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BSD devroom CFP
by Rodrigo Osorio 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Dear FOSDEM, The BSD devroom CFP is up here : https://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigo/fosdem22/ Best regards, --rodrigo

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Open Research Tools and Technologies devroom CFP
by Paul 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Dear FOSDEM, The Open Research Tools and Technologies devroom CFP is up here : https://research-fosdem.github.io/ Best regards, Paul

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LibreOffice Technology DevRoom Call for Papers
by Italo Vignoli 02 Dec '21

02 Dec '21

LibreOffice Technology DevRoom Call for Papers FOSDEM 2022 will be a virtual event, taking place online on Saturday, February 5, and Sunday, February 6. The LibreOffice DevRoom is scheduled for Sunday, February 6, from 9AM to 7PM (times to be confirmed). If we will get more interesting talk proposals than the maximum number we can fit in one day, we will have the opportunity to extend the DevRoom to Saturday, February 5, in the afternoon. NEW RULES FOR 2022 - The reference time will be Brussels local time (CET). - Talks will be pre-recorded in advance, and streamed during the event - Q/A session will be live - A facility will be provided for people watching to chat between themselves - A facility will be provided for people watching to submit questions IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER December 26: Submission deadline December 28: Announcement of selected talks December 31: Publication of DevRoom final schedule January 16: Availability of pre-recordings for review January 23: Deadline for upload of presentations CALL FOR PAPERS We are inviting proposals for talks about LibreOffice Technology, including ODF standard document format, on topics such as code, localization, QA, UX, documentation, tools, extensions, migrations and general advocacy. Please keep in mind that product pitches are not allowed at FOSDEM. The length of talks is limited to a maximum of 25 minutes, as we would like to have some minutes for questions after each presentation, and to fit as many presenters as possible in the schedule. Exceptions must be explicitly requested and justified. You may be assigned LESS time than you have requested. IMPORTANT INFORMATIONS - Presentations have to be pre-recorded and tested for streaming before the event. - Once your talk is pre-recorded, and approved by a reviewer in term of quality for streaming, it will have to be uploaded by January 23, to be prepared and ready for broadcast (the deadline cannot be moved further). - During the stream of talks, speakers must be available online for the Q/A session. TALK SUBMISSIONS All talk submissions have to be made in the Pentabarf event planning tool: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22. While filing the proposal, please provide the title of your talk, a short abstract (one or two paragraphs), some information about yourself (name, bio and photo, but please do remember that your profile might be already stored in Pentabarf). To submit your talk, click on “Create Event” and select the “LibreOffice Technology” DevRoom as the “Track”. Otherwise, your talk will not be even considered for any devroom at all. If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous year, even if your talk was not accepted, please reuse it. Create an account if, and only if, you don’t have one from a previous year. If you have any issues with Pentabarf, please get in touch with the DevRoom manager. DEVROOM MANAGER Italo Vignoli: italo(a)libreoffice.org Link: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/12/02/lo-technology-devroom-c… -- Italo Vignoli - Marketing & PR The Document Foundation & LibreOffice email italo.vignoli(a)documentfoundation.org mobile/signal +39.348.5653829

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MySQL Devroom 2022 - Call for Paper
by Frédéric Descamps 02 Dec '21

02 Dec '21

Hi all, Here is the CfP for FOSDEM 2022 MySQL Devroom: https://www.mysqlandfriends.eu/post/fosdem-2022-mysql-devroom-call-for-pape… Thanks for sharing ! lefred.

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FOSDEM 2022 - Declarative and Minimalistic Computing - Call for Participation
by Manolis Ragkousis 02 Dec '21

