November 2021 - FOSDEM - lists.fosdem.org

Are the videos ever coming back?
by Liam Proven 05 Feb '22

05 Feb '22

There were a bunch of talks I didn't manage to see. Are the videos going to come back online at some point? Or do I need to contact each speaker individually and ask if they kept a copy? :-( -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven(a)cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lproven(a)gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053

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Academic Freedom vs CoC at FOSDEM
by Daniel Pocock 09 Jan '22

09 Jan '22

I feel FOSDEM might be the right place to raise this for a few reasons A recent high court decision has agreed that some of the more controversial analogies and metaphors are permitted[1] under academic freedom. Personally, I would not use the same metaphor in the same context or talking about the country in question. Quoting[1] Dr Stone from Melbourne Law School "given the requirements of the principle of academic freedom and the principle’s centrality to the purposes of a university, the particular provision that protects ‘intellectual freedom’ should have been understood, in some circumstances, *to take priority over the code of conduct* that Ridd was found to have breached" The case is about expressing an idea. It is not a blanket authorization to insult people. A volunteer on another FOSDEM list recently used an alias for the sanitary pass that is based on the same theme as the court judgment. Another volunteer observed that the pseudonym may violate a CoC. Anyway, the FOSDEM venue is a university so that makes it a great place to contemplate academic freedom. The L in ULB is for Libre The Nobel Peace Prize has just been granted[2] for efforts to safeguard Freedom of Expression. Is it a good moment to contemplate the relationship between Academic Freedom and CoCs? Regards, Daniel 1. https://www.sydney.edu.au/content/dam/corporate/documents/sydney-law-school… 2. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/oct/08/nobel-peace-prize-2021-w…

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[CfP] Computer Aided Modeling and Design Development Room
by Seth Hillbrand 29 Dec '21

29 Dec '21

# FOSDEM 22 We are pleased to announce the CfP for the Open Source Computer Aided Modeling and Design devroom at FOSDEM 2021, on Saturday, 5 February 2022. FOSDEM website: https://fosdem.org/2022/ FOSDEM Code of Conduct: https://fosdem.org/2022/practical/conduct/ We hope you'll join us for a full day of talks, demos and interesting discussions on designing, modeling and testing physical objects using Open Source tools. This year's event will be fully virtual (:sad trombone:) and will feature multiple channels for talks, Q&A as well as hallway discussions (:happy dance:). 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), long (40 minutes) talks and in-depth (60 minutes). This includes question time, for which you should budget at least 20% of your time. 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/FOSDEM22 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: 29 November 2021 - Call for participation closes: 28 December 2021 - Devroom schedule available: 1 January 2022 - Talk recording uploads due: 20 January 2022 - Devroom day: Saturday 5 February 2022 (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] Public Code devroom
by Jan Ainali 30 Nov '21

30 Nov '21

Hello everyone, We are happy to announce that the call for participation in the FOSDEM 2022 devroom for Public Code, code that implements public policy, have opened. It will be held on Sunday 6th February 2022 online. It's a devroom dedicated to everyone that are developing FLOSS used by public organizations like governments, public administrations and state corporations. We are looking for contributions covering the following main topics: * specific software being developed * collaboration methods * lessons learned * success stories/use cases * procuring open source * governance * … If you have any idea of a talk fitting into the topic of the devroom, please don't hesitate to make a submission! We hope that this will be an opportunity for everyone to meet and exchange ideas about public code around the world. = Submission process = Please submit your proposals at [1] before **December 26th 2021**. 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 provide a bit of information about yourself under Person -> Description -> Abstract. When you submit your proposal (by creating an "Event" in Pentabarf), make sure you choose the "Public Code devroom" in the track drop-down menu. Otherwise, your proposal might go unnoticed. Fill in at least a title and abstract for the proposed talk and a suggested duration. Bear in mind that a lot of the value in these meetings come from the discussions, so please be reasonable regarding the duration of the talk. Once the schedule of the devroom will be finalized, we will contact you in order to help you record your talk in advance, and ensure that the recording is of good quality. = Important dates = * December 26th 2021: deadline for submission of proposals * December 31st 2021 or before: announcement of final schedule * January 1st to January 15th 2022: speakers record their talks * February 6th 2022: devroom day, online = What's the organization this year? = While the global organization of the event is still in progress, here are some elements that we already know regarding the organization of the devroom. Please consider them before submitting a proposal: * Talks have to be pre-recorded in advance between the first two weeks of January, and will be streamed during the event. * Q/A session will be taken live, just after each recorded talk. As such, please make sure that you will be online and available on the day of the event. * 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 will be Brussels local lime (CET). = Recordings = The talks and Q/A sessions will be recorded. The recordings will be published under the same license as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). By agreeing to present in the Public Code devroom, you automatically give permission to be recorded. [1] https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22 -- Jan Ainali, Codebase Steward @jan_ainali Foundation for Public Code https://publiccode.net

