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Re: [FOSDEM] groups missing a booth because of FSFE
by virgilva＠keemail.me 28 Jan '19

28 Jan '19

14. Sep 2018 14:08 by JFoster(a)luxoft.com <mailto:JFoster@luxoft.com>: > Hi Virgil, > > There are some facts that are incorrect in your email. > > 1. FSFE is not a 'business', its a charity. This is a legal designation. >From the FSFE; "Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to control technology." > 2. The staff are not de-facto 'shareholders', there are no shares to hold. Some are volunteers. > 3. FSFE calls their members 'fellows', there are many more fellows than 20. It says fellows never were members, there are no more fellows, sorry https://danielpocock.com/an-fsfe-fellowship-representatives-dilemma <https://danielpocock.com/an-fsfe-fellowship-representatives-dilemma> we were fooled 9 staff can make meeting in Berlin and delete fellows from the constitution? That is charity? All my friends stop with FSFE now

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FOSDEM 2019 Software Defined Networking Devroom CFP
by Ray Kinsella 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

(posted at http://mdr78.github.io/fosdem/2018/10/15/fosdem-2019-cfp.html ) We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation for the FOSDEM 2019 Software Defined Networking devroom! **Important dates:** * Nov 25th 2018: Submission deadline for talk proposals * Dec 17th 2018: Announcement of the final schedule * Feb 2rd 2019: Software Defined Networking dev room We are now inviting proposals for talks about Open Source Software on the topic of Software Defined Networking. This is an exciting and growing field, and FOSDEM gives an opportunity to reach a unique audience of very knowledgeable and highly technical, free and open source software activists. **Topics:** This year the DevRoom topics will include the following Software Defined Networking fields. - Infrastructure: virtual switches & routers, routing daemons, firewall, security, etc. - Virtual Network Functions: open source network functions, user-space networking stacks, kernel-space networking innovations. - Tooling: Networking SDK's, libraries, frameworks, debuggers, counters & statistics, domain specific languages & extensions, etc. - Validation: Testing tools & frameworks, traffic generators etc - Orchestration: NFV management, ML2 plugins, CNI plugins, SDN Controllers, etc. This year, the DevRoom will focus on low-level networking and high performance packet processing, network automation of containers, virtual machines and private cloud, and the management of networking applications to maintain very high availability and performance independent of whatever the world can throw at their infrastructure (datacenter outages, fires, broken servers, you name it). **Suggested Projects:** A representative list of the projects and topics we would like to see on the schedule are: * Low-level networking and switching: DPDK, IOvisor, eBPF, XDP, Snabb, Open vSwitch, Tungsten Fabric, OpenDataplane … * Networking Stacks: FD.io, F-Stack, DMM, mTCP, … * SDN controllers and overlay networking: OpenStack Neutron, Kubernetes CNI, Canal, OpenDaylight, ONOS, Plumgrid, OVN, OpenContrail, Midonet, … * Network management; FRRouting, Quagga, BIRD, Netopeer, Go-BGP, … * NFV management and orchestration: Open-O, ManageIQ, Juju, OpenBaton, Tacker, OSM, Ganglia, NetSNMP, PNDA.io, … * Supporting tooling: VSPerf, CSIT, TRex, Moongen, Scapy, DPDK Packet Gen … * NFV related features: Service Function Chaining, fault management, dataplane acceleration, security, … 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. **Proposals:** 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, 2018. FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of February 2-3, 2019 and the Software Defined Networking DevRoom will take place on Saturday, February 2, 2019. * Please use the FOSDEM Pentabarf website (https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19) to submit your proposals.(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) **Steering Committee:** * Ray Kinsella * Thomas Monjalon * Emma Foley * Chris Price * Charles Eckel

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[CFP] LLVM toolchain devroom CFP at FOSDEM 2019
by Kristof Beyls 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

*CALL FOR PAPERS / PARTICIPATION* At FOSDEM 2019, LLVM will again participate with a dedicated devroom, on February 3rd, in Brussels. As possibly the largest European Open Source Conference, FOSDEM attracts more than 600 lectures and over 8000 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 Sunday November 25th, 2018. Speakers will be notified of acceptance or rejection by December 11th. 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/FOSDEM19, “Create Event”. Please make sure you select "LLVM 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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Call for Participation: Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom at FOSDEM 2019
by Tom Marble 15 Nov '18

