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Call for Participation: Python devroom @ FOSDEM 2025
by Marc-Andre Lemburg 28 Oct '24

28 Oct '24

Call for Participation We are happy to announce that we will again be running a*Python devroom at FOSDEM 2025*. This year's edition will be exclusively in-person, and take place on February 1 and 2, with the Python devroom being held on Sunday, February 2. If you haven’t heard about FOSDEM before or are looking for more information, you can visit the official website athttps://www.fosdem.org/. As usual, we are looking for multiple Pythonistas to help us shape the devroom schedule. We are now open to receiving your proposals ! With over 8500 participants, FOSDEM is the perfect place to share your story and meet fellow Python enthusiasts. Good luck to everyone applying. We’re looking forward to meeting you all at FOSDEM 2025 ! About FOSDEM * Official FOSDEM 2025 website <https://fosdem.org/2025/> * FOSDEM Code of Conduct <https://fosdem.org/2025/practical/conduct/> FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organized 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 contributors; * to promote the development and benefits of free software and open source solutions. Participation and attendance is totally free, though the organizers gratefully accept donations and sponsorship. Essential Information The Python devroom will be held on February 2 2025, from 09:00 until 17:00 CET. * *Submission deadline: December 1 2025* * There will be no extension of the deadline * Announcement of selected talks: December 15 2025 * The reference time is Brussels local lime (CET). * Talk format: 25 minutes presentation, including Q&A, if any. In-person only. * Live streaming of the talks will be available. Speaker Guidelines Please submit your talk proposals using theCFP submission page <https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp>. * FOSDEM is using a self-hosted Pretalx installation for managing talk submissions. You will need to create an account, if you don’t already have one. * In the Submission notes field, please also confirm that if your talk is accepted, you will be able to attend FOSDEM and deliver your presentation. We will not consider proposals from prospective speakers who are unsure whether they will be able to secure funds for travel and lodging to attend FOSDEM. Sadly, we are not able to offer travel funding for prospective speakers. * You will need to select the "*Python*" track * Keep in mind presentations must be related to Python. All presentations will be recorded and made available under the Creative Commons licenses CC-BY-SA or CC-BY. Captured footage will later be shared online using the FOSDEM archives. By submitting you also agree to these terms. List of Desirable Topics We'd like to make the devroom topics as diverse as possible, so we are looking to offer a mixture of presentations, short tutorials, demos, live coding, etc. Aside from the usual talks about free and open source, we will also gladly welcome talks about e.g. * Best practices for Python developers * New developments in Python land * How to get started with a specific library/framework * Launching and growing Python communities * How Python is being used for education * Python for Hardware / Infrastructure * Security tools in Python and securing Python * Data science, AI and Machine Learning * Data engineering and management * Video Games (or game-related tooling) written in Python * MicroPython, CircuitPython, embedded software * Scaling Python applications Volunteers We will also call for volunteers to help us run the event and help us with the devroom operation. Please email the organizers, in case you are interested. Organizers You can reach out directly to the organizers, if you have a specific request or question: * Marc-André Lemburg: mal+fosdem [at] egenix.com * Rosie Wood: rwood [at] turing.ac.uk * Ludo -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Experts (#1, Oct 28 2024) >>> Python Projects, Coaching and Support ... https://www.egenix.com/ >>> Python Product Development ... https://consulting.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: We implement business ideas - efficiently in both time and costs ::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 https://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ https://www.malemburg.com/

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Call For Participation: Open Media devroom
by Jaron Viëtor 27 Oct '24

