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CfP: Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom at FOSDEM 2025
by Tom Marble 30 Oct '24

30 Oct '24

####################################################################### Call For Participation Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom at FOSDEM 2025 CONFERENCE DATES: Saturday & Sunday 1-2 February 2025 in person in Brussels, Belgium DEVROOM DATE: Saturday 1 February 2025 CfP DEADLINE: Sunday 1 December 2024 at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) SPEAKERS NOTIFIED: Friday 6 December 2024 FINALIZED SCHEDULE: Sunday 15 December 2024 The Legal and Policy dev room invites hackers, developers, contributors, lawyers, and decision-makers alike to share their knowledge with the community. We invite you to contribute to our dev room by submitting proposals for 25 or 50 minutes talks or panels about FOSS-related legal or policy topics on intermediate to advanced level (due to the expected audience please do not submit introductory talks). In case you have any questions about how to contribute to the sharing of knowledge in our dev room, please do not hesitate to contact us at <fosdem-legal-policy at faif.us> You can respond to this CfP by going to: https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp on or before December 1, 2024. In addition to the topics we had anticipated this year, the community has specifically asked us to cover specific proposed solutions to LLM-generative-model-related questions, various issues around current regulations (e.g. CRA, AI Act, PLD, DMA), how trademarks have been used as control mechanisms, funding schemes and market incentives for free software, license compliance experiences and strategies, export regulations and tactics, tax exempt status in different countries, and the evolution and decline in fiscal sponsorship. Look at past talks in our DevRoom for inspiration: https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/legal/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/ 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. Submitting a proposal ==================== * Select the track "Legal and Policy" * Include a title. Shorter and more concise is better! * Include an Abstract of about 500 characters and a full description of any length you wish, but please be concise, clear and descriptive. * Indicate a 25 or 50 minute time slot. We will likely reserve 50 minute time slots for panels. * 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 2025, I hereby agree to license all recordings, slides and any other materials presented under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International license." About the DevRoom Organizers ============================ The co-organizers of the FOSDEM 2025 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom are (in alphabetical order by surname): - Richard Fontana - Principal Commercial Counsel, Red Hat - Matthias Kirschner, President, Free Software Foundation Europe - Bradley M. Kuhn, Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence at Software Freedom Conservancy - Tom Marble, Chief Technology Officer, Informatique, Inc. - Alexander Sander, FSFE Senior Policy Consultant - Karen M. Sandler, Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, 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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Community DevRoom CFP
by laura.czajkowski＠gmail.com 30 Oct '24

30 Oct '24

The Community DevRoom will be back at FOSDEM 2025. Our goals in running this DevRoom are to: - Educate those who are primarily software developers on community-oriented topics that are vital in the process of software development, e.g. effective collaboration. - Provide concrete advice on dealing with squishy human problems. - Unpack preconceived ideas of what community is and the role it plays in human society, free software, and a corporate-dominated world today. - Explore ways we can make open source software sustainable for maintainers and contributors. - Share knowledge on all aspects of creating and nurturing communities for free software projects. *TALK TOPICS* - Here are some topics we are interested in hearing more about this year: - Creating a community around a corporate-sponsored open source project that is respectful of its users and FOSS principles. - Self-care in our communities, for both community members and community leaders, e.g. how are we all dealing with burnout, the impact of rising geopolitical instability’s impact on our members, and layoffs throughout the tech industry. - Balancing community expectations with company objectives in a manner that is respectful and authentic, and serves both audiences well. - Community management best practices. - How to effectively manage toxic community members from ruining your welcoming community so that others stick around! - Tell us about successful ways that you have created to reward volunteer contributors, keep volunteers motivated, and encourage others to get more involved. - Creating communities and authentic and sustainable connections with contributors who are only able to engage with online activities such as virtual office hours or event livestreams. - Effective collaboration techniques. - Recruiting new people to your project. - Creative ways to engage and grow your developer community. - How to improve engagement within your communities to maximise awareness of your project. Again, these are just suggestions. We welcome proposals on any aspect of community building! *To Submit* Head to the FOSDEM 2025 Pretalx website <https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp> and submit your talks for the CommunityDevRoom. Submissions are *open from October 30th *and final submissions are December 1st. Talk schedule posted December 15th You must be available in person to present your talk Speaking slots are 25 minutes in length (to include any Q&A) The Community devroom is unable to sponsor people to attend Thank you Laura Czajkowski / Shirley Bailes / Leslie Hawthorn

