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Third call for sessions for the FOSDEM cross-distribution miniconference
by Wouter Verhelst 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

Hi all, (note MFT set to distributions(a)lists.fosdem.org) FOSDEM is a yearly conference that takes place in the campus Solbosch of the Université Libre the Bruxelles, in Brussels, Belgium. The upcoming edition of FOSDEM will happen during the first weekend of February, that is, the 4th and 5th of February, 2012. During the past two editions, there has been a distributions miniconference at FOSDEM, inviting talks from all distribution projects. Distributions that have cooperated in the past include Debian, Fedora, CentOS, openSUSE, Mandriva, NixOS, and more. The distributions miniconference will happen again this year, and we are still seeking proposals for sessions. I've sent out two previous calls for sessions for the miniconference that set the deadline for talk proposals to December 22nd, 2011, which is tomorrow. A list of current proposals can be found at <http://barbershop.grep.be/~wouter/fosdem/2012/talk_proposals.txt>. There are some interesting proposals there, but unfortunately there aren't enough; we'll have two rooms for two days, which means we'll have around 32 hours worth of talk slots. A variety of sessions are welcome; round-table talks, BoFs as well as presentations, on any subject related to distribution development. Sessions can be about a subject specific to one particular distribution, or can be targetted to distribution developers in general. As said, the original deadline was December 22nd, but I am hereby extending the deadline until January 1st, 2012. People interested in holding a talk or chairing a BoF or round table are hereby invited to submit a proposal to the distributions(a)lists.fosdem.org mailinglist (moderated for non-subscribers), containing the following information: - their name, - a (short) bio, - a title for the session, - an abstract for the session, - an expected duration for the session, including time for questions by the audience. Note that the distributions(a)lists.fosdem.org mailinglist may also be used to discuss possible BoFs or round tables before actually formally proposing a session, or for general discussion relating to the miniconference. Note: feel free to forward this call to a wider audience on other mailinglists where appropriate. Regards, -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a

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FOSDEM 2012: Open source Virtualization and Cloud devroom: CFP deadline extension
by Thierry Carrez 19 Dec '11

19 Dec '11

Hello everyone, The deadline to submit talks and workshops to the "Open Source Virtualization and Cloud" (OSVC2012) devroom was extended to Friday, December 23 ! If you're a developer on an open source virtualization or cloud computing project, please consider answering to our call for proposals. See more information at: http://osvc.v2.cs.unibo.it/ Submit to: osvc(a)cs.unibo.it New dates: * Deadline for submission: December 23, 2011 * Notification of accepted submissions: January 5, 2012 -- Thierry Carrez Renzo Davoli Lars Kurth

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Saturday DevRoom Timing?
by Tom Marble 17 Dec '11

17 Dec '11

Chers organisateurs: Do you have an updated plan for the timing on Saturday? I'm trying to see *exactly* how much time I have to schedule talks in a couple DevRooms. I presume the DevRooms can start when the main track talks are complete... when is that? Is there an official stop time on Satuday (18h, 19h)? Please advise! --Tom

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Call for presentations: Mozilla at Fosdem 2012
by Benoit Leseul 16 Dec '11

16 Dec '11

Hi everyone, For some reason, I failed to send our CFP to this mailing list in time. The call is now extended to 2011-12-31. "Like each year since 2003, Mozilla will have a Developer Room at Fosdem. This year will be a little special for two reasons: First, for the first time the local community in Belgium will be leading the organization and planning of Mozilla's presence. And second, we'll have a bigger devroom and will be able to accomodate more people (up to 363 seats). This may allow us to do a few workshops along with the conferences. If you are interested in giving a talk, leading a workshop or some other session we should hold in the Mozilla DevRoom, please add it to the Proposals page on wiki.mozilla.org before 2011-12-31: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fosdem:2012/Proposals Please make sure to list your contact info on your userpage so we can reach you easily if you talk is accepted. All participants who are selected to be official speakers in the by Mozilla DevRoom will be eligible for travel and hotel sponsorship. We've already had a brainstorming session during MozCamp Europe 2011 on what we would like to see in the Mozilla Devroom, so feel free to take a look at the resulting etherpad for inspiration: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/fosdem2012 Of course, any other Mozilla-related proposal which you think would be interesting to share with other FLOSS communities is welcome. For example, there seems to be no Accessibility DevRoom this year so this could be a great subject."

