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FOSDEM 2022 Monitoring & Observability devroom
by Richard Hartmann 17 Dec '21

17 Dec '21

--- The same CfP can be found at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZIpRkFbRqhGCT7x_CWj1ZYm5bHRc9yzKN1Fbw-6… in case you prefer nice formatting -- The Monitoring & Observability developer room is devoted to all things monitoring and enabling humans to grok computer, system, and other data. Presentation topics could include: * Anything regarding metrics/logs/distributed tracing/profiling * Application performance management * Monitoring tools and technologies * Using IT best practices in other fields. Maybe you’re managing wind farms? A brewery? And general directions could be: * Beginner-friendly content * Cultural aspects of building good monitoring * Success and failures Talks will have two durations: * 25 min followed by 5 min Q&A * 5min lighting talk Timeline & Selection Talk proposals will be reviewed by a program committee (alphabetical order): * Carl Bergquist <Grafana Labs> * Fabian Stäber <Instana> * Richard “RichiH” Hartmann <Grafana Labs> Submit your proposal * Use the FOSDEM’s pentabarf to submit your proposal at https://penta.fosdem.org/submission * If necessary, create a Pentabarf account and activate it. Please reuse your account from previous years if you have already created one in the past. * In the "Person" section, provide First name, Last name (in the "General" tab), Email (in the "Contact" tab) and Bio ("Abstract" field in the "Description" tab). * Submit a proposal by clicking on "Create event". * Important! Select the "Monitoring and Observability" track (on the "General" tab). * Provide the title of your talk ("Event title" in the "General" tab). * Provide a description of the subject of the talk and the intended audience (in the "Abstract" field of the "Description" tab) * Provide a rough outline of the talk or goals of the session (a short list of bullet points covering topics that will be discussed) in the "Full description" field in the "Description" tab * Provide an expected length of your talk in the "Duration" field. Either 25 or 5 min. Travel assistance Please note that as this is a community conference with a very tight budget, we cannot cover any travel or lodging costs. Recording of talks The FOSDEM organizers plan to have live streaming and recording fully working, both for remote/later viewing of talks, and so that people can watch streams in the hallways when rooms are full. This requires speakers to consent to being recorded and streamed. By submitting an event, you give consent for you, your talk, and your content to be recorded and streamed. You also agree to share your slides in PDF and optionally other formats. The recordings will be published under the same license as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). Code of Conduct We follow FOSDEM’s CoC: https://fosdem.org/2020/practical/conduct/. We also request respect towards the speakers. If questions are repurposed for commentary, we will shut it down. In short: Be excellent to each other -- Richard

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CfP Safety and Open Source devroom
by Shaun Mooney 16 Dec '21

16 Dec '21

# FOSDEM 2022 (Online) - Safety and Open Source Call for Participation ## The Dev Room The Safety and Open Source Software devroom will be running for its second year at FOSDEM. The room is dedicated to everything relating to using Open Source Software for safety critical applications. The advantages of Free and Open Source Software are numerous. More than ever companies choose to use FOSS in their projects, However, the world of safety is behind the curve. Software developed for safety-critical applications typically employs traditional development practices that, although well-used, are increasingly outdated, and the code is often closed source. This is because safety standards are stringent, and safety applications must have rigorous quality assurance practices applied during development. This dev room is looking for talks that can help to showcase how we can use FOSS in safety-critical applications, including overcoming obstacles, legal issues for industry and contributors, compliance-related concerns, and how to advance state-of-the-art safety practices to allow industry to benefit from the many advantages that FOSS provides. ## Talks We recommend about 45 minutes, including discussion for talks, although variations will be considered (please include the talk length in your submission). Example topics include (but are not limited to): * Pros and cons of using Open Source software in safety-critical applications * Examples of Open Source Software being used in safety-critical applications today * Legal and moral implications for contributors who have their code used in safety-critical applications * Safety analysis techniques for complex software systems * Requirements elicitation, and verification and validation techniques (including creating argumentation to prove that software can be certified to safety standards) * What we need to do as FOSS creators to shift the industry mentality around the use of FOSS vs. current safety standards * Discussions of specific safety standards and how this might affect FOSS creation * Open Source Development practices and how we can map these to practices such as the V-model which are needed for current industry safety standards (e.g. IEC 61508, ISO 26262 etc.) ## For accepted talks * Presentations have to be pre-recorded and streamed before the event. * Once your talk is accepted, we will assign you a deputy to help you to produce the pre-recorded content. * The deputy will review the content and ensure it has the required quality. They are also responsible for ensuring that the content is ready to broadcast on the day. * During the stream of your talk, you must be available online for the Q/A session. ## Submit a talk Visit the [FOSDEM 2022 Pentabarf website](https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22), and if you don't have one already create an account. Create an "event" and click on "Show all" in the top right corner to display the full form. Your submission must include the following information: * Your contact Email * The title and subtitle of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be listed with ~500 from other projects) * Select "Safety and Open Source" as the track. * A short abstract of one paragraph * A longer description if you wish to do so * Links to related websites / blogs etc. ## About FOSDEM FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. * FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration. * FOSDEM [website](https://fosdem.org/2022/) * FOSDEM [code of conduct](https://fosdem.org/2022/practical/conduct/) ## Key dates * Submission deadline: 30/12/2021 * Safety and Open Source devroom date: Saturday 5th February 2022 ## Contact If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us: * Shaun Mooney: shaun.mooney(a)codethink.co.uk * Nicole Mpofu: nicole.mpofu(a)codethink.co.uk