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Call for Participation: Real-Time Communications devroom @ FOSDEM 2025
by Saúl Ibarra Corretgé 30 Oct '24

30 Oct '24

# FOSDEM - Real Time Communications devroom CfP ## Overview [FOSDEM] is one of the world's premier meetings of free software developers, with over five thousand people attending each year. FOSDEM 2025 takes place 1-2 February 2025. This document contains information about: - Real-Time Communications developer room (devroom) - Speaking opportunities ## Call for participation - Real Time Communications (RTC) The Real-Time devroom is about all things involving real-time communication, including: XMPP, SIP, WebRTC, telephony, mobile VoIP, codecs, peer-to-peer, privacy, encryption, broadcasting and more! The devroom will take place for **half a day, on Saturday afternoon.** ### Key dates - 1st of December: Submission deadline (strict) - 15th of December: Announcement of selected talks - 1-2 February: Conference date (the RTC devroom will be on Saturday afternoon) ### First-time speaking? FOSDEM devrooms are a welcoming environment for people who have never given a talk before. Please feel free to contact the devroom administrators personally if you would like to ask any questions about it. ### Submission guidelines Please use the [Pretalx] system to submit a talk proposal for the devroom. We will be looking for relevance to the conference and devroom themes, presentations aimed at developers of free and open source software about RTC-related topics. Please note FOSDEM aims to record and live-stream all talks. The CC-BY license is used. **Note that talk length might be adjusted since we only have half a day.** ## Spread the word and discuss If you know of any mailing lists where this CfP would be relevant, please forward this document. If this devroom excites you, please blog or microblog about it, especially if you are submitting a talk. If you regularly blog about RTC topics, please feel free to send details about your blog to these planet site administrators: - RTC https://planet.freertc.org planet(a)freertc.org - XMPP https://planet.jabber.org ralphm(a)ik.nu Please also link to the Planet sites from your own blog or web site as this helps everybody in the free real-time communications community. ## Contact For any queries, contact us directly using the address **rtc-devroom-manager(a)fosdem.org**. The devroom administration team: - Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <s(a)saghul.net> - Lorenzo Miniero <lminiero(a)gmail.com> - Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda(a)gmail.com> - Ralph Meijer <ralphm(a)ik.nu> [FOSDEM]: https://fosdem.org [Pentalax]: https://fosdem.org/submit

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GCC (GNU Toolchain) dev room - CFP
by Marc 30 Oct '24

