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[CFP] Open Research Tools and Technologies devroom
by Paul 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Open Research Tools & Technologies devroom CFP https://research-fosdem.github.io/ We invite developers or users of open tools and technologies used in a research context to contribute to the FOSDEM 2021 conference. We understand research as the general process of inquiry and knowledge production such as scientific research, investigative journalism, NGOs fieldwork, etc. We seek talks about: - New releases of open source software of research tools or technologies. - Feedback on open technology stacks used in research contexts (e.g., scientific research, journalistic inquiry, archive creation or publication, etc.) which collect, analyse, document, visualize, and/or share data. - Tool design and implementation for specific research contexts, e.g. how to hold an algorithm accountable to social scientists, how to foster better reproducibility, replicability, repeatability, and interoperability thanks to FLOSS, how to cope with biases of a chart for a data journalist, etc. - Issues and opportunities about bridging tech culture with research environments (research labs, libraries, newsrooms, museums, hackerspaces, makers labs etc.) including community building, organizational, legal and financial aspects. Any subjects related to open source technologies in research contexts are welcome even if not in this list. Talks will last around 20-40 minutes + 5-10 minutes Q&A, have to be in English. The video of the talk has to be pre-recorded in January 2021. The Q/A session will be live. The video will be published under Creative Commons CC-BY licence on the FOSDEM video recordings archive. HOW TO SUBMIT Important dates: - Proposal Deadline: 21st Dec 2020 23:59 CET - Accepted Talk video upload Deadline: 15th Jan 2021 23:59 CET - Online conference with live Q&A: 6th Feb 2021 Submit early if you can, as we will evaluate the proposals as they come because of this year’s special circumstances (very tight schedule) Submissions must include: - Abstract - Session type (Lecture or Lightning Talk) - Expected prior knowledge / intended audience - Speaker bio - Links to code / slides / material for the talk (optional) - Links to previous talks by the speaker (optional) Submission process is managed in the Pentabarf system used by the FOSDEM conference. Apply for a talk: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21 By submitting your recorded talk you agree to have it made available publicly… forever. When submitting your talk in Pentabarf, make sure to select the ‘Open Research Tools and Technologies Devroom’ as the ‘Track’. If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous FOSDEM event, 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, do not despair: contact us at research-devroom[at]lists.fosdem.org More about the Open Research Technologies devroom https://research-fosdem.github.io/ The Open Research Technologies devroom addresses FLOSS developers in a broad community concerned with research production and curation: scientists, engineers, journalists, archivists, curators, activists. The tools and technologies targeted are typically creating, handling or sharing knowledge artifacts: data, academic papers, books, collections, web contents, algorithms, artworks. This devroom provides a place and time to discuss the issues related to the creation and usage of open research technologies, with the ambition to foster discussions between designers, developers and users, bridging multiple knowledge-based communities together, and with the broader FLOSS community. The Open Research Technologies devroom aims to: - Allow knowledge-based tool developers to publicize their effort and become aware of other FLOSS projects. - Facilitate the pooling of coding efforts on (often poorly funded) tools. - Create a network where otherwise isolated developers, research engineers can share common FLOSS concerns. - Provide social recognition for people who work in fields where designing and developing tools is less considered than usual outcomes (e.g. not publishing papers in research, not writing investigation in data journalism, etc).

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CfP: FOSDEM 2021 - JavaScript Devroom
by Ludovic Gasc Lemaire 08 Dec '20

08 Dec '20

Shout-out to the JavaScript community! After two successful participations at FOSDEM, the JavaScript devroom is again present for FOSDEM 2021, the first online edition. We are happy to announce a call for proposal (CfP) for the new edition coming online on 6th and 7th February 2021! The schedule will be published on: https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/javascript/ What you need to know about the CfP: Key dates - Submission deadline: 22 December, 2020 - Announcement of selected talks: 31 December, 2020 - Submission of recorded talks: 17 January, 2021 - Conference: 6-7 February, 2021 (online) - JavaScript Devroom date: Saturday, 6 February, 2021 (online) Requirements - Talks will be pre-recorded in advance, and streamed during the event - Q/A session will be taken live - A facility will be provided for people watching to chat between themselves - A facility will be provided for people watching to submit questions - The reference time is Brussels local time (CET) <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/belgium/brussels> - Talk submissions should be 20 minutes + 5 minutes for Q&A Application via Pentabarf: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21 Language: English Codes of conduct: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fosdem:2017/Code_of_Conduct https://fosdem.org/2021/practical/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: - Title and subtitle of your talk - Learning outcome(s) or key takeaways - 5 lines abstract of your presentation - Full description of your presentation - Relevant links to websites, blogs, documentation, and other resources - Email in your speaker profile 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). Looking forward to reading your proposals and to make a great dev room together! Wanna get inspired? Check out the videos from two previous year here: https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/javascript/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/javascript/ The JavaScript Dev Room Committee: - Ludovic Gasc: https://twitter.com/GMLudo https://www.linkedin.com/in/ludovicgasc/ - Fabien Benetou: https://twitter.com/utopiah https://www.linkedin.com/in/benetoufabien/ - Hackages: https://twitter.com/hackages https://www.linkedin.com/company/hackages/ -- Ludovic Gasc Lemaire (GMLudo)

