September 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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Call for participation
by Gerry Demaret 12 Oct '18

12 Oct '18

We now invite proposals for main track presentations, developer rooms, stands and lightning talks. FOSDEM offers open source and free software developers a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Renowned for being highly developer oriented, the event brings together some 8000+ geeks from all over the world. The nineteenth edition will take place on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd February 2019 at the usual location: ULB Campus Solbosch in Brussels. We will record and stream all main tracks, devrooms and lightning talks live. The recordings will be published under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). If, exceptionally, you believe there is a legitimate reason why your presentation should not be streamed or recorded, you must seek our agreement before submitting it. Main Tracks Previous editions have featured main tracks centered around security, operating system development, community building, and many other topics. Presentations are expected to be 50 minutes long (including audience questions) and should cater to a varied technical audience. The conference covers reasonable travel expenses agreed in advance and arranges accommodation for accepted main track speakers if needed. Proposals for main track presentations should be submitted using Pentabarf: https://fosdem.org/submit. If you already created an account in the system for a previous edition, please reuse it rather than re- registering. Submissions will be reviewed in two batches, beginning with those received by 13 October. The final deadline is 3 November. Questions or remarks? Contact us at program(a)fosdem.org. Key dates: 13 October: deadline for first batch of main track proposals 3 November: final deadline for main track proposals 1 November onwards: main track talks announced (in batches) Developer Rooms Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work together on open source and free software projects, to discuss topics relevant to a broader subset of the community, etc. Most content should take the form of presentations. Proposals involving collaboration across project or domain boundaries are strongly encouraged. Developer room proposals should be submitted through the form at https://fosdem.org/devroom which contains further information. Questions or remarks? Contact us at devrooms(a)fosdem.org. Key dates: 20 September: deadline for developer room proposals 30 September: accepted developer rooms announced 16 October (or earlier): developer rooms issue Calls for Participation 15 December (or earlier): developer rooms publish complete schedules Stands FOSDEM offers open source and free software projects the opportunity to display their work during the event. At its stand, a project can share information, demo software, sell merchandise, give away goodies, and so on, and personally interact with the visitors. What we offer: - one 180x80cm table, positioned in one of the buildings with developer rooms, for the entire duration of the conference. A second table is possible in a few cases, but the pressure on space means this is becoming increasingly rare and needs strong justification. Joint submissions that share a table between related projects will be favoured in the selection process. - two chairs per table - one power socket type C/E (if you require adapters or additional sockets, please bring them yourself) - fast uplink shared wireless Internet access To apply, please fill out the form at: https://fosdem.org/stands which contains further information. Questions or remarks? Contact us at stands(a)fosdem.org. Key dates: 2 November: deadline for stand proposals 11 November: accepted stands announced Lightning talks Lighting talks are short — 15 minute long — talks on a wide variety of topics. Anyone who has something interesting to say about an open source or free software topic can apply. We particularly encourage topics that do not fit in any of the developer rooms. Proposals for lightning talks should be submitted using Pentabarf: https://fosdem.org/submit. Please select "lightning Talks" in the "track" field. If you already created an account in the system for a previous edition, please reuse it rather than re-registering. Questions or remarks? Contact us at lightningtalks(a)fosdem.org. Key dates: 24 November: deadline for lightning talk proposals 15 December: accepted lightning talks announced All deadlines are at 23.59 UTC.

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groups missing a booth because of FSFE
by virgilva＠keemail.me 14 Sep '18

14 Sep '18

Greetings FOSDEM people! One group, FSFE always have the biggest booth at FOSDEM. Many volunteer groups rejected every year and FSFE has a booth big enough for 3 groups. Our project never got a booth at FOSDEM. People are talking about FSFE now, not the same group it was before 10 years. A business, staff are de-facto shareholders, censoring community initiative. Many people founded other activist groups now and all deserve equal space. Why are FSFE special then? European? Only 20 people are really FSFE members! Most are from one country, Germany! Best wishes Virgil

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A devroom for minimalistic programming languages with big ideas (RFC)
by Pjotr Prins 09 Sep '18

09 Sep '18

Dear all, We would like to propose a devroom for 'Minimalistic or small programming languages with big ideas'. We think these are under represented at FOSDEM and minimalism still very much matters in open source software and computing in general. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimalism_(computing) We are posting here to see if anyone else is interested in participating. Currently we have commitments from GNU Mes which is building a FOSS bootstrap from source using a 200-byte binary using a minimalistic C compiler, GNU Guile and Lua: all with big ideas. We would like to add smalltalk and perhaps a few others. Computer languages targeting LLVM, the JVM and JS are perhaps covered by other devrooms. If not, we could look at those too and have them find a place with us. Our current thinking, however, is standalone programming languages. Any feedback on this before we put together our proposal? Pjotr & Manolis

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