30 Oct '24

After a very successful first participation last year, we're excited to announce that GCC will again have a developer room at the upcoming FOSDEM 2025, in Brussels, Belgium: https://fosdem.org/2025/ This email is a Call for Presentations about GCC for the developer room. Important Dates: 1st December 2024 Submission deadline 15th December 2024 Final Schedule announcement 1st February 2025 GCC devroom (afternoon) ### CFP Introduction This devroom is geared towards both users of GCC and developers of GCC, and of closely related toolchain components (binutils, glibc, newlib, gdb, for example). The goal of the devroom is for GCC developers to get in touch with each other, and with users of GCC, to have (we hope) productive discussions about it, to help people get involved in development, and to have fun. The format of the expected presentations will cover a range that includes: - technical presentations - tutorials - lightning talks - demos Typically presentation slots are 25 minutes, with 15 minutes recommended for presentations, and 10 minutes for Q&A. Lightning talks are 5 minutes each. If you would like a different length for presentation and/or Q&A, please mention this in the submission notes. ### What is FOSDEM? 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 2025 will take place on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 February 2025. It will be an in-person event at the ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels, Belgium, Europe. If you aren't there, you can watch the live streams from the main tracks and developer rooms. ### Important stuff: - FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration. - FOSDEM website: <https://fosdem.org/> - FOSDEM code of conduct: <https://fosdem.org/2025/practical/conduct/> - FOSDEM Schedule: <https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/> - In order to enable, for example, students to attend FOSDEM for presenting at the devroom, there may be limited availability of sponsoring for travel expenses. This is backed by the GNU Toolchain fund, a part of the FSF's Working Together for Free Software Fund: <https://www.fsf.org/working-together/fund>. If you would like to apply, please contact the devroom organizers (see below) as soon as possible, until 2024-11-15. ### Desirable topics: - Technical presentations, such as discusion of GCC internals - Talks for users of GCC, such as presentation of new features - Tutorials (e.g. on GCC usage, or on getting involved in GCC development) - Lightning talks - Demos ### Topic overlap There are over 50 developer rooms this year, and multiple main tracks, so there may be overlap with some other events. If the topic would fit more than one devroom, you are free to choose which to submit to, but we encourage you to consider the focus of the talk, and see which devroom is best matched. Full list of devrooms: <https://fosdem.org/2025/news/2024-10-28-devrooms-announced> ### How to submit your proposal To submit a talk, please visit the FOSDEM 2025 Pretalx website: <https://fosdem.org/submit> Click 'Submit a proposal'. Make sure you choose the 'GCC (GNU Toolchain)' devroom in the track drop-down menu (so that we see it rather than another devroom's organisers) ### What should be in your submission - title - abstract (what you're going talk about, supports markdown) Your abstract should indicate expected prior knowledge / intended audience, to help FOSDEM attendees choose between sessions. Optional: - submission notes (for the organiser only, not made public) - session image (if you have an illustration to go with the talk) - additional speaker/s (if more than one person presenting) Afterwards, click "Continue". The second page will include fields for: - Software license(s) - Extra materials for reviewers (optional, for organisers only) - Extra contact details (optional) All presentations will be recorded and made available under Creative Commons licenses, which you'll have to agree to. Afterwards, click "Continue". The third page will include fields for: - Profile picture, name - Biography (optional) - Availability Once you've completed the required sections, submit and we'll get back to you soon! You may adjust the details after submitting. ### Things to be aware of - The reference time will be Brussels local lime (CET): <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/belgium/brussels> - FOSDEM 2025 FAQ: <https://fosdem.org/2025/faq/> ### Contact If you have any question about this devroom, please send a message to gcc-devroom-manager at fosdem dot org. Organizers of the devroom can also be reached on IRC at irc://irc.oftc.net/#gcc; see <https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GCConIRC> ### Program Committee - Thomas Schwinge (tschwinge at baylibre.com) - Jose E. Marchesi (jemarch at gnu.org) - Marc Poulhiès (dkm at kataplop.net)

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Call for Participation: Microkernel and Component-Based OS Devroom
by Udo Steinberg 30 Oct '24