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Open Source Firmware, BMC and Bootloader devroom CFP
by Michał Żygowski 08 Dec '20

08 Dec '20

Hi, The Open Source Firmware, BMC and Bootloader devroom will take place on Sunday, 7th February 2021 at FOSDEM, virtual. Call for Participation ---------------------- We are opening the call for participation to our devroom, with the deadline for talk proposals set to Sunday, 20th December 2020 23:59:59 UTC. Devroom Scope ------------- The devroom will focus on various topics related to the open source firmware, BMC and bootloaders including security issues. It will help to get together all interested people in one place, present and discuss current developments and issues haunting the community. Additionally, it will foster awareness among attendees about pre-OS topics. Possible topics: GRUB, TrustedGRUB, iPXE, TrenchBoot, coreboot, LinuxBoot, SeaBIOS, UEFI, OVMF, TianoCore, hostboot, IPMI, OpenBMC, u-bmc, TPM, attestation, security of firmware, BMC, bootloaders and related topics and technologies. Ideal submissions are actionable and opinionated. Submissions may be in the form of 25 or 45 minutes talks, panel sessions or round-table discussions. Dates ----- Submission Deadline: 20-Dec-2020 @ 23:59:59 UTC Acceptance Notification: 31-Dec-2020 Final Schedule Posted: 31-Dec-2020 Recording and uploading presentations: 04-Jan-2021 - 16-Jan-2021 Processing, reviewing, fixing videos: 17-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2021 How to submit -------------- Visit https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21 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 Open Source Firmware, BMC and Bootloader 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 -------------------- Since the FOSDEM21 is going virtual, the talks will be prerecorded. We will be streaming the recordings and performing live Q&A of the Open Source Firmware, BMC and Bootloader 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: Daniel Kiper (daniel.kiper at oracle.com) and Michał Żygowski (michal.zygowski at 3mdeb.com) Daniel & Michał

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Re: [FOSDEM] [devroom-managers] Calls for Papers
by Katalin Fogas 08 Dec '20