27 Oct '24

Hello everyone, The Open Media devroom returns at FOSDEM 2025, and we are looking for propositions of talks. FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of Free and Open Source Software contributors in the world and happens every February in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). This year, the Open Media devroom will take place (in-person) on: Sunday, February 2nd, 2025. # About the Open Media devroom The Open Media room will focus on all Free & Open Source media projects, including software and hardware, spanning from building audio & video applications, through standards, formats, codecs, video analytics and search to Web video, IPTV, broadcasting and radio practices and much more. If you're interested in video, image or audio technologies, and the breadth of available open source technologies and communities for media - the Open Media room is for you! For more information about the previous year sessions: https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/open-media/ # CFP Guidelines The deadline for submission is: December 1st, 2024. * To submit your proposal, visit: https://fosdem.org/submit * IMPORTANT: Please make sure to select the "Open Media" track for your submission. * Your submission must include the following information - The title of your talk (please be descriptive) - An abstract: a short (single paragraph) text detailing what the talk will discuss, and why attendees should attend it - Feel free to put anything you think might be important for us to know in selecting your talk in "Submission notes". * We are aiming for ~25 minutes per talk (including questions) but please do include a note (in "submission notes") if your talk could/should be shorter/longer. * Selected talks will be notified December 15th 2024 or earlier. * All sessions will be recorded and be made available under CC-BY licence by FOSDEM at https://video.fosdem.org/ . * You have to be present in Brussels in-person on Sunday, February 2nd, 2024. # Community The official communication channel is the Open Media devroom mailing-list. Join the list at: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/open-media-devroom You can also find us on IRC at #fosdem-open-media on libera.chat And please don't hesitate to reach out for more information! Jaron, On behalf of the Open Media devroom

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Call for Participation : Collaboration and Content Management Devroom
by Clément Aubin 27 Oct '24

27 Oct '24

Hi, This is the call for participation in the FOSDEM 2025 devroom on Collaboration and Content Management, to be held on Saturday, February 1st 2025 at the ULB Solbosch Campus, in Brussels, Belgium. The main goal of this devroom is to discuss and present new software, tools, techniques, and methods when it comes to building Open Source software for collaboration. Over the past years, with challenges on EU digital sovereignty following COVID, the ecosystem of Open Source collaborative tools has seen a significant growth. This has uncovered new areas of discussion and challenges : * Protocols for interoperability between collaboration platforms * Empowering users with new ways to collaborate securely (zero knowledge collaboration, sovereignty) * Technical solutions to provide support for multiple collaboration platforms to work together This year, we are looking for contributions under the form of conferences, talks, or discussions covering one of the topics above, or any of the following : * New projects presentation * Self-hosted platforms * Secure collaboration * Collaborative applications * Connectors & Integrations * Knowledge management techniques * Protocols for collaboration * … We hope to provide an opportunity for everyone to meet and exchange about collaborative issues encountered while using Open Source solutions ; present some tools used for content management and discuss global solutions for incentivizing collaboration. = Submission process = Please submit your proposals at https://fosdem.org/submit **before** December 1st 2024. When submitting your proposal, make sure you choose the “Collaboration and Content Management” in the track drop-down menu. Otherwise, your proposal might go unnoticed. Don't hesitate to include an estimate of the time needed for your talk in the speaker notes. Once the schedule of the devroom is finalized, we will contact you in order to help you prepare your talk. = Important dates = * December 1st 2024: deadline for submission of proposals * December 15th 2024 or before: announcement of final schedule * February 1st 2025: devroom day = 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. Thank you, Clément

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Identity and Access management devroom CFP for FOSDEM 2025
by Alexander Bokovoy 27 Oct '24