30 Oct '24

We are happy to announce the CfP for the "Microkernel and Component-Based OS" devroom at the upcoming FOSDEM 2025. Developers and users of various free and open-source microkernel-based, unikernel-based and component-based operating systems will meet again at FOSDEM (https://fosdem.org) during the weekend of February 1/2, 2025 and will share a developer room. The microkernel and component-based OS devroom is currently looking for your participation in the form of proposals for talks, demos and other related activities. Possible topics for 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 * languages, tools and toolchains used * enabling support for hardware architectures, devices and programming languages * development processes, debugging * maintenance, testing and release engineering * safety, security and robustness * trends and challenges * research and open questions * community and governance * use cases, experiences and status updates * best practices and lessons learned * live demos Important Dates The deadline for submitting proposals is December 1, 2024 (23:55 CET). Please use the FOSDEM website at https://fosdem.org/submit, select the track "Microkernel and Component-Based OS" and include at least the following information: * title of your proposal * short abstract (one or two paragraphs) * duration (20 - 40 minutes, including demos and Q&A) * your full name * your short bio The devroom schedule (with accepted talks) will be announced on the devroom website at https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/microkernel by December 15, 2024. The schedule will also be posted to the devroom mailing list and the speakers will be notified via email. Like previous years, the devroom will take place as an in-person event at the ULB Campus Solbosch in Brussels, Belgium during the second half of February 1, 2025 (Saturday). Due to the high number of submissions that FOSDEM received this year, our devroom has only been allocated half a day. Therefore, the final decision on the duration of the talks will be made by the devroom organizers based on the number of accepted proposals. Requirements The communication language of the devroom is English. All content must relate to free and open-source software. By participating in the event, you agree to the publication of your talk recordings, slides and other content provided under the same CC-BY license as all other FOSDEM content. All participants are expected to adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://fosdem.org/2025/practical/conduct/ Contact For the 2025 edition, the organizers of the devroom are * Udo Steinberg (udo [at] hypervisor.org) * Alexander van der Grinten (alexander.vandergrinten [at] gmail.com) For any comments, questions and suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact us directly or via microkernel-devroom-manager(a)fosdem.org. About the Devroom Since the first Microkernel OS Devroom at FOSDEM 2012, this devroom has been a part of each subsequent FOSDEM (with slight variations of the name). The focus gradually widened to include component-based, unikernel-based and other operating systems. It has now become a somewhat institutionalized tradition for the open-source operating systems community, a kind of "extended family meeting" and it is one of the places where microkernel and unikernel enthusiasts meet regularly. To date, over two dozen projects have participated in one way or another. Many 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. As in the past, the devroom will offer the stage both to established community members and to newcomers. Our goal is to select talks in an inclusive manner and to create a balanced and unbiased schedule, while keeping the quality of the devroom as high as in previous years. About FOSDEM FOSDEM is a two-day conference organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of free and open-source software. FOSDEM is widely recognized as one of the largest and best such events 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 new ideas, latest results, lightning talks, news and proposals. Besides developer rooms, FOSDEM also offers main tracks, lightning talks, certification exams and project stands. In recent years, FOSDEM has been hosting more than 8000 developers annually at the ULB Solbosch Campus in Brussels, Belgium. The participation in FOSDEM is totally free and requires no registration, although the organizers gratefully accept donations and sponsorship. Devroom Dinner Over the years, it has become a tradition that devroom speakers and enthusiasts meet for dinner somewhere in Brussels on Saturday evening to continue discussions, socialize and meet old and new friends. We plan to follow that tradition in 2025 and will inform you about the exact arrangements later. Hope to see all of you in Brussels!

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Call for Paritipation: WebAssembly devroom at FOSDEM 2025
by Masashi Yoshimura 30 Oct '24

30 Oct '24

We’re happy to announce that WebAssembly devroom will be held at the second day of FOSDEM 2025. WebAssembly is expanding its use cases from browsers to the cloud. This devroom will be a great occasion for the community to meet and discuss exciting topics going on in WebAssembly ecosystem. FOSDEM 2025 will be held in Brussels, Belgium on 1 & 2 February 2025. This devroom will be an in-person event. ## About FOSDEM Website is available at https://fosdem.org/2025/ > 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. You don’t need to register. Just turn up and join in! ## Submission Guidelines WebAssembly devroom will be held on AM, 2nd February 2025. We’re looking for talks related to WebAssembly in the following formats: - 10 minutes talk (lightning talk) - 25 minutes talk (full-featured talk) Please allow for at least 5 minutes of Q&A. Submit your proposal to https://fosdem.org/submit . Make sure to set the “Track” to “WebAssembly” devroom. Write the talk duration (10 minutes or 25 minutes) in the “Submission Notes” field. The deadline for submission is 1st December 2024. WebAssembly is now widely used from browsers to the cloud. We’d love to hear topics related to WebAssembly in any field! ## Key dates - Submission deadline: 1st December 2024 - Announcement of selected talks: 15th December 2024 - Devroom dates: 2nd Feburary 2025 ## Contact If you have any questions about WebAssembly devroom, please email masashi.yoshimura(a)ntt.com .