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Penta "Passwords do not match" error on save
by Mahmoud Abdelghany 15 Dec '21

15 Dec '21

Hey guys, I'm getting reports from a speaker that they get a "Passwords do not match" error when they try to save their info in the Person tab. Is something going on? Regards, Mahmoud Abdelghany Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com/) Secure Email.

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Call for Participation: Legal & Policy Issues DevRoom at FOSDEM 2022
by Karen M. Sandler 13 Dec '21

13 Dec '21

########################################################################### Call For Participation Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom at FOSDEM 2022 CONFERENCE DATE: Saturday & Sunday 5-6 February 2022 online from Brussels, Belgium DEVROOM DATE: Saturday 5 February 2022 CFP DEADLINE: Wednesday 27 December 2021 at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) SPEAKERS NOTIFIED: Friday 7 January 2022 (on or before) Quick CFP Overview (TL;DR) ========================== Hackers, developers, contributors and lawyers alike are encouraged to submit on any FOSS-related policy or legal topic. We seek proposals for 30 or 50 minute talks that address issues of software freedom project policies and legal issues that extend beyond and/or are orthogonal to technical issues faced by projects. For ideas about talk topics see the background information below. You can respond to this CFP by creating a user account on Pentabarf and creating one (or more) talk proposals by 27 December 2021. See details below. CFP Details =========== Copyright law provides many of the basic legal underpinnings of Free Software. Patent and trademark law and legal frameworks relating to data privacy and security also have significant relevance to Free Software development. Governance and policies around free software projects (beyond mere outbound licensing) set the rules for collaboration and can be critical to a project's success. Also governments, institutions and administrations increasingly rely on Free Software and regulate and govern this area. Our community has substantial expertise in this area yet there are few venues to discuss these matters in a forum open to all. Hackers, developers, contributors, lawyers, policy experts, and community leaders all possess expertise in these matters. This DevRoom seeks proposals for 30 or 50 minute talks. Sessions should address issues of software freedom project policies and legal issues that extend beyond and/or are orthogonal to technical issues faced by projects and government regulations. Such topics could include, but aren't necessarily limited to: * What legislation should we be watching, what has been recently enacted, and what coming soon? What effect could these have on software freedom? * Who controls the copyright, trademark, or patent licensing, release plans, CLA administration, or security bug reporting policies of your project, and why? What challenges have you faced in these policy areas and how are you seeking to change it? * How is your project governed? Do you have a non-profit organization, or a for-profit company that primarily controls your project, or neither? Do you wish your project governance was different? Who decided your governance initially? What politics (good and bad) have occurred around your governance choices and how have you changed your policy? Does your project have a "shadow governance", whereby technical governance is open and fair, but some entity has its own opaque political structure that influences your project? Are you worried that your project might and you don't know? Are you exploring any new solutions for governance? * How do ethical issues intersect with your project? How do those issues interact with software freedom? How can we protect user's rights in the current legal and technical landscape? Are there ways to mitigate the hold that click through terms of service have over the average person's use of software? Are privacy regulations like GDPR having any appreciable impact on software freedom? * Legal topics of all sorts and their interaction with software freedom culture and work remain welcome, and could include: How does your project make use of legal advice? What legal advice do you give projects and what topics do you put first on the list to worry about in projects? Discuss in detail a legal and/or policy issue your project faced and how your community dealt with it. What lessons did you learn? Are some of your developers afraid to discuss legal or quasi-legal issues without their lawyers, or their employers' lawyers, present? How has that impeded or helped your project? Are your lawyers really your lawyers (e.g., do corporate lawyers for companies in your community influence the direction of the project even though not all contributors work for that company)? * Contribution and engagement policies: how does your project engage new contributors and what policy decisions did your project make to welcome new contributors? What legal issues or policy concerns has your project faced historically in its community engagement efforts, and what did you learn from these experiences? * How does money affect your community? How is funding of developers handled