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Call for Participation: Identity and Access Management devroom @ FOSDEM 2018
by Alexander Bokovoy 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

Welcome to Identity and Access Management developer room at FOSDEM 2018 (Brussels, Belgium, February 3rd). FOSDEM is a free software event that offers open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renown for being highly developer- oriented and brings together 8000+ participants from all over the world. It is held in the city of Brussels (Belgium). FOSDEM 2018 will take place during the weekend of February 3rd-4th 2018. More details about the event can be found at http://fosdem.org/ On Saturday, February 3rd, FOSDEM will see a first-time Identity and Access Management developer room. Devrooms are a place for development teams to meet, discuss, hack and publicly present their project's latest improvements and future directions. Identity and Access Management (IAM/IdM) is a concept that touches everyone's lives. We all have many identities and associated credentials to manage. At work, we need to access many kinds of services every day, sometimes with multiple identities and using different authentication methods. Those who deploy identity infrastructure need also to deal with audit and monitoring of user activities. Security is paramount but efficiency and ease of use matter too! ** Call For Participation The IAM/IdM developer room is devoted to all things Identity Management. Both server and client side free software projects in the area of identity management are welcomed to present their state and progress. Presentation topics could include: - Security: algorithms and protocols for IAM/IdM; passwords and password alternatives - Federated and social identity; leveraging external identities in applications - Audit, compliance, monitoring - User experience, desktop integration - Free software IAM/IdM offerings - IAM/IdM deployment reports and more. Don't be shy and show how your project helps to improve our lives. ** Important dates: - 26 Nov 2017: submission deadline for talk proposals - 15 Dec 2017: announcement of the final schedule - 3 Feb 2018: Identity and Access Management devroom (Saturday) Talk proposals will be reviewed by a steering committee: - Alexander Bokovoy (Samba Team, FreeIPA // Red Hat Inc.) - Marcus Rückert (OpenSUSE Infrastructure // SUSE LINUX GmbH) - Jakub Hrozek (SSSD // Red Hat Inc.) - Timo Aaltonen (Debian, Ubuntu // Canonical) Use the FOSDEM 'pentabarf' tool to submit your proposal: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18 - If necessary, create a Pentabarf account and activate it. Please reuse your account from previous years if you have already created 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 "Identity and Access Management 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 - Provide an expected length of your talk in the "Duration" field. Please count at least 10 minutes of discussion into your proposal. Suggested talk length would be 15, 20+10, 30+10, and 40+10 minutes. ** Recording of talks The FOSDEM organizers plan to have live streaming and recording fully working, both for remote/later viewing of talks, and so that people can watch streams in the hallways when rooms are full. This requires speakers to consent to being recorded and streamed. If you plan to be a speaker, please understand that by doing so you implicitly give consent for your talk to be recorded and streamed. The recordings will be published under the same license as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). -- / Alexander Bokovoy

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Call for Participation: Debugging Tools DevRoom at FOSDEM 2018
by Ivo Raisr 01 Dec '17