27 Oct '24

Hi! This is a call for proposals for the Identity and Access Management Devroom: https://iam-devroom.github.io/fosdem-2025/. The CfP closes by Sunday, December 1, 2024, so if you want to participate be sure to apply before that date. # Identity and Access Management Devroom @ FOSDEM'2025 [FOSDEM 2025](https://fosdem.org/2025/) will have an [identity and access management devroom](https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/identity-and-access-managem…. The IAM devroom is scheduled to be held on the **Sunday**, **February 2nd, 2025** in Brussels, Belgium at [ULB](http://www.ulb.ac.be/). Exact room allocation will be known in December 2024. ## Our topics this year This is the Identity and Access Management Devroom and we invite you to submit a talk that is relevant to operating systems' identity and access management in the free software and open source world. We don't exclude any relevant submission, for ideas and suggestions please check the previous editions of IAM devroom at [FOSDEM 2018](https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/identity_and_access_ma… or [FOSDEM 2024](https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/identity-and-access-ma…. Suggested topics: - Security: a particular focus on quantum-resistant cryptography updates in identity management - Passwordless authentication mechanisms: OAuth2, FIDO2, PIV... - Federated and social identity; leveraging external identities at operating systems level - User experience, desktop integration - Free software IAM offerings; migrating from or integrating with proprietary solutions - Audit, compliance and monitoring - IAM/IdM deployment reports and more. Don't be shy and show how your project helps to improve our lives. ## Submissions Submissions require a small abstract and a short speaker description and must be submitted [via the Pretalx system](https://fosdem.org/submit) no later than **1st of December 2024**. Suggested duration for a timeslot to apply for is **25 minutes** (20 min presentation + 5 mins questions). The schedule shall be finalized by **15 December 2024**. Note that last year the system was changed from pentabarf to pretalx and the accounts were not migrated. So if last year you did not submit any talk proposals this year you will have to create a new account. Instructions: * Go to [https://fosdem.org/submit](https://fosdem.org/submit) * Register a new account * Create a new event with your title and abstract and some information about you * Be sure to set the event track to "Identity and Access Management devroom" * Subscribe to the [iam-devroom@lists.fosdem.org](https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/iam-devroom) mailing list for announcements ### Organizers * You! - any help with organizing is highly appreciated! * Alexander Bokovoy (ab(a)samba.org) * Iker Pedrosa (ipedrosa(a)redhat.com) ### Contact [iam-devroom@lists.fosdem.org](https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/iam-devroom) -- / Alexander Bokovoy

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Kernel devroom CFP for FOSDEM 2025
by Stéphane Graber 26 Oct '24

26 Oct '24

Hi all, We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation (CfP) for the FOSDEM 2025 Kernel Devroom. 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 Kernel Devroom will be running all day on Sunday 2nd of February. We’re looking for talk or demo proposals in one of the following 4 sizes: - 10 minutes (e.g., a short demo) - 20 minutes (e.g., a project update) - 30 minutes (e.g., introduction to a new technology or a deep dive on a complex feature) - 40 minutes (e.g., a deep dive on a complex feature) In all cases, please allow for at least 5 minutes of questions (10min preferred for the 30min slots). In general, shorter content will be more likely to get approved as we want to cover a wide range of topics. ## Proposals Proposals should be sent through the FOSDEM scheduling system at: https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp __The CfP deadline is Sunday, 1 December 2024.__ ## Topics The Kernel Devroom aims to cover a wide range of different topics so don't be shy. The following list should just serve as an inspiration: - Filesystems and Storage - io_uring - Tracing - eBPF - Fuzzing - System Boot - Security - Virtualization - Rust in the Linux Kernel ## 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. An up to date version of the CfP can always be found at https://uapi-group.org/docs/conferences/2025-02-01_fosdem-kernel-devroom/ Thanks! Christian Brauner Mike Rapoport Stéphane Graber

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Call for Participation: FOSDEM Junior devroom @ FOSDEM 2025
by Bart Mathijssen 26 Oct '24

