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CfP - Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2019, Brussels, Belgium
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 16 Nov '18

16 Nov '18

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Presentations 9th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2019 Saturday 2 February 2019, Brussels, Belgium http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/19/190202-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 2 February 2019 at FOSDEM 2019 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 latest Ada language definition was updated early 2016. Work on new features is ongoing, such as improved support for fine-grained parallelism, and will result in a new Ada standard scheduled for 2020. Ada-related technology such as SPARK provides a solution for the safety and security aspects stated above. More and more tools are available, many are open source, including for small and recent platforms. Interest in Ada keeps increasing, also in the open source community, and many exciting projects have been started. Ada Developer Room ------------------ FOSDEM is an ideal fit for an Ada Developer Room. 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, the Ada-Belgium non-profit organization 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], 2016 [10], and 2018 [11]. 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 one of the rooms which accommodate from 59 to 85 participants. More information will be posted on the dedicated web-page on the Ada-Belgium site [12], 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 [13] 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 either 15 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 [13], 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 Saturday December 1, 2018 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://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/19/190202-fosdem.html [13] http://listserv.cc.kuleuven.be/archives/adafosdem.html -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM 2019: Infra Management Devroom Call for Papers
by Heck, Walter 16 Nov '18

16 Nov '18

I just noticed that due top copy-paste job (ouch!) there's a latest submission date for cfgmgmtcamp in the CFP for Nov 5th 2017. Obviously that needs to be December 1st 2018 :) On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 7:53 PM Heck, Walter <walterheck(a)olindata.com> wrote: > The FOSDEM Call for Proposals for the Infra Management devroom > on February 2nd, 2019 is open! > > The Infra Management devroom is what was previously called the config > Management > devroom. This year we wanted to expand the scope from mere config > management to > all infrastructure management, hence the rename. > > FOSDEM Submissions are due on November 20th, 2018. If you submitted a > talk to a previous FOSDEM, you should already have an account in > Pentabarf, so make sure that you log in with your existing account. > You should only need to create an account if you have not submitted a > talk to FOSDEM in recent years. FOSDEM has a bunch of devrooms, so > please make sure that you select the "Infra Management" > devroom in the "Track" dropdown when you submit your talk. Submissions > filed under an incorrect devroom will not be noticed. > > Submit here: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19 > > Topic Description: > Mini-talks from real world case studies, brainstorming and hacking > around configuration and infrastructure management from complex virtual > environments and cloud computing to desktops and laptops. There is > huge interest in automation, monitoring, performance management, > configuration management, infrastructure as code and DevOps. We are > looking for > presentations from people who are working in the field on these > topics: > * Configuration and Systems Management theory, principles and development > * Configuration and Systems Management tools - with an emphasis on > real world use cases > * infrastructure as code > * Techniques and case studies > * Audit, Compliance and Security > * Various DevOps topics, including collaboration and training tips. > > Please note that presenting at FOSDEM implies giving permission to be > recorded. The recordings will be published under the same licence as all > FOSDEM content (CC-BY). > > This same team of people is also organizing ConfigManagementCamp, > which is in nearby Gent on February 5th and 6th. The CFP is also open, and > we encourage you to submit your talks before the November 5th, 2017 > deadline. Details: https://cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.be/ > > Regards on behalf of the ConfigManagementCamp and FOSDEM Infra Management > Devroom organising team, > > Walter Heck > > -- Best regards, Walter Heck CTO / Founder OlinData <http://olindata.com/?src=wh_gapp> - Open Source Infrastructure Engineering & Consulting Skype: walterheck Mobile: +31617242761

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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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CfP - Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2019, Brussels, Belgium
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 14 Nov '18

14 Nov '18

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Presentations 9th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2019 Saturday 2 February 2019, Brussels, Belgium http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/19/190202-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 2 February 2019 at FOSDEM 2019 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 latest Ada language definition was updated early 2016. Work on new features is ongoing, such as improved support for fine-grained parallelism, and will result in a new Ada standard scheduled for 2020. Ada-related technology such as SPARK provides a solution for the safety and security aspects stated above. More and more tools are available, many are open source, including for small and recent platforms. Interest in Ada keeps increasing, also in the open source community, and many exciting projects have been started. Ada Developer Room ------------------ FOSDEM is an ideal fit for an Ada Developer Room. 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, the Ada-Belgium non-profit organization 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], 2016 [10], and 2018 [11]. 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 one of the rooms which accommodate from 59 to 85 participants. More information will be posted on the dedicated web-page on the Ada-Belgium site [12], 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 [13] 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 either 15 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 [13], 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 Saturday December 1, 2018 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://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/19/190202-fosdem.html [13] http://listserv.cc.kuleuven.be/archives/adafosdem.html -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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FOSDEM 2019 Graph Processing Developer Room CfP
by Michael Hunger 06 Nov '18