15 Nov '18

########################################################################### Call For Participation Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom at FOSDEM 2019 CONFERENCE DATE: Saturday & Sunday 2-3 February 2019 in Brussels, Belgium DEVROOM DATE: Saturday 2 February 2019 CFP DEADLINE: Sunday 23 November 2018 at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) SPEAKERS NOTIFIED: Sunday 7 December 2018 (on or before) CFP Introduction ================ Copyright law provides many of the basic legal underpinnings of Open Source and Free Software. Patent and trademark law and legal frameworks relating to data privacy and security also have significant effects on Free Software development. Governance and policies around free software projects set the rules for collaboration and can be critical to a project's success. Our community has substantial expertise in this area yet there are few venues to discuss these matters in a forum open to all. Hackers, lawyers, policy experts, and community leaders all possess expertise in these matters. TL;DR ===== Hackers, contributors and lawyers alike are encouraged to submit on any project policy or legal topic. Successful proposals will cover topics of interest at a medium to advanced level. Fill out an application on FOSDEM's Pentabarf. (See below for details.) Topics Sought ============= This DevRoom seeks proposals for 25 minute talks and/or open discussion sessions in an unconference format that address issues of software freedom project policies and legal issues that extend beyond and/or are orthogonal to technical issues faced by projects. Such topics could include, but aren't necessarily limited to: * Who controls the copyright, trademark, or patent licensing, release plans, CLA administration, or security bug reporting policies of your project, and why? What challenges have you faced in these policy areas and how are you seeking to change it? * How is your project governed? Do you have a non-profit organization, or a for-profit company that primarily controls your project, or neither? Do you wish your project governance was different? Who decided your governance initially? What politics (good and bad) have occurred around your governance choices and how have you changed your policy? Does your project have a "shadow governance", whereby technical governance is open and fair, but some entity has its own opaque political structure that influences your project? Are you worried that your project might and you don't know? Are you exploring any new solutions for governance? Do you want to ask questions of a room full of experts about your project's governance? * Legal topics of all sorts and their interaction with software freedom culture and work remain welcome, and could include: How does your project make use of legal advice? What legal advice do you give projects and what topics do you put first on the list to worry about in projects? Discuss in detail a legal and/or policy issue your project faced and how your community dealt with it. What lessons did you learn? Are some of your developers afraid to discuss legal or quasi-legal issues without their lawyers, or their employers' lawyers, present? How has that impeded or helped your project? Are your lawyers really your lawyers (e.g., do corporate lawyers for companies in your community advise the project even though not all contributors work for that company)? * Contribution and engagement policies: how does your project engage new contributors and what policy decisions did your project make to welcome new contributors? What legal issues or policy concerns has your project faced historically in its community engagement efforts, and what did you learn from these experiences? * How does money affect your community? How is funding of developers handled in your project? What policies do you set to welcome volunteers to join a community where most developers are paid? Does your project have policies that forbid funding developers directly? Does reliance on volunteer labor lead to lack of diversity since only the affluent can participate? If you had unconstrained resources at your disposal, what would you change about the funding structure of your project? Given the resources you have, what have you tried to change? Have you succeeded or failed? Would more money in the ecosystem hurt or help your project? * How do projects handle conflicts of interest and make sure that relevant interests of contributors are disclosed in important decision making discussions? * Strategies and plans for addressing harassment, exclusionary and/or discriminatory behavior in FLOSS communities. Do you have a Code of Conduct? Have you needed to enforce it? Was it successful in improving behavior and diversity in your community? * Talks on license compliance, licensing business models, and anything akin to, or building upon, what you've seen in our DevRoom before are of course welcome. (URLs to talks from previous years are below.) Regarding topic relevancy, here's the only "don't": please don't propose introductory talks; there are other venues appropriate for those. FOSDEM is the meeting place of experts in Open Source and Free Software project governance, law, and policy. This DevRoom is for intermediate to advanced topics surrounding just about anything you might call a "legal" or "policy" issue for your