Hello all
This is call for all Mozillians (volunteers & staff alike) to submit their talks for FOSDEM 2018.
It’s that time of the year again! The Call for Papers for Europe’s largest FLOSS event, FOSDEM, happening on February 3 & 4 2018 in Brussels, has now officially opened. Just like previous years, Mozilla has secured a Devroom for a full day and we would love to see and hear all your wonderful talks. Those of you that have no idea what FOSDEM is about, I strongly recommend you take a look at their website (www.fosdem.org) For those of you that (now) do, I have included a list of topics that we are particularly keen to see in our room. Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work together on open source projects and to discuss topics relevant to a broader subset of the community.
Proposals should not be limited to the list but those that are might stand a higher chance of getting accepted. In fact, we do encourage you to submit talks that are not on the list, you never know. But please be aware that FOSDEM is a developer oriented conference.
Essential info:
CfP deadline: December 6th 2017 (acceptance/rejection notice by December 15th 2017)
Duration: 30 or 60 minute talks (including Q&A)
Sponsorship available for contributors traveling from Europe
All talks will be streamed live, recorded and made available through the FOSDEM archives. By sending in your proposal you agree to these terms. Note that recordings will be published under the same license as all other FOSDEM content (cc-by), however, exceptions can be requested.
To submit your proposal, visit :
https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18
If you have previously submitted a proposal for FOSDEM, you will most likely already have a Pentabarf account. Please be considerate and try to recover your credentials if possible. If you have not, feel free to register a new account. Once you’re logged in, click “Create Event” in the menu and use that form to submit your proposal. Make sure to select the “Mozilla devroom” as track, otherwise your talk will be rejected. Please include the following items:
Title and subtitle of your talk
The duration (either 30 or 60 minutes)
An abstract of your presentation
A full description of your presentation
Any relevant links to websites, blogs, documentation, or other resources
Contributors selected for a talk will have their travel and accommodation sponsored. Due to this short deadline and a limited budget, only contributors traveling from Europe are eligible for this sponsorship. If you are traveling at your own expense, or require assistance in acquiring a VISA, please contact Anthony Maton or myself (you can grab our e-mail addresses from https://mozillians.org/ ).
Best of luck to all of you!
Kind regards
Ziggy Maes
List of preferred topics:
Privacy tools
Diversity & Inclusion
Common Voice project (or other Voice projects)
WebVR
WebCompat
Browser add-ons and the WebExtensions API
Firefox for Android / iOS
HTML5 games
Security and usability
Firefox
Community Participation Guidelines
The Mozilla devroom respects Mozilla's community participation guidelines along with the FOSDEM Code of Conduct. These guidelines cover our behaviour as participants, facilitators, space wranglers, staff, volunteers, vendors, and anyone else involved in making the Mozilla devroom possible.
** A copy of this CfP can be found on our Discourse platform: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/fosdem-2018-call-for-papers/21453 **
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
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Submission Deadline: 03-Dec-2017 @ 2359 GMT
Acceptance Notification: 8-Dec-2017
Final Schedule Posted: 15-Dec-2017
How to submit
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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
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- 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
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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
