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Call For papers Geospatial devroom @FOSDEM 2016
by Johan Van de Wauw 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

Please forward! FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 5000 developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source software developers and communities a place to meet and share thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are welcome. The next edition will take place the last weekend ofJanuary 30 - 31 2016. This year for the second time there will be a Geospatial devroomon Sunday 31/1/2016, organised by members of the OSGeo, Locationtech and OpenStreetMap communities. Geospatial technology is becoming rapidly mainstream. The idea underpinning the geospatial devroom is bringing together developers with different backgrounds to disclosethe opportunities offered by cutting-edge open source geospatial technologies. Due to the success of last years devroom, a Belgium local chapter of OSGeo, OSGeo.be was founded, and is now taking part of the organisation of the devroom as driving community. The Geospatial devroom is the place to talk about the state of the art of open, geo-related data, free and open source geospatial software and its ecosystem. This includes standards and tools, e.g. spatial databases, online mapping tools, geospatial services, used for collecting, storing, delivering, analysing, and visualizing geodata. We welcome submissions about: * Web and desktop GIS applications * Interoperable geospatial web services and specifications * Collection of data using sensors/drones/satellites * Open hardware for geospatial applications * Geo-analytic algorithms/libraries * Geospatial extensions for classical databases (indexes, operations) and dedicated databases * Collaborative editing/versioning of geodata * Big geodata, scalable GIS applications * Volunteered Geograpic information - Crowdsourced data HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL FOR A TALK Are you thrilled to present your work to other open source developers? Would you like to run a discussion? Any other ideas? Please submit your proposal using the Pentabarf event planning tool at: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16 Make sure to select the 'Geospatial devroom' as 'Track'. Please, specify in the notes if you prefer for your presentation either a short timeslot (lightning talks ~10 minutes) or along timeslot (20 minutes presentation + discussion). However, note that time slots are indicative and will be assigned according to the needs of the session. The DEADLINE for submissions is Tuesday **1st December 2015**. Notification of acceptance will be sent to the Authors by Friday 11/12/2015 at the latest. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the organisers of the devroom at fosdem-geospatial(a)gisky.be! Johan Van de Wauw Margherita Di Leo Astrid Emde Anne Ghisla Martin Hammitzsch Andy Petrella Dirk Frigne Olivier Courtin Thomas Gratier

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Lua DevRoom at FOSDEM 2016 - Call for Presentations
by Hisham Muhammad 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

Call For Presentations: Lua devroom at FOSDEM ======================================== FOSDEM [1] is the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting, conference happening every year in Brussels, Belgium over a weekend. This year it will be on January 30-31. It's the biggest FOSS event in Europe with +5000 participants, +400 speakers. In 2015 we had an impromptu Birds of a Feather meeting for the Lua community there. In 2016 we will have a real developer room, on the afternoon of Saturday 30th January, so we are now accepting submissions of talk proposals. The format will be 30 minutes talks, including questions (so roughly 20-25 talks, 5-10 minutes for Q&A). Feel free to ask if you'd like to have a longer or a shorter slot. The talks will be filmed, possibly streamed live, and the videos will be made available publicly under a CC-BY license. Submitting a talk for the devroom implies that you agree to be filmed under such terms. All topics related to Lua are accepted. The deadline for submission is Tuesday 1st December 2015. All submission should be made using the FOSDEM even planning tool Pentabarf [2]. When you create your event, make sure to select "Lua devroom" under "Track". If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous year, please reuse it instead of creating a new one. In the morning, this room will be used by the GNU Guile [3] community. We are considering sharing one hour around lunch time for talks that may interest both communities. So if you have an idea for such a talk, do not hesitate to submit it! There is a mailing-list for the devroom, to which you can subscribe at [4] (subscriptions have to be accepted by an admin so you will not receive the confirmation email immediatly). If you have any questions, you can contact the devroom organizers by email: Hisham Muhammad : h [at] hisham [dot] hm Pierre Chapuis : catwell [at] archlinux [dot] us Important dates summary: Submission deadline: 1st December 2015 Acceptance notifications: 8th December 2015 Final schedule announcement: 17th December 2015 Devroom: 30th January 2016 (afternoon) Feel free to forward this CFP to any person or group you know that could be interested! See you at FOSDEM! [1] https://fosdem.org [2] https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16 [3] http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/ [4] https://lists.fosdem.org/admin/lua-devroom

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[ANN] FOSDEM'16 HPC, Big Data, and Data Science Devroom Call for Participation
by Ewan Higgs 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

