December 2021 - FOSDEM - lists.fosdem.org

BSD devroom CFP
by Rodrigo Osorio 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Dear FOSDEM, The BSD devroom CFP is up here : https://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigo/fosdem22/ Best regards, --rodrigo

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Open Research Tools and Technologies devroom CFP
by Paul 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Dear FOSDEM, The Open Research Tools and Technologies devroom CFP is up here : https://research-fosdem.github.io/ Best regards, Paul

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LibreOffice Technology DevRoom Call for Papers
by Italo Vignoli 02 Dec '21

02 Dec '21

LibreOffice Technology DevRoom Call for Papers FOSDEM 2022 will be a virtual event, taking place online on Saturday, February 5, and Sunday, February 6. The LibreOffice DevRoom is scheduled for Sunday, February 6, from 9AM to 7PM (times to be confirmed). If we will get more interesting talk proposals than the maximum number we can fit in one day, we will have the opportunity to extend the DevRoom to Saturday, February 5, in the afternoon. NEW RULES FOR 2022 - The reference time will be Brussels local time (CET). - Talks will be pre-recorded in advance, and streamed during the event - Q/A session will be live - A facility will be provided for people watching to chat between themselves - A facility will be provided for people watching to submit questions IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER December 26: Submission deadline December 28: Announcement of selected talks December 31: Publication of DevRoom final schedule January 16: Availability of pre-recordings for review January 23: Deadline for upload of presentations CALL FOR PAPERS We are inviting proposals for talks about LibreOffice Technology, including ODF standard document format, on topics such as code, localization, QA, UX, documentation, tools, extensions, migrations and general advocacy. Please keep in mind that product pitches are not allowed at FOSDEM. The length of talks is limited to a maximum of 25 minutes, as we would like to have some minutes for questions after each presentation, and to fit as many presenters as possible in the schedule. Exceptions must be explicitly requested and justified. You may be assigned LESS time than you have requested. IMPORTANT INFORMATIONS - Presentations have to be pre-recorded and tested for streaming before the event. - Once your talk is pre-recorded, and approved by a reviewer in term of quality for streaming, it will have to be uploaded by January 23, to be prepared and ready for broadcast (the deadline cannot be moved further). - During the stream of talks, speakers must be available online for the Q/A session. TALK SUBMISSIONS All talk submissions have to be made in the Pentabarf event planning tool: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22. While filing the proposal, please provide the title of your talk, a short abstract (one or two paragraphs), some information about yourself (name, bio and photo, but please do remember that your profile might be already stored in Pentabarf). To submit your talk, click on “Create Event” and select the “LibreOffice Technology” DevRoom as the “Track”. Otherwise, your talk will not be even considered for any devroom at all. 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 get in touch with the DevRoom manager. DEVROOM MANAGER Italo Vignoli: italo(a)libreoffice.org Link: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/12/02/lo-technology-devroom-c… -- Italo Vignoli - Marketing & PR The Document Foundation & LibreOffice email italo.vignoli(a)documentfoundation.org mobile/signal +39.348.5653829

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MySQL Devroom 2022 - Call for Paper
by Frédéric Descamps 02 Dec '21

02 Dec '21

Hi all, Here is the CfP for FOSDEM 2022 MySQL Devroom: https://www.mysqlandfriends.eu/post/fosdem-2022-mysql-devroom-call-for-pape… Thanks for sharing ! lefred.

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FOSDEM 2022 - Declarative and Minimalistic Computing - Call for Participation
by Manolis Ragkousis 02 Dec '21

02 Dec '21

We are excited to announce a devroom on Declarative and Minimalistic Computing at FOSDEM on 5th and 6th of February, 2022, online! FOSDEM is one of the most important free software conferences and is hosted annually at Université libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium. Unfortunately again 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 trying 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 include the Scheme/Lisp family of programmings languages. In past editions, this devroom has received presentations from a varied number of language communities, including Forth, Guile, Lua, Nim, Racket, Raku and Tcl as well as several experimental projects that push minimalism in new directions. Minimalism and declarative programming are two important topics 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 honor the late Professor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist) John McCarthy] as the founder of AI and the inventor of LISP. McCarthy with his work pioneered artificial intelligence, developed the Lisp programming language family and kickstarted our modern computing world. 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/FOSDEM22 The deadline for submission is December 20th. 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/2021/schedule/event/gnumes/ For accepted talks * Once your talk was accepted, we will assign you an organizer to help you to produce the pre-recorded content. * The organizer will review the content and ensure it has the required quality. He is also responsible for ensuring 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! = Organizers = Pjotr Prins, Manolis Ragkousis, Ludovic Courtès, Amirouche Boubekki, Hisham Muhammad, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Ricardo Wurmus, Alex Sassmannshausen, William Byrd, Oliver Propst, Efraim Flashner, Julien Lepiller = Code of conduct = - https://fosdem.org/2022/practical/conduct/ = Original proposal = - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2022-devroom-proposal = Important dates: = - Dec 20th 2021: submission deadline for talk proposals - Dec 31th 2021: announcement of the final schedule - Jan 14th 2021: submission deadline for recordings - Feb 5th 2022: FOSDEM! = Links: = - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2022-devroom-declarative-and-minimalisti…

