visualisation tools for valgrind (cross project). - Practical examples of using Valgrind in (big) systems automatic regression testing (users). Use the FOSDEM 'pentabarf' tool to submit your proposal. https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM14/ - If necessary, create a Pentabarf account and activate it. - In the "Person" section, provide First name, Last name (in the "General" tab), Email (in the "Contact" tab) and Bio ("Abstract" field in the "Description" tab). - Submit a proposal by clicking on "Create event". - Important! Select the "Valgrind devroom" track (on the "General" tab). - Provide the title of your talk ("Event title" in the "General" tab). - Provide a description of the subject of the talk and the intended audience (in the "Abstract" field of the "Description" tab) - Provide a rough outline of the talk or goals of the session (a short list of bullet points covering topics that will be discussed) in the "Full description" field in the "Description" tab Julian, Philippe and Mark will review the proposals and organize the schedule for the day. Please feel free to suggest or discuss any ideas for the devroom on the Valgrind developer mailinglist before creating a proposal: valgrind-developers(a)lists.sourceforge.net Call For (Video) Volunteers The FOSDEM organization can provide us with equipment to record some or all of the talks in our devroom. But we need at least two volunteers to do the actual recordings. An ideal candidate for this job would be someone who is going to be watching talks in the Valgrind devroom most (or all) of the time anyway, and who doesn't mind watching after a camera and/or an audio mixer while watching the talk. While some A/V experience is obviously useful for the volunteer, it is absolutely not required; FOSDEM will provide the right gear and help set it up, and FOSDEM organizers will also provide enough information so the volunteers know what to do. This will include a live training session during the opening talk (in Janson) for those who want it. If you want to help record talks/discussions in the Valgrind devroom please let us know before the end of November. Important dates: Video Volunteers: Before 30 Nov 2013 Talk/Discussion Submission deadline: Sunday 8 Dec 2013 Devroom Schedule announcement: Sunday 15 Dec 2013 Devroom day: Sunday 2 Feb 2014 Hope to see you all at FOSDEM 2014 in the Valgrind devroom. Brussels (Belgium), Sunday 2 February, 2014. https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/track/valgrind/

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CFP for Virtualisation and IaaS devroom
by Thierry Carrez 23 Oct '13

23 Oct '13

FOSDEM '14 Virtualisation and IaaS devroom ---------------------- Call for Participation ---------------------- The scope for this devroom is open source, openly-developed projects in the areas of virtualisation and IaaS type clouds, ranging from low level to data center, up to cloud management platforms and cloud resource orchestration. Sessions should always target a developer audience. Bonus points for collaborative sessions that would be appealing to developers from multiple projects. We are particularly interested in the following themes: * low level virtualisation aspects * new features in classic and container-based virtualisation technologies * new use cases for virtualisation, such as virtualisation in mobile, automotive and embedded in general * other resource virtualisation technologies: networking, storage, … * deep technical dives into specific IaaS or virtualisation management projects features * relationship between IaaS projects and specific dependencies (not just virtualisation) * integration and development leveraging solutions from multiple projects Important dates --------------- Submission deadline: Sunday, December 1st, 2013 Acceptance notifications: Sunday, December 15th, 2013 Final schedule announcement: Friday January 10th, 2014 Devroom @ FOSDEM'14: February 1st & 2nd, 2014 Practical --------- Submissions should be 40 minutes, and consist of a 30 minute presentation with 10 minutes of Q&A or 40 minutes of discussions (e.g., requests for feedback, open discussions, etc.). Interactivity is encouraged, but optional. Talks are in English only. We do not provide travel assistance or reimbursement of travel expenses for accepted speakers. Submissions should be made via the FOSDEM submission page at https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM14 : * If necessary, create a Pentabarf account and activate it * In the “Person” section, provide First name, Last name (in the “General” tab), Email (in the “Contact” tab) and Bio (“Abstract” field in the “Description” tab) * Submit a proposal by clicking on “Create event" * Important! Select the "Virtualisation and IaaS" track (on the “General” tab) * Provide the title of your talk (“Event title” in the “General” tab) * Provide a 250-word description of the subject of the talk and the intended audience (in the “Abstract” field of the “Description” tab) * Provide a rough outline of the talk or goals of the session (a short list of bullet points covering topics that will be discussed) in the “Full description” field in the “Description” tab Contact ------- For questions w.r.t. the Virtualisation and IaaS DevRoom at FOSDEM'14, please contact the organizers via fosdem14-virt-and-iaas-devroom(a)googlegroups.com (or via https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/fosdem14-virt-and-iaas-devroom) This CFP is also visible at: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/fosdem14-virt-and-iaas-devroom/04y5… -- Thierry Carrez (ttx)