26 Oct '24

Hello everyone, Last year we organized the first edition of FOSDEM junior. We are pleased to announce that we will be back this year. FOSDEM Junior is a collaboration between FOSDEM, Code Club, CoderDojo, developers, and volunteers to organize workshops and activities for children during the FOSDEM weekend. The FOSDEM organizers were gracious enough to give us more room than last year, so we now have two rooms for both days of FOSDEM. This enables us to accommodate a greater number of activities and allow individual activities to extend beyond the one-hour default we had last year. ## Call for participation We are looking for activities for children from age 7 to 17. These activities are for children to learn and get inspired about technology. Last year's activities included microcontrollers, embroidery, plotting, game development, mobile application development, Raspberry Pi's, and Java development. If you are still unsure if your activity fits this devroom, feel free to reach out so we can assist you. We anticipate that most projects that organized activities last year would like to return, so make sure you submit your proposal early. It is important for the children to remain inspired when they return home. So make sure that you give the children something after your activity. This can either be that they can continue working on their project that they worked on during the activity, or in the form of goodies or certifications. Also, if necessary, include information about where the children and their guardians can find resources and tutorials about your project. This is another step towards making sure they continue their technical journey when they return home. Each room has a maximum capacity of 48 seats, but will be capped at 30 children per activity by the Devroom managers. This is to ensure there is enough seating for both children and their guardians. ## Submission process Please submit your proposals at https://fosdem.org/submit by the 1st of December 2024. If you already have an account from a previous year, you should reuse it so all recorded FOSDEM contributions are associated with your profile. When submitting your proposal, select 'FOSDEM junior' from the track drop-down menu. Write the desired duration and maximum capacity into the proposal so we can take that into account when planning. Also, please include if you need additional volunteers available during your activity. We can ask for volunteers through our networks. When the full schedule is published, all activities will be registered on the Code Club profile: https://codeclub.org/en/clubs/c0468f47-a1a4-43b6-b7f0-170a7d98b30c. Children and volunteers than will be able to sign up for each individual activity during the weekend. ## Requirements The conference language is English. All content must relate to Free and Open Source Software. By participating in the event you agree to the publication of your recordings, slides and other content provided under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). By participating in FOSDEM you are required to adhere the Code of Conduct: https://fosdem.org/2025/practical/conduct/ ## Please consider volunteering Regardless if you submit an activity, please consider volunteering if you plan on attending the devroom. Our aim is to have a good mix of languages spoken by the volunteers in order to cater to all children who sign up for the activities. You will be able to sign up as a volunteer on the Code Club profile: https://codeclub.org/en/clubs/c0468f47-a1a4-43b6-b7f0-170a7d98b30c. When the full schedule is published, volunteers will be asked to sign up for each individual activity. ## Devroom managers Current Devroom managers are Bart Mathijssen and Peter Mathijssen. You can use the dedicated email address to contact us: junior-devroom-manager at fosdem.org.

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Containers devroom CFP for FOSDEM 2025
by Stéphane Graber 26 Oct '24

26 Oct '24

Hello, The containers devroom organizers are looking forward to another edition of the containers devroom at FOSDEM. Our CFP is now live here: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/fosdem-2025-containers-devroom-call-f… We're looking for talks on anything container related, whether it's kernel work, runtime features, management tooling or applications running on top of containers. Talk lengths can range from a 10min demo/lightning talk all the way to a full 30min session. See you in Brussels! Stéphane

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Call for participation: Security Devroom at FOSDEM 2025
by Simon Josefsson 26 Oct '24

26 Oct '24

# Security Devroom @ FOSDEM'2025 [FOSDEM 2025](https://fosdem.org/2025/) will have a [security devroom](https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/security/). The security devroom is planned for the whole **Saturday, February 1th, 2025** in Brussels, Belgium at [ULB](http://www.ulb.ac.be/). The latest version of this document should always be reachable as https://github.com/security-devroom/fosdem-2025 ## Our topics this year This is the Security Devroom and we invite you to submit a talk that is relevant to security in the free software and open source world. We want to encourage all interesting security-related presentation regardless of topic, but some suggested topics include: - Supply chain security: Trust and verifiability - Software quality tools and best practices - Cryptography: classic and post-quantum - Hardware-assisted security improvements - Security hardening, vulnerability handling and threat detection - Secure development tools and practices ## Important Dates Submission open: 30th October 2024 Submission deadline: 1st December 2024 Acceptance notifications: 6th December Final schedule announcement: 15th December 2024 Devroom: February 1st 2025 ## Proposals The Pretalx system will hopefully be open for applications no later than October the 30th, 2024. To submit a talk, please visit the [FOSDEM 2025 Pretalx website](https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp). Please select the "Security" as the *track* and ensure you include all the requested information when submitting a proposal. ## 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 forth in the [FOSDEM Code of Conduct](https://fosdem.org/2025/practical/conduct/) and we expect everyone attending to follow it. ### Organizers * You! - any help with organizing is highly appreciated! * Lukas Vrabec * Jakub Jelen <jakuje(a)gmail.com> * Matteo Lodi * Simon Josefsson <simon(a)josefsson.org> Mastodon: [@jas4711](https://infosec.exchange/web/@jas4711) ### Contact [security-devroom@lists.fosdem.org](https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/security-devroom) /Simon