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Call for Presentations: Ada devroom @ FOSDEM 2025
by Fernando Oleo Blanco 29 Oct '24

29 Oct '24

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Presentations 12th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2025 Sunday 2 February 2025, Brussels, Belgium www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/25/250202-fosdem.html Organized in cooperation with Ada-Belgium and Ada-Europe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ada FOSDEM community is pleased to announce the 12th edition of the Ada DevRoom! This edition will take place on Sunday morning 2nd of February in Belgium, at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). This edition of the Ada DevRoom is once more organized in cooperation with Ada-Belgium [1] and Ada-Europe [2]. General Information about FOSDEM -------------------------------- FOSDEM [3], the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting, is a free and non-commercial two-day weekend event organized early each year in Brussels, Belgium. It is highly developer-oriented and brings together 8000+ participants from all over the world. No registration nor payment is necessary. The goal is to provide open source developers and communities a place to meet with other developers and projects, to be informed about the latest developments in the open source world, to attend interesting talks and presentations on various topics by open source project leaders and committers, and to promote the development and the benefits of open source solutions. Ada Programming Language and Technology --------------------------------------- Ada is a general-purpose programming language originally designed for embedded and mission-critical software engineering, although nowadays it also supports object orientation, contracts and formal verification. It is used extensively in air traffic control, rail transportation, aerospace, nuclear, financial services, medical devices, etc. It is also perfectly suited for open source development with a fully open compiler (part of GCC), a formal verification system and a knowledgeable and vibrant community. Awareness of safety and security issues in software systems is increasing. The NSA recently published [4] a list of programming languages that are recommended for the development of new software due to their memory safety and Ada was one of the list (one of the three compiled non-garbage collected languages!). In that context, it should be no surprise that NVIDIA has started using Ada/SPARK [5, 6] for their highest critical parts in their GPUs! The forums [7] have also seen an uptick of new users since the NSA announcement. Multi-core platforms are now abundant and small, embedded devices are growing exponentially. These are some of the reasons that the Ada programming language and technology attracts more and more attention due to Ada’s support for programming by contract, performant and efficient code, high- and low-level abstractions and support for multi-core targets. The latest Ada language definition, Ada 2022, was approved by ISO as an international standard last year. Work on implementing the new features is ongoing, such as improved support for fine-grained parallelism, which were introduced in the new standard. The Ada-related technology, SPARK, provides a complete solution for the safety and security aspects stated above while being fully open source, making it stand out from other formal verification tools, as Ada/SPARK code is compiled directly into ready-to-run programs, which can even run on embedded systems. More and more tools are available, many are open source, including for small and modern platforms. Interest in Ada keeps increasing, also in the open source community, from which many exciting projects have been started. Ada Developer Room ------------------ FOSDEM is an ideal fit for an Ada Developer Room. On the one hand, it gives the general open source community an opportunity to see what is happening in the Ada community and how Ada can help produce reliable and efficient open source software. On the other hand, it gives open source Ada projects an opportunity to present themselves, get feedback and ideas, and attract participants to their project and collaboration between projects. At previous FOSDEM events, the Ada-Belgium non-profit organization organized successful Ada Developer Rooms, offering a full day program in 2006 [8], a two-day program in 2009 [9], and full day programs in 2012-2016 [10-14], in 2018-2020 [15-17] and 2022 [18]. An important goal is to present exciting Ada technology and projects, including people outside the traditional Ada community. This edition is no different. Call for Presentations ---------------------- We would like to schedule technical presentations, tutorials, demos, live performances, project status reports, discussions, etc, in the Ada Developer Room. Do you