Full marked up version here: <http://fosdem-devroom.org/wiki/Testing_and_Automation_(2014)>
Members of the Jenkins, Selenium and others will be hosting a devroom focused
on testing and automation on Sunday February 2nd, 2014.
We invite members of the broader open source community to submit one (or more)
30-40 minute talk proposal(s) OR one (or more) 10 minute lightning talk
proposal(s) by 23:59 UTC on November 30th 2013. We will notify all those
submitting proposals about their acceptance by December 10th 2013.
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This is the second year for the Testing/Automation dev room at FOSDEM. This
room is about creating better software through a focus on testing and
automation at all layers of the stack. From creating libraries and end-user
applications all the way down to packaging, distribution and deployment.
Testing and automation is not isolated to a single toolchain, language or
platform, there is much to learn and share regardless of background!
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Since this is the second year we're hosting the Testing and Automation dev
room, here are some ideas of what we would like to see, and what worked last
year, they're just ideas though!
* Testing in the real, open source world
* How has your open source project has gone from not-so-good to
absolutely-great by applying testing best practices (TDD, BDD, ATDD, etc)
* How to test and develop for open source projects (e.g. test-driving
operating systems, big projects, ensuring quality of Linux distros, etc)
* Talk about how your project is automated to make contributors' lives better
(and/or on-boarding new contributors)
* Cool Tools (good candidates for lightning talks)
* Explain/demo how your open source tool made developing quality software
better
* Combining projects/plugins/tools to build amazing things "Not enough
people in the open source community know how to use $X, but here's a tutorial
on how to use $X to make your project better."
To submit a talk proposal (you can submit multiple proposals if you'd like)
with Pentabarf (https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM14) the FOSDEM paper
submission system.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Cheers
- R. Tyler Croy
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Code: https://github.com/rtyler
Chatter: https://twitter.com/agentdero
rtyler(a)jabber.org
FOSDEM 2014
Legal Issues Devroom CFP
This is the Call for Participation in the FOSDEM 2014 Legal Issues DevRoom
General information
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FOSDEM [0], 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. This year
FOSDEM will take place on February 1st and 2nd 2014.
Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom
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This Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom is designed to cover topics of
Free Software and Open Source legal and governance policy. While
proposals for introductory topics in this area are welcome, we are
specifically seeking proposals on advanced topics in Free Software
and/or Open Source policy, copyright, trademark, patent and other
legal and governance topics of direct relevance to Free Software and
Open Source developers.
For more background on the Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom, and to get
a good sense of the breadth of topics considered appropriate, please
check out the talks from previous years [1] [2] many of which have
been published on the Free as in Freedom oggcast [3].
Call for Participation
----------------------------
The goal for this DevRoom is to foster in-depth discussion about
complex policy, legal and licensing issues that face the software
freedom community today.
Proposals are sought for talks, panel discussions, and guided
discussion groups that can investigate these sorts of issues. Being a
lawyer is not a requirement for submitting a proposal. Being a
"leader" of a FLOSS project or organization is also not a
requirement. We wish to promote speaker diversity and in particular
strongly encourage women to submit proposals!
Example topics might include:
- Copyleft vs. permissive licensing: What is a policy case for copyleft?
If so what form should it take?
- How is software freedom important in ensuring privacy and security?
- What defines a Free Software and/or Open Source project?
- Do traditional Free Software values face some level of cooption
from for-profit corporate interest? If so, how?
- Copyleft licensing models and how they relate to business models.
Are there some business models that are license-permissible but bad for
community building? On the other side, does your license choice limit
or expand your community?
- Eroding software freedom in the proliferation of closed computing devices
such as mobile phones and tablets
- Copyleft enforcement and compliance planning from a developer perspective.
What is the future of GPL enforcement? Is it working?
- What is its impact on adoption of copyleft?
- How does the 'so-called' software patent war impact Free Software and Open Source?
- Copyleft license compatibility. What are the challenges of code base merges
when various licenses are in use? How does a compatibility analysis between licenses work?
Timeline
------------
2013-11-03: CFP open
2013-12-01: CFP deadline
2013-12-15: Speakers notified
2013-12-30: Agenda published on FOSDEM site
Submitting a Proposal
------------------------------
You may submit a 25 minute or 50 minute talk proposal. The committee
may suggest an alternate duration or propose combining similar talks
into a panel.
It is quite likely that the talks in the Legal and Poicy Issues
DevRoom will be audio and video recorded. By submitting a proposal
you agree to license the content of your talk under a Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license.
FOSDEM is asking potential speakers to use Pentabarf for submissions
this year. While we encourage this, we recognize that Pentabarf may be
difficult to use and so we will also or additionally accept proposals
emailed to [5]. Proposals thus emailed must be submitted in plain text
format (and include an short biography).
Here's what you need to do to submit a talk using Pentabarf:
- Go to Pentabarf [4]
- Select FOSDEM 2014
- Follow the instructions to submit a talk
- Select "Legal issues devroom" as the "Track".
- Select “Lecture” as “Event Type”
- In the “General” tab please list a brief abstract listing your name (and the name(s) of any additional speaker(s). Please fill in the “Full Description”
- Add any links as appropriate in the “Links” tab
- be sure to click “Save” on the lower right!
- Please have each speaker login and add a brief bio in the “Description” section of their “Person” page.
- be sure to click “Save” on the lower right!
Resources
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[0] http://fosdem.org
[1] https://archive.fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/legal_issues_devroom.html
[2] https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/legal_issues/
[3] http://faif.us
[4] https://penta.fosdem.org/submission
[5] fosdem-legal(a)faif.us
We look forward to your proposals and discussions in Brussels!
The Legal Issues and Policy DevRoom organizing committee [5]:
- Karen Sandler, Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation
- Bradley M. Kuhn, President, Software Freedom Conservancy and
Member of Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation.
- Richard Fontana, Member of Board of Directors, Open Source Initiative, and
Legal Counsel at Red Hat, Inc.
- Tom Marble, CTO Informatique, Inc.
Hello,
To get more awareness about http://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/android.html
a.k.a. http://freeyourandroid.org
Regards
Geert Stappers
----- Forwarded message from Erik Albers -----
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:27:59 +0100
From: Erik Albers
To: Geert Stappers <stappers(a)stappers.nl>
Subject: Re: Regarding: FreeYourAndroid in Brussels
Message-ID: <5270ED3F.70101(a)fsfe.org>
Organization: Free Software Foundation Europe
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0
On 29/10/13 18:53, Geert Stappers wrote:
> Op 2013-10-29 om 11:31 schreef Erik Albers:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> From 12 to 15th of December there will be an art/technology-festival by the
>> 'Constant Association for Art and Media' in Brussels:
>> http://constantvzw.org/site/Are-You-Being-Served.html
>>
>> They would love to do a phone-flash-party (like FreeYourAndroid workshops) in
>> that people that did phone-flashing gather with people that have not yet
>> experience in phone-flashing but like to free their phones.
>> They asked me to host the event, but, unfortunately, I am not able to make it
>> in that time. But maybe you know someone who has interest in assisting (or
>> even hosting) the event? They also have some budget and can pay a small fee.
>>
>> Please ask me for more details
>
> May I forward your posting to other mailinglsts?
yes of course, feel free. but please do not include my email-address directly,
better point to my contact-address at
https://fsfe.org/about/albers
Best,
Erik
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Erik Albers | https://fsfe.org/about/albers
Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) - Campaigns & Community
Free as in Freedom!
----- End forwarded message -----
Groeten
Geert Stappers
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Leven en laten leven
