November 2018 - FOSDEM - lists.fosdem.org

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 - Distributions Devroom Call for Participation
by Brian Exelbierd 22 Dec '18

22 Dec '18

The Distributions devroom will take place Sunday 3 February 2019 at FOSDEM, in Brussels, Belgium at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. As more and more workloads are being considered for containerization in the future and are finally landing in virtualized environments today, distributions remain a critical success factor and are more important than ever. Containers, like virtual machines, are not magical and rely on piles of software being assembled in a way that is repeatable, reliable, and functional. This is at the very heart of the problem that distributions have always solved. Each distribution is responsible for building, testing, and releasing software as well as managing the lifecycle of each application in the collection. Additionally, distributions do very important work in ensuring that various versions of upstream software work well together and can co-exist. Distributions are also, often responsible, for "de-vendoring" upstream software so that security fixes can be applied more quickly. We welcome submissions targeted at contributors interested in issues unique to distributions, especially in the following topics: # Topics and Areas of Focus ## Focus Areas - The ways that distribution technologies can be leveraged to allow for easier creation of a multi-verse of artifacts from single source trees. This includes the increasing move toward self-contained applications and providing multiple non-parallel installed versions of software. - Efforts being made in shared environments around Build/Test/Release cycles. - Topics related to the delivery problem as it impacts updates in terms of both size and rollback/reliability are expected to be featured. ## Additional Topic Ideas - 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: 02-Dec-2018 @ 2359 GMT Acceptance Notification: 7-Dec-2018 Final Schedule Posted: 14-Dec-2018 How to submit -------------- Visit https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19 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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ULB/Brussels Low Emission Zone; Info for people traveling to FOSDEM by car
by Karlo Luiten 23 Nov '18

23 Nov '18

Via twitter [ https://twitter.com/fosdem/status/1065923163358408704 ]: As of 2018, the ULB campus Solbosch is within the Brussels Low Emissions Zone (LEZ). Drivers of cars registered abroad are required to register before entering the LEZ, or risk being fined. Registering is free of charge. More information can be found on https://www.lez.brussels/en br, Karlo

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CHAOSSCon EU (FOSS & software development metrics)
by Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona 20 Nov '18

20 Nov '18

Hi FOSDEM people, CHAOSSCon is held on February 1st (the day before FOSDEM), in Brussels. This is a conference organized by the CHAOSS group, on software development metrics and FOSS, and attendance is free (registration is needed). The call for contributions is still open. https://chaoss.community/chaosscon-2019-eu/ If you come, you'll meet the CHAOSS community, learn about metrics and tools used by several FOSS projects, communities, and engineering teams to track and analyze their development activities, communities health, diversity, risk, and value. The conference will include CHAOSS updates, use cases, and hands-on workshops for developers, community managers, project managers, and anyone interested in measuring open source project health. Specific CHAOSS software highlighted will be GrimoireLab and Augur with their respective updates and demos. We will also share insights from the CHAOSS workgroups on Diversity and Inclusion, Growth-Maturity-Decline, Risk, and Value that branched out from the CHAOSS metrics work. See you there! Jesus. -- http://twitter.com/jgbarah http://gsyc.es/~jgb

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OWASP BeNeLux 2018
by Erik Vanderhasselt 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

Hello All, The nice people of OWASP Belgium let us know that their free event which takes place on the 29th and 30th of November 2018 here in Belgium still has seats available. If you are interested in using open methodologies and open source in your security check out their event at https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_BeNeLux-Days_2018 They helped promote us the latest version of FOSDEM x through their mailing list. That is why I give them a plug on this one. Cheers, Erik Vanderhasselt

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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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FOSDEM 2019: Graphics DevRoom: Call for speakers.
by Luc Verhaegen 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

Hi, At FOSDEM on saturday the 3rd of february 2018, there will be another graphics DevRoom. URL: https://fosdem.org/2018/ The focus of this DevRoom is of course the same as the previous editions, namely: * Graphics drivers: from display to media to 3d drivers, both in kernel or userspace. Be it part of DRM, KMS, V4L, (direct)FB, Xorg, Mesa... * Input drivers: kernel and userspace. * Windowing systems: X, Wayland, Mir, directFB, ... * Even colour management, low level toolkit stuff, and other areas which i might have overlooked above are accepted. Slots will be handed out on a first come, first serve basis. The best slots will go to those who apply the earliest. We have the devroom from 10:30 til 19:00, giving us 8h30, so eight 50 minute talkes and one 20 minute talk are available. Talk Submission: ---------------- Like the last few years, the pentabarf system will be used for talk submission. https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19 Remember that FOSDEM is not like XDC, it's not some 50 odd people meeting with a sliding schedule which only gets filled out on the last day. Upwards of 10000 people are visiting this event, and most of them get a printed booklet or use the schedule on the FOSDEM website or an app for their phone to figure out what to watch or participate in next. So please put some effort in your talk submission and details. Since this an open source community event, please refrain from turning in a talk that is a pure corporate or product commercial. Also, if you are unsure on whether you can come or not (this is FOSDEM, why are you not there anyway?), please wait with submitting your talk until you do. When in pentabarf, please give the abstract and description, for both the event and the speaker, some thought. The abstract should be a shortened description, and the event abstract will sometimes even be printed directly in the booklet. BUT, on the website the abstract is immediately followed by the full description. If your abstract is fully descriptive, while terse, you might get away with just the abstract. All talks will be recorded, and will be streamed out live, and will later be made available as CC-BY after a few days. As for deadlines, the fosdem organizers want to have a finished schedule by the 14th of december. Don't count on this deadline: first come first serve! The worst slots will be assigned to those who come last, which could be pretty dire given that there is the traditional FOSDEM beer event the night before ;) Please try to re-use your accounts from the previous years. If you have forgotten your password, then you can reset it here: https://penta.fosdem.org/user/forgot_password If there are any issues, just poke me here or on IRC. Necessary information: ---------------------- Below is a list of what i need to see filled in in pentabarf when you apply for a devroom before i consider it a valid submission. Remember: first come, first serve. The best slots (which are on saturday afternoon) are for the earliest submissions. On your personal page: * General: * First and last name * Nickname * Image * Contact: * email address * mobile number (this is a very hard requirement as there will be no other reliable form of emergency communication on the day) * Description: * Abstract * Description Create an event: * On the General page: * Event title * Event subtitle. * Track: Graphics Devroom * Event type: Lecture (talk) or Meeting (BoF) * Persons: * Add yourself as speaker. * Description: * Abstract: * Full Description * Links: * Add relevant links. The mobile phone number is the hardest requirement, so you can be contacted on-the-day when something comes up. Speakers will all receive my mobile number in return. Everything else can be ignored or will be filled in by me or the FOSDEM organizers. Remember, i will only schedule your talk after the basics are somewhat filled in (you still can change them until december 14th). I will be keeping a keen eye on your submissions and will come back with further questions or make small fixes as needed. Feel free to poke me with any questions or anything, both on irc (libv@freenode) and on email. That's about it. Hope to see you all at FOSDEM :) Luc Verhaegen.