01 Dec '17

Debugging Tools developer room at FOSDEM 2018 (Brussels, Belgium, February 3th). FOSDEM is a free software event that offers open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renown for being highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ hackers from all over the world. It is held in the city of Brussels (Belgium). http://fosdem.org/ FOSDEM 2018 will take place during the weekend of Saturday, February 3th and Sunday February 4th 2018. On Saturday we will have a devroom for Debugging Tools, jointly organized by the Valgrind and GDB projects. Devrooms are a place for development teams to meet, discuss, hack and publicly present the project's latest improvements and future directions. We will have a whole day to hang out together as community embracing debugging tools, such as Valgrind, gdb, RR, Infinity, radare... Please join us, regardless of whether you are a core hacker, a plugin hacker, a user, a packager or a hacker on a project that integrates, extends or complements debugging tools. ** 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 by Friday December 1st 2017, so we can make a list of activities during the day. Some possible topics for talks/discussions are: - The recently added functional changes (for users). - Get feedback on what what kinds of new functionality would be useful. Which tools and functionality users would like to see. - Discuss release/bugfixing strategy/policy (core hackers, packagers). - Connecting debugging tools together. - Latest DWARF extensions, going from binary back to source. - Multi, multi, multi... threads, processes and targets. - Debugging anything, everywhere. Dealing with complex systems. - Dealing with the dynamic loader and the kernel. - Intercepting and interposing functions and events. - Adding GDB features, such as designing GDB python scripts for your data structures. - Advances in gdbserver and the GDB remote serial protocol. - Adding Valgrind features (adding syscalls for a platform or VEX instructions for an architecture port). - Infrastructure changes to the Valgrind JIT framework. - Your interesting use case with a debugging tool. ** How to Submit There are two ways. The first one is to use the FOSDEM 'pentabarf' tool to submit your proposal: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18 - If necessary, create a Pentabarf account and activate it. Please reuse your account from previous years if you have already created 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 "Debugging Tools 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 The second way is to email your talk proposal to valgrind-devroom-manager(a)fosdem.org alias. Julian, Philippe, Mark, Ivosh, and Pedro will review the proposals and organize the schedule for the day. Please feel free to suggest or discuss any ideas for the devroom on valgrind-devroom-manager(a)fosdem.org alias. ** Recording of Talks As usually the FOSDEM organisers plan to have live streaming and recording fully working, both for remote/later viewing of talks, and so that people can watch streams in the hallways when rooms are full. This obviously requires speakers to consent to being recorded and streamed. If you plan to be a speaker, please understand that by doing so you implicitly give consent for your talk to be recorded and streamed. The recordings will be published under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). Important dates: Talk/Discussion Submission deadline: Friday 1 Dec 2017 Devroom Schedule announcement: Friday 15 Dec 2017 Devroom day: Saturday 3 Feb 2018 Hope to see you all at FOSDEM 2018 in the joint Debugging Tools devroom. Brussels (Belgium), Saturday February 3th 2018. On behalf of the devroom committee, Ivo Raisr

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[CFP] LLVM toolchain devroom CFP at FOSDEM 2018
by Kristof Beyls 21 Nov '17

21 Nov '17

*CALL FOR PAPERS / PARTICIPATION* At FOSDEM 2018, LLVM will again participate with a dedicated devroom, on February 4th, in Brussels. As possibly the largest European Open Source Conference, FOSDEM attracts more than 400 lectures and over 5000 hackers - many core contributors of the worlds leading open source projects. Complementing the LLVM developer meetings, the devroom at FOSDEM provides a great opportunity for LLVM developers and the wider open source community to get together, connect and discuss. We invite academic, industrial and hobbyist speakers to present their work on developing or using LLVM, Clang, LLDB, Polly, Compiler-rt, etc. We are looking for: - Keynote speakers. - Technical presentations (30 minutes plus questions and discussion) related to development of LLVM, Clang etc. - Presentations about the use of LLVM, Clang in commercial, academic, hobbyist and other projects. - Tutorials. - Lightning talks (5 minutes). - Demos. The deadline for receiving proposals is November 26th, 2017. Speakers will be notified of acceptance or rejection by December 12th. Please find some advice on what constitutes a good proposal at the end of this CFP. To submit a proposal, please create an account on the FOSDEM interface ( https://penta.fosdem.org/user/new_account) If you already have an account from previous years, please reuse that. Submit your proposal following https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18, “Create Event”. Please make sure you select "LLVM toolchain devroom" as the "Track”. Presentations will be recorded and streamed. Sending your proposal implies giving permission to be recorded. However, exceptions can be made for exceptional circumstances. *Registration* FOSDEM does not require any registration and is free of charge. *Organization* The mailing list llvm-devroom at lists.fosdem.org can be used to discuss issues of general interest related to the conference organization. Please, do not reply to this email, as it is cross posted to many lists. *Financial support* There may be a possibility of limited funding to help presenting students or presenting contributors who could not otherwise attend the conference. If you need funding to be able to present at the meeting, or can help sponsor, please tell us on llvm-devroom at lists.fosdem.org. *Guidance on writing a proposal for the LLVM Dev Room* This is a guide to help you submit a good proposal and increase your chances of your proposal being accepted. If you have never presented at an LLVM meeting, then do not fear this process. We are actively looking for new speakers who are excited about LLVM and helping grow the community through these educational talks! You do not need to be a long time developer to submit a proposal. General Guidelines: - It should be clear from your abstract what your topic is, who your targeted audience is, and what are the takeaways for attendees. The program committee does not have time to read 10 page papers for each submission. - Talks about a use of LLVM (etc) should include details about how LLVM is used and not only be about the resulting application. - Tutorials on “how to use X” in LLVM (or other subproject) are greatly desired and beneficial to many developers. Entry level topics are encouraged as well. - Typically a few paragraphs are sufficient. Best regards, LLVM @ FOSDEM organisers