project! Should I Submit? ================ However, do consider that what may seem elementary to you may in fact be an intermediate topic in this area. In particular, while we expect to receive submissions from lawyers, we've found in our careers that non-lawyers often know just as much (and often more) about these topics than lawyers. Developers and other Free Software project participants who regularly face complex policy and legal questions are strongly and particularly encouraged to submit proposals. Historically, some of the most lively and intriguing talks in this DevRoom's previous years have been from developers who have been thrust (often due to circumstances beyond their control) into dealing with legal and policy issues for Open Source and Free Software. Look at past talks in our DevRoom for inspiration: https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/legal_issues/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/legal_issues_devroom.html Maybe your topic would be an even better fit for the Community DevRoom? We are explicitly coordinating with the organizers of the Community DevRoom this year to ensure there is not as much overlap between the program in both rooms as there were in years past. See that CFP here: https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/thread.html Separately you may be interested in the Copyleft Conference which occurs the Monday after FOSDEM. For more information please see https://2019.copyleftconf.org/program/call-for-proposals CFP Schedule And Submission Details =================================== Submit proposals NO LATER THAN 23 November 2018 at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) Please use the following URL to submit your talk to FOSDEM 2019: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19 and follow these rules: * Select as the Track "Legal and Policy Issues devroom". * 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 a 25 minute time slot. If you select any other time amount, your submission is very likely to be rejected. Only choose a longer slot if your proposal is exceptionally interesting and is a group discussion rather than a solo talk. * Use the "Links" sub-area to your past work in the field you'd like to share. Particularly helpful are recordings (audio/video) of your past talks on the subject or past papers/blog posts you've written on the subject. * You are encouraged to enter biographic information under the "Person" section (e.g. you may upload an image, enter your background in the "Description" tab, and sites of interest under the "Links" tab). * State that you agree to CC BY-SA-4.0 or CC BY-4.0 licensing of your talk in the "Submission Notes" field. Add a statement such as this: "Should my presentation be scheduled for FOSDEM 2019, I hereby agree to license all recordings, slides and any other materials presented under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International license. * Also in the notes field, confirm your availability to speak on Saturday, 2 February 2019 in Brussels. (You may include time slots of non-availability on Saturday, but this may negatively affect acceptance decisions.) Failure to follow these instructions above (and those on the FOSDEM 2019 site) may result in automatic rejection of your talk submission. However, if you have trouble with submission via the official system, please do contact <fosdem-legal-policy at faif.us> for assistance. Diversity Statement ------------------- The organizers of this DevRoom are committed to increasing the diversity of the free software movement. To that end, our CFP process takes demographic information into account in order to build a program that features as many different voices and perspectives as possible. If you are comfortable doing so, please share any demographic information about yourself in the "Submissions Notes". Such disclosure is not mandatory by any means. No Assurance of Acceptance -------------------------- The organizers (listed below) realize many of our friends and colleagues will respond to this CFP. We welcome submissions from all, but an invitation from any of us to submit is *not* an assurance of acceptance. We typically must make hard decisions. This year, our DevRoom is one day, so unfortunately we expect that most proposals will be rejected. Please, submit your best possible work and put effort into crafting your submission to give yourself the best chance of acceptance. About the DevRoom Organizers ============================ The co-organizers of the FOSDEM 2019 Legal and Policy Issues DevRom are (in alphabetical order by surname): - Richard Fontana, Member of Board of Directors of the Open Source Initiative; Senior Commercial Counsel, Red Hat - Bradley M. Kuhn, Distinguished Technologist of Software Freedom Conservancy and Member of Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation - Tom Marble, Creative Technologist, Informatique, Inc. - Karen Sandler, Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, pro bono counsel to the Free Software Foundation and the GNOME Foundation, Visiting Scholar/Faculty team of Center for Research in Open Source Software, University of California Santa Cruz You are welcome to contact us all at <fosdem-legal-policy at faif.us> with questions about this CFP. ###########################################################################