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Call for presentations: Open Mobile Linux at FOSDEM 2012
by Henri Bergius 14 Dec '11

14 Dec '11

Hi, At FOSDEM 2012 we will have a devroom related to Open Mobile Linux. Our primary goal is to facilitate meetups, collaboration and awareness between different projects and communities within Open Mobile Linux and provide a place to present directions, ideas and your projects themselves. By Open Mobile Linux we mean any open source projects revolving around typical non-desktop/server Linux, such as handsets, tablets, netbooks or other creative uses. Examples of such projects could be Qt5, Mer, MeeGo, Android, webOS, Plasma Active, Tizen, Boot to Gecko, SHR and other related projects. We have the room AW1.120 with 74 seats, a video projector (VGA), wireless internet on Saturday 4th February for a total of 8 hours. The format we will be utilizing is lightning talks of length 15 minutes with 10 minutes of questions, 5 minute changeover to next speaker. Our goal is about 15 talks during the day. The motivation is that after each talk, you and your project will be visible to the rest of the Open Mobile Linux community and further deeper discussions into your topic with your peers can continue outside the devroom. Please send a short biography and an abstract for your talk to carsten.munk(a)gmail.com by Dec 31st 2011, and we'll get back to you at latest January 7th. http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/call_for_presentations-open_mobile_linux_at_fosde… -- Henri Bergius Motorcycle Adventures and Free Software http://bergie.iki.fi/ Jabber: henri.bergius(a)gmail.com Microblogs: @bergie

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Call for Participation in the Smalltalk Devroom at FOSDEM 2012.
by Stephan Eggermont 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Call for Participation in the Smalltalk Devroom at FOSDEM 2012. "A devroom for the Pharo, Squeak, GST, Etoilé, Seaside, Moose Smalltalk projects. Smalltalk environments offer a very high development productivity, unmatched by their successors. Come do some pair programming with us and experience the advantages of a real OO environment." The meetup will take place Sunday, February 5, 2012, from 9AM until 5PM, room AW1.126. This room has 72 seats, a VGA video projector and wireless internet. More information will be available later. Proposals on content and format are welcome. People interested in running a session should announce that on the smalltalk-devroom mailing list, with the following information: - Their name - The project they are associated with - A short bio, to be put on the website along with their speaker name - (optionally) a picture of themselves - The title of their session (which will go on the website and in the booklet) - A abstract describing the session in further detail. - The desired length of the session. - The desired time slot in which they want to hold the session. Suggested values for the duration are 55min, 25min, 6m40 (Pecha Kucha). The desired time slot is meant to help you prevent conflicts with other dev rooms in which you might have a talk or your travel arrangements. The deadline for submissions is December 31, 23:00 GMT+1. Discussion takes place on the smalltalk-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org mailing list. Please subscribe if you are interested: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/smalltalk-devroom The local VUB/ULB Smalltalkers have been asked to organize a sprint/BSUG meeting on Saturday Februari 4. Devroom related URLs: http://www.pharo-project.org http://www.squeak.org/ http://etoileos.com/ http://www.seaside.st/ http://smalltalk.gnu.org/ Please distribute

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Legal Issues DevRoom CFP now open!
by Tom Marble 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