06 Nov '18

Hello Graphistas, we're very excited to invite you to the Graph Processing DevRoom for a full-day on Saturday February 2nd at FOSDEM in 2019. And not just as attendees but also as speakers. So if you have interesting topics to share on graph databases or graph processing don't hesitate to submit. It can be anything from research, libraries or tools your built or love or topics of interest for the graph community. You will have 20 minutes for your talk plus 10 minutes for Q&A at the end. If you are a new speaker we can also help you by reviewing your material. Please submit your proposal using pentabarf <https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19>. The deadline for submission is December 2nd. You can reuse existing pentabarf accounts. You can find more details here: http://graphdevroom.org Submission deadline: 02. Dec 2018 Notification of accepted speakers: 09. Dec 2018 Schedule Publication: 16. Dec 2018 If you need help, please contact us at fosdem2019(a)graphdevroom.org. You can also send a notification of your submission there. Cheers, Michael for the Orga-Team

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Archive.fosdem.org/201* is down?
by xiaofeng Young 05 Nov '18

05 Nov '18

Excuse me, not sure if it is the right alias. The archives are not available now. Is it down? For instance: https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/ Thanks, Felix Yang

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Tool the Docs DevRoom - Announcement & Call for Papers
by Katalin Fogas 04 Nov '18

04 Nov '18

Hello All, After a successful launch in 2018, we are excited to announce the *Tool the Docs *developer room *at FOSDEM 2019*! The developer room focuses on *free and open source tools for writing, managing, testing and rendering documentation*. It will run on *Saturday 2nd February *for half a day. *Why to present 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 2019, it will be held on Saturday, February 2nd, and Sunday, February 3rd. We are inviting proposals for talks on the subjects above, plus any related topics you think might fit into the room. *We welcome proposals from those working with tools for documentation as well as those creating and maintaining them.* This is a great opportunity to show new ideas and developments to a technical audience from a wide range of free and open source communities. *Please do keep in mind that product pitches are not allowed at FOSDEM.* *How to submit We are accepting talks of 20-30 minutes, with time for questions afterward. If you want less or more time, please let us know in your submission. All submissions have to be made in the Pentabarf event planning tool: penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19 While creating 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 remember that your profile might be already stored in Pentabarf). *Getting started with Pentabarf 1. Don’t panic! 2. To submit your talk, click on “Create Event”, then select the “Tool the Docs” devroom as the “Track”. Otherwise, your talk can’t even be considered for a devroom at FOSDEM! 3. 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 at fosdem.org. *Deadline The *deadline is November 25th*, 2018. Accepted speakers will be notified by November 30th, 2018. *Recording Permission The *talks in the Tool the Docs developer room 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”. See you at FOSDEM! Chris Ward Kristof Van Tomme Mark Meyer ------------------------------------------------ Katalin Fogas Event organizer Pronovix.com <http://pronovix.com/> Belgium - 9940 Sleidinge, Akkerken 6 <https://maps.google.com/?q=Belgium+-+9940+Sleidinge,+Akkerken+6&entry=gmail…> . Hungary - 6724 Szeged, Zoltán str. 6 <https://maps.google.com/?q=Hungary+-+6724+Szeged,+Zolt%C3%A1n+str.+6&entry=…> . Skype: fogaskati Phone: +36 62 202 126; +36 62 648 005 Free reports & weekly updates about API docs & Developer portals <http://eepurl.com/bF0ztz>

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FOSDEM PGDay and PostgreSQL Devroom 2019 - Call for Papers
by Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum 04 Nov '18

04 Nov '18

FOSDEM PGDay 2019 is a one day conference that will be held ahead of the main FOSDEM event in Brussels, Belgium, on Feb 1st, 2019. This will be a one-day PostgreSQL focused event with a single track of talks. This conference day will be for-charge with a registration of 50€, and will be held at the Brussels Marriott Hotel. Registration is required to attend and since we have a limited number of seats available for this event, we urge everybody to register as soon as possible once open. PostgreSQL Europe will also have our regular devroom at the main FOSDEM event during the weekend. This day will, of course, continue to be free of charge and open to all FOSDEM entrants. No registration is required to attend this day. For full details about the conference, venue and hotel, see the event website at https://2019.fosdempgday.org/. The call for papers is now open for both FOSDEM PGDay and our devroom. We are looking for talks to fill both these days with content for both insiders and new users. Submissions can be made to both events, or just one, please note in the submission form at which event you are interested in presenting. Note that we are NOT using the FOSDEM Pentabarf system for submissions. The website has all the details at https://2019.fosdempgday.org/callforpapers/. The deadline for submissions is November 19th, 2018, so get your submissions in soon! We also have a special negotiated bedroom rate with the Brussels Marriott Hotel. For details, see https://2019.fosdempgday.org/venue/. We hope to see you in Brussels! -- Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum German PostgreSQL User Group European PostgreSQL User Group - Board of Directors Volunteer Regional Contact, Germany - PostgreSQL Project

