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Declarative and Minimalistic Computing devroom CfP
by Manolis Ragkousis 03 Dec '20

03 Dec '20

We are excited to announce a devroom on Declarative and Minimalistic Computing at FOSDEM on Sunday February 7th 2021, online! FOSDEM is one of the most important free software conferences and is hosted annually at Université libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium. Unfortunately this year FOSDEM will not run a physical conference but will be online only. Talks will be pre-recorded with some live content including Q&A sessions and discussion panels. We accept talks from languages that attempt to minimize use of hardware and software while try to make systems simpler, more robust and more secure. If you are working on improving today's systems taking declarative/minimalistic approaches feel free to submit a talk proposal. Examples are Scheme/Lisp family of programmings languages. Minimalism and declarative programming are two important topic for this devroom. Minimalism matters. Minimalism allows for smaller systems that take less resources and consume less energy. More importantly, free and open source minimalism allows for secure systems that are easy to understand. Declarative programming is a programming paradigm that expresses the logic of a computation without describing its control flow. Many languages that apply this style attempt to minimize or eliminate side effects by describing what the program must accomplish in terms of the problem domain, rather than describe how to accomplish it as a sequence of the programming language primitives. Finally, in this year's virtual conference we will honour the late Professor Edsger Dijkstra as a pioneer who laid foundations for many of these ideas. We have a room Sunday 6 February 2021. We want to invite you to submit a talk on declarative and minimalistic computing that fits that description. We are especially happy to receive talk submissions from members of groups underrepresented in free software. If you have something you’d like to share with your fellow developers, please E-mail us! Talks considered for the devroom will have to be entered in - https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21 The deadline for submission is December 15th. If you have a FOSDEM pentabarf account from a previous year, please use that account. Otherwise add one on https://penta.fosdem.org/user/new_account. Reach out to pjotr.public456(a)thebird.nl or manolis837(a)gmail.com if you run into any trouble. When submitting your talk make doubly sure to select "Declarative and Minimalistic Computing devroom" as track (if you don't we won't find it), and include the following information: * The title and subtitle of your talk * A short abstract of one paragraph * A longer description if you wish to do so * Links to related websites/blogs etc * Presentations has to be pre-recorded and streamed before the event. * Start recording early! To see what a final talk looks like see https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/gnumes/ For accepted talks * Once your talk was accepted, we will assign you an organiser to help you to produce the pre-recorded content. * The organiser will review the content and ensure it has the required quality. He is also responsable to ensure the content is into the system and ready to broadcast. * During the stream of your talk, you must be available online for the Q/A session Let's make this a fun day! = Organisers = Manolis Ragkousis, Ludovic Courtès, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Pjotr Prins (pjotr.public456(a)thebird.nl) William Byrd, Ricardo Wurmus, Alex Sassmannshausen, Amirouche Boubekki, Efraim Flashner, Bonface M. K. = Code of conduct = - https://fosdem.org/2021/practical/conduct/ = Original proposal = - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2021-devroom-proposal = Important dates: = - Dec 15th 2020: submission deadline for talk proposals - Dec 15th 2020: submission deadline for recordings - Dec 31th 2020: announcement of the final schedule - Feb 6th 2021: FOSDEM! https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2021-devroom-declarative-and-minimalisti…

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[CFP] Emulator Development Room
by Mahmoud Abdelghany 02 Dec '20