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Reminder: Open Media @ FOSDEM 2019 - Call for speakers participation
by Zohar Babin 30 Oct '18

30 Oct '18

Hi all, Quick reminder to send your speaking proposal for FOSDEM 2019 (Feb 2nd). We will be closing the agenda by early December. Video has gone mainstream, and technologies to handle media assets, streams, workflows and apps at scale are now critical for many operations both hobby and commercial. Submit a speaking session and share your knowledge with the community at FOSDEM! We want to learn about open standards, software or hardware projects that deal with media. We're looking for sessions on software or hardware spanning from building audio / video applications, through open standards, formats, codecs, media analytics and search, AI for creating or analyzing media, IPTV, Broadcasting and Radio practices - anything media is welcome! This year, the Open Media devroom will take place on: Saturday, February 2nd, 2019. About the FOSDEM Open Media devroom A lot of free and open source projects are used in the media business, as well in the broadcast industry as in the Web streaming. There are seldom events where project members are able to share and promote their projects, and FOSDEM is a very good place for such discussions and presentations. The Open Media room has already been organised at FOSDEM for the last four years, with a strong attendance and talks of great quality. We intend to continue the work to make it even greater. If you're interested in video, image or audio technologies, and the breadth of available open source technologies and communities for media - the Open Media Room is for you! For more information about the previous year sessions: https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/open_media/ . FOSDEM is one of the largest (5,000+ hackers!) gatherings of Free and Open Source Software contributors in the world and happens each February in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). CFP Guidelines The deadline for submission is: December 3rd 2018 (Monday). * To submit your proposal, visit: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19 * You can submit a session of one of the following formats: * lightning talks (10 minutes incl. questions) * regular talk (25 minutes incl. questions) * workshops (45 minutes or more) * Between sessions we will allow additional 5 minutes Q&A and 5 minutes for speaker switching/prep in between. Panel discussions may last longer (Feel free to ask if you want to have a longer or a shorter slot). * IMPORTANT: Please make sure to select ”Open Media devroom” track for your submission. * You will need to create an account (or use your account from previous years) and then go to "create event”, and add the details of your presentation. * Selected talks will be notified by December 15th 2018. * All sessions will be recorded and be made available under CC-BY licence by FOSDEM at https://video.fosdem.org/ . Your submission must include the following information * The title and subtitle of your talk (please be descriptive). * select ”Open Media devroom” as the track. * Short single paragraph detailing what the talk will discuss, and why attendees should attend it. * A longer description if you have more details to share. * Links to related material/websites/blogs etc. Community The official communication channel is the Open Media devroom mailinglist. Join the list at: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/open-media-devroom . And please don't hesitate to contact us for more information! Zohar, Avital, Jess, Christophe and Kieran, On behalf of the Open Media devroom.

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[CFP] FOSDEM 2019, RTC devroom, speakers, volunteers neeeded
by FOSDEM RTC Team 29 Oct '18