08 Dec '20

Hello Alaisdair, Tool The Docs devroom CFP was submitted to the mailing lists on 4th December. Please add the CFP link to https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/tracks/ Below I share the text again. Thank you! ––––––––––––––––– Hello All, We're pleased to announce the *Call for Participation* for the FOSDEM 2021 *Tool The Docs* devroom. - 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 2021, it will be held online on Saturday, February 6th, and Sunday, February 7th. - FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration. - FOSDEM website: http://www.fosdem.org/ - FOSDEM code of conduct: https://fosdem.org/2021/practical/conduct/ Please forward this CFP to anyone you think may be interested in presenting or attending. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After a successful run in 2019, we are excited to announce the *Tool the Docs developer room* at FOSDEM 2021! The developer room focuses on *free and open source tools for writing, managing, testing and rendering documentation*. It will run on *Sunday 7th February* for half a day. ## New rules / What changes since last year: - For obvious reasons, this year the event will not take place in a physical location but online. - The reference time will be Brussels local lime (CET). - Talks will be pre-recorded in advance, and streamed during the event – Before proposing a session, please make sure you will have the facilities (camera, microphone, network) and time to prepare, upload and review a recording during the first two weeks of January if your proposal is accepted. - Q/A session will be live after your talk. - A platform will be provided for people watching to chat between themselves. - A platform will be provided for people watching to submit questions. . ## Key dates: - Submission deadline: 22nd December 2020 - Announcement of selected talks: 31st December 2020 - Devroom date: Sunday 7th February 2021 online ## Topics: *We welcome proposals from those working with tools for documentation as well as those creating and maintaining them*, plus any related topics you think might fit into the room. 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.* A few examples: - Static site generators for documentation - Docs-as-code - Automated processes - Toolchains ## How to submit: We are accepting talks of 20-30 minutes, with time for questions afterward. The QA session will be live. 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/FOSDEM21 While creating your proposal, please provide the title of your talk, a short abstract (one or two paragraphs), some information about yourself (eg. name, bio, photo, contact information, 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. ## Recording of Talks: The talks in the Tool the Docs developer room will be pre-recorded. *Speakers have to submit a recording of their talk to the devroom in Pentabarf and be available for QA during the event.* By participating in the event you agree to the publication of your recordings, slides and other content provided under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). In the “Submission notes” field in Pentabarf, please indicate that you agree to the publications. For example: “If my speech is accepted for FOSDEM, I hereby agree to the publication of my recordings, slides and other content provided under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). Sincerely, Name”. ## Team: Chris Ward Mark Meyer Kristof Van Tomme Katalin Fogas Thank you! Katalin Fogas Event Manager +36 62 202 853 (direct) +36 62 648 005 (office) *Pronovix, * *the Developer Portal <https://pronovix.com/developer-portals?utm_source=email&utm_medium=signature> Company* Join the Devportals Newsletter <https://pronovix.com/developer-portals-newsletter?utm_source=email&utm_medi…> to receive insights, trends, research, and more! On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 3:15 AM Stéphane Graber <stgraber(a)stgraber.org> wrote: > Hmm, > > Looking at the public post today, the containers devrooms appears to > have been missed despite me e-mailing both this mailing-list and the > fosdem(a)lists.fosdem.org one, any chance it can get added? :) > > > https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/fosdem-2021-containers-devroom-call-f… > > Stéphane > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 7:38 PM Alasdair G Kergon <agk(a)fosdem.org> wrote: > > > > Please send the text of these to the public mailing list if you didn't > > already: > > fosdem(a)lists.fosdem.org > > > > They'll appear at > > https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2020q4/date.html > > > > and we will add links to: > > > > https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/tracks/ > > > > (If you aren't subscribed to the list or the message trips a spam > > filter, there'll by a delay waiting for a moderator to approve the > > message.) > > > > We'll issue the main conference CFP this weekend and refer to that page > > for devroom CFPs. > > > > Alasdair > > > > _______________________________________________ > > devroom-managers mailing list > > devroom-managers(a)lists.fosdem.org > > https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/devroom-managers > > > > -- > Stéphane > _______________________________________________ > devroom-managers mailing list > devroom-managers(a)lists.fosdem.org > https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/devroom-managers

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CFP for the mozilla dev room
by Ludovic Hirlimann 08 Dec '20

08 Dec '20

Hello fellow Mozillians, It’s that time of the year again! The Call for Papers for Europe’s largest FLOSS event, FOSDEM, happening on February 6th & 7th 2020 in Brusselson the Internet is now officially open. Just like for the past 19 years, Mozilla is going to host a Developer room at FOSDEM 2021 for a full day and we would love to see and hear all your wonderful talks. For those of you that have no idea what FOSDEM is about, I recommend taking a look at their website (https://fosdem.org <https://fosdem.org/>) Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work together on open source projects and to discuss topics relevant to a broader subset of the community. Proposals should not be limited to the list but those are the ones that stand a higher chance of getting accepted. However, we do encourage you to submit talks on subjects that are not on the list, some of our best talks were on subjects we did not expect at all. However, please keep in mind that the public at FOSDEM is quite technical and knowledgeable about open-source in general. If you want any help or feedback to write your proposal, please get in touch with me. I am happy to put you in relation with someone that can help you to perfect your proposal and/or give you useful feedback. The list of suggested topics is the following: * Web Technologies: HTML, CSS & Layouts * MDN Web Docs * Firefox Developer Tools * Firefox in General * Privacy & Security * Performance * Network on Web browsers * Diversity & Inclusion * … Essential infos: * Submit your proposal on Pentabarf (https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21 <https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21>) , you can find a tutorial about how to use Pentabarf courtesy of the wonderful folks at the Go Devroom (https://eyskens.me/beginners-guide-to-pentabarf/) * Talk proposals deadline: 26th of December at midnight (anywhere in the world). * Acceptance/rejection notice: At the latest for the 31st of December. * Duration: 15 to 45 minutes talks (including questions) would be preferred, anything over 45 minutes and we might ask you to shorten it to fit in the 45 minutes time frame. * You need to be able to pre-record (which implies to have appropriate equipment to do so) your talk for the 21st of January and be available on the 7th of February at the time of your talk broadcast to answer questions. * If you encounter any issues with the proposal tool, please get in touch with me! Community Participation Guidelines The Mozilla devroom respects Mozilla’s community participation guidelines along with the FOSDEM Code of Conduct. These guidelines cover our behaviour as participants, facilitators, space wranglers, staff, volunteers, vendors, and anyone else involved in making the Mozilla devroom possible. -- https://hacking-mind.blogspot.com

