December 2017 - FOSDEM - lists.fosdem.org

Question about electric car charging
by Heck, Walter 16 Dec '17

16 Dec '17

Hello, I was asked the question what the facilities are at FOSDEM (or at the ULB I should probably ask) for charging an electric car? Is there a place on campus or do electric car owners need to park off campus? Can we add something to the website about this? cheers, -- Best regards, Walter Heck CTO / Founder OlinData <http://olindata.com/?src=wh_gapp> - Open Source Training & Consulting Check out our upcoming trainings <http://olindata.com/training/upcoming>

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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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Delay in Reviewing Proposals for Community DevRoom
by Leslie Hawthorn 08 Dec '17

08 Dec '17

Hello everyone, We have sent a note to each individual submitter, but following up here on list to ensure that folks receive notification. Both Laura Czajkowski and I, co-organizers of the Community DevRoom, have been preoccupied with family matters for the past few weeks and have not been able to organize the work needed from the program committee to make our selections in time 11 December 2018. We now plan to have all submissions reviewed and all those who submitted to our CFP notified of the results no later 18 December 2018. Our sincerest apologies for the delay. If you require an answer more quickly, e.g. due to travel budgeting, please let us know. We will do our best to at least provide quick feedback if the paper does not look well targeted for us. Thanks again to all who submitted papers for the Community DevRoom and we hope to see each and every one of you at FOSDEM! Cheers, Laura and Leslie -- Leslie Hawthorn http://twitter.com/lhawthorn

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no EDA devroom
by Kristoff 08 Dec '17

08 Dec '17

Hi all, Am I missing something on the FOSDEM website, or is there no EDA (Electronics Design) devroom this year? Cheerio! Kr. Bonne.

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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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