29 Oct '18

FOSDEM is one of the world's premier meetings of free software developers, with over five thousand people attending each year. FOSDEM 2019 takes place 2-3 February 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. https://fosdem.org This email contains information about: - Real-Time Communications dev-room and lounge, - speaking opportunities, - volunteering in the dev-room and lounge, - social events (the legendary FOSDEM Beer Night and Saturday night dinners provide endless networking opportunities), - the Planet aggregation sites for RTC blogs Call for participation - Real Time Communications (RTC) ======================================================= The Real-Time dev-room and Real-Time lounge is about all things involving real-time communication, including: XMPP, SIP, WebRTC, telephony, mobile VoIP, codecs, peer-to-peer, privacy and encryption. The dev-room is a successor to the previous XMPP and telephony dev-rooms. We are looking for speakers for the dev-room and volunteers and participants for the tables in the Real-Time lounge. The dev-room is only on Sunday, 3rd of February 2019. The lounge will be present for both days. To discuss the dev-room and lounge, please join the Free RTC mailing list: http://lists.freertc.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss To be kept aware of major developments in Free RTC, without being on the discussion list, please join the Free-RTC Announce list: http://lists.freertc.org/mailman/listinfo/announce Speaking opportunities ---------------------- Note: if you used FOSDEM Pentabarf before, please use the same account/username Real-Time Communications dev-room: deadline 23:59 UTC on 2nd of December. Please use the Pentabarf system to submit a talk proposal for the dev-room. On the "General" tab, please look for the "Track" option and choose "Real Time Communications devroom". https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19/ Other dev-rooms and lightning talks: some speakers may find their topic is in the scope of more than one dev-room. It is encouraged to apply to more than one dev-room and also consider proposing a lightning talk, but please be kind enough to tell us if you do this by filling out the notes in the form. You can find the full list of dev-rooms at https://www.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/tracks/ and apply for a lightning talk at https://fosdem.org/submit Main track: the deadline for main track presentations is 23:59 UTC 3rd of November. Leading developers in the Real-Time Communications field are encouraged to consider submitting a presentation to the main track at https://fosdem.org/submit First-time speaking? -------------------- FOSDEM dev-rooms are a welcoming environment for people who have never given a talk before. Please feel free to contact the dev-room administrators personally if you would like to ask any questions about it. Submission guidelines --------------------- The Pentabarf system will ask for many of the essential details. Please remember to re-use your account from previous years if you have one. In the "Submission notes", please tell us about: - the purpose of your talk - any other talk applications (dev-rooms, lightning talks, main track) - availability constraints and special needs You can use HTML and links in your bio, abstract and description. If you maintain a blog, please consider providing us with the URL of a feed with posts tagged for your RTC-related work. We will be looking for relevance to the conference and dev-room themes, presentations aimed at developers of free and open source software about RTC-related topics. Please feel free to suggest a duration between 20 minutes and 55 minutes but note that the final decision on talk durations will be made by the dev-room administrators based on the number of received proposals. As the two previous dev-rooms have been combined into one, we may decide to give shorter slots than in previous years so that more speakers can participate. Please note FOSDEM aims to record and live-stream all talks. The CC-BY license is used. Volunteers needed ================= To make the dev-room and lounge run successfully, we are looking for volunteers: - FOSDEM provides video recording equipment and live streaming, volunteers are needed to assist in this - organizing one or more restaurant bookings (dependending upon number of participants) for the evening of Saturday, 2nd of February - participation in the Real-Time lounge - helping attract sponsorship funds for the dev-room to pay for the Saturday night dinner and any other expenses - circulating this Call for Participation to other mailing lists Social events and dinners ========================= The traditional FOSDEM beer night occurs on Friday, 1st of February. On Saturday night, there are usually dinners associated with each of the dev-rooms. Most restaurants in Brussels are not so large so these dinners have space constraints and reservations are essential. Please subscribe to the Free-RTC mailing list for further details about the Saturday night dinner options and how you can register for a seat: http://lists.freertc.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss Spread the word and discuss =========================== If you know of any mailing lists where this CfP would be relevant, please forward this email. If this dev-room excites you, please blog or microblog about it, especially if you are submitting a talk. If you regularly blog about RTC topics, please send details about your blog to the planet site administrators: All projects http://planet.freertc.org planet(a)freertc.org XMPP http://planet.jabber.org ralphm(a)ik.nu SIP http://planet.sip5060.net planet(a)sip5060.net (Español) http://planet.sip5060.net/es/ planet(a)sip5060.net Please also link to the Planet sites from your own blog or web site as this helps everybody in the free real-time communications community. Contact ======= For any private queries, contact us directly using the address fosdem-rtc-admin(a)freertc.org and for any other queries please ask on the Free-RTC mailing list: http://lists.freertc.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss The dev-room administration team: Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <s(a)saghul.net> Ralph Meijer <ralphm(a)ik.nu> Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda(a)gmail.com> Daniel Pocock <daniel(a)pocock.pro> Guus der Kinderen <guus.der.kinderen(a)gmail.com>

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FOSDEM 2019 - Free Java Tools and Editors DevRoom CfP
by geertjan.wielenga＠oracle.com 29 Oct '18

29 Oct '18

Dear friends and fans of free tools and editors everywhere, Next year's FOSDEM (the free and open source developer's meeting in Brussels, Europe) will for the very first time feature a track dedicated to developers and users of free tools and editors: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/free_tools_and_editors/ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION We therefore invite developers and users of free tools and editors of all kinds to participate in this track and present your projects, roadmaps, demos, hacks, and codes. At FOSDEM, we hope to network all these projects and improve collaboration, bring new ideas forward, and get more people involved. To suggest a talk, go to the following location: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19 ...and follow the instructions (you need an account, but can use your account from last year if you have one). You need to create an 'Event’; make sure it's in the "Free Tools and Editors devroom”. Lengths aren’t fixed, but please give a realistic estimate and please don't exceed 30 minutes unless you have something special planned (in that case, contact one of us). Also, don't forget to include time for Q&A. We will typically go for 30-minute slots -- shorter talks, unless they're really short, usually tend to mess up the schedule too much. You aren't limited to slide presentations, of course — in fact, we hope you’ll focus on code. Be creative. However, FOSDEM is an open source conference, therefore we ask you to stay very clear of marketing presentations and focus on presenting something relevant to free/open software. We like nitty-gritty technical stuff. Topics discussed in this devroom can relate to any programming language, and focus on: * Libraries and frameworks * Code generators * Code editors * Visual tools IMPORTANT DATES FOSDEM is February 2nd and 3rd, 2019. * December 7 2018: Submission Deadline * December 15 2018: Schedule is finalized. We will announce the detailed agenda shortly after that. * February 3 2019: The devroom takes places FOSDEM is always full to the brim with presentations, so if you want to present, please make sure to submit your abstracts soon! CONTACT The track committee consists of: * Trisha Gee (JetBrains) * Lars Vogel (Eclipse) * Johan Vos (Gluon) * Geertjan Wielenga (NetBeans) Hope to hear from you soon! And please forward this announcement. Trisha, Lars, Johan, and Geertjan