All: We are thrilled to announce the Call for Participation in the FOSDEM 2012 Legal Issues DevRoom! This is the very first time a DevRoom has been devoted to addressing the core of what makes FLOSS itself possible. The Legal and Policy issues DevRoom is designed to cover topics of Free Software licensing and legal policy well beyond the basic issues. Attendees should be aware of the basics of copyright, copyleft, licensing, and patents. The goal for this DevRoom is to foster in-depth discussion about complex policy, legal and licensing issues that face the software freedom community today. Please check out our wiki for details on the CFP: http://info9.net/wiki/fosdem/LegalIssuesDevRoom/ Please join us! --The Legal Issues DevRoom Organizing Committee Bradley Kuhn, Software Freedom Conservancy Karen Sandler, GNOME Foundation Richard Fontana, Red Hat Tom Marble, Informatique

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Free Java DevRoom CFP now open!
by Tom Marble 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

All: We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation in the FOSDEM 2012 Free Java DevRoom! This marks the 9th year that the Free Java DevRoom has been a part of FOSDEM. The Free Java DevRoom has become unique in that it has attracted upstream (Sun and now Oracle), downstream (Red Hat, Tarent, Debian, etc.) and Free Software hackers together in one venue. Topics range from the "deep technical" to "deep community". Please check out our wiki for details on the CFP: http://wiki.debian.org/Java/DevJam/2012/Fosdem Please join us! --The Free Java DevRoom Organizing Committee Andrew Haley, Red Hat Dalibor Topic, Oracle Dr Andrew John Hughes, Red Hat Mark Wielaard, Iced Tea Sylvestre Ledru, Debian Tom Marble, Informatique

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FOSDEM 2012: Open source Virtualization and Cloud devroom: Call for speakers
by Thierry Carrez 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

Hello everyone, The devroom named "Open Source Virtualization and Cloud" (OSVC2012) scheduled at FOSDEM on both days, February 4-5 2012, is a meeting opportunity for the developers of all the innovative open source projects around virtualization and cloud computing. OSVC2012 will include: * state-of-the-art presentations of virtualization/cloud projects * workshops to brainstorm and discuss new user requests, new developer ideas, and the possible synergies between projects All information about the devroom will be posted on the wiki at: http://osvc.v2.cs.unibo.it Relevant topics =============== All developers who want to present their ideas and software at OSVC2012 are welcome, provided that: * Their project is related to virtualization or cloud computing * They join the devroom as developers. Developers working for companies, public/private agencies or universities speak for themselves and not for their employer. OSVC2012 is about how to develop more effective virtualizing/cloud solutions (ideas and code, not marketing) * The code for their project must have been released under a free software or open source license (its license must meet the FSF definition of Free Software or the OSI definition of Open Source) Call for Presentations and Workshops ==================================== All submissions must be sent to osvc(a)cs.unibo.it and include the following information: * Type of submission: Presentation or Workshop * Desired length: "20min presentation + 5min Q&A", "45min presentation + 10min Q&A", or "no preference" * Title * Abstract / Description * Speaker / Moderator bio * Comments: scheduling constraints, remarks... * Links to the project (including its source code) * Related projects Dates: * Deadline for submission: December 18, 2011 * Notification of accepted submissions: January 5, 2012 -- Thierry Carrez Renzo Davoli Lars Kurth

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FOSDEM 2012 - BSD Licensed Operating System Developers Room
by Brooks Davis 28 Nov '11

28 Nov '11

We have a Devroom at FOSDEM 2012, which takes place on February 4-5 in Brussels, Belgium. The Devroom will mainly cover topics for BSD Licensed Operating System users, developers and contributors. For more information about the Devroom, please see: http://wiki.freebsd.org/201202DevRoom For more information about FOSDEM, please see the website at http://www.fosdem.org/2012/. We are now accepting proposals for talks. Each session will last 30 to 60 minutes (including discussion). Please note that we only accept talks in English. Talks about developments in particular operating systems are welcome as are talks or forums on ways we can work together. We also welcome presentations on foundational technologies which are of interest to developers of BSD licensed operating systems and presentations on derivative operating systems such as Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.

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