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FOSDEM 2022 - JavaScript Devroom - Call for Participation
by Ludovic Gasc Lemaire 02 Dec '21

02 Dec '21

The official announcement: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fosdem-2022-javascript-devroom-call-particip… Kind regards -- Ludovic Gasc Lemaire (GMLudo)

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[CFP] Embedded, Mobile and Automotive devroom @FOSDEM2022
by Krzysztof Opasiak 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

This email is a Call For Participation in the Embedded, Mobile and Automotive Devroom at FOSDEM 2022. Devroom date: 5th & 6th February in FOSDEM Online Venue CFP deadline: Monday, 20th December 2021. Final speaker confirmation on Friday, December 31th 2021. CFP Introduction --------------------------- Embedded software is transforming the world, and FOSS embedded software is leading the way. From automotive to the Internet of Things, launching rockets, messing with your phone or automating your toaster, small devices, embedded systems, and automatons are everywhere Join in and tell the world about your project! This year FOSDEM is going to be an online event. All talks will need to be prerecorded and shared with FOSDEM organizers. Please only propose a talk that you're really able and willing to share. Topics Sought ------------------------ The embedded devroom seeks topics related to automotive, industrial, mobile, consumer electronics, autonomous and generally embedded systems, either from a professional or hobbyist background. Topics such as operating systems (Linux, free RTOS), hardware platforms (from microcontrollers to microprocessors, FPGAs) and software stacks are welcome. Related areas are of course of interest as well and our definition of "embedded" is elastic. CFP Schedule And Submission Details ----------------------------------------------------------- Please submit proposals no later than the 20th of December. Please use the following URL to submit your talk to FOSDEM 2022 https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22 and follow the following rules: * If you do not have an account yet, please create one, if you have submitted a talk in one of the previous years, please re-use your old account. * Select as the Track "Embedded, mobile and automotive devroom" * Select as the Event Type "Lecture" * 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.) * 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 whether you seek a 25, or 50 minute slot. * Use the "Links" sub-area to your past work in the field you'd like to share. * Also in the notes field please indicate your timezone so that we can schedule a convenient timeslot for you. * Last but not least, make sure you have up to date contact info. Feel free to send an email to the embedded mailing list should you have any questions with the conference system. Subscribe here: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/embedded-devroom About the devroom organizers -------------------------------------------------- The co-organizers of the FOSDEM 2022 Embedded devroom are (in alphabetical order by surname): * Walt Miner * Krzysztof Opasiak * Thomas Petazzoni * Chris Simmonds * Geert Uytterhoeven

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[CFP] Mozilla Dev Room
by Michael Kohler 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Hello fellow Mozillians, It’s that time of the year again! The Call for Presentations for Europe’s largest FLOSS event FOSDEM, happening on February 5th & 6th 2022, is now officially open. To learn more about FOSDEM, head over to [https://fosdem.org](https://fosdem.org/). FOSDEM 2022 will be held virtually, so talks can be given from anywhere in the world as they will be pre-recorded. Keep in mind though that you will need to be live at the Questions & Answer session and the network and setup test an hour before that! The Mozilla devroom will happen on the 5th of February (Saturday). Just like for the past 20 years, Mozilla is going to host a Developer room at FOSDEM 2022 and we would love to see and hear all your wonderful talks. 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. We have a list of suggested topics that we would like to hear from this year, but we encourage you to propose talks on other subjects if you believe they would be a good fit. Some of our best talks were on topics we didn’t think about. - Web Technologies: HTML, CSS & Layouts - MDN Web Docs - Firefox Developer Tools - Firefox in General - Privacy & Security - Performance - Network on Web browsers - Diversity & Inclusion - Thunderbird - SUMO - QA - Web Compatibility - … One first tip for applying is to 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. - Submit your proposal on Pentabarf (https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22) you can find a tutorial about how to use Pentabarf, courtesy of the wonderful folks at the Go Devroom, at https://eyskens.me/beginners-guide-to-pentabarf/. - Talk proposals deadline: 19th 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 depending on how many submissions we get. - As it will be held virtually there is more preparation needed. You need to be able to pre-record (which implies to have appropriate equipment to do so) your talk till the 17th of January and be available on the 5th 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! 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. Looking forward to your proposals. Get in touch with me if you have any questions! Michael

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