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BSD Devroom CFP is open
by Rodrigo OSORIO 07 Dec '14

07 Dec '14

This is the call for participation for the BSD devroom at the Fosdem 2015, who takes place in Brussels (Belgium) from 31 January to the 1st February. The topic of the devroom includes all BSD operating systems and every talk is welcome from hacker discussions to real-word examples and presentations about new and shiny features. Important dates -------------------- * Submission deadlines : 2014-12-01 * Acceptance notifications: 2014-12-15 Practical -------------------- * The default duration for talks will be 45 minutes including discussion. Feel free to ask if you want to have a longer or a shorter slot. * Presentations can be recorded and streamed, sending your proposal implies giving permission to be recorded. However, exceptions can be made for exceptional circumstances. * A mailing list for the BSD devroom is available for discussions about devroom organization. You can register at this address : https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/bsd-devroom To submit your proposal, visit : https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15 If you already have a Pentabarf account, please *don't* recreate a new one. If you forgot your password, reset it. If not, follow the instructions to create an account. Then create an “event” and click on "Show all" in the top right corner to display the full form. Your submission must include the following information * The title and subtitle of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be listed with ~500 from other projects) * select “BSD devroom” as the track. * A short abstract of one paragraph * A longer description if you wish to do so * Links to related websites/blogs etc. - Rodrigo Osorio On behalf of the BSD Devroom

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Network devroom call for participation
by Dave Neary 05 Dec '14

05 Dec '14

Hi everyone, We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation in the FOSDEM 2015 Networking DevRoom! Important dates: * Nov 25: Deadline for submissions * Dec 1: Speakers notified of acceptance * Dec 5: Schedule published This is the first time that networking has been included as a stand-alone DevRoom, and this year the topics will cover two distinct fields: * Software Defined Networking (SDN), covering virtual switching, open source SDN controllers, virtual routing * Network management, covering host-level networking - NetworkManager, ConnMan, systemd, wicked, kernel network services, network security, etc We are now inviting proposals for talks about Free/Libre/Open-source Software on the topics of SDN and network management. This is an exciting and growing field, and this is a unique opportunity to show novel ideas and developments to a very knowledgeable technical audience. Topics accepted include, but are not limited to: SDN: * SDN controllers - OpenDaylight, OpenContrail, OpenStack Neutron * Dataplane processing: DPDK, OpenDataplane, netdev, netfilter * Virtual switches: Open vSwitch, Snabb Switch, VDE * Open network protocols: OpenFlow, NETCONF, OpenLISP Network management: * Network management: NetworkManager, ConnMan, systemd-networkd, interoperability among these projects * Common code infrastructure: libnl, libmnl, libsystemd, ell, pyroute2 * Network services: DHCP, DNS, DNSSEC, PPP * Connection management: Wifi, tethering, connection sharing, metric and source based routing, Talks should be aimed at a technical audience, but should not assume that attendees are already familiar with your project or how it solves a general problem. Talk proposals can be very specific solutions to a problem, or can be higher level project overviews for lesser known projects. 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 (with photo) The deadline for submissions is November 25th 2014. FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of January 31st-February 1st 2015 and the Networking DevRoom will take place on Saturday, January 31st 2015. Please use the following website to submit your proposals: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15 (you do not need to create a new Pentabarf account if you already have one from past years). You can also join the devroom’s mailing list, which is the official communication channel for the DevRoom: network-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org (subscription page: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/network-devroom) – The Networking DevRoom 2015 Organization Team -- Dave Neary - NFV/SDN Community Strategy Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Ph: +1-978-399-2182 / Cell: +1-978-799-3338

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FOSDEM PGDay and Devroom 2015 - Announcement & Call for Papers
by Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum 29 Oct '14