have a talk you want to give? Do you have a project you would like to present? Would you like to get more people involved with your project? Would you like to share some knowledge and lessons about Ada? The Ada DevRoom organizers call on you to: - discuss and help organize the details, subscribe to the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list [19]; - for bonus points, be a speaker: the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list is the place to be! - don't hesitate to propose a topic that you would like to present to the community, we are eager to know what you have in store for us! We're inviting proposals that are related to Ada software development, and include a technical oriented discussion. You're not limited to slide presentations, of course. Be creative. Propose something fun to share with people so they might feel some of your enthusiasm for Ada! Speaking slots should be around 20 or 50 minutes, plus 5 or 10 minutes for Q&A. However, this schedule is flexible and we will adapt it to other formats. For example, a short technical talk can be transformed into a 10 minutes talk, plus time for Q&A. Depending on interest, we might also have a session with lightning presentations (e.g. 5 minutes each), and/or an informal discussion session. Note that all talks will be streamed live and recorded (audio+video). By submitting a proposal, you agree to being recorded and streamed. You also agree that the contents of your talk will be published under the same license as all FOSDEM content, a Creative Commons (CC-BY) license. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Your proposal must be submitted to the FOSDEM Pretalx system [20]. If you already had an account from previous years, reuse it; if not, create a new account. If, for whatever reason, you cannot use Pretalx, you can also submit your proposal by messaging the Ada-FOSDEM mailing list [15]. If needed, feel free to contact us at the Ada-FOSDEM Mailing list or at <irvise (at) irvise.xyz> (without spaces). Please, fill the information asked by the Pretalx system, which includes: - your name, affiliation, contact info; - the title of your talk (be descriptive and creative); - a short descriptive and attractive abstract; - preferred duration of your talk; - pointers to more information if applicable; - a short bio and photo. See programs of previous Ada DevRooms (URLs below) for presentation examples, as well as for the kind of info we need. Here is the slightly flexible schedule that we will follow: - November 30, 2024: end of the submission period. Remember, we only need the information in the list above. You do not have to submit the entire talk by this date. Try to submit your proposal as early as possible. It is better to submit half of the details early than be late, so do not wait for the last minute. - December 15, 2024: announcement of accepted talks. - January 15, 2025: your slides should be uploaded to the Pretalx platform. - February 2, 2025: Ada-DevRoom day! We look forward to lots of feedback and proposals! Regards, The Ada-FOSDEM team Main organiser: Fernando Oleo Blanco <irvise (at) irvise.xyz> Second in command: Dirk Craeynest <Dirk.Craeynest (at) cs.kuleuven.be> Third in command: A.J. Ianozi <aj (at) ianozi.com> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] https://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium [2] https://www.ada-europe.org [3] https://fosdem.org [4] https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/News-Highlights/Article/Article/3215760/nsa-… [5] https://www.adacore.com/papers/nvidia-adoption-of-spark-new-era-in-security… [6] https://blog.adacore.com/when-formal-verification-with-spark-is-the-stronge… [7] https://forum.ada-lang.io/ [8] https://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/06/060226-fosdem.html [9] https://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/09/090207-fosdem.html [10] https://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/12/120204-fosdem.html [11] https://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/13/130203-fosdem.html [12] https://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/14/140201-fosdem.html [13] https://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/15/150131-fosdem.html [14] https://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/16/160130-fosdem.html [15] https://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/18/180203-fosdem.html [16] https://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/19/190202-fosdem.html [17] https://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/20/200201-fosdem.html [18] https://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/22/220206-fosdem.html [19] http://listserv.cc.kuleuven.be/archives/adafosdem.html [20] https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Call For Participation: Funding the FOSS Ecosystem at FOSDEM 2025
by Tara Tarakiyee 29 Oct '24