in your project? What policies do you set to welcome volunteers to join a community where most developers are paid? Does your project have policies that forbid funding developers directly? Does reliance on volunteer labor lead to lack of diversity since only the affluent can participate? If you had unconstrained resources at your disposal, what would you change about the funding structure of your project? Given the resources you have, what have you tried to change? Have you succeeded or failed? Would more money in the ecosystem hurt or help your project? * How do projects handle conflicts of interest and make sure that relevant interests of contributors are disclosed in important decision making discussions? * Strategies and plans for addressing harassment, exclusionary and/or discriminatory behavior in FLOSS communities. Do you have a Code of Conduct? Have you needed to enforce it? Was it successful in improving behavior and diversity in your community? What strategies do you use to you handle toxic people in your community? * Talks on license compliance, licensing business models, and anything akin to, or building upon, what you've seen in our DevRoom before are of course welcome. (URLs to talks from previous years are below.) Regarding topic relevancy, here's the only "don't": please don't propose introductory talks; there are other venues appropriate for those. FOSDEM is the meeting place of experts in Free Software project governance, law, and policy. This DevRoom is for intermediate to advanced topics surrounding just about anything you might call a "legal" or "policy" issue for your project or software freedom! Should I Submit? ================ Do consider that what may seem elementary to you may in fact be an intermediate topic in this area. In particular, while we expect to receive submissions from lawyers, we've found in our careers that non-lawyers often know just as much (and often more) about these topics than lawyers. Developers and other Free Software project participants who regularly face complex policy and legal questions are strongly and particularly encouraged to submit proposals. Historically, some of the most lively and intriguing talks in this DevRoom's previous years have been from developers who have been thrust (often due to circumstances beyond their control) into dealing with legal and policy issues for Free Software. Look at past talks in our DevRoom for inspiration: https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/legal_issues/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/legal_issues_devroom.html CFP Schedule And Submission Details =================================== Submit proposals NO LATER THAN 27 December 2021 at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) Please use the following URL to submit your talk to FOSDEM 2022: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22 and follow these steps: * Select as the Track "Legal and Policy Issues devroom". * Include a title. (Note that "Subtitle" entry doesn't appear on all conference documents, so make sure "Title" can stand on its own without "Subtitle" present.) Shorter and more concise is better! * Include an Abstract of about 500 characters and a full description of any length you wish, but in both fields, please be concise, but clear and descriptive. * Indicate a 30 or 50 minute time slot. If you select any other time amount, your submission is very likely to be rejected. * Use the "Links" sub-area to your past work in the field you'd like to share. Particularly helpful are recordings (audio/video) of your past talks on the subject or past papers/blog posts you've written on the subject. * You are encouraged to enter biographic information under the "Person" section (e.g. you may upload an image, enter your background in the "Description" tab, and sites of interest under the "Links" tab). * 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 2022, I hereby agree to license all recordings, slides and any other materials presented under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International license. * Also in the notes field, confirm your availability to speak on Saturday, 5 February 2022. (Please indicate any challenges you may have with respect to your availability to present during the European time zone.) Failure to follow these instructions above (and those on the FOSDEM 2022 site) may result in automatic rejection of your talk submission. However, if you have trouble with submission via the official system, please do contact <fosdem-legal-policy at faif.us> for assistance. 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. About the DevRoom Organizers ============================ The co-organizers of the FOSDEM 2022 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom are (in alphabetical order by surname): - Richard Fontana, Senior Commercial Counsel, Red Hat - Matthias Kirschner, President, Free Software Foundation Europe - Bradley M. Kuhn, Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence at Software Freedom Conservancy - Max Mehl, FSFE Programme Manager, Free Software Foundation Europe - Alexander Sander, FSFE 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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Raku Devroom CFP
by Andrew Shitov 13 Dec '21