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FOSDEM 2019 - Retrocomputing DevRoom CfP
by Pau Garcia Quiles 28 Oct '18

28 Oct '18

Hello, FOSDEM 2019 - Retrocomputing DevRoom Call for Participation 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 2019 will take place during the weekend of February 2nd-3rd 2019. More details about the event can be found at http://www.fosdem.org. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION After last year's success, the Retrocomputing DevRoom will be back in 2019, with talks about use of older computing hardware and software in modern times. Presentation topics could include but are not limited to: - Emulation of old systems to run videogames, legacy software, etc - New software, hardware or related to be used with classic systems - Open source software emulation/simulation - Open hardware - Operating systems/executives for retrocomputers/retrosystems - Uses of retrocomputing today - Other retrosystems topics - Opportunities in retrocomputing You are not limited to slide presentations, of course. Be creative. However, FOSDEM is an open source conference, therefore we ask you to stay clear of marketing presentations. We are not afraid of technical stuff: devrooms are a place for development teams to meet, discuss, hack and publicly present their project’s latest improvements and future directions. If you will have special needs for your talk (e. g. because you will need to plug some sort of a system), please note that clearly in your proposal so that we can provide it. You can use the Wikipedia definition of retrocomputing as a reference definition to see if you talk qualifies, although it is not exclusive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrocomputing IMPORTANT DATES - 30 November 2018: submission deadline for talk proposals - 16 December 2018: announcement of the final schedule - 2 February 2019: Retrocomputing DevRoom USEFUL INFORMATION Use the FOSDEM Pentabarf tool to submit your proposal: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19 - 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 "Retrocomputing DevRoom" track (on the "General" tab). If you do not select a track, then nobody, from any track, will look at your submission! - 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, including discussion. The default duration is 30 minutes. Please note neither FOSDEM nor the Retrocomputing DevRoom will reimburse any expenses you incur 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). Hope to hear from you soon! And please forward this announcement. CONTACT The Retrocomputing DevRoom is managed by Pau Garcia Quiles (retrocomputing-devroom-manager at fosdem.org) A mailing list of speakers, audience and the curious is available, please subscribe at: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/retrocomputing-devroom -- Pau Garcia Quiles http://www.elpauer.org

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FOSDEM 2019 - Python devroom CFP
by Eric Gazoni 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