29 Oct '14

FOSDEM PGDay is a one day conference that will be held ahead of FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan 3th, 2015. This will be a one-day focused PostgreSQL event, with a single track of talks. This conference day will be for-charge and cost 50€, and will be held at the Brussels Marriott Hotel. Registration is required to attend, the registration is open. Since we have a limited number of seats available for this event, we urge everybody to register as soon as possible once open. PostgreSQL Europe will also have our regular devroom at FOSDEM on Saturday the 31st, which will be held at the main FOSDEM venue at ULB. This day will, of course, continue to be free of charge and open to all FOSDEM entrants. No registration is required to attend this day. For full details about the conference, venue and hotel, see http://fosdem2015.pgconf.eu/ . The call for papers is now open for both these events. We are looking for talks to fill both these days with content for both insiders and new users. Please see http://fosdem2015.pgconf.eu/callforpapers/ for details and submission information. The deadline for submissions is November 24th, 2014, but we may as usual pre-approve some talks, so get your submissions in soon! We also have negotiated rate with the Brussels Marriott Hotel. For details, see http://fosdem2015.pgconf.eu/venue/ . -- Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum German PostgreSQL User Group European PostgreSQL User Group - Board of Directors Volunteer Regional Contact, Germany - PostgreSQL Project

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FOSDEM 2015 Desktops DevRoom Call for Talks
by Pau Garcia i Quiles 26 Oct '14

26 Oct '14

Hello, --8<--- FOSDEM <http://www.fosdem.org> 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 Desktops DevRoom (formerly known as “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 interoperability 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, LXQt, Windows, Mac OS X, software development for the desktop, general desktop matters, applications that enhance desktops and web (when related to desktop). Talks can be very specific, such as the advantages/disadvantages of development with Qt on Wayland over X11/Mir; 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 2014 schedule <https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/track/desktops/> might give you some inspiration. 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 (with photo) - Requested time: from 15 to 45 minutes. Normal duration is 30 minutes. Longer duration requests must be properly justified. You may be assigned LESS time than you request. The deadline for submissions is December 7th 2014. FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of January 31st-February 1st 2015 and the Desktops DevRoom will take place on Sunday, February 1st 2015. Please use the following website to submit your proposals: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15 (you do not need to create a new Pentabarf account if you already have one from past years). You can also join the devroom’s mailing list, which is the official communication channel for the DevRoom: desktops-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org <https://lists.fosdem.org/private/desktops-devroom/> (subscription page <https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/desktops-devroom> for the mailing list) – The Desktops DevRoom 2015 Organization Team --8<--- -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)

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Virtualization Devroom at FOSDEM 15: Call for Participation
by Joe Brockmeier 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

FOSDEM '15 Virtualization devroom Please forward to any project or individual that might be interested in participating in this devroom! ------------------------- Important Dates and Info! ------------------------- Submission deadline: 1 December 2014 Acceptance notifications: 15 December 2014 Final schedule announcement: 9 January 2015 Devroom: 1 February 2015 ------------------------- Call for Participation ------------------------- The virtualization devroom will feature sessions around open source hypervisors and virtual machine managers such as KVM, Xen, bhyve, and VirtualBox. This room will focus on shared components and software, topics of shared interest such as libvirt, hardware passthrough, porting to ARM or other non-x86_64 platforms, virtualization management, Spice, etc. Presentations will be aimed at developers working on these platforms and improving the shared infrastructure, or common problems. The devroom organizers will seek topics that encourage dialog between projects and continued work post-FOSDEM. ------------------------- Call for Volunteers ------------------------- We are also looking for volunteers to help run the devroom. We need assistance watching time for the speakers, and helping with video for the devroom. Please contact Joe Brockmeier (jzb at redhat.com) for more information here. ------------------------- Details: READ CAREFULLY ------------------------- This year at FOSDEM there will be a one-day devroom to focus on virtualization projects. If your project is related to IaaS, we would love to see your submissions. Please note that we expect more proposals than we can possibly accept, so it is vitally important that you submit your proposal on or before the deadline. Late submissions are unlikely to be considered. All slots are 40 minutes, with 30 minutes planned for presentations, and 10 minutes for Q&A. All presentations *will* be recorded and made available under Creative Commons licenses. Please indicate when submitting your talk that your presentation will be licensed under the CC-By-SA-4.0 or CC-By-4.0 license when submitting the talk and that you agree to have your presentation recorded. For example: "If my presentation is accepted for FOSDEM, I hereby agree to license all recordings, slides, and other associated materials under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License. Sincerely, <NAME>." Also, in the notes field, please confirm tnat if your talk is accepted that you *will* be able to attend FOSDEM and deliver your presentation. We will not consider proposals from prospective speakers unsure whether they will be able to secure funds for travel and lodging to attend FOSDEM. (Sadly, we are not able to offer travel funding for prospective speakers.) ------------------------- How to Submit ------------------------- All submissions are made via the Pentabarf event planning site: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15 If you have not used Pentabarf before, you will need to create an account. After creating the account, select "Create Event" and then be sure to select "Virtualization" from the options under "Track." Please fill out all of the required fields! ------------------------- Questions ------------------------- If you have any questions about this devroom, please send your questions to: iaas-virt-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org We will respond as quickly as possible. Thanks!