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Call for Proposals for the Open Source Design devroom
by Bernard Tyers 08 Dec '20

08 Dec '20

FOSDEM <https://fosdem.org> is the Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting, a free and non-commercial two-day weekend event that offers *all* open source contributors a place to meet, share ideas, learn and collaborate. After 6 successful years we will host another design devroom at FOSDEM 2021 (virtually)! The Open Source Design devroom will take place online over the weekend of 6th and 7th February 2021. The *exact times will be confirmed in the coming months*. Due to the global health situation, FOSDEM will take place completely online. There will be talks about design work on free, libre and open source projects. *We invite you to send in your submissions about design work on free, libre and open source projects.* We mean ‘design’ in the broadest sense: user research, interface and interaction design, information architecture, visual design, typography, illustration, iconography, spatial, accessibility (and anything you can think of) – all in the context of open source projects, which we believe introduces unique challenges. Designers and developers working with designers (or on a design-minded project) are welcome to submit proposals. Possible topics include: * FOSS design tools * Unique challenges that open source brings * Design techniques and deliverables * Design/engineering collaboration approaches * User engagement and design research activities * Project case studies If you’re interested in seeing all previous talks, have a look at the schedule, and videos for 2019 <https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/open_source_design/> and 2018 <https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/open_source_design/>, Talk submission details Due to FOSDEM 2021 being fully online there are some important changes - * Talks must be pre-recorded in advance. The talk will then be streamed during the event. * Speakers are responsible for recording their talks * After the talk stream, there will be a live Question & Answer session * People watching the talk stream will be to chat online, and submit questions * The reference time will be Brussels local lime (Central European Time) For accepted talks For talks which are accepted: * All speakers will be assigned a devroom contact to support them and answer questions before the event * All speakers will need to record their talk and upload it to FOSDEM’s website * The deadline for uploading talk videos is expected to be in the first two weeks of January * The talk videos will be reviewed to ensure they have the required quality * During the stream of the talk, the speaker must be available online for the Q/A session. * Final timeslots will be co-ordinated with speakers after all talks have been finalised Recording and licensing of talks By submitting a proposal you consent to be recorded, and agree to license the content of your talk under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) license. What and how to submit Submission format 20-minute presentations Submission deadline 23rd December 2020 Notification about accepted talks We expect to notify people if their talk has been accepted or not by approximately 31st of December. How to submit All submissions are made in the Pentabarf event planning tool at https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21 <https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21> When submitting your talk in Pentabarf, when asked for the ‘Track’, you must select the ‘Open source design devroom’. If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous year, *please reuse it*. Create an account if, and only if, you don’t have one from a previous year. Who to contact for help If you have any issues with Pentabarf, do not despair contact - bernard + fosdem at ei8fdb dot org or vic3brown at gmail dot com Who co-ordinates Open Source Design devroom The Open Source Design Devroom is co-ordinated by the Open Source Design community <http://opensourcedesign.net/>. Check out the links below to learn more about us: * Website <https://opensourcedesign.net/> * Discourse Forum <http://opensourcedesign.net/> * Github <https://github.com/opensourcedesign> * FOSDEM 2019 devroom <https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/open_source_design/> * FOSDEM 2018 devroom <https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/open_source_design/> Examples of past talks: * Component-based Design System and Development <https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/component_based_design_syste…> * UX at Tor <https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/ux_at_tor/> * Breaking Down Language Barriers <https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/localizing/> * The real cost of not doing user research <https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/cost_of_not_doing_user_resea…> Date & Location * *Date:* Sat & Sun, 6 & 7 Feb 2021 * *Time:* Exact times yet to be defined * *Location:* Fully online