02 Dec '20

for updates check: https://github.com/blackbeard334/fosdem21-emulator-devroom-cfp # FOSDEM 21 - Emulator Development Room CFP We are pleased to announce the opening of the Call for papers for the inaugural edition of the FOSDEM emulator development room. Due to obvious reasons, the upcoming FOSDEM 21 will take place **online**. Unfortunate as that might be for some of us, it will also give some travel weary and/or shy -speakers the chance to participate. ### What is FOSDEM? ~~Stolen~~ Borrowed from the website: _**FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.** Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. In 2021, they will gather online._ #### Important stuff: - FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration. - [FOSDEM website](https://fosdem.org/) - [FOSDEM code of conduct](https://fosdem.org/2021/practical/conduct/) ### Desirable topics Really **anything** goes, but here are some ideas(for inspiration): - Console emulator development - Hardware emulation - OS emulation development - Virtual Machines development - Emulation legality - Emulation history - ... #### Desirable speakers We honestly don't care. Experienced speakers are very welcome, but hobbyists and/or first time speakers are also more than welcome. ### How to submit your proposal To submit a talk, please visit the [FOSDEM 2021 Pentabarf website](https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21) (we're not sure whether pentabarf means barfing in 5 directions, or in 5 colors). Create an **event** and click on **Show all** in the top right corner to display the full form. ### What should be in your submission - name - short bio - contact info - title(funny titles are appreciated) - abstract(what you're gonna talk about) - duration(25 min or 50 min) ### Important Dates - **December 28th: submission deadline** - January 6th: announcement selected talks - February 6th: FOSDEM! ### Contact us - [Mahmoud Abdelghany](https://twitter.com/blackbeard0x14e) - sorry, but the others are too shy ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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Open Source Computer Aided Design and Modeling devroom at FOSDEM 2021
by Seth Hillbrand 02 Dec '20

02 Dec '20

We are pleased to announce the CfP for the Open Source Computer Aided Design and Modeling devroom at FOSDEM 2021, on Sunday, 7 February 2021. FOSDEM website: https://fosdem.org/2021/ FOSDEM Code of Conduct: https://fosdem.org/2021/practical/conduct/ We hope you'll join us for a full day of talks, demos and interesting discussions on designing, modeling and testing hardware using Open Source tools. This year's event will be fully virtual and will feature multiple channels for talks, Q&A as well as hallway discussions. We welcome any talk proposals about the creation of physical objects. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Open Hardware projects - Circuit Design * Printed circuit board design tools * Circuit simulation - 3d modeling and analysis * Solid modeling tools * Meshing, modeling and transforming physical representations * Finite element analysis - 3d printing * 3d slicing tools * Motor control - Machine design and integration * ECAD/MCAD integration * Thermal analysis * Wire modeling - Physical Model Data storage * Data representation and optimization * Version control in hardware data storage * Collaborative and team-based hardware design techniques Slots will be allocated for short (20 minutes) and long (40 minutes) talks. Speakers need to specify their preferred format. Both include time for questions and answers. Depending on the number of submissions, submitters may be asked to utilize an alternate time format. The submission process ---------------------- Please submit your proposals at https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21 <https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM20> If you already have a Pentabarf account (for example as a result of having submitted a proposal in the past), make sure you use it to log in and submit your proposal. Do not create a new account if you already have one. Please include the following information with your submission: - Abstract - Preferred Session length - Speaker bio - Link to any hardware / code /slides for the talk When you submit your proposal (creating an "Event" in Pentabarf), make sure you choose the "Open Source Computer Aided Modeling and Design" in the track drop-down menu. Otherwise your proposal may go unnoticed. Fill in at least a title and abstract for the proposed talk and a suggested duration. Keep in mind that much of the value in these meetings comes from the discussions, so please allot at least 20% of the talk time for questions and answers. Important dates --------------- - Call for papers available: 2 December 2020 - Call for participation closes: 20 December 2020 - Devroom schedule available: 24 December 2020 - Talk recording uploads due: 24 January 2020 - Devroom day: Sunday 7 February 2021 (09:00 to 17:00) Recordings ---------- Because this year's conference will be fully virtual, all talks must be pre-recorded. These will be verified for sound and video quality prior to the conference. Each accepted talk will have a dedicated chaperone to help you through the process of recording, encoding and uploading your talk. The recordings will be published under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY).