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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Devroom at FOSDEM 15: Call for Participation
by Joe Brockmeier 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

FOSDEM '15 Infrastructure-as-a-Service devroom Please forward to any list or individual that might be interested in participating in this devroom! ------------------------- Important Dates and Info! ------------------------- Submission deadline: 1 December 2014 Acceptance notifications: 15 December 2014 Final schedule announcement: 9 January 2015 Devroom: 31 January 2015 ------------------------- Call for Participation ------------------------- The open source IaaS devroom will host sessions around open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service projects such as (but not limited to) Apache CloudStack, OpenStack, oVirt, OpenNebula, and Ganeti. This room will focus on collaboration between projects on common problems and software, such as shared storage, virtualized networking, interfacing with multiple hypervisors, and scaling across hundreds or thousands of servers. Organizers are seeking topics that are interesting to multiple projects, and hope to encourage developers to share experience solving problems with their own projects. ------------------------- Call for Volunteers ------------------------- We are also looking for volunteers to help run the devroom. We need assistance watching time for the speakers, and helping with video for the devroom. Please contact Joe Brockmeier (jzb at redhat.com) for more information here. ------------------------- Details: READ CAREFULLY ------------------------- This year at FOSDEM there will be a one-day devroom to focus on IaaS projects. If your project is related to IaaS, we would love to see your submissions. Please note that we expect more proposals than we can possibly accept, so it is vitally important that you submit your proposal on or before the deadline. Late submissions are unlikely to be considered. All slots are 40 minutes, with 30 minutes planned for presentations, and 10 minutes for Q&A. All presentations *will* be recorded and made available under Creative Commons licenses. Please indicate when submitting your talk that your presentation will be licensed under the CC-By-SA-4.0 or CC-By-4.0 license when submitting the talk and that you agree to have your presentation recorded. For example: "If my presentation is accepted for FOSDEM, I hereby agree to license all recordings, slides, and other associated materials under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License. Sincerely, <NAME>." Also, in the notes field, please confirm tnat if your talk is accepted that you *will* be able to attend FOSDEM and deliver your presentation. We will not consider proposals from prospective speakers unsure whether they will be able to secure funds for travel and lodging to attend FOSDEM. (Sadly, we are not able to offer travel funding for prospective speakers.) ------------------------- How to Submit ------------------------- All submissions are made via the Pentabarf event planning site: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15 If you have not used Pentabarf before, you will need to create an account. After creating the account, select "Create Event" and then be sure to select "Infrastructure as a service devroom" from the options under "Track." ------------------------- Questions ------------------------- If you have any questions about this devroom, please send your questions to: iaas-virt-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org We will respond as quickly as possible. Thanks!

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FOSDEM Go DevRoom CFP
by Andrew Gerrand 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

Go DevRoom FOSDEM 2015: Call for proposals At FOSDEM 2014 we ran a Go DevRoom; see the writeup for details: http://blog.golang.org/fosdem14 It was such a success that we are doing it again at FOSDEM 2015. It will take place in Brussels, Belgium on the 31st of January and 1st of February. We're calling for members of the Go community to propose presentations for the event. Presentations should be 20-30 minutes in length, and should be about Go programming. The scope for topics is broad. Submit your talks here: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15 (If you already have an account on the "pentabarf" system, please use it rather than creating a new one.) We're also looking for volunteers to help with administering the room and nursing the video equipment. These aren't particularly demanding roles, so if you're planning to be present at the room all day and would like to help out, please let us know. If you're interested in being involved in the DevRoom planning, join the go-devroom mailing list: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/go-devroom Cheers, Andrew

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Ruby devroom 2015 Call for participation now open!
by R. Tyler Croy 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