13 Dec '21

I am pleased to announce that we will be running a Raku devroom at this year's FOSDEM. The event will be online as the most recent Raku conference. The Raku devroom is scheduled for Saturday February 5, 2021. It is time to submit your talks and lightning talks. Proposed talk durations: 15, 20, 30, and 45 minutes. Lightning talks are 5 minutes long. Please visit this page to submit your talk: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22. If you are unsure of how to do that (submitting, not visiting), email at mail(a)raku.online for some help or try asking at the #raku IRC channel at https://raku.org/community/irc. Submission deadline: December 20, 2021. Acceptance announcement: December 31, 2021. We will later ask you to make a recording of your talk and upload the file. But meanwhile, you don't need to have it. If you have a great idea to share, just do it by submitting the talk. Here are some of the possible topics for the talks: - Creating a custom language using Raku grammars - Migrating to Raku from other programming languages - Starting a project from scratch in the Raku programming language - Basic/Deep understanding of Raku design and implementation - Implementation improvements, low-hanging fruits and deeper options - Why Raku and not X? This list is not any close to completion, and there are more ways to use Raku and share the knowledge! By speaking at FOSDEM, you are not just giving a talk for the Raku community, but you are exposing the language to thousands of developers worldwide. Submit here: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22 Official Raku site: https://raku.org Weekly Raku news: https://rakudoweekly.blog/blog-feed/ Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/raku.perl6 The Code of Conduct: https://fosdem.org/2022/practical/conduct/ X https://conf.raku.org/coc Devroom contact: mail(a)raku.online Social media tag: #rakulang The whole world is looking forward to your Raku talk! -- Andrew Shitov ______________________________________________________________________ andy(a)shitov.ru | http://shitov.ru

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MariaDB Server CfP
by Ian Gilfillan 10 Dec '21

10 Dec '21

The MariaDB CfP can be found at https://mariadb.org/cfp-for-the-mariadb-devroom-fosdem-2022-now-open/ - note the tight deadline of 21 December!

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[CfP] PostgreSQL @ FOSDEM 2022
by Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum 08 Dec '21

08 Dec '21

Hello, the Call for Papers for the virtual PostgreSQL devroom is published, and can be found here: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/163900296066.695.12240662022374343606… Regards, -- Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum German PostgreSQL User Group European PostgreSQL User Group - Board of Directors Volunteer Regional Contact, Germany - PostgreSQL Project

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[CFP] Apache OpenOffice Devroom
by Andrea Pescetti 08 Dec '21

08 Dec '21

Original version: https://s.apache.org/openoffice-fosdem-2022-cfp ## Call for Proposals We are happy to announce that we will be running an Apache OpenOffice Devroom again at FOSDEM 2022. The event will be held online on Saturday, 5 Feb 2022. Participation is free. No registration required. We are now open to receiving proposals for content for a day of talks, demos and discussions on and around Apache OpenOffice. Talks will have to be recorded in advance, but live Q&A will be available. ## Important dates - Submission deadline: Tuesday 28 Dec 2021 - Schedule announcement: Friday 31 Dec 2021 - Recorded talks upload deadline: Sunday 16 Jan 2022 - Devroom date: Saturday 5 Feb 2022 ## Topics Anything related to Apache OpenOffice is welcome: - Technical talks about Apache OpenOffice itself - Apache OpenOffice stories, demos and tutorials - Talks about topics related to Apache OpenOffice (ODF, build tools, translation tools, community...) may be submitted too ## Submissions Submissions are easy: basically just a talk title and short description. Visit https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22 - If you do not have an account from previous years, create one - Click 'Create Event' - Enter your talk details - Enter a maximum duration of 45 minutes - Be sure to select the Apache OpenOffice Devroom track - Submit Looking forward to seeing your submissions! Regards, Andrea.

