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Cross-Distribution devroom: Call for Participation
by Wouter Verhelst 26 Nov '11

26 Nov '11

Hi, Now that the word is out on the list of accepted devrooms, we can sure expect many calls for participation from the many devrooms on this list. Let me be the first (I hope): There will again be a cross-distribution miniconference at FOSDEM this year. People or distribution projects who are interested in joining it are hereby invited to communicate that desire. For practical purposes, I would like to request that one person steps forward from each involved distributions devroom, so that we can list the participating projects on our website (as during previous years), but also so that I have some contact within each project in case it's needed. People interested in holding a session should let that intention be known on the distributions(a)lists.fosdem.org mailinglist, with the following information: - Their name - 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 (short) abstract describing the session in further detail. - The desired approximate duration for the session. Sessions can be talks, round tables, BoFs, or any number of other things that could generally benefit from an audience of distributions developers. In the case of BoF or round table sessions, note that I will still consider the submitter to be the 'speaker', though their role will probably be more something of a moderator. The deadline for submissions is December 22nd. -- 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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Mono Developer Room at FOSDEM 2012: CFP
by Ruben Vermeersch 24 Nov '11

24 Nov '11

Great news! There will be a third edition of the Mono devroom @ FOSDEM. The event will take place on Feb 4 and Feb 5. We have the devroom the entire afternoon, for 6 hours (from 13:00 till 19:00). As I am not planning to fill up all that stage time on my own, we need your talks and presentations to make this day extra interesting. Talks on any topic are fine, as long as it's related to Mono and open-source. These do not need to be life-changing project announcements either: deeply technical things or pet projects that will make us all giggle with hacker joy are just as desired. Please send your talk proposals using this form: http://bit.ly/vK2WC6 You have until Dec 31 to send in talks. A final schedule will be made available on Jan 10. Not that we get more talks than we can schedule each year, so we'll unfortunately have to make a selection. If you have any more questions, feel free to contact me. Ruben

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FOSDEM 2012 - Multiserver, microkernel-based operating systems devroom
by Jakub Jermar 22 Nov '11

22 Nov '11

FOSDEM 2012 - Multiserver, microkernel-based operating systems devroom *CALL FOR PARTICIPATION* http://fosdem.org/2012 (apologies for cross-posting) The developers of several free and open-source multiserver and/or microkernel-based operating systems will meet at FOSDEM 2012 in Brussels, Belgium and will share a developer room. The devroom is currently looking for content in the form of talks related to the area of multiserver and/or microkernel-based operating systems. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: OS introduction to developers of other OS Subsystems and architecture Hardware and device drivers Tools and languages Release engineering and testing Experience and learning from mistakes Technical challenges Community and life with an OS-project Academia and education Please send your talk proposal(s) to: microkernel-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org no later than by 2011-12-31. Make sure to include the following in your proposal: - title of your talk (will be printed in the FOSDEM booklet) - your full name (will be printed in the FOSDEM booklet) - your short bio giving us some idea of who you are and what is your relation to and qualification for the subject of your talk - number of 15-minute slots that you need for the talk (talks longer than 45 minutes are discouraged) The final devroom schedule (along with accepted talks) will be announced on 2012-01-9 (Jan 9) in: microkernel-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org and the speakers will be notified via e-mail. The schedule will be also published on the FOSDEM web and in the FOSDEM booklet after 2012-01-21. If you do not want to or cannot give a talk yourself, you may still send suggestions for what else you would like to see/hear/do in the devroom. Please send your suggestions to the above mailing list. The devroom is scheduled for Sunday of February 5, room K.3.201. The seating capacity of the room is 85 seats. Any changes will be announced in the above mailing list. Jakub Jermar

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FOSDEM 2012: Configuration & Systems Management DevRoom
by James Turnbull 22 Nov '11

22 Nov '11

Call for Papers - FOSDEM 2012 **Call for talks for the Configuration & Systems Management DevRoom at FOSDEM 2012** Configuration Management DevRoom - http://fosdem.puppetlabs.com FOSDEM 2012 - http://fosdem.org/2012/ 4th & 5th of February (date TBD) 2012, 09:00 to 17:00, Brussels, Belgium Contact: fosdem(a)puppetlabs.com We will be holding a Configuration Management DevRoom at FOSDEM 2012 and are requesting abstracts for structured presentations now. Important information, dates: ? Submission deadline for abstracts: 2011-12-31 ? Notification of accepted speakers: 2012-01-05 ? Final schedule: 2011-01-10 **About this DevRoom** Configuration and Systems Management is in a renaissance. There is huge interest in automation, monitoring, performance management, configuration management, DevOps and the cloud. We're seeking people who are working in the field, interested in the field, or just interested in learning more about how to manage infrastructure better, cheaper and faster. We invite you to submit talks on these topics: * Configuration and Systems Management theory & principles * Configuration and Systems Management tools - with an emphasis on real world use cases * Tools, techniques and case studies * The Cloud * Audit, Compliance and Security * DevOps NOTE: Puppet Labs is helping organize this room but we're looking for talks on more than Puppet! We're looking for talks on the cutting edge of systems tools and configuration management. This is your opportunity to show off your implementation, your tool or what your environment shine! Regards Nigel Kersten & James Turnbull