02 Dec '21

We are excited to announce a devroom on Declarative and Minimalistic Computing at FOSDEM on 5th and 6th of February, 2022, online! FOSDEM is one of the most important free software conferences and is hosted annually at Université libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium. Unfortunately again this year FOSDEM will not run a physical conference but will be online only. Talks will be pre-recorded with some live content including Q&A sessions and discussion panels. We accept talks from languages that attempt to minimize use of hardware and software while trying to make systems simpler, more robust and more secure. If you are working on improving today's systems taking declarative/minimalistic approaches feel free to submit a talk proposal. Examples include the Scheme/Lisp family of programmings languages. In past editions, this devroom has received presentations from a varied number of language communities, including Forth, Guile, Lua, Nim, Racket, Raku and Tcl as well as several experimental projects that push minimalism in new directions. Minimalism and declarative programming are two important topics for this devroom. Minimalism matters. Minimalism allows for smaller systems that take less resources and consume less energy. More importantly, free and open source minimalism allows for secure systems that are easy to understand. Declarative programming is a programming paradigm that expresses the logic of a computation without describing its control flow. Many languages that apply this style attempt to minimize or eliminate side effects by describing what the program must accomplish in terms of the problem domain, rather than describe how to accomplish it as a sequence of the programming language primitives. Finally, in this year's virtual conference we will honor the late Professor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist) John McCarthy] as the founder of AI and the inventor of LISP. McCarthy with his work pioneered artificial intelligence, developed the Lisp programming language family and kickstarted our modern computing world. We want to invite you to submit a talk on declarative and minimalistic computing that fits that description. We are especially happy to receive talk submissions from members of groups underrepresented in free software. If you have something you’d like to share with your fellow developers, please E-mail us! Talks considered for the devroom will have to be entered in - https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22 The deadline for submission is December 20th. If you have a FOSDEM pentabarf account from a previous year, please use that account. Otherwise add one on https://penta.fosdem.org/user/new_account. Reach out to pjotr.public456(a)thebird.nl or manolis837(a)gmail.com if you run into any trouble. When submitting your talk make doubly sure to select "Declarative and Minimalistic Computing devroom" as track (if you don't we won't find it), and include the following information: * The title and subtitle of your talk * A short abstract of one paragraph * A longer description if you wish to do so * Links to related websites/blogs etc * Presentations has to be pre-recorded and streamed before the event. * Start recording early! To see what a final talk looks like see https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/gnumes/ For accepted talks * Once your talk was accepted, we will assign you an organizer to help you to produce the pre-recorded content. * The organizer will review the content and ensure it has the required quality. He is also responsible for ensuring the content is into the system and ready to broadcast. * During the stream of your talk, you must be available online for the Q/A session Let's make this a fun day! = Organizers = Pjotr Prins, Manolis Ragkousis, Ludovic Courtès, Amirouche Boubekki, Hisham Muhammad, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Ricardo Wurmus, Alex Sassmannshausen, William Byrd, Oliver Propst, Efraim Flashner, Julien Lepiller = Code of conduct = - https://fosdem.org/2022/practical/conduct/ = Original proposal = - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2022-devroom-proposal = Important dates: = - Dec 20th 2021: submission deadline for talk proposals - Dec 31th 2021: announcement of the final schedule - Jan 14th 2021: submission deadline for recordings - Feb 5th 2022: FOSDEM! = Links: = - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2022-devroom-declarative-and-minimalisti…

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FOSDEM 2022 - JavaScript Devroom - Call for Participation
by Ludovic Gasc Lemaire 02 Dec '21

02 Dec '21

The official announcement: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fosdem-2022-javascript-devroom-call-particip… Kind regards -- Ludovic Gasc Lemaire (GMLudo)

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[CFP] Embedded, Mobile and Automotive devroom @FOSDEM2022
by Krzysztof Opasiak 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

This email is a Call For Participation in the Embedded, Mobile and Automotive Devroom at FOSDEM 2022. Devroom date: 5th & 6th February in FOSDEM Online Venue CFP deadline: Monday, 20th December 2021. Final speaker confirmation on Friday, December 31th 2021. CFP Introduction --------------------------- Embedded software is transforming the world, and FOSS embedded software is leading the way. From automotive to the Internet of Things, launching rockets, messing with your phone or automating your toaster, small devices, embedded systems, and automatons are everywhere Join in and tell the world about your project! This year FOSDEM is going to be an online event. All talks will need to be prerecorded and shared with FOSDEM organizers. Please only propose a talk that you're really able and willing to share. Topics Sought ------------------------ The embedded devroom seeks topics related to automotive, industrial, mobile, consumer electronics, autonomous and generally embedded systems, either from a professional or hobbyist background. Topics such as operating systems (Linux, free RTOS), hardware platforms (from microcontrollers to microprocessors, FPGAs) and software stacks are welcome. Related areas are of course of interest as well and our definition of "embedded" is elastic. CFP Schedule And Submission Details ----------------------------------------------------------- Please submit proposals no later than the 20th of December. Please use the following URL to submit your talk to FOSDEM 2022 https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22 and follow the following rules: * If you do not have an account yet, please create one, if you have submitted a talk in one of the previous years, please re-use your old account. * Select as the Track "Embedded, mobile and automotive devroom" * Select as the Event Type "Lecture" * 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.) * 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 whether you seek a 25, or 50 minute slot. * Use the "Links" sub-area to your past work in the field you'd like to share. * Also in the notes field please indicate your timezone so that we can schedule a convenient timeslot for you. * Last but not least, make sure you have up to date contact info. Feel free to send an email to the embedded mailing list should you have any questions with the conference system. Subscribe here: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/embedded-devroom About the devroom organizers -------------------------------------------------- The co-organizers of the FOSDEM 2022 Embedded devroom are (in alphabetical order by surname): * Walt Miner * Krzysztof Opasiak * Thomas Petazzoni * Chris Simmonds * Geert Uytterhoeven