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Fwd: [devroom-managers] Call for Presentations - OpenPOWER DevRoom - FOSDEM 2022
by lkcl 08 Dec '21

08 Dec '21

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Toshaan Bharvani | VanTosh <toshaan(a)vantosh.com> Hey, This is the Call-for-Presentations for the OpenPOWER DevRoom - FOSDEM 2022 - Online Virtual Event. https://cfp.openpower.foundation/fosdem2022/cfp Regards, Toshaan. _______________________________________________ devroom-managers mailing list devroom-managers(a)lists.fosdem.org https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/devroom-managers

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Python Devroom CFP
by Eric Gazoni 07 Dec '21

07 Dec '21

We are happy to announce that we will be running a Python devroom again at FOSDEM 2022. This year's edition will be online, on the 5th and 6th of February, with the Python devroom taking place on Sunday 6th. If you have not heard about FOSDEM before or are looking for more information, you can visit the official website at www.fosdem.org. As per usual, we are looking for multiple Pythonistas to help us shape the devroom schedule. We are now open to receiving your proposals! With over 8000 participants, FOSDEM is the perfect place to share your story and meet fellow Python enthusiasts. You can check the Python-FOSDEM website or the Belgium Python mailing list to stay updated. Good luck to everyone applying. We’re looking forward to meeting you all virtually at FOSDEM 2022! # About FOSDEM - Official website: https://fosdem.org/2022/ - FOSDEM Code of Conduct: https://fosdem.org/2022/practical/conduct/ 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. # Essential Information - The devroom will be held on 6th of February 2022, online - Submission link: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22 - Talk format: 25min of content + 5min of questions If you have submitted for previous FOSDEM editions, remember to use your already existing account on Pentabarf. Make sure to fill out 'person' details. We need a name, photo and biography. # New online rules - The reference time will be Brussels local lime (CET). - Talks must be pre-recorded in advance, and will be streamed during the event. This is a hard requirement from the FOSDEM organizers for which we can make no exception. - Q/A session will be live - A facility will be provided for attendees to chat between themselves - A facility will be provided for attendees to submit questions # Submission Guidelines If you would like to give a talk, present a project or show off some coding skills, we are looking forward to receiving your application. - Submission platform: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22 - Deadline: 24th of December 2021 - Announcement of selected talks: 31st of December 2021 The sooner we can start planning a draft schedule the better, so please submit your application ASAP. Be sure to properly fill your Pentabarf profile (Person) with: - your name - a short speaker bio - your contact information (for the organizers) Then submit your talk (or event) - title and subtitle of the presentation - presentation description - other relevant details (other publications, video of previous talks, ...) Keep in mind presentations must be related to Python. Next to this, all presentations will be streamed live under the FOSDEM content licence and presented on the hallway screens in case the room is full. 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 have a devroom as diverse as possible, so we are looking to offer a mixture of presentations, tutorials, demos, live coding, discussions, etc. Aside from the usual talks about free and open source, we will also gladly welcome talks about: - How to get started with library/framework X - Best practices for new Python developers - Return on experience with library/framework X - Local Python communities & diversity - How Python is being used for education - Hardware / Infrastructure - Security tools and securing Python - Data science # Pentabarf Notes If you ever find yourself in doubt: - "talks" are named "events" in Pentabarf - Track must be "Python devroom" - Duration must be "00:25:00" - Event type must be "Lecture" - Abstract is the text that goes in the FOSDEM booklet # Volunteers We will also call for volunteers to help us run the event and help us with the devroom operation. You can get in touch with the organizers on the Python-Belgium mailing list ( https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/belgium) # Organizers You can reach out directly to the organizers if you have a specific request or question: - Eric Gazoni (eric(a)adimian.com) - Jens Roelant (jens(a)adimian.com) Useful Links - https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/belgium - https://www.python-fosdem.org/ - https://fosdem.org/2022/ - https://python.be/ - https://www.python.org/psf/ If you want to keep informed for this edition, you can follow our twitter account @PythonFOSDEM.

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