January 2020 - FOSDEM - lists.fosdem.org

BOF question
by Raymond Paik 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

Hi, I noticed from the schedule page (https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/tracks/) that two BOF tracks are full. I believe in the past you signed up on-site and the room was assigned to you on first-come first-served basis. Was there a different process this year (e.g. done via CFP)? Apologies if I missed an announcement. Thanks, Ray

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ULB/Brussels Low Emission Zone; Info for people traveling to FOSDEM by car [repeat]
by Karlo Luiten 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

[Repeat of last year] 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 Hope it helps someone! /K

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Kitchen in Brussels I can use?
by Leslie Hawthorn 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

Hello FOSDEM Folks, Well, this question is quite the long shot but I will ask anyway. I thought it would be nice to have some vegan apple cake instead of just salty snacks and chocolate for the DevRoom attendees. Any chance someone in Brussels has a kitchen I can use to make cake for the Community DevRoom? DevRoom takes place on Sunday. I would want to make the cake on Friday or Saturday. I would bring all my own ingredients and clean up well. Perhaps there is one of those rent a space kitchens that I could use? All help appreciated. Cheers, LH -- Leslie Hawthorn http://twitter.com/lhawthorn

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Free, hands-on usability testing workshop for FOSS projects on Jan 31st
by belen barros pena 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

Hi all, As part of the FOSDEM Fringe, Open Source Design is giving a free, hands-on workshop on how to plan, run and analyse usability studies the Friday before FOSDEM. The workshop will take place at Hackerspace Brussels on Friday 31st January from 12:00 to 17:00. You can register for the workshop at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfCMcgZq9cG-scnVvkb7_6Z1eL1SszkPIr… A huge thank you is due to Hackerspace Brussels for providing the space for the workshop: we could not do this without them :) The workshop will demonstrate how easy and how useful the usability testing technique can be. It will also teach attendees what they need to know in order to run usability studies themselves. The content has been designed for FOSS projects and for complete newbies: no experience doing design research necessary. The workshop can accommodate 20 people. Spaces are assigned on a first come, first served basis. If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch off list. Cheers, Belén (on behalf of Open Source Design)

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2020 Banners
by Zoran Regvart 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

Hi all, I noticed that the banners[1] for promoting FOSDEM 2020 are for 2019, any chance those can be updated to 2020? zoran [1] https://fosdem.org/2020/support/promote/ -- Zoran Regvart

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Requests for FSF merchandise -- before Wednesday January 8th
by John Sullivan 06 Jan '20

06 Jan '20

Hi all, If anyone is interested in t-shirts or other fundraising merchandise from https://shop.fsf.org, without having to pay shipping, order before 12:00pm Brussels time on Wednesday January 8th using discount code FOSDEM20. Then I'll get in touch for how you can pick up your items on-site in Brussels. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director and VP, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: A462 6CBA FF37 6039 D2D7 5544 97BA 9CE7 61A0 963B https://status.fsf.org/johns | https://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and support freedom at <https://my.fsf.org/join>.

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[CFP] LLVM devroom at FOSDEM 2020
by Kristof Beyls 02 Jan '20

02 Jan '20

CALL FOR PAPERS / PARTICIPATION At FOSDEM 2020, LLVM will again participate with a dedicated devroom, on Saturday February 1st, 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 world’s 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, Compiler-rt, MLIR, flang, or any of the other technologies in the LLVM project. We are looking for: - Keynote speakers. - Technical presentations (default length of 40 minutes including questions) related to the development of LLVM technologies or use of those technologies in other projects. - Tutorials. - Lightning talks (default length of 5 minutes). - Demos. The deadline for receiving proposals is Sunday November 24th, 2019. Speakers will be notified of acceptance or rejection by December 13th. 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/FOSDEM20, “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. 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 presenters who could not otherwise attend the conference. If you need funding to be able to present at the meeting, or can help provide sponsorship, 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 target 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 the use of an LLVM technology 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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