(for a HTML version of this message: <http://fosdem-ruby.github.io/cfp.html>) We're very excited to announce the call for participation for the Ruby devroom for FOSDEM 2015! INTRO ----- The goal of the Ruby devroom is to host technical content focused around the Ruby language and the numerous open source projects and initiatives which implement, extend and instrument the Ruby language. The time format for presentations in the Ruby devroom is not set in stone, but the ideal duration is around 35-45 minutes with Q&A included. We are open to suggestions for panels and/or more open, moderated, discussions provided the topics proposed fit with the theme of the room. More details about the room can/will be found here: http://fosdem-ruby.github.io/ TALKS/TOPICS WE'D LIKE TO SEE ----------------------------- Some suggestions on the kinds of topics we would like to see discussed in the Ruby devroom: * The current state of the Ruby language itself * Presentations on the techniques employed by various Ruby virtual machines and interpreters, along with the effectiveness and/or trade-offs of implementing those techniques * Upcoming Ruby language features, and the implementation challenges and/or user benefits that they provide * Tools and practices used to certify Ruby language conformity and evaluate its performance SUBMITTING ---------- To submit a proposal to present in the Ruby devroom, please submit your proposal on penta.fosdem.org. Steps: ------ * You will need to create an account if you do not already have an account from previous years. * Click the 'Create event' link * Enter the details for your presentation * You must select the *Ruby devroom* track in your submission. If you donât we might never see your proposal! (see here for example: http://fosdem-ruby.github.io/images/track_selection.png) * Submit! Presentation are recorded and will be made available with CC-BY licence by FOSDEM. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- * End of the Call for Participation: December 1st, 2014 * Announcement of accepted proposals: December 15th, 2014 * FOSDEM 2015: January 31st and February 1st, 2015 SELECTION COMMITTEE ------------------- R. Tyler Croy - JRuby/Jenkins hacker Charles Nutter - JRuby core hacker Laurent Sansonetti - RubyMotion (toolchain for iOS/OS X development in Ruby) developer Florian Gilcher - Ruby Berlin e.V. (European non-profit) committee member, organizer, hacker Christophe Philemotte - Ruby burgers and BRUG organizer, and hacker We look forward to FOSDEM 2015 and seeing you all there! - R. Tyler Croy ------------------------------------------------------ Code: <https://github.com/rtyler> Chatter: <https://twitter.com/agentdero> % gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key 3F51E16F ------------------------------------------------------

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Testing and Automation devroom CFP
by Jeff Weiss 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

This is the third 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! # What Since this is the third year we're hosting the Testing and Automation dev room, here are some ideas of what we would like to see, and what worked in prior years, they're just ideas though! Check out the [2013]( https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/testing_and_automation/) and [2014]( https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/track/testing_and_automation/) schedules for inspiration. ### Testing in the real, open source world * War stories/strategies for testing large scale or complex projects * Tools that extend the ability to test low-level code * Projects that are introducing new/interesting ways of testing "systems" ### 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." # Where FOSDEM is hosted at [Université libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium]( https://fosdem.org/2015/practical/transportation/) The Testing and Automation dev room is currently slated for Building H, room 1309, which seats ~145. # When * CFP Submission Deadline: **23:59 UTC, 1 December 2014** * Schedule Announced: **15 December 2014** * Presentations: **31 January and 1 February 2015** # How Please 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 December 1st 2014**. We will notify all those submitting proposals about their acceptance by December 15th 2014. To submit a talk proposal (you can submit multiple proposals if you'd like) with [Pentabarf](https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15), the FOSDEM paper submission system. Be sure to select `Testing and Automation` otherwise we won't see it! You can create an account, or use an existing account if you already have one. Please note: FOSDEM is a [FLOSS]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software) community event, by and for the community, please ensure your topic is appropriate (i.e. this isn't the right forum for commercial product presentations) # Who * [Jeff Weiss](https://github.com/jeffweiss) - Process automation developer * [R. Tyler Croy](https://github.com/rtyler) - JRuby/Jenkins hacker For more/update-to-date information, please see http://fosdem-testingautomation.github.io/

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Recording licenses
by Mario Torre 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

Hi all, What will be the license for all the recorded sessions? I think it would be nice to put this info somewhere on the main page also. Cheers, Mario -- pgp key: http://subkeys.pgp.net/ PGP Key ID: 80F240CF Fingerprint: BA39 9666 94EC 8B73 27FA FC7C 4086 63E3 80F2 40CF Java Champion - Blog: http://neugens.wordpress.com - Twitter: @neugens Proud GNU Classpath developer: http://www.classpath.org/ OpenJDK: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/caciocavallo/ Please, support open standards: http://endsoftpatents.org/

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