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[CFP] Embedded and mobile devroom
by Philippe De Swert 23 Oct '13

23 Oct '13

Every year there is a special dedicated track for embedded and mobile projects at Fosdem (see: www.fosdem.org ). If you are interested to give a talk about your project read further for the details. FOSDEM will be held the 1st and 2nd of February 2014 in Brussels, Belgium. For this years program we are looking for people who would like to do a presentation about their own or some community's project in this area. These projects must be Free Software or Open Source. Example of topics of interest: * Embedded Linux in general * Linux kernel development for embedded devices * Build systems and embedded/mobile operating systems * Multimedia and graphics * Embedded systems optimization (boot time, memory consumption, power consumption, etc.) * Filesystem and storage * Real-time * Non-Linux embedded, such as Arduino * Hardware platforms, such as BeagleBone, RaspberryPi * Open source/free software for or related to Android * ... We are also interested in short tutorials, project overviews, achievements, ports to new hardware and hardware hacking, real life deployments, ... all are welcome and all submissions will be reviewed by our panel. Submissions require a small abstract and short speaker presentation and should be submitted to fosdem.embedded(a)gmail.com or through https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/ before the 10th of December 2013. You can apply for a full length (~45 min) or a shorter (~20min) talk. The panel consists of: Philippe De Swert Peter De Schrijver Geert Uytterhoeven Thomas Petazzoni

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Call for Participation for Graph Processing Devroom 2014
by Achim Friedland 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

FOSDEM Graph Processing Devroom 2014 Call for Participation We are happy to announce the 3rd edition of the Graph Processing Devroom co-located with FOSDEM 2014 at the ULB Campus Solbosch in Brussels, Belgium. FOSDEM is an annually software developers meeting attended by over 5000 free and open source enthusiasts from all over the world. The devroom will take place on Sunday, 2. February 2014 with a welcome at 9:45, and talks from 10AM till 18PM. For the last 5 years graph processing systems are gaining an emerging impact for processing complex semi-structured interrelated and distributed data sets. Thanks to many high quality open source implementations and outstanding community support, this movement is still winning a lot of momentum. The past year had again been full of impressive developments: e.g. Neo4j 2.0 with improved property graphs, OrientDB 1.5, the Neo4j-centric GraphDatabases book, GraphHopper for OSM routing, a new graph traversal framework called Steffi.io (imGraph), the Bitsy database and Pixy query language, Structr a CMS ontop of graphs and even the SAP Hana in-memory database solution joined the movement. In previous devrooms a lot of great presentations and demos had been given and substantiated discussions took place. Therefore, also in 2014 we will again give researchers, geeks and open source hackers the possibility of an awesome meetup for showing each other their recent work and improvements. This includes: - Graph Query Languages and user-friendly APIs - (Distributed) Graph Processing Frameworks - Geographic Information Systems and Graphs (Routing et al.) - Semantic Graphs (RDF) - (Large-Scale) Graph Visualization - Graphs and the Internet-of-Things - Real-life application of graph processing including industry experience - Graph Benchmarks This list is not closed, other related topics are always welcome. -= Participate =- Convinced? Interested in giving a talk or presenting a demo? We are looking for high quality technical (non-marketing) submissions, ranging from principles to practice and interesting to attendees with widely different backgrounds. Talks should be 20 to 30 minutes, lightning talks 10 to 15 minutes and consist of a presentation supported by slides and/or demos. Any degree of interactivity is highly welcome. We also welcome other activity proposals different from “traditional” project presentations and talks. All submissions should be based on free and open software solutions or free and open APIs. This year we want to try something new and put a specific emphasis on two selected areas. Nevertheless other topics are still open for any of your proposals. - *Geo Information Systems using Graphs*, ranging from OpenStreetMap to E-Mobility routing solutions, as we think that mobile mapping libraries and applications are becoming more and more important in our daily life. - *Natural Language Processing via Graphs*, as we think the best way to make the people aware of the dangers of an omnipresent Big Brother is to teach them the algorithms via running code. To suggest a talk, go to the FOSDEM submission system[8] and follow the instructions ("Create Account” / “Create Event"). Please make sure to select the "GraphDevroom" track and include at least the following information: - Your name, nick, contact information (public/only for orga) and a short biography - The title and a short abstract describing your presentation/demo/talk (max. 500 words) - Intended audience and goal of the talk (e.g., “Beginner”, “Advanced”, "Analysts, helping them to discover and visualize patterns" or "Developers, trying to optimize processing of highly connected data sets") - The desired length of your time slot (typical 30 min. incl. 5 minutes for Q/A) - Links to background information on the given talk for the hungry and impatient - Links to your previous talks, code snippets or repositories -= Important dates =- Submission deadline: 10. Dec 2013 Notification of accepted speakers: 13. Dec 2013 Preliminary Schedule: 15. Dec 2013 Publication of the final schedule: 10. Jan 2014 Devroom day: 2. Feb 2014 -= The Orgteam =- - Achim Friedland, Software Architect at Belectric ITS GmbH. - Lutz Lukas, symanto research GmbH & Co KG. - Martin Junghanns, University of Leipzig - Pere Urbon-Bayes, Software Architect at Belectric ITS GmbH. - Peter Karich, GraphHopper The crew can be reached via: fosdem2014(a)graphdevroom.org -= Stay in Contact =- In order to stay in contact and be updated with the latest news of the event, you can either go to Twitter and follow @GraphDevroom[3] or search for #graphdevroom, or goto Google and subscribe to our Google Group[4] or become a member of our Google+ community[5]. Impressions, recorded talks and slides from the last years are available at our website[2], at YouTube[6] within our Google+ community or at SlideShare[7]. [1] https://fosdem.org/2014/ [2] http://graphdevroom.org [3] https://twitter.com/graphdevroom [4] https://groups.google.com/d/forum/graphdevroom [5] https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/114424455964265722048 [6] http://www.youtube.com/graphprocessing [7] http://www.slideshare.net/graphdevroom [8] https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM14