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CfP Software Defined Storage devroom
by Jan Fajerski 08 Dec '20

08 Dec '20

FOSDEM is a free software event that offers open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is well known for being highly developer-oriented and in the past brought together 8000+ participants from all over the world. It's home is in the city of Brussels (Belgium). FOSDEM 2021 will take place as an online event during the weekend of February 6./7. 2021. More details about the event can be found at http://fosdem.org/ ** Call For Participation The Software Defined Storage devroom will go into it's fifth round for talks around Open Source Software Defined Storage projects, management tools and real world deployments. Presentation topics could include but are not limited too: - Your work on a SDS project like Ceph, Gluster, OpenEBS, CORTX or Longhorn - Your work on or with SDS related projects like OpenStack SWIFT or Container Storage Interface - Management tools for SDS deployments - Monitoring tools for SDS clusters ** Important dates: - Dec 27th 2020: submission deadline for talk proposals - Dec 31st 2020: announcement of the final schedule - Feb 6th 2021: Software Defined Storage dev room Talk proposals will be reviewed by a steering committee: - Niels de Vos (OpenShift Container Storage Developer - Red Hat) - Jan Fajerski (Ceph Developer - SUSE) - TBD Use the FOSDEM 'pentabarf' tool to submit your proposal: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21 - If necessary, create a Pentabarf account and activate it. Please reuse your account from previous years if you have already created it. https://penta.fosdem.org/user/new_account/FOSDEM21 - 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". - If you plan to register your proposal in several tracks to increase your chances, don't! Register your talk once, in the most accurate track. - Presentations have to be pre-recorded before the event and will be streamed on the event weekend. - Important! Select the "Software Defined Storage devroom" track (on the "General" tab). - 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. We suggest a length between 15 and 45 minutes. ** For accepted talks Once your proposal is accepted we will assign you a volunteer deputy who will help you to produce the talk recording. The volunteer will also try to ensure the recording is of good quality, help with uploading it to the system, broadcasting it during the event and moderate the Q&A session after the broadcast. Please note that as a presenter you're expected to be available online during and especially after the broadcast of you talk. The schedule will be available under https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/software_defined_storage/ Hope to hear from you soon! And please forward this announcement. If you have any further questions, please write to the mailing list at storage-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org and we will try to answer as soon as possible. Thanks!

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Call for Participation: Legal & Policy Issues DevRoom at FOSDEM 2021
by Karen M. Sandler 08 Dec '20

08 Dec '20

########################################################################### Call For Participation Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom at FOSDEM 2021 CONFERENCE DATE: Saturday & Sunday 6-7 February 2021 in Brussels, Belgium DEVROOM DATE: Saturday 6 February 2021 CFP DEADLINE: Sunday 20 December 2020 at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) SPEAKERS NOTIFIED: Sunday 5 January 2021 (on or before) Quick CFP Overview (TL;DR) ========================== Hackers, developers, contributors and lawyers alike are encouraged to submit on any FOSS-related policy or legal topic. We seek proposals for 30 or 50 minute talks that address issues of software freedom project policies and legal issues that extend beyond and/or are orthogonal to technical issues faced by projects. For ideas about talk topics see the background information below. You can respond to this CFP by creating a user account on Pentabarf and creating one (or more) talk proposals by 20 December 2020. See details below. CFP Details =========== Copyright law provides many of the basic legal underpinnings of Free Software. Patent and trademark law and legal frameworks relating to data privacy and security also have significant relevance to Free Software development. Governance and policies around free software projects (beyond mere outbound licensing) set the rules for collaboration and can be critical to a project's success. Also governments, institutions and administrations increasingly rely on Free Software and regulate and govern this area. Our community has substantial expertise in this area yet there are few venues to discuss these matters in a forum open to all. Hackers, developers, contributors, lawyers, policy experts, and community leaders all possess expertise in these matters. This DevRoom seeks proposals for 30 or 50 minute talks. Sessions should address issues of software freedom project policies and legal issues that extend beyond and/or are orthogonal to technical issues faced by projects and government regulations. Such topics could include, but aren't necessarily limited to: * What legislation should we be watching, what has been recently enacted, and what coming soon? What effect could these have on software freedom? * 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? * How do ethical issues intersect with your project? How do those issues interact with software freedom? How can we protect user's rights in the current legal and technical landscape? Are there ways to mitigate the hold that click through terms of service have over the average person's use of software? Are privacy regulations like GDPR having any appreciable impact on software freedom? * 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 influence the direction of 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? What strategies do you use to you handle toxic people 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 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 or software freedom! Should I Submit? ================ 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 Free Software. Look at past talks in our DevRoom for inspiration: https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/ 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 CFP Schedule And Submission Details =================================== Submit proposals NO LATER THAN 20 December 2020 at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) Please use the following URL to submit your talk to FOSDEM 2021: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21 and follow these steps: * 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.) Shorter and more concise is better! * 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 30 or 50 minute time slot. If you select any other time amount, your submission is very likely to be rejected. * 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 2021, 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, 6 February 2021. (Please indicate any challenges you may have with respect to your availability to present during the European time zone.) Failure to follow these instructions above (and those on the FOSDEM 2021 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 "Submission 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. We appreciate the effort you put into crafting your submission to give yourself the best chance of acceptance. About the DevRoom Organizers ============================ The co-organizers of the FOSDEM 2021 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom are (in alphabetical order by surname): - Richard Fontana, Senior Commercial Counsel, Red Hat - Matthias Kirschner, President, Free Software Foundation Europe - Bradley M. Kuhn, Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence at Software Freedom Conservancy - Alexander Sander, FSFE Policy Coordinator - Karen M. Sandler, Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, Adjunct Lecturer-In-Law Columbia Law School You are welcome to contact us all at <fosdem-legal-policy at faif.us> with questions about this CFP. ###########################################################################