Hello everyone, We are happy to announce that we will be running a Python devroom again at FOSDEM 2019, hosted in Brussels, Belgium. This year’s edition will take place on the 2nd and 3rd of February, with the Python devroom being available on Sunday. If you have not heard about FOSDEM before or are looking for more information, you can visit the official website at www. fosdem.org. As per usual, we are looking for multiple Pythonistas to help us shape the devroom schedule. We are now open for receiving your proposals! With over 8000 participants, FOSDEMis the perfect place to share your story and meet fellow Python enthusiasts. You can check the Python-FOSDEM website (https://www.python-fosdem.org) or the Belgium Python mailing list ( https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/belgium) to stay updated. Good luck to everyone applying. We’re looking forward to meeting you all at FOSDEM 2019! [ABOUT FOSDEM] Official website: https://fosdem.org/2019/ FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community. The goal is to provide free and open source software developers and communities a place to meet to: - get in touch with other developers and projects; - be informed about the latest developments in the free software world; - be informed about the latest developments in the open source world; - attend interesting talks and presentations on various topics by project leaders and committers; - to promote the development and benefits of free software and open source solutions. Participation and attendance is totally free, though the organisers gratefully accept donations and sponsorship. [ESSENTIAL INFORMATION] The devroom will be held on 03/02/2019, running from 9AM to 5PM Submission link: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19 Talk format: 20min of content + 5min of questions If you have submitted for previous FOSDEM editions, remember to use your already existing account on Pentabarf. Financial aid can be requested to FOSDEM organizers for presenters traveling from outside Europe. [SUBMITTION GUIDELINES] If you would like to give a talk, present a project or show off some coding skills, we are looking forward to receiving your application. Submission platform: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19 Deadline: 01/12/2018 Announcement of selected talks: 15/12/2018 The sooner we can start planning a draft schedule the better, so please submit your application ASAP. Be sure to properly fill your Pentabarf profile (Person) with: - your name - a short speaker bio - your contact information (for the organizers) Then submit your talk (or event) - title and subtitle of the presentation - presentation description - other relevant details (other publications, video of previous talks, ...) Keep in mind presentations must be related to Python. Next to this, all presentations will be streamed live under the FOSDEM content licence and presented on the hallway screens in case the room is full. Captured footage will later be shared online using the FOSDEM archives. By submitting you also agree to these terms. [LIST OF DESIRABLE TOPICS] We'd like to have a devroom as diverse as possible, so we are looking to offer a mixture of presentations, tutorials, demos, live coding, discussions, etc. Aside from the usual talks about free and open source, we will also gladly welcome talks about: - How to get started with library/framework X - Best practices for new Python developers - Return on experience with library/framework X - Local Python communities & diversity - How Python is being used for education - Hardware / Infrastructure - Security tools and securing Python - Data science [PENTABARF NOTES] If you ever find yourself in doubt: - "talks" are named "events" in Pentabarf - Track must be "Python devroom" - Duration must be "00:25:00" - Event type must be "Lecture" - Abstract is the text that goes in the FOSDEM booklet [SOCIAL EVENT] Every year, we have the tradition to crash somewhere to eat and drink while discussing Python things. This year we will try to book for the event well in advance, more details will follow on the mailing list and the website. [VOLUNTEERS] We will also call for volunteers to help us run the event and help us with the devroom operation. You can get in touch with the organizers on the Python-Belgium mailing list (https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/belgium) [ORGANIZERS] You can reach out directly to the organizers if you have a specific request or question: - Eric Gazoni: eric(a)adimian.com - Jens Roelant: jens(a)adimian.com [USEFUL LINKS] - https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/belgium - https://www.python-fosdem.org/ - https://fosdem.org/2019/ - http://python.be/ - https://www.python.org/psf/ - https://www.meetup.com/nl-NL/Belgium-Python-Meetup-aka-AperoPythonBe/

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JavaScript Devroom - Call for Participation
by Ludovic Gasc 22 Oct '18

22 Oct '18

Hi, Good news for all JS enthusiasts! After a few years without JavaScript being present with a dedicated room at FOSDEM, we have secured a dev room for a full day on Sunday 3rd February 2019. We are happy to announce a call for proposal (CfP) to join this room and bring to the table the most. What you definitely need to know about the CfP: * Deadline: 26 November 2018, midnight CET * Announcement of schedule: 15 December * Duration: 20 minutes + 5 minutes for Q&A and 5 minutes light talks * Application via Pentabarf: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19 * Language: English * Code of conduct: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fosdem:2017/Code_of_Conduct FOSDEM aims to be a free, open and cooperative event. This means we expect collaboration from all the FOSDEM participants, and for everybody to behave respectfully towards all others, including those that are different or think differently from yourself. Please be helpful, considerate, friendly and respectful towards all other participants and respect the environment. We don't condone harassment or offensive behaviour at our conference. We consider it against our values as human beings. We're voicing our strong, unequivocal support of exemplary behaviour by all participants. If you have previously submitted a proposal for FOSDEM, you will most likely already have a Pentabarf account. If so, the easiest is to reuse it. If not, create a new account and then click on “Create Event” in the menu and use that form to submit your proposal. Make sure to select the “JavaScript devroom” as track, or we will not be able to consider it. Please make sure to include the following items: 1. Title and subtitle of your talk 2. Learning outcome(s) or key takeaways 3. Duration 4. 5 lines abstract of your presentation 5. Full description of your presentation 6. Relevant links to websites, blogs, documentation, and other resources We are open to any topic related to JavaScript but we are mostly interested in topics revolving around: * Core language (ES5, ES6, ES7, closure, scope, etc) * Tooling (Babel, packing, code quality, etc) * SPWAs and frameworks (React, ReactNative, Vue, Angular, shadow DOM, etc) * New domain specific frameworks (machine learning, XR, IoT, etc) * Interaction with other languages (EMScriptem, WASM, etc) * Wildcard, surprise us! Please note that for this year unfortunately we do not offer any kind of funding for the speakers. Please note that 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 and will be reviewed on a one-one basis. Looking forward to reading your proposals and to make a great dev room together! The JavaScript Dev Room Committee -- Ludovic Gasc (GMLudo)

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