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CfP - Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2014, Brussels, Belgium
by Dirk Craeynest 20 Oct '13

20 Oct '13

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Preliminary Announcement and Call for Presentations 5th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2014 Saturday 1 February 2014, Brussels, Belgium http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/14/140201-fosdem.html Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ada-Belgium [1] is pleased to announce that there will be a one-day Ada Developer Room on Saturday 1 February 2014 at FOSDEM 2014 in Brussels, Belgium. This Ada DevRoom is once more organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe [2]. General information ------------------- 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. It is highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ participants from all over the world. The goal is to provide open source developers and communities a place to meet with other developers and projects, to be informed about the latest developments in the open source world, to attend interesting talks and presentations on various topics by open source project leaders and committers, and to promote the development and the benefits of open source solutions. Ada Developer Room ------------------ At previous FOSDEM events, Ada-Belgium has organized very well attended Ada Developer Rooms, offering a full day program in 2006 [4], a two-day program in 2009 [5], and full day programs in 2012 [6] and 2013 [7]. 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 10:00 and 18:00 in a room which holds up to 80 participants. More information will be posted later on the dedicated web-page on the Ada-Belgium site [8], and final announcements will of course also be sent to various lists and newsgroups. Call for presentations ---------------------- 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 [9] to discuss and help organize the details; - for more bonus points, be a speaker: the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list is the place to be! Do you have a talk you want to give? Do you have a project you would like to present? Would you like to get more people involved with your project? We're looking for proposals that are related to Ada software development, and include a technical oriented discussion. You're not limited to slide presentations, of course. Be creative. Propose something fun to share with people so they might feel some of your enthusiasm for Ada! Speaking slots are 25 or 50 minutes, including Q&A. Depending on interest, we might also have a session with lightning presentations (e.g. 5 minutes each). We'd like to put together a draft schedule by the end of November. So, please act ASAP, and definitely before November 30, 2013. We look forward to lots of feedback and proposals! Dirk Craeynest, FOSDEM Team of Ada-Belgium 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] https://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://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/13/130203-fosdem.html [8] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/14/140201-fosdem.html [9] http://listserv.cc.kuleuven.be/archives/adafosdem.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm

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HPC and Computational Science devroom at FOSDEM'14 - Call for Participation
by Kenneth Hoste 18 Oct '13