29 Oct '24

Call for Proposals: Funding the FOSS Ecosystem We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation for the first "Funding the FOSS Ecosystem" devroom at FOSDEM 2025. We bring together developers, maintainers, policymakers, entrepreneurs, donors and funders to explore various funding models and mechanisms that ensure the longevity and security of FOSS projects. The goal of this devroom is for developers to gain insights into funding strategies, their feasibility, and communication with end-users, while companies, governments, inter-governmental and social organisations as well as individual donors are encouraged to better understand and support developer needs in FOSS projects. We especially seek to help developers decide which projects are worth pursuing, in which ways to fund their projects, and learn about the challenges on the way. This devroom is organised by FSFE <https://fsfe.org/>, Linux Foundation <https://www.linuxfoundation.org/>, NLNet <https://nlnet.nl/>, Probabl.ai <http://probabl.ai/>, Prototype Fund <https://prototypefund.de/en/>, Sovereign Tech Fund <https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/en/> and Andriy Utkin <https://autkin.net/>. Topics and Criteria The topic of your submission must be related to the topic of the devroom. We want to cover a wide range of perspectives on the topic, for example: What are strategies for positioning open-source projects to clarify their value and unique offerings? How to access grants, investments, and alternative funding models for FOSS projects? What is/should be the roles of public and private sectors in FOSS funding? What is the impact of funding on developer well-being, project security, scalability, and innovation? How can we expand funding sources for FOSS? How can we engage more stakeholders in FOSS funding, such as industry, governments, and intergovernmental organizations? Therefore the criteria for accepted talks would be: Does it align with the topic of the devroom? Does it provide a unique or under-represented perspective? Is it engaging and accessible to a wide audience OR demonstrate significant impact to FOSS maintainers and contributors? No self-promotional talks. Please make sure you are able to attend FOSDEM, as there won't be remote or pre-recorded talks accepted. Submission Guide Submissions must be submitted through the FOSDEM pretalx system <https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp>. Note that this is a new system and accounts from pentabarf were not migrated: Presenters will have to create a new account. Your submission must include the following information : Please select the "Funding the FOSS Ecosystem" as the track. Name Short bio Contact info Title Abstract Duration (Please make sure to not submit talks that are over 30 minutes as those will be disqualified) Important Dates Submission open: 30th October 2024 Submission deadline: 1st December 2024 Acceptance notifications: 6th December Final schedule announcement: 15th December 2024 "Funding the FOSS Ecosystem" Devroom: February 2nd 2025 (｡♫⋆Sunday Morning, Rain is Falling ⋆♫｡) 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 FOSDEM Code of Conduct <https://fosdem.org/2025/practical/conduct/> and we expect attendees, speakers, and volunteers to read, understand and follow the FOSDEM 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 FOSDEM CoC, please email us and we will do our best to assist you. Contact Us NLNet stand is there on both days, come and talk to us. We seek to form a group of practicing participants! Please join the mailing list <https://lists.sr.ht/~autkin/FOSDEM25DevroomOnFunding> for continued discussions. Subscribe to devroom's Mastodon account <https://fosstodon.org/@FOSDEM25DevroomOnFunding>. Members of the organization team: FSFE <https://fsfe.org/about/contact.en.html> Linux Foundation <https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/contact> NLNet <https://nlnet.nl/contact/> Probabl.ai <http://probabl.ai/> Prototype Fund <https://prototypefund.de/en/> Sovereign Tech Fund <mailto:info@sovereigntechfund.de> Andriy Utkin <mailto:fosdem25@autkin.net> Volunteering FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, the FOSDEM team is assisted by an enthusiastic team of volunteers to help out with various tasks and make the event a fun and safe place for all our visitors. There are some benefits to being a volunteer, but most importantly you help make FOSDEM possible! Visit https://volunteers.fosdem.org/ to sign up.