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FOSDEM 2012 - PostgreSQL Devroom: Call for Speakers
by Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum 20 Nov '11

20 Nov '11

Hi all, FOSDEM 2012 - PostgreSQL Devroom: Call for Speakers The PostgreSQL project will have a Devroom at FOSDEM 2012, which takes place on February 4-5 in Brussels, Belgium. The Devroom will mainly cover topics for PostgreSQL users, developers and contributors. For more information about the event itself, please see the website at http://www.fosdem.org/2012/ . We are now accepting proposals for talks. Please note that we only accept talks in English. Each session will last 45 minutes (including discussion), and may be on any topic related to PostgreSQL. Suggested topic areas include: * Developing applications for PostgreSQL * Administering large scale PostgreSQL installations * Case studies and/or success stories of PostgreSQL deployments * PostgreSQL tools and utilities * PostgreSQL hacking * Community & user groups * Tuning the server * Migrating from other systems * Scaling/replication * Benchmarking & hardware * PostgreSQL related products Of course, we're happy to receive proposals for talks on other PostgreSQL related topics as well. Please use our conference website to submit your proposal: https://www.postgresql.eu/events/callforpapers/fosdem2012/ The deadline for submissions is December 20th, 2011. The schedule will be published and speakers will be informed by the end of the year. Please also note my email about hotel reservation: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgeu-general/2011-11/msg00000.php -- Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum German PostgreSQL User Group European PostgreSQL User Group - Board of Directors Volunteer Regional Contact, Germany - PostgreSQL Project

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FOSDEM2012 - Open Source Game Development: Call for Speakers
by Nils Kneuper 19 Nov '11

19 Nov '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 FOSDEM2012 - Open Source Game Development: Call for Speakers FOSDEM2010 will host a devroom centered on the development of Free and Open Source Games. Possible speakers (and topic suggestions) are invited to make their proposals. The game development devroom takes place on Sunday, February 5th, 09:00 - 17:00 in room AW1.120 (74 seats). As topics anything regarding Open Source Game Development is allowed and wanted. This includes talks about game specific areas like AI development as well as community integration, artwork (graphics and sound), translations in the context of games, integration of usermade content, cross platform porting (e.g. to mobile devices like phones) or whatever else you might find. FOSDEM is a conference centered on technical topics, as a result, the talks ought to cover technical issues that are relevant to open source game development. Speakers are encouraged to draw on their own experience as game developers in order to convey a message that is of interest to the game development community as a whole. The sessions are not limited to just holding a talk. If you have an idea for e.g. doing a short competition or a discussion round, this can also be a session, though sessions that are a talk or a presentation are prefered. People interested in holding a session should let that intention be known on the open-source-gamedev-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org mailinglist[1], 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 (short) abstract describing the session in further detail. - - The desired approximate duration for the session. - - The desired timeslot in which they want to hold the session. Suggested times for the duration are 55min or 25min. Please keep in mind that the times are *very* strict. So better go for 45 or 15mins and assume some extra time to be used for discussions and questions. The desired timeslot is meant to help you preventing conflicts with other dev rooms in which you might have a talk or your travel arrangements. The deadline for submissions is December 23rd, 23:00 GMT+1. The list of accepted sessions will most likely be published on the open-source-gamedev-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org mailinglist[1] until December 30th, 23:00 GMT+1. [1] https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/open-source-gamedev-devroom -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk7IAYEACgkQfFda9thizwXu/gCfZCUarUoxObXnPh5lK4YZ1DgU bjkAn0qdTZpJy/OhLXpnC7aRj3X8zGBY =mkbM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[FOSDEM 2012-Graph Processing Room] Call for participations
by Pere Urbón Bayes 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