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FOSDEM 2018 - Distributions Devroom Call for Participation
by Brian Exelbierd 03 Nov '17

03 Nov '17

The Distributions devroom will take place Sunday 4 February 2018 at FOSDEM, in Brussels, Belgium at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. For this year's distributions devroom, we want to focus on the ways that distribution technologies can be leveraged to allow for easier creation of a multi-verse of artifacts from single source trees. We also want to continue to highlight the huge efforts being made in shared environments around Build/Test/Release cycles. We welcome submissions targeted at contributors interested in issues unique to distributions, especially in the following topics: - Distribution and Community collaborations, eg: how does code flow from developers to end users across communities, ensuring trust and code audibility - Automating building software for redistribution to minimize human involvement, eg: bots that branch and build software, bots that participate as team members extending human involvement - Cross-distribution collaboration on common issues, eg: content distribution, infrastructure, and documentation - Growing distribution communities, eg: onboarding new users, helping new contributors learn community values and technology, increasing contributor technical skills, recognizing and rewarding contribution - Principals of Rolling Releases, Long Term Supported Releases (LTS), Feature gated releases, and calendar releases - Distribution construction, installation, deployment, packaging and content management - Balancing new code and active upstreams verus security updates, back porting and minimization of user breaking changes - Delivering architecture independent software universally across architectures within the confines of distribution systems - Effectively communicating the difference in experience across architectures for developers, packagers, and users - Working with vendors and including them in the community - The future of distributions, emerging trends and evolving user demands from the idea of a platform Ideal submissions are actionable and opinionated. Submissions may be in the form of 25 or 50 minute talks, panel sessions, round-table discussions, or Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions. Dates ------ Submission Deadline: 03-Dec-2017 @ 2359 GMT Acceptance Notification: 8-Dec-2017 Final Schedule Posted: 15-Dec-2017 How to submit -------------- Visit https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18 1.) If you do not have an account, create one here 2.) Click 'Create Event' 3.) Enter your presentation details 4.) Be sure to select the Distributions Devroom track! 5.) Submit What to include --------------- - The title of your submission - A 1-paragraph Abstract - A longer description including the benefit of your talk to your target audience, including a definition of your target audience. - Approximate length / type of submission (talk, BoF, ...) - Links to related websites/blogs/talk material (if any) Administrative Notes ---------------- We will be live-streaming and recording the Distributions Devroom. Presenting at FOSDEM implies permission to record your session and distribute the recording afterwards. All videos will be made available under the standard FOSDEM content license (CC-BY). If you have any questions, feel free to contact the devroom organizers: distributions-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org (https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/distributions-devroom) Cheers! Brian Exelbierd (twitter: @bexelbie) and Brian Stinson (twitter: @bstinsonmhk) for and on behalf of The Distributions Devroom Program Committee

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Open Document Editors DevRoom - Call for Paper FOSDEM 2018
by Italo Vignoli 31 Oct '17