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CfP: FOSDEM 2021 - Microkernel Devroom
by Martin Decky 08 Dec '20

08 Dec '20

Microkernel Devroom at FOSDEM 2021 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION On-line version of this CfP: http://fosdem.microkernel.info/ The developers and users of several free and open source microkernel-based operating systems will meet on-line as part of FOSDEM 2021 [1] and will share a developer room. The devroom is currently looking for content in the form of talks and activities related to the area of microkernel-based, unikernel-based, component-based operating systems and similar topics. The devroom has been preliminarily scheduled to Saturday February 6th 2021. The devroom will take place during European day hours. Possible topics of the devroom include, but are not limited to: * introduction of a specific OS or framework * design of subsystems and the general architecture of an OS * used languages, tools and toolchains * enabling support for hardware (architectures, device drivers) * enabling support for programming languages * development processes, debugging * maintenance, testing and release engineering * security and robustness * trends and challenges * community and governance * use cases, experiences and status updates * best practices, lessons learned and demos This is a call for your participation. We kindly ask you to submit your proposals no later than on December 26th 2020. Please use the Pentabarf website [2] to submit your proposals. If you already have a user account in Pentabarf, please do not create a new one. Please make sure to select the Microkernel devroom as the track when submitting your talk and include at least the following information in your proposal: * title of your talk * your full name * short abstract of your talk (one or two paragraphs) * duration of your talk (at least 20 minutes and no longer than 50 minutes), excluding a Q&A part * your short bio * your photo The talks will be pre-recorded in advance in January and streamed during the event. This means that you will need to complete and submit your talk by around mid January. However, each speaker should be also present on-line just after the streaming of the talk for a live Q&A. You can specify your prefered time slot of your talk. The communication language of the devroom is English. The official devroom schedule (along with the accepted talks) will be announced on December 31st 2020 on the devroom's mailing list [3] and the speakers will be notified via e-mail. The schedule will also be published on the FOSDEM website. You are also invited to send any other suggestions for what you want to see or do at the devroom to the mailing list. About the Devroom Since the first Microkernel devroom at FOSDEM 2012 [4], this devroom has been part of each following FOSDEM. The focus gradually widened to include component-based and unikernel-based operating systems. By now it has become a somewhat institutionalized tradition for the community to meet there. To this date, over a dozen projects have participated in one way or another. Each of the projects face similar challenges but come up with partially different solutions. Therefore, the goal of the devroom is to bring the various projects together, let them exchange ideas, cross-pollinate and socialize. Extraordinary Circumstances in 2021 Due to the extraordinary mode of organization of FOSDEM 2021 (being an on-line event for the first time), many practical aspects of the devroom are still in the process of determination. For example, the devroom talks will be required to be pre-recorded in January and streamed during the event (with a live Q&A), but the technical details are still sketchy at this moment. The talk videos will be published under Creative Commons license by FOSDEM. By submitting a recorded talk, the speaker agrees to have it made available publicly indefinitively. For organizational purposes, we also need contact information of the speakers of accepted talks. Please check the official CfP page [5] of our devroom regularly. We will keep updating it as new guidelines will be determined by the FOSDEM organizers. Sadly, it will not be possible to arrange our traditional microkernel dinner and other in-person social gatherings in Brussels this time. However, we plan to organize an on-line replacement. The details will be announced later in January. On the other hand, the on-line nature of the devroom allows us to "overflow" to a second day in case we receive a substatial number of quality proposals. About FOSDEM FOSDEM [6] is a two-day event organised by volunteers to promote the widespread use of free and open source software. FOSDEM is widely recognised as one of the best such conferences worldwide. FOSDEM covers a wide spectrum of free and open source software and hardware projects and offers a platform for people to collaborate. To this end, FOSDEM has set up developer rooms (devrooms) where teams can meet and showcase their projects. Devrooms are a place for teams to discuss, hack and publicly present latest directions, lightning talks, news and proposals. Besides developer rooms, FOSDEM also offers main tracks, lightning talks, and in the past instances certification exams and project stands. In recent years, FOSDEM has been hosting more than 5000 developers at the ULB Solbosch campus. Due to the circumstances, FOSDEM 2021 will be organized as an on-line event. Despite this, the participation in FOSDEM is still totally free, although the organisers gratefully accept donations and sponsorship. No registration is necessary, but attendees are expected to follow the FOSDEM's code of conduct [7]. Important Dates Recap * 2020-12-26: Deadline for talk proposal submission * 2020-12-31: Schedule published and speakers notified of acceptance * mid January 2021: Time frame for talk pre-recoding * 2021-02-06: Devroom taking place on-line Contact In case of any questions, comments and suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact the devroom organizers via the devroom's mailing list [3]. The primary organizers of the devroom in 2021 are: * Martin Decky * Jakub Jermar Links [1] https://fosdem.org/2021/ [2] https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21/ [3] https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/microkernel-devroom [4] https://archive.fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/microkernel_os_devroom.html [5] http://fosdem.microkernel.info/ [6] https://fosdem.org/ [7] https://fosdem.org/2021/practical/conduct/