---- Apologies for the cross posting ----- Call for Participation This is to announce the next Graph Processing DevRoom to be co-located with in the FOSDEM 2012. The meetup will take place next 5 of February 2012, from 9AM until 5PM, room AW1.125, more information will be available when we’ll have the final schedule. Since 2-3 years graph processing systems are gaining an emerging impact for processing complex semi-structured and interrelated data sets. Graph databases like Neo4j, Semantic Web and Linked Open Data approaches like the DBPedia project, and large-scale graph processing like Apache Hama encourage each one of us to think about our problems in graph like structures. Thanks to the high quality open source implementations and outstanding community support, this movement is currently wining a lot of momentum within different developer communities. Related projects and topics We encourage you to submit talks regarding the next topics: Graph Representations and Storage Distributed Graph Processing Graph Query Languages and user-friendly APIs Semantic Graphs Graph Mining Visualization Benchmarking Application of graphs and industry experience Experiences on GIS, multimedia databases, BMP,... … Contributions expected from: Neo4j OrientDB HyperGraphDB Tinkerpop Blueprints GoldenOrb Apache Hama Apache Mahout Apache Giraph … This list is not closed, related topics are welcome. Should be noticed we look for high quality, technical submissions, ranging for principles to practice. Submissions should be bases on free software solutions. Important dates (all GMT+1): Submission deadline: 23-12-2011 Notification of accepted speakers: 28-12-2011 Publication of the final schedule: 4-01-2012 Meetup: 5 of February 2012, Brussels, Belgium. Co-located with in FOSDEM 2012. People interested in giving a presentation or demo should send their proposal to graph-devroom(a)graph-database.org, with the following information: + Their name, nick and a short bio + The title of the presentation + A short abstract describing the session + The desired duration time The benchmarking game There will be an open benchmarking game that will be announced soon. News Follow @GraphDevRoom on twitter, you can also subscribe to graph-devroom(a)list.fosdem.org to be updated with the latest news of the event.Or just go to our website http://fosdem.graph-database.org

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Call for stands, devroom talks and lightning talks
by Mattias 'Tias' Guns 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Dear Hackers, We hereby invite any and all open source projects to participate in FOSDEM 2012 by manning a stand for the weekend, by giving a talk in a devroom or by giving a 15 minute talk in our lightning talk room. See http://fosdem.org/2012/call-for-participation on how to submit proposals. * Manning a stand We offer open source projects a place for a stand in the hallways. Stands can be used to share information, demo software, sell merchandising, give away goodies and so forth. Stands allow projects to present themselves to the visitors in a more personal fashion. See http://fosdem.org/2012/call-for-stands for more details * Talking in a devroom We will be hosting 25 (!) different devrooms, covering a broader spectrum of the open source landscape than any year before. The accepted devrooms are: Ada -- BSD licensed operating systems -- Configuration and Systems Management -- Cross Desktop -- Distribution Miniconf -- Embedded -- Free Java -- Graph Processing -- Hardware Security and Cryptography -- JBoss.org -- Legal Issues -- LibreOffice -- Mono -- Mozilla -- Multiserver -- microkernel-based operating systems -- MySQL and Friends -- Open Mobile Linux -- Open Source Game Development -- Open Source Telephony -- Open Source Virtualization and Cloud -- Perl -- PostgreSQL -- Smalltalk -- World of GNUstep -- X.org and OpenICC See http://fosdem.org/2012/call-for-participation for the list of announcements or contact devrooms(a)fosdem.org for a contact address. * Lightning talks We have a special lightning talk room for all remaining open source projects that do not fit in any of the devrooms. Lightning talks are short 15 minute focussed talks in which one person gets to present the project or an aspect of it. See http://fosdem.org/2012/call-for-lightningtalks for more details. FOSDEM is organized by and for the community, non-commercial and highly developer-oriented. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet. Now is the time to become part of it. The FOSDEM organizers.

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FOSDEM 2012 Telephony/Communications Devroom Call for Presenters
by Kevin P. Fleming 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

Greetings, This is a call for presenters (with presentations!) for the telephony and communications devroom at FOSDEM 2012 - http://www.fosdem.org/. We will be holding a day full of presentations on development topics in the area of open source telephony and communications on Sunday, February 5th. The schedule allows for presentations from 9:00 to 17:00. The room we will be using will have a projector, wifi, and 100 seats. Please submit all proposals no later than 2011-12-09. Notification of accepted speakers will be provided by 2011-12-16. We will then work to have a schedule finalized by 2012-01-06. Talks should be submitted by subscribing to and then posting to the telephony-devroom mailing list hosted on http://lists.fosdem.org/. If you would like to contact the devroom organizer directly, please contact Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming at digium.com>. Feel free to forward this along to any people or mailing lists that you think would be interested in this event. Thank you! -- Kevin P. Fleming Digium, Inc. | Director of Software Technologies Jabber: kfleming(a)digium.com | SIP: kpfleming(a)digium.com | Skype: kpfleming 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA Check us out at www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org

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Re: [FOSDEM] Devrooms for 2012
by Pascal Bleser 11 Nov '11

11 Nov '11

On 2011-11-11 14:08:21 (+0100), Emil Ivov <emcho(a)jitsi.org> wrote: > What's the best way to get in touch with a devroom host? Hi Emil They are in the process of setting up their mailing-lists to coordinate, either at lists.fosdem.org or on their own infrastructure. But we can always put you in touch, just ask us which devroom you'd like to get in touch with and we will give you the email address privately. We obviously prefer not to list all those emails publicly :) cheers -- Pascal Bleser <loki(a)fosdem.org> http://fosdem.org/ FOSDEM 2012 ::: 4 + 5 February 2012 in Brussels, Belgium Free and Opensource Software Developers European Meeting

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