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Call for Participation: Free Java devroom
by Chris Mah 29 Oct '24

29 Oct '24

We’re excited to announce the Call for Participation for the Free Java devroom for FOSDEM 2025! FOSDEM will take place between *February 1st and 2nd of 2025* in Bruxelles, Belgium; refer to the FOSDEM website for the event schedule: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/ The Free Java devroom has become unique in that it has attracted hackers from many different Free Software Java projects. It provides an opportunity to bring everything that forms the Free Java Universe together, including companies of various sizes, different project communities, mainstream core Java developers, and alternative Java language implementations and runtimes. It allows all participants to share their knowledge in an atmosphere of cooperation and friendly competition. The Java Community is healthier than ever, and this is in part thanks to all of you who contributed over the years, so come and share your experiences at the Free Java devroom at FOSDEM! *Important Dates* The Free Java devroom will be held on *February 1st *(Saturday, full day) from 10:30 until 19:00 CET. - Call for participation(CfP) opens on *October 30, 2024* - Submission for CfP closes on *December 1, 2024* (there will be no extensions of this deadline) - Selected CfPs to be published on *December 15, 2024* *Call for Participation Submissions* Please submit your proposals on Pretalx, FOSDEM's submissions tool, at https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp *Note:* We will not be accepting proposals submitted outside of Pretalx. For example, submissions via mailing list. - Submissions will require a small abstract and a short speaker description - Suggested duration for a timeslot is 25 minutes (20 min presentation, 5 mins for questions) - Talks are in-person only, no remote presentations *Useful Links* - https://wiki.debian.org/Java/DevJam/2025/Fosdem - Sign up for our mailing list: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/java-devroom If you have questions about any aspects of this Call for Participation, please email us at freejava-devroom-manager(a)fosdem.org, and we will do our best to assist you. Looking forward to seeing you all at the Free Java devroom at FOSDEM! --The Free Java devroom organizers

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Call for Participation: Android Open Source Project devroom at FOSDEM 2025
by Chris Simmonds 29 Oct '24

29 Oct '24

We are pleased to announce this Call for Participation (CfP) for the first Android Open Source Project devroom at FOSDEM 2025 FOSDEM 2025 will be over the weekend of the 1st and 2nd of February in Brussels, Belgium. FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community. The goal is to provide free and open source software developers and communities a place to meet to: - get in touch with other developers and projects - be informed about the latest developments in the free software world - be informed about the latest developments in the open source world - attend interesting talks and presentations on various topics by project leaders and committers - to promote the development and benefits of free software and open source solutions - Participation and attendance is totally free, though the organisers gratefully accept donations and sponsorship ## Format The AOSP Devroom will be running on the morning of Saturday 1st February We are looking for talks that are either: * 10 min (short introduction of project/topic) * 25 min (normal slot) Note that we allow 5 minutes between talks to allow speakers to change over Because we only have half a day we anticipate that at least 50% of the time will be dedicated to short presentations ## Proposals Please use this link to submit a proposal: https://fosdem.org/submit __The CfP deadline is 23:55 UTC Sunday, 1 December 2024.__ Speakers will be notified by Sunday 15th December When submitting a proposal, please: - select as the Track "Android Open Source Project devroom" - include a title and an abstract. Please be concise, but clear and descriptive - indicate whether you want a 10 or 25 minute slot - specify additional speaker email (if any). The co-speaker will need to create an account in order to be visible on the agenda - use the "Links" field to highlight any work you have done previously in this area - write a short bio section describing yourself. This will be visible on the schedule and is important for FOSDEM visitors to understand your background and what to expect from you. A bio is required - make sure you have up to date contact info ## Topics We are looking for talks including, but not limited to, these topics: - Getting and building the AOSP code base - Booting Android, including secure boot and boot time optimisation - The Linux kernel within Android - Porting Android to new hardware - Creating secure and maintainable Android systems - Getting reliable information about AOSP - Learning about AOSP - Extending the AOSP community - Anything else you think would be of interest to a room full of AOSP developers ## 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 [FOSDEM Code of Conduct](https://fosdem.org/2025/practical/conduct/) 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 Thanks!

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