31 Oct '17

FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of Free Software contributors in the world and happens each year in Brussels (Belgium) at the ULB Campus Solbosch. In 2018, it will be held on Saturday, February 3, and Sunday, February 4. As usual, the Open Document Editors DevRoom will be jointly organized by Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice, on Saturday, February 3 (from 10:30AM to 6:30PM, room AW1.120). The shared devroom gives every project in this area a chance to present ODF related developments and innovations. We are now inviting proposals for talks about Open Document Editors or the ODF standard document format, on topics such as code, localization, QA, UX, extensions, tools and adoption related cases. This is a unique opportunity to show new ideas and developments to a wide technical audience. Please do keep in mind, though, that product pitches are not allowed at FOSDEM. Length of talks should be limited to a maximum of 30 minutes, as we would like to have questions after each presentation, and to fit as many presenters as possible in the schedule. Exceptions must be explicitly requested and justified. You may be assigned LESS time than you request. All submissions have to be made in the Pentabarf event planning tool: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18. While filing your proposal, please provide the title of your talk, a short abstract (one or two paragraphs), some information about yourself (name, bio and photo, but please do remember that your profile might be already stored at Pentabarf). To submit your talk, click on “Create Event”, then make sure to select the “Open Document Editors” devroom as the “Track”. Otherwise, your talk will not be even considered for any devroom at all. If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous year, even if your talk was not accepted, 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, please contact ode-devroom-manager(a)fosdem.org. The deadline is Monday, December 4th, 2017. Accepted speakers will be notified by Monday, December 11th, 2017. The schedule will be published before Friday, December 15, 2017. Recording Permission The talks in the Open Document Editors DevRoom will be audio and video recorded, and possibly streamed live too. In the “Submission notes” field, please indicate that you agree to have your presentation recorded and published under the same license as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). For example: “If my speech is accepted for FOSDEM, I hereby agree to be recorded and to have recordings - including slides and other presentation related documents - published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 International License. Sincerely, Name”. -- Italo Vignoli - Marketing & PR email italo.vignoli(a)documentfoundation.org mobile/signal +39.348.5653829 - skype italovignoli hangout/jabber italo.vignoli(a)gmail.com The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint GPG Key ID - 0xAAB8D5C0 DB75 1534 3FD0 EA5F 56B5 FDA6 DE82 934C AAB8 D5C0

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[CFP] Embedded, mobile and automotive devroom 2018
by Philippe De Swert 31 Oct '17

31 Oct '17

This email is a Call For Participation in the embedded, mobile and automotive devroom FOSDEM 2018 Devroom date: Saturday February 3th and Sunday 4th 2018 in Brussels, Belgium CFP deadline: Monday, 11 December 210 Final speaker confirmation on Friday, December 15th 2018 CFP Introduction --------------------------- Embedded software is transforming the world, and FOSS embedded software is leading the way. From automotive to the Internet of Things, launching rockets, messing with your phone or automating your toaster, small devices, embedded systems, and automatons are everywhere Join in and tell the world about your project! NB: This year FOSDEM plans to record all presentations, no exceptions. Please only propose a talk that you're really able and willing to share. Topics Sought ------------------------ The embedded devroom seeks topics related to automotive, industrial, mobile, consumer electronics, autonomous and generally embedded systems, either from a professional or hobbyist backgrounds. Topics such as operating systems (Linux, free RTOS), hardware platforms (from microcontrollers to microprocessors, FPGAs) and software stacks are welcome. Related areas are of course of interest as well and our definition of "embedded" is elastic. CFP Schedule And Submission Details ----------------------------------------------------------- Please submit proposals no later than the 11th of December. Please use the following URL to submit your talk to FOSDEM 2018 https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18 and follow the following rules: * If you do not have an account yet, please create one, if you have submitted a talk in one of the previous years, please re-use your old account. * Select as the Track "Embedded, mobile and automotive devroom" * Select as the Event Type "Lecture" * Include a title. (Note that "Subtitle" entry doesn't appear on all conference documents, so make sure "Title" can stand on its own without "Subtitle" present.) * Include an Abstract of about 500 characters and a full description of any length you wish, but in both fields, please be concise, but clear and descriptive. * Indicate whether you seek a 25, or 50 minute slot. * Use the "Links" sub-area to your past work in the field you'd like to share. * Also in the notes field, confirm your availability to speak on Saturday 3 or Sunday 4 February 2018 in Brussels. * Last but not least, make sure you have up to date contact info. Feel free to send an email to the embedded mailing list should you have any questions with the conference system. Subscribe here: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/embedded-devroom About the devroom organizers -------------------------------------------------- The co-organizers of the FOSDEM 2018 Embedded devroom are (in alphabetical order by surname): - Peter De Schrijver, Kernel engineer at Nvidia - Philippe De Swert, HW adaptation engineer at Linkmotion - Jeremiah C. Foster, GENIVI Community Manager - Thomas Petazzoni, CTO Free Electrons - Geert Uytterhoeven, Glider bvba