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(no subject)
by Richard Hartmann 07 Dec '20

07 Dec '20

--- The same CfP can be found at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TFSBfrOYnCsRVO9vND-jdU0UOSsNTjlCuUZqOB7… in case you prefer nice formatting -- The Monitoring & Observability developer room is devoted to all things monitoring and enabling humans to grok computer, system, and other data. Presentation topics could include: * Anything regarding metrics/logs/distributed tracing/profiling * Application performance management * Monitoring tools and technologies * Using IT best practices in other fields. Maybe you’re managing wind farms? A brewery? And general directions could be: * Beginner-friendly content * Cultural aspects of building good monitoring * Success and failures Talks will have two durations: * 25 min followed by 5 min Q&A * 5min lighting talk Timeline & Selection Important dates: * 2020-12-07: This CfP opens * 2020-12-23: Submission deadline for talk proposals * 2020-12-31: Announcement of the final schedule * 2021-01-12: Submission of recorded talks * 2021-02-XX: Monitoring and Observability devroom (TBD) Talk proposals will be reviewed by a program committee (alphabetical order): * Carl Bergquist <Grafana Labs> * Brian Brazil <Robust Perception> * Richard “RichiH” Hartmann <Grafana Labs> * Fabian Stäber <Instana> Submit your proposal * Use the FOSDEM’s pentabarf to submit your proposal at https://penta.fosdem.org/submission * If necessary, create a Pentabarf account and activate it. Please reuse your account from previous years if you have already created one in the past. * 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 "Monitoring and Observability" track (on the "General" tab). * 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. Either 25 or 5 min. Travel assistance Please note that as this is a community conference with a very tight budget, we cannot cover any travel or lodging costs. 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. By submitting an event, you give consent for you, your talk, and your content to be recorded and streamed. You also agree to share your slides in PDF and optionally other formats. The recordings will be published under the same license as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). Code of Conduct We follow FOSDEM’s CoC: https://fosdem.org/2020/practical/conduct/. We also request respect towards the speakers. If questions are repurposed for commentary, we will shut it down. In short: Be excellent to each other -- Richard

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