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[CFP] Virtualization & IaaS Devroom
by Piotr Kliczewski 30 Nov '21

30 Nov '21

We are excited to announce that the call for proposals is now open for the Virtualization & IaaS devroom at the upcoming FOSDEM 2022, to be hosted virtually on February 5th 2022. This year will mark FOSDEM’s 22nd 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 5th & 6th, 2022. 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 2022 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/FOSDEM22 [2] iaas-virt-devroom at lists.fosdem.org

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[CFP] Collaboration and Content Management devroom
by Clément Aubin 29 Nov '21

29 Nov '21

Hi everyone, This is the call for participation in the FOSDEM 2022 devroom on Collaborative information and content management applications, to be held on Saturday 5th February 2022 online. We are looking for contributions under the form of conferences, talks or discussions covering the following main topics: * New projects presentation * Self-hosted platforms * Secure collaboration * Collaborative applications * Connectors & Integrations * Knowledge management techniques * Protocols for collaboration * … If you have any idea of a talk fitting into the subject of the devroom, please don't hesitate to let us know about it! We hope to provide an opportunity for everyone to meet and exchange about collaborative issues encountered while using Open Source solutions; present the some tools used for content management and discuss about global solutions for incentivizing collaboration. = Submission process = Please submit your proposals at [1] before **December 26th 2021**. 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 provide a bit of information about yourself under Person -> Description -> Abstract. When you submit your proposal (creating an "Event" in Pentabarf), make sure you choose the "Collaborative information and content management applications devroom" in the track drop-down menu. Otherwise your proposal might go unnoticed. Fill in at least a title and abstract for the proposed talk and a suggested duration. Bear in mind that a lot of the value in these meetings comes from the discussions, so please be reasonable regarding the duration of the talk. Once the schedule of the devroom will be finalized, we will contact you in order to help you record your talk in advance, and ensure that the recording is of good quality. = Important dates = * December 26th 2021: deadline for submission of proposals * December 31st 2021 or before: announcement of final schedule * January 1st to January 15th 2022: speakers record their talks * February 5th 2022: devroom day, online = What's the organization this year ? = While the global organization of the event is still in progress, here are the elements that we already know regarding the organization of the devroom. Please consider them before submitting a proposal : * The reference time will be Brussels local lime (CET) [2]. * Talks have to be pre-recorded in advance between the first two weeks of January, and will be streamed during the event. * Q/A session will be taken live, just after each recorded talk. As such, please make sure that you will be online and available on the day of the event. * A facility will be provided for people watching to chat between themselves. * A facility will be provided for people watching to submit questions. = Recordings = As previous years, the talks and Q/A sessions will be recorded. The recordings will be published under the same license as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). By agreeing to present at FOSDEM, you automatically give permission to be recorded. The organizers will agree to make exceptions but only for exceptional and well-reasoned cases. For any question, don't hesitate to reach out to me on Matrix : caubin at matrix.xwiki.com [1] https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22 [2] https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/belgium/brussels -- Clément AUBIN aubincleme(a)gmail.com www.caubin.fr

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FOSDEM 2022 Network Devroom CFP
by Kinsella, Ray 29 Nov '21