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FOSDEM 2019 - Quantum computing devroom CfP
by Tomas Babej 18 Nov '18

18 Nov '18

We are happy to announce a call for participation in a first-ever developer room dedicated to Quantum Computing! The developer room will take place at the FOSDEM conferrence in Brussels on Saturday, February 2nd 2019. Organization of the room is stewarded by newly formed Quantum Open Source Foundation (https://qosf.org) whose mission is to ensure this new emerging computing paradigm is accessible using free and open source technology stack. Submit proposals either using the FOSDEM submission system: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19 or using email address: fosdem19(a)qosf.org Submission deadline is Dec 11th, 23.59 UTC. Speakers will be notified on Dec 13th and schedule will be made public on Dec 15th. === Why to participate === Quantum computing is a new emerging field that coming out of the lab and finding its applications in the real world. The space of the open source software for quantum computing is blooming with this trend, with researchers and hardware providers alike investing in creating software infrastructure for this new computing paradigm. With that in mind, the purpose of this devroom is twofold: - to flatten down the learning curve and break perceived barriers that prevent developers from entering the field of quantum software development - to ensure that the field is dominated by high-quality, community driven FOSS open source software, standards and protocols Many of the players have open sourced libraries to build quantum computing circuits and interact with their platforms, both actual hardware and simulators. However, not enough attention is given to building a wider quantum computing community and current trajectory leads to multiple silos, projects that are driven by commercial interest without liberal community driven governance structure. FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of open source community in the world, which happens yearly at the ULB Capus Solbosch, Brussels, Belgium. As such, it is an ideal place not only to showcase and discuss new ideas and developments in the space of quantum computing, but also help break down the barriers in adopting quantum computing by software developers. === Submission topics === We welcome submissions that are devoted to the following topics: * Introduction of open source projects in quantum computing * Future directions and roadmaps of existing projects * Use-cases and experiences of using existing open source software projects for quantum computing research and quantum software development * Identification of possible gaps in the space of open source for quantum computing * Discussions about the state of the open source community and possible ways of improving it and other topics that relate to quantum computing software. === Talk formats and instructions === We encourage both talks and workshop formats. We suggest following durations, including questions: * 20 min - lighting talks * 45-60 min - talks * 90-120 min - workshops Note that the talks at FOSDEM are captured (and streamed) under the CC-BY licence. Speakers are hence required to give permission to being recorded. Submit proposals either using the FOSDEM submission system: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19 or using email address: fosdem19(a)qosf.org Submission deadline is Dec 11th, 23.59 UTC. Speakers will be notified on Dec 13th and schedule will be made public on Dec 15th. Pentabarf instructions: To submit your talk, click on "Create Event" and then select the "Quantum computing" as the "Track". If you have already spoken at FOSDEM previously, please re-use your account. On behalf of the organizational team, Tomas Babej

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Search devroom at FOSDEM 2019: Call for papers
by Philipp Krenn 16 Nov '18

16 Nov '18

Hey everyone, Full-text search is everywhere nowadays and FOSDEM 2019 will have a dedicated devroom for search on Sunday the 3rd of February. We would like to invite submissions of presentations from developers, researchers, and users of open source and free search software. Talk length should be one of 25 or 50 minutes (including questions). The submission deadline is December 14th with notifications going out by Christmas. Possible topics include: * What is the state of full-text search in relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL? * How are search libraries like Apache Lucene evolving? * What are current improvements and issues in popular search engines such as Elasticsearch and Solr? * What is the role of machine learning in search and how do you even measure search quality? * Which new systems are entering the search market? * What is the place of client-side search tools like Fuse.js, Js Search, Lunr, and Elasticlunr.js? * Are there any new break throughs in relevancy or are TF/IDF and BM25 good (enough)? Please feel free to forward this announcement to any relevant FOSS project. Submissions should be sent through https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19. Looking forward to seeing you all in Brussels! Philipp -- Philipp Krenn @xeraa

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