FOSDEM'16 HPC, Big Data, and Data Science Devroom Call for Participation Sunday, January 31, 2016, Brussels, Belgium Also available here: <https://hpc-bigdata-fosdem16.github.io/> # Overview We are proud to announce the 1st edition of the HPC, Big Data and Data Science devroom, co-located with FOSDEM 2016. FOSDEM is an annual conference about free and open source software, attended by over 5000 developers and open-source enthusiasts from all over the world. FOSDEM has hosted an HPC devroom before, but this is the first time that representatives from the HPC and Big Data communities are joining forces to bring both communities together with this devroom. High Performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data are two important approaches to scientific computing. HPC typically deals with smaller, highly structured data sets and huge amounts of computation while Big Data, not surprisingly, deals with gigantic, unstructured data sets and focuses on the I/O bottlenecks. With the Big Data trend unlocking access to an unprecedented amount of data, Data Science has emerged to tackle the problem of creating processes and approaches to extracting knowledge or insights from these data sets. Machine learning and predictive analytics algorithms have joined the family of more traditional HPC algorithms and are pushing the requirements of cluster and data scalability. Free and Open Source communities have been the foundation of the HPC and Big Data communities for some time. In the HPC community, it should be no surprise that 488 of the Top500 supercomputers in the world run Linux. On the Big Data side, the Hadoop ecosystem has had a tremendous amount of Open Source contributions from a wide range of organizations coming together under the Apache Software Foundation. Our goal is to bring the communities together, share expertise, learn how we can benefit from each other’s work and foster further joint research and collaboration. We welcome talks about Free and Open Source solutions to the challenges presented by large scale computing, data management and data analysis. The devroom will take place on Sunday, January 31st 2016, at ULB (Campus Solbosch), in Brussels, Belgium. Join us to enjoy a full day of talks, demos and interesting discussions on open-source HPC, Big Data and Data Science. Sounds interesting? Submit your talk proposal below and see you in Brussels! # Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Architecture and design of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data systems Architecture and design of Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) and data acquisition pipelines Data security and governance Tools and technologies related to HPC and computational science, for example: Multithreading (OpenMP, etc.) Distributed computing (MPI, etc.) GPGPU computing (OpenCL, OpenACC, etc.) Parallel filesystems and storage Large-scale performance analysis and debugging Computational paradigms for Big Data systems MapReduce engines Streaming engines SQL engines Dataflow engines Emerging hardware trends of large scale clusters Large scale memory pooling High-speed interconnects ARM cluster architecture System administration of HPC and Big Data clusters User support tools Machine learning libraries and tools Scientific software applications, tools and libraries (across all scientific domains) Big Data platforms, extensions to existing systems, libraries, APIs Experiences reports on using Big Data systems, for example: Large-scale deployments Development and configuration issues Tuning and performance tips and lessons learned Interesting Big Data use-cases and applications Comparative analysis of existing systems, evaluation results, performance studies Interdisciplinary HPC/Big Data use-cases, for example: Applications using both HPC and Big Data technologies Integration issues Open research problems on the convergence of HPC and Big Data Running MPI jobs on Big Data clusters and vice-versa # Submission We invite presenters to submit talk proposals to present high-quality work with sufficient background material to be clear to the HPC, Big Data, and/or Data Science communities. Talks proposals should be submitted through the FOSDEM Pentabarf server. Submissions must include: Abstract Session type Session length Expected prior knowledge / intended audience Speaker bio Links to code / slides / material for the talk (optional) Links to previous talks by the speaker Our intention is to have a full day of talks of about 20 minutes each, with an additional 5 minutes for questions by attendees. We would also like to note: Talks will be streamed live and will be recorded. By submitting a session, speakers agree to being recorded and having their talk made available. All accepted talks will be about (using) free and open source software. We highly discourage “marketing” talks. Submit here: <https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16> When submitting your talk in Pentabarf, make sure to select the ‘HPC, Big Data, and Data Science Devroom’ as the ‘Track’. If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous FOSDEM edition, please reuse it. Create an account if, and only if, you don’t have one from a previous year. If you have any issues with Pentabarf, do not despair: contact hpc-bigdata-devroom [at] lists.fosdem.org . Dates Call for parcipation available: November 2, 2015 Call for participation closes: December 4, 2015 Devroom schedule available: December 18, 2015 Devroom dinner: Saturday January 30, 2016 (subject to change) Devroom date: Sunday January 31, 2016 # Organizers Ewan Higgs - HPC team at Ghent University Kenneth Hoste - HPC team at Ghent University Roman Shaposhnik - Pivotal Vasia Kalavri - KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) We adopt the Apache Code of Conduct. <http://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct.html> Please email hpc-bigdata-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org with questions or concerns.

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