29 Nov '21

We are excited to announce that the call for proposals is now open for the Network devroom at [FOSDEM 2022]. FOSDEM is a free event for engineers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. FOSDEM is one of the largest events of its kind, hosting, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world. Please note that, due to Covid-19, FOSDEM will be held virtually again next year on the 5th and 6th of February, 2022. All presentations will be pre-recorded with live chat during each presentation and live Q&A after each presentation. [FOSDEM 2022] https://fosdem.org/2022/ Important Dates =============== Sunday 12th December Submission deadline Friday 24th December Announcement of selected talks Friday 28th January Recorded Presentation and slide upload deadline 5 & 6th February Conference dates (online) About the devroom ================= The FOSDEM Network devroom hosts a diversity of talks covering open source networking projects and technologies. The scope of the Network devroom is broad and targets those software developers engaged in network design, monitoring, management and software development with open source tools. We typically host a variety of talks on Networking topics including: - Network monitoring (inventory, discovery & telemetry), - Network management (enterprise, carrier-grade, cloud, IoT) - Networking protocols (the full alphabet soup) - Security (IPS, IDS, protocols) - Authentication - Development tools (libraries, SDKs, plugins) - Network stacks Suggested Topics: ================= If it moves network packets, monitors, or interacts with, or supervises entities that moves network packets, it is likely a topic the devroom is interested in. A very /non-exhaustive/ list of the projects and topics we would love to see on the schedule are: Monitoring Nagios, Icinga2, Naemon, NTop, SNAS, Graphana, Prometheus, collectd Frameworks DPDK, eBPF, XDP, FD.io, PANDA Switching Snabb, OpenvSwitch, Tungsten Fabric, Lagopus, FastClick Stacks Linux, *BSD, F-Stack Controllers Istio, Envoy, Network Service Mesh, OpenDayLight, Calico, Contiv Edge Akraino, Openness Routing FRRouting, BIRD, Go-BGP Management ONAP, Ganglia, NetSNMP, PNDA.io Security Suricata, Snort Tooling VSPerf, TRex, Moongen, Scapy, Warp17 Talks should be aimed at a technical audience, but should not assume that attendees are already familiar with your project or how it solves a given problem. Talk proposals may cover very specific solutions to a problem, or may be a higher level project overview for lesser known projects. Code of Conduct =============== [FOSDEM Code of Conduct]: 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. [FOSDEM Code of Conduct] https://fosdem.org/2022/practical/conduct/ Proposals: ========== Proposals should be made through the [FOSDEM Pentabarf submission tool]. You do not need to create a new Pentabarf account if you already have one from a past year. Please select the "Network" as the *track* and ensure you include the following information when submitting a proposal: Section Field Notes --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Person Name(s) Your first, last and public names. Person Abstract A short bio. Person Photo Please provide a photo. Event Event Title *This is the title of your talk* - please be descriptive to encourage attendance. Event Abstract Short abstract of one or two paragraphs. Event Duration Please indicate the length of your talk; 15 min, 30 min or 45 min If your talk is accepted, the deadline to upload your slides and a pre-recorded version of your talk is Friday 28th January. FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of February 5th & 6th, 2022. Please also join the devroom’s mailing list, which is the official communication channel for the devroom: [network-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org] (subscription page) [FOSDEM Pentabarf submission tool] https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22 [network-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org] https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/network-devroom Team: ===== Ray Kinsella Stephan Schmidt Thomas Monjalon Emma Foley Alexander Biehl Charles Eckel

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[CFP] Emulator Development Room
by Mahmoud Abdelghany 29 Nov '21

29 Nov '21

for updates check: https://blackbeard334.github.io/fosdem22-emulator-devroom-cfp/ # FOSDEM 22 - Emulator Development Room CFP Hear Ye, Hear Ye! The Call for papers for the FOSDEM emulator development room is hereby open! Due to obvious reasons, the upcoming FOSDEM 22 will take place **online**. A lot of people (us included) prefer IRL, but safety first, and let's make the best of it! ### 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. ... FOSDEM 2022 will take place on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 February 2022. It will be an online event._ #### Important stuff: - FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration. - [FOSDEM website](https://fosdem.org/) - [FOSDEM code of conduct](https://fosdem.org/2022/practical/conduct/) - [Emulator devroom schedule](https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/emulator_development/) ### Desirable topics Really **anything** goes, but here are some ideas (for inspiration): - Console emulator development - Computer emulator development - Hardware on hardware emulation - OS emulation development - Virtual Machine development - Emulation legality - Emulation history - ... #### Topic overlap Some topics might be suitable or overlap with other rooms (such as our good friends from the [Retro room](https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/retrocomputing/) or [Virtualization room](https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/virtualization_and_iaas/)) In such cases we might contact the speaker and point that out, but ultimately it is up to the speaker where the talk should land. #### Desirable speakers We honestly don't care. Experienced speakers are very welcome, but hobbyists and/or first time speakers are also more than welcome. As long as you have passion and/or knowledge you care to share. ### How to submit your proposal To submit a talk, please visit the [FOSDEM 2022 Pentabarf website](https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22) (the mystery of whether pentabarf means barfing in 5 directions or in 5 colors has not been solved yet). 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 ~~required~~/appreciated) - abstract (what you're gonna talk about) - duration ### Important Dates - **December 28th: submission deadline** - FAQ - is the submission deadline final? - Technically speaking, you can submit talks till pentabarf closes, which should be somewhere in January - However, talks submitted before the 29th get a higher precedence - ASAP: announcement selected talks - January: speakers are contacted to upload pre-record sessions - February 6th: FOSDEM! (with live Q&A during recorded talks) ### Contact us - [Mahmoud Abdelghany](https://twitter.com/blackbeard0x14e) - [Christophe Creeten](mailto:christophecreeten@hotmail.com) - [Niels Renard](https://twitter.com/nielsrenard)

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FOSDEM database filming party?
by Ian Gilfillan 16 Nov '21

16 Nov '21

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