18 Oct '13

FOSDEM [1] is a free and open source software developers meeting which is organized annually in Brussels (Belgium), and is attended by over 5000 open source enthusiasts from all over the world. FOSDEM'14 will host a developer room (devroom) on High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Computational Science, providing an opportunity for open source software developers in the HPC community to present their work and discuss it with FOSDEM attendees. The devroom organization is taken care of by the HPC team of Ghent University [2, 3], in collaboration with the Flemish Supercomputer Centre (VSC) [4]. FOSDEM'14 takes place in the weekend of February 1st - 2nd 2014 at the ULB campus Solbosch in Brussels (Belgium). ** Call for Participation ** We invite system administrators, user support team members and end users of HPC infrastructure to present their open source software project(s) during this friendly and open-minded meeting. Topics should include tools relevant to the HPC community, scientific software projects, …, that adhere to the 'open source' format in some way or another. Submissions should focus on the functionality, features, design and other interesting broad aspects of an open source software project, and should not include too much technical content that is (research) domain-specific or assumes deep knowledge of the topic. We aim to host talks with a sufficient amount of interesting content to attendees with widely different backgrounds, which does *not* exclude submissions on software projects that focus on particular scientific research domains. We also welcome other activity proposals different from 'traditional' project presentations: discussions on a particular topic, hacking sessions, etc. Please contact the devroom organizers directly if you have any suggestions for activities of this kind. ** Important dates ** submission deadline: Friday December 6th 2013 acceptance notifications: Friday December 20th 2013 final schedule announcement: Friday January 10th 2014 HPC devroom @ FOSDEM'14: Saturday February 1st 2014 ** Practical ** Talks should be 15-20 minutes, and consist of a presentation supported by slides; any degree of interactivity (e.g., requests for feedback, open discussions, etc.) is encouraged, but 100% optional. Submissions should be made via the FOSDEM submission page,seehttps://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM14 (via "Create event"). Make sure you select the "HPC and Computational Science" devroom track when making your submission(s)! Submissions should include: - an abstract of max. 250 words briefly describing the subject of the talk - a rough outline of the talk (informal, a short list of bullet points mentioning topics that will be discussed) - intended audience and goal of the talk (for example, "bioinformaticians, let them discover my fantastic project" or "HPC sysadmins, feedback and open discussion on my tool") - contact information (email) ** Contact ** For questions w.r.t. the HPC and Computational Science devroom at FOSDEM'14, please contact the organizers via hpc-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org . More information is available at http://hpcugent.github.io/easybuild/fosdem14.html . [1] http://fosdem.org [2] http://www.ugent.be/hpc/en [3] http://twitter.com/HPCUGent [4] https://vscentrum.be/nl/en

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Free Java DevRoom FOSDEM 2014 Call For Participation now open!
by Mario Torre 17 Oct '13

17 Oct '13

We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation in the FOSDEM 2014 Free Java DevRoom! This marks the 11th year that the Free Java DevRoom has been a part of FOSDEM. This year FOSDEM Free Java DevRoom will be Saturday the 1st of February 2014 in Brussels, Belgium, with usual additional events and meetings on Friday, Saturday and Sunday; please, refer to the FOSDEM website for the schedule of the whole event: https://fosdem.org/2014/ The Free Java DevRoom has become unique in that it has attracted hackers from very different Free Software Java projects, giving the opportunity to bring together companies of various sizes, different project communities, mainstream core Java developers, alternative Java language implementations and runtimes, and everything that form the Free Java Universe, everybody participating to share their knowledge in an atmosphere of cooperation and friendly competition. So much attention is given to porting various languages on the Java Virtual Machine and porting the JVM on new platform (arm64?) and context (cloud?), so join us to discuss this year's theme: "JVM melting pot". As always, check out our wiki for more details on the conference: http://wiki.debian.org/Java/DevJam/2014/Fosdem And join the Free Java DevoRoom mailing list [java-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org][1] https://lists.fosdem.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devroom Please submit one (or more) 25 minute talk proposal(s) by the 1st of December 2013, 23.59 CET on the mailing list [2]. A template for submitting a talk can be found at: http://wiki.debian.org/Java/DevJam/2014/Fosdem/CallForParticipation Tracks will be announced around 6th of December on the mailing list. Please join us! --The Free Java DevRoom Organizing Committee [1] NOTE: The mailing list address changed from the last years, so please update your bookmarks. [2] Also the deadline has been shifted before the usual deadline of every year, please update your calendars too :)

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