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[CFP] Virtualization & IaaS Devroom
by Piotr Kliczewski 01 Dec '20

01 Dec '20

We are excited to announce that the call for proposals is now open for the Virtualization & IaaS devroom at the upcoming FOSDEM 2021, to be hosted virtually on February 6th 2021. This year will mark FOSDEM’s 21th anniversary as one of the longest-running free and open source software developer events, attracting thousands of developers and users from all over the world. Due to Covid-19, FOSDEM will be held virtually this year on February 6th & 7th, 2021. About the Devroom The Virtualization & IaaS devroom will feature session topics such as open source hypervisors and virtual machine managers such as Xen Project, KVM, bhyve, and VirtualBox, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service projects such as KubeVirt, Apache CloudStack, Foreman, OpenStack, oVirt, QEMU and OpenNebula. This devroom will host presentations that focus on topics of shared interest, such as KVM; libvirt; shared storage; virtualized networking; cloud security; clustering and high availability; interfacing with multiple hypervisors; hyperconverged deployments; and scaling across hundreds or thousands of servers. Presentations in this devroom will be aimed at users or developers working on these platforms who are looking to collaborate and improve shared infrastructure or solve common problems. We seek topics that encourage dialog between projects and continued work post-FOSDEM. Important Dates Submission deadline: 20th of December Acceptance notifications: 25th of December Final schedule announcement: 31st of December Recorded presentations upload deadline: 15th of January Devroom: 6th February 2021 Submit Your Proposal All submissions must be made via the Pentabarf event planning site[1]. If you have not used Pentabarf before, you will need to create an account. If you submitted proposals for FOSDEM in previous years, you can use your existing account. After creating the account, select Create Event to start the submission process. Make sure to select Virtualization and IaaS devroom from the Track list. Please fill out all the required fields, and provide a meaningful abstract and description of your proposed session. Submission Guidelines We expect more proposals than we can possibly accept, so it is vitally important that you submit your proposal on or before the deadline. Late submissions are unlikely to be considered. All presentation slots are 30 minutes, with 20 minutes planned for presentations, and 10 minutes for Q&A. All presentations will need to be pre-recorded and put into our system at least a couple of weeks before the event. The presentations should be uploaded by 15th of January and made available under Creative Commons licenses. In the Submission notes field, please indicate that you agree that your presentation will be licensed under the CC-By-SA-4.0 or CC-By-4.0 license and that you agree to have your presentation recorded. For example: "If my presentation is accepted for FOSDEM, I hereby agree to license all recordings, slides, and other associated materials under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License. Sincerely, <NAME>." In the Submission notes field, please also confirm that if your talk is accepted, you will be able to attend the virtual FOSDEM event for the Q&A. We will not consider proposals from prospective speakers who are unsure whether they will be able to attend the FOSDEM virtual event. If you are experiencing problems with Pentabarf, the proposal submission interface, or have other questions, you can email our devroom mailing list[2] and we will try to help you. Code of Conduct Following the release of the updated code of conduct for FOSDEM, we'd like to remind all speakers and attendees that all of the presentations and discussions in our devroom are held under the guidelines set in the CoC and we expect attendees, speakers, and volunteers to follow the CoC at all times. If you submit a proposal and it is accepted, you will be required to confirm that you accept the FOSDEM CoC. If you have any questions about the CoC or wish to have one of the devroom organizers review your presentation slides or any other content for CoC compliance, please email us and we will do our best to assist you. Call for Volunteers We are also looking for volunteers to help run the devroom. We need assistance with helping speakers to record the presentation as well as helping with streaming and chat moderation for the devroom. Please contact devroom mailing list [2] for more information. Questions? If you have any questions about this devroom, please send your questions to our devroom mailing list. You can also subscribe to the list to receive updates about important dates, session announcements, and to connect with other attendees. See you all at FOSDEM! [1] <https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM17> https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21 [2] iaas-virt-devroom at lists.fosdem.org

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