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LLVM dev room - CFP
by Kristof Beyls 26 Oct '24

26 Oct '24

CFP FOSDEM 2025 LLVM dev room At FOSDEM 2025, LLVM will again participate with a dedicated devroom, on Saturday morning February 1st, in Brussels. As possibly the largest European Open Source Conference, FOSDEM attracts more than 600 lectures and over 8000 hackers - many core contributors of the world’s leading open source projects. Complementing the LLVM developer meetings, the devroom at FOSDEM provides a great opportunity for LLVM developers and the wider open source community to get together, connect and discuss. We invite academic, industrial and hobbyist speakers to present their work on developing or using LLVM, Clang, LLDB, Compiler-rt, MLIR, Flang, or any of the other technologies in the LLVM project. We are looking for: * Keynote speakers. * Technical presentations (default length of 30 minutes including questions) related to the development of LLVM technologies or use of those technologies in other projects. * Tutorials. * Lightning talks (default length of 5 minutes). * Demos. ### Submission Please submit your proposal through the FOSDEM pretalx interface( https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp) clicking the "Submit a proposal" button. Please make sure you select "LLVM" as the "Track”. By default we will assume you submit a proposal for a full talk, aiming for 20 minutes of presenting and 10 minutes of questions. If you propose a different kind of talk and would prefer a different length, please do clearly state so in the "Submission Notes" field. We optimize the length of individual presentations taking into account all submissions and preferred length to achieve the best possible overall program. Presentations will be recorded and streamed. Sending your proposal implies giving permission to be recorded. This year, FOSDEM only accepts in-person presentations, with a live stream and live chat for remote participants. The deadline for receiving proposals is December 1st, 2024. Speakers will be notified of acceptance or rejection by December 15th. Please find some advice on what constitutes a good proposal at the end of this CFP. ### Registration FOSDEM does not require any registration and is free of charge. All participants need to follow the FOSDEM Code of Conduct( https://fosdem.org/2025/practical/conduct/) ### Important Dates * December 1st 2024: Deadline for submission of proposals * December 15th 2024: Announcement of acceptance + final schedule * February 1st 2025: Devroom day, in-person in Brussels. ### Organization Please use the LLVM Discourse thread at https://discourse.llvm.org/t/cfp-fosdem-2025-llvm-dev-room to discuss any issues or questions related to submitting a proposal or the organisation of the event. ### Guidance on writing a proposal for the LLVM Dev Room This is a guide to help you submit a good proposal and increase your chances of your proposal being accepted. If you have never presented at an LLVM meeting, then do not fear this process. We are actively looking for new speakers who are excited about LLVM and helping grow the community through these educational talks! You do not need to be a long time developer to submit a proposal. The programs of the FOSDEM LLVM dev room from past years can give you an impression of what an abstract can look like. #### General Guidelines: * It should be clear from your abstract what your topic is, who your target audience is, and what are the takeaways for attendees. The program committee does not have time to read 10 page papers for each submission. * Talks about the use of an LLVM technology should include details about how LLVM is used and not only be about the resulting application. * Tutorials on “how to use X” in LLVM (or other subproject) are greatly desired and beneficial to many developers. Entry level topics are encouraged as well. * Typically a few paragraphs is sufficient. Best regards, the LLVM @ FOSDEM organisers

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CfP: Image-Based Linux and Boot Integrity Devroom at FOSDEM 25
by Luca Boccassi 26 Oct '24

26 Oct '24

Hi, The CfP for the Image-Based Linux and Boot Integrity Devroom is now open! The devroom will be on Sunday morning, and we welcome proposals around the topic of image-based Linux and boot integrity. For more details, dates, and link to the presentation submission form, please see: https://uapi-group.org/docs/conferences/2025-02-02__fosdem-devroom/ -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi

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