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Hardware Enablement Devroom Call for Participation
by Christian Kellner 30 Oct '17

30 Oct '17

FOSDEM 2018 Hardware Enablement Devroom Call for Participation ============================================================== Important dates -------------------- * Conference date : 3 & 4 February 2018 in Brussels, Belgium * Devroom date : Sunday 4 February 2018 * Submission deadline : Sunday 26 November 2017 * Speaker notified : Sunday 10 December 2017 About ----- In this devroom we want to discuss topics surrounding hardware enablement. Subjects can range from the firmware running on the bare metal machine, drivers and plumbing all the way to the user interface. We welcome a board range of presentations, including but not limitied to technical talks, state of union summaries as well as discussions that facilitate the collaboration between community members, software vendors and OEMs. A particular emphasis will be given to talks covering a significant part of the software stack involved in hardware enablement, with an obvious focus on using open source throughout the whole stack. Visit https://fosdem.org for general information about FOSDEM. Talk Format ----------- * To cover the wide range of topics we will prefer short talks (about 15-25 minutes). Please include at least 5 minutes for discussions and questions. * Presentations will be recorded and streamed. Sending your proposal implies giving permission to be recorded. Exceptions may be possible. * Proposals need to be submitted via pentabarf: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18 See "Submission" for details. Topics & Examples ----------------- * UX design to enable users to use their HW effectively * Firmware: - coreboot - flashrom - UEFI EDK2 (Tianocore) - Security - Lockdown of platform using firmware - Updating * Secure Boot * Hardware testing / certification * Thunderbolt 3 security modes * Gaming input devices (keyboards, mice, piper) * Biometric authentication * Miracast or controlling remote devices * Why vendors should facilitate upstream development Submission ---------- The FOSDEM Pentabarf is used for submission and scheduling: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18 * Please reuse and existing account otherwise register a new one. * Please provide your full name and email address. If you provide bio then this will be visible publically. * Create a new event: - Select "Hardware Enablement devroom" as the track - Provide a descriptive title - Provide a public abstract for your talk - Add any further information for paper review into the submission notes (e.g. outline, why this devroom)

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Free Java Dev Room Call For Participation
by Mario Torre 26 Oct '17

26 Oct '17

We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation in the FOSDEM 2018 Free Java DevRoom! This year FOSDEM Free Java DevRoom will be on Saturday the 3th of February 2018 in Bruxelles, Belgium, with the usual events and meetings surrounding the main show on Friday, Saturday and Sunday on that weekend; please, refer to the FOSDEM website for the schedule of the whole event: https://fosdem.org/ 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. The Java Community has never been more vibrant than now, and it's moving faster and is more modular than ever: a real "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" and back together into a perfect picture! Those are indeed very exciting times, and we are all part of it! So, come and share your experiences at the Java Dev Room at FOSDEM! As always, check out our wiki for more details on the conference: https://wiki.debian.org/Java/DevJam/2018/Fosdem And join the Free Java DevoRoom mailing list [java-devroom at lists.fosdem.org] https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/java-devroom *** IMPORTANT *** Fosdem organisers have expressed the desire to record and stream everything, and like every year we will do our best to record the sessions by default. We will use the same format as last year, so please submit one (or more) 25 minute talk proposal(s) by the 1st of December 2017, 23.59 CET on the mailing list. We will also select a small number of 45 minutes talk. If you wish to submit a 45 minutes talk please state this in the proposal, all proposals will be considered to be of 25 minute by default otherwise. A template for submitting a talk can be found at: http://wiki.debian.org/Java/DevJam/2016/Fosdem/CallForParticipation Tracks will be announced around 10th of December on the mailing list. Please join us! --The Free Java DevRoom Committee -- 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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Developer rooms
by Pierre FICHEUX 26 Oct '17