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FOSDEM 2019 Hardware Enablement Devroom Call for Participation
by Paul Kocialkowski 03 Nov '18

03 Nov '18

Hi, The Hardware Enablement devroom is back for a second year at FOSDEM! It will take place on Sunday 3 February 2019. # Call for Participation We are opening the call for participation to our devroom, with the deadline for talk proposals set to Saturday 1 December 2018. # Devroom Scope This devroom covers topics related to hardware support and enablement with free software. It includes the following topics: * peripheral/controller firmwares * boot software * kernel drivers and hardware interfaces * hardware-related adaptation in operating systems * tools for firmware flashing * tools for low-level development Despite this large scope, the focus of the devroom is set on highlighting the technical aspects of the hardware and its enablement in free projects, rather than the specific applications and use cases that benefit from it. We also want to avoid purely commercial vague talks with marketing content, which leave little place to technical aspects. This year, we are looking to particularly highlighting free software outside of the operating system boundaries, especially with boot software as well as controller and peripheral firmwares. # Talk Format Since no Embedded devroom is taking place this year (and our devroom also covers embedded devices), we are expecting a significant number of submissions. In order to cover as much ground as we can, a new talk will be scheduled every half-hour, so accepted talks will follow this format: 20 minutes for the talk + 5 minutes for questions + 5 minutes for speaker setup We ask speakers to be present in the room before their talk so that speaker setup can go smoothly. # Submission Talks that fit in our devroom's scope can be submitted to the FOSDEM Pentabarf interface at https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19 We encourage reusing accounts from previous years instead of creating new ones: * lost password: https://penta.fosdem.org/user/forgot_password * new Account: https://penta.fosdem.org/user/new_account/FOSDEM19 Here are a few guidelines when submitting a talk: * select the Hardware Enablement devroom as track * include an abstract for every submission and optionally a full description * make sure your contact details are up to date # Video Talks will be streamed live during the event and recorded. They will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution (BY) license later. # Contact For more information or questions about the devroom and this CFP, feel free to email hardware-devroom-manager at fosdem.org We're looking forward to lots of interesting proposals and hoping to see you all in Brussels at the event! Cheers, Paul for the Hardware Enablement devroom

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.NET and TypeScript devroom
by Miguel de Icaza 01 Nov '18

01 Nov '18

Hello! The organizers of the FOSDEM 2019<https://fosdem.org/2019/> conference have allocated a “Developer Room” on Saturday February 2nd 2019 for .NET and TypeScript discussions in Brussels Belgium. FOSDEM is one of Europe’s most exciting free software conferences that runs over a weekend and gathers many open source communities, contributors and activists in one place to learn about the state of the world. We are looking for: * Keynote presenters, with bold and vibrant ideas to share with the community at large * Technical presentations (30 minutes, including questions and discussions) related to .NET, C#, F#, TypeScript * Presentations about the use of .NET or TypeScript for commercial, academic, hobbyists and other projects * Tutorials * Lightning talks (5 minutes each) This is a partial list of ideas that might be of interest to the audience, it is by no means comprehensive, so if your project or ideas is not included, feel free to submit a proposal anyways: * Innovative ideas, fresh new takes on old problems for server applications, client applications. * Interoperability with other ecosystems * Best practices, code quality, testing, * Building software for users * Compilers, Runtimes, Libraries * IDEs * Tips and Tricks Submission To submit a talk proposal, please include: * Title * Abstract (at least two paragraphs) · Describe what your project or presentation is about. · What the audience will learn from the talk. · How can people help out with the project, what feedback are you looking for? * Recording me on audio and/or video · acceptable under a CC-BY-2.0<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/> license (DEFAULT) · not acceptable * Brief Bio * Microblog URL * Blog URL To submit your proposal, please create an account on the FOSDEM site at https://penta.fosdem.org/user/new_account and submit your proposal at https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19 and make sure you flag it as being part of the .NET and TypeScript developer room. Deadline The The deadline for receiving submissions is December 3rd, 2018. Speakers will be notified of acceptance or rejection by the 18th of December.

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