November 2014 - FOSDEM - lists.fosdem.org

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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Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2015 - deadline Sun 14 Dec 2014
by Dirk Craeynest 29 Nov '14

29 Nov '14

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Presentations 6th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2015 Saturday 31 January 2015, Brussels, Belgium http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/15/150131-fosdem.html Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe Deadline Sunday 14 December 2014 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The 6th Ada Developer Room will take place on Saturday 31 January at FOSDEM 2015 in Brussels, Belgium. The Call for Presentations is still open: the extended deadline is Sunday 14 December 2014. 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 inviting 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 organize a session with lightning presentations (e.g. 5 minutes each). Please provide a proposed title, the preferred length, plus an abstract and a short bio similar in style as on the program for previous Ada DevRooms, see for example [1]. We need that to put the draft program together mid December. Please react ASAP, and submit proposals by December 14, 2014 at the latest. We're looking forward to more proposals! Dirk Craeynest, FOSDEM Team of Ada-Belgium Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/-Europe/SIGAda/WG9 mail) PS: The full Call for Presentations is posted on the dedicated web-page on the Ada-Belgium site [2]. [1] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/14/140201-fosdem.html [2] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/15/150131-fosdem.html Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm

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How to include a co-speaker for a talk
by Lalatendu Mohanty 29 Nov '14

29 Nov '14

Hi, I have submitted a proposal for a talk i.e. "The CentOS Storage SIG and GlusterFS" in "Distribution devroom" track. This talk/lecture will be done by me and Kaleb (CC'ed). But I could not find a way in Pentabarf to add him as a co-speaker. Kindly let me know how I can do that. Thanks, Lala

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Keysigning: please submit your keys
by Niels Laukens 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

The keysigning infrastructure seems to have held up well this year. I spent some time today preparing the infrastructure for FOSDEM 2015. Same procedure as last year: if you intend to participate in the keysigning event, please submit the keys you'd like to have signed to ksp.fosdem.org. If you're using GnuPG, that can be easily accomplished with: % gpg --keyserver ksp.fosdem.org --send-key <your-keyid> Please check that your key was correctly submitted by pointing a webbrowser at http://ksp.fosdem.org/. If your key is missing after you submitted it, send me an email and I'll try to find out what's up. Key submissions close Monday before FOSDEM to give me some time to try to remember how I generated the lists again. Get submitting.

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News item for the new Open Media devroom
by Coinchon, Mathias 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hello, Here's a news item on the new "Open Media" devroom: https://tech.ebu.ch/news/join-the-open-media-track-at-fosdem-2015-17nov14 This devroom is new and co-organised by EBU and FOMS. From EBU side, the objective is to gather open developments related to broadcast media (radio, TV) such as audio/video encoding and processing, playout, production, media exchange&delivery, transmission. There's a growing interest and uses of Free Open Source software in the broadcast community and we regularly organise events. So if you see talks that would fit to this devroom, please don't hesitate to make suggestions or to forward the information about this new devroom. The deadline for the call for presentation is on 1st December. Best Regards Mathias Coinchon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error, please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by the mailgateway **************************************************

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Lisp Devroom at FOSDEM 2015: Call for Participation
by Sanel Zukan 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Dear Lispers, I'm pleased to announce, for the first time, Lisp Devroom @ FOSDEM, the biggest FLOSS event in Europe, that will be held in Brussels on January 31st to February 2nd, 2015. This is a call to propose your talks for FOSDEM. The topic of the devroom includes all Lisp-inspired dialects, like Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure, Emacs Lisp, newLISP, Racket, GCC-Melt, LFE, Shen & more. Every talk is welcome: from real-world examples, research projects, unusual ideas to small pet hacks. FOSDEM is a hacker conference and we would be happy to see more practical proposals, crazy ideas and open source projects demonstrations than dry scientific papers (we will leave them for ILC and ELS :-P). Important dates --------------- * Submission deadlines: 2014-12-14 * Acceptance notifications: 2014-12-28 * Lisp Devroom conference: 2015-01-31 (Saturday) Submitting proposals -------------------- Please use https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15 to submit your proposals; you will have to create Pentabarf account unless you already have one. When submitting your talk in Pentabarf, make sure to select the 'Lisp devroom' as the 'Track'. Submission details ------------------ Your submission should include the following information: * The title and subtitle of your talk, descriptive as possible * A short abstract of one paragraph * A longer description of the talk, if you would like so * Links to related online material, like pages, blogs, repositories and etc. Devroom mailing list -------------------- Please join Lisp devroom mailing list; this will be official communication channel for the devroom and all further announcements will be sent there. * desktops-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org * https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/desktops-devroom - mailing list and subscription form Planned schedule ---------------- Two types of sessions are considered: * lighting talk - 30 minues * full presentation - 60 minues with 5 minutes for the setup between each talk. More details will be announced on devroom mailing list. Questions & volunteers ---------------------- Don't hesitate to mail me at 'sanelz [at] gmail [dot] com' in case you have questions or would like to help with organization (put '[Lisp-fosdem]' in subject). Also, feel free to use official devroom mailing list for discussion. Did I said that there will be video recordings? Yes, video volunteers are welcome too :) Please forward this announcement to the relevant lists. '(Best Regards, Sanel)

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FOSDEM PGDay and Devroom 2015 - Call for Papers
by Dave Page 17 Nov '14

17 Nov '14

As previously announced, the call for papers for FOSDEM PGDay and Devroom 2015 is open. The deadline for submission is the 24th November 2014. If you wish to submit a talk, please do so as soon as possible! See you in Brussels! ========= 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 seehttp://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 a negotiated rate with the Brussels Marriott Hotel. For details, see http://fosdem2015.pgconf.eu/venue/ . -- Dave Page PostgreSQL Core Team http://www.postgresql.org/

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broken submission link
by Tal Niv 16 Nov '14

16 Nov '14

Hi, apologies if this has already been reported: I just tried and failed to use the talk submission link https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15. Thanks, Tal Niv

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Lightning talk deadline
by Zeeshan Ali Shah 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Hi, what is the deadline for 2015 Lightning talk submission ? -- Regards Zeeshan Ali Shah System Administrator - PDC HPC PhD researcher (IT security) Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan +46 8 790 9115 http://www.pdc.kth.se/members/zashah

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