26 Oct '17

Hi, I saw lots of TBA (to be announced?) for CFP deadlines in dev rooms : https://fosdem.org/2018/news/2017-10-04-accepted-developer-rooms/ Any additional information about it? thx -- Pierre FICHEUX -/- CTO Smile-ECS, France -\- pierre.ficheux(a)smile.fr http://www.smile.fr https://smile.eu/fr/offres/embarque-iot I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code

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CfP - Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2018, Brussels, Belgium
by Dirk Craeynest 26 Oct '17

26 Oct '17

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Presentations 8th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2018 Saturday 3 February 2018, Brussels, Belgium http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/18/180203-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 3 February 2018 at FOSDEM 2018 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 early each year in Brussels, Belgium. It is highly developer-oriented and brings together 8000+ participants from all over the world. No registration is necessary. 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 Programming Language and Technology --------------------------------------- Awareness of safety and security issues in software systems is increasing. Multi-core platforms are now abundant. These are some of the reasons that the Ada programming language and technology attracts more and more attention, among others due to Ada's support for programming by contract and for multi-core targets. The Ada 2012 language definition was approved and published by ISO in December 2012, updated early 2016, and work on new features for the next revision is ongoing. More and more tools are available, many are open source, including for small and recent platforms. Interest keeps increasing, also in the open source community, and many exciting projects started. Ada Developer Room ------------------ FOSDEM is an ideal fit for Ada developers to meet. On the one hand, it gives the general open source community an opportunity to see what is happening in the Ada community and how Ada technology can help to produce reliable and efficient open source software. On the other hand, it gives open source Ada projects an opportunity to present themselves, get feedback and ideas, and attract participants to their project and collaboration between projects. 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], 2013 [7], 2014 [8], 2015 [9], and 2016 [10]. An important goal is to present exciting Ada technology and projects also to people outside the traditional Ada community. Our proposal for another dedicated Ada DevRoom was accepted, and now work continues to prepare the detailed program. We most probably will have a total of 8 schedulable hours between 11:00 and 19:00 in a room which accommodates 76 participants. More information will be posted on the dedicated web-page on the Ada-Belgium site [11], and final announcements will of course also be sent to various forums, lists and newsgroups. Call for Presentations ---------------------- We would like to schedule technical presentations, tutorials, demos, live performances, project status reports, discussions, etc, in the Ada Developer Room. 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 [12] 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 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 20 or 45 minutes, plus 5 minutes for Q&A. Depending on interest, we might also have a session with lightning presentations (e.g. 5 minutes each). Note that all talks will be streamed live (audio+video) and recorded, for remote as well as later viewing of talks, and so that people can watch streams in the hallways when rooms are full. By submitting a proposal, you agree to being recorded and streamed, and agree the content of your talk will be published under the same license as all FOSDEM content, a Creative Commons (CC-BY) license. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Subscribe to the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list [12], and submit your proposal there. If needed, feel free to contact us at ada-belgium-board(a)cs.kuleuven.be. Please include: - your name, affiliation, contact info; - the title of your talk (be descriptive and creative); - a short descriptive and attractive abstract; - potentially pointers to more information; - a short bio and photo. See programs of previous Ada DevRooms (URLs below) for presentation examples, as well as for the kind of info we need. We'd like to put together a draft schedule by early December. So, please act ASAP, and definitely by November 26, 2017 at the latest. We look forward to lots of feedback and proposals! Dirk Craeynest Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/Ada-Europe/SIGAda/WG9) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [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://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/15/150131-fosdem.html [10] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/16/160130-fosdem.html [11] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/18/180203-fosdem.html [12] http://listserv.cc.kuleuven.be/archives/adafosdem.html -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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