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[CFP] Mozilla Dev Room
by Michael Kohler 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Hello fellow Mozillians, It’s that time of the year again! The Call for Presentations for Europe’s largest FLOSS event FOSDEM, happening on February 5th & 6th 2022, is now officially open. To learn more about FOSDEM, head over to [https://fosdem.org](https://fosdem.org/). FOSDEM 2022 will be held virtually, so talks can be given from anywhere in the world as they will be pre-recorded. Keep in mind though that you will need to be live at the Questions & Answer session and the network and setup test an hour before that! The Mozilla devroom will happen on the 5th of February (Saturday). Just like for the past 20 years, Mozilla is going to host a Developer room at FOSDEM 2022 and we would love to see and hear all your wonderful talks. Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work together on open source projects and to discuss topics relevant to a broader subset of the community. We have a list of suggested topics that we would like to hear from this year, but we encourage you to propose talks on other subjects if you believe they would be a good fit. Some of our best talks were on topics we didn’t think about. - Web Technologies: HTML, CSS & Layouts - MDN Web Docs - Firefox Developer Tools - Firefox in General - Privacy & Security - Performance - Network on Web browsers - Diversity & Inclusion - Thunderbird - SUMO - QA - Web Compatibility - … One first tip for applying is to keep in mind that the public at FOSDEM is quite technical and knowledgeable about open-source in general. If you want any help or feedback to write your proposal, please get in touch with me. - Submit your proposal on Pentabarf (https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22) you can find a tutorial about how to use Pentabarf, courtesy of the wonderful folks at the Go Devroom, at https://eyskens.me/beginners-guide-to-pentabarf/. - Talk proposals deadline: 19th of December at midnight (anywhere in the world). - Acceptance/rejection notice: At the latest for the 31st of December. - Duration: 15 to 45 minutes talks (including questions) would be preferred, anything over 45 minutes and we might ask you to shorten it to fit in the 45 minutes time frame depending on how many submissions we get. - As it will be held virtually there is more preparation needed. You need to be able to pre-record (which implies to have appropriate equipment to do so) your talk till the 17th of January and be available on the 5th of February at the time of your talk broadcast to answer questions. - If you encounter any issues with the proposal tool, please get in touch with me! The Mozilla devroom respects Mozilla’s community participation guidelines along with the FOSDEM Code of Conduct. These guidelines cover our behaviour as participants, facilitators, space wranglers, staff, volunteers, vendors, and anyone else involved in making the Mozilla devroom possible. Looking forward to your proposals. Get in touch with me if you have any questions! Michael

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[CfP] Public Code devroom
by Jan Ainali 30 Nov '21

30 Nov '21

Hello everyone, We are happy to announce that the call for participation in the FOSDEM 2022 devroom for Public Code, code that implements public policy, have opened. It will be held on Sunday 6th February 2022 online. It's a devroom dedicated to everyone that are developing FLOSS used by public organizations like governments, public administrations and state corporations. We are looking for contributions covering the following main topics: * specific software being developed * collaboration methods * lessons learned * success stories/use cases * procuring open source * governance * … If you have any idea of a talk fitting into the topic of the devroom, please don't hesitate to make a submission! We hope that this will be an opportunity for everyone to meet and exchange ideas about public code around the world. = Submission process = Please submit your proposals at [1] before **December 26th 2021**. If you already have a Pentabarf account (for example as a result of having submitted a proposal in the past), make sure you use it to log in and submit your proposal. Do not create a new account if you already have one. Please provide a bit of information about yourself under Person -> Description -> Abstract. When you submit your proposal (by creating an "Event" in Pentabarf), make sure you choose the "Public Code devroom" in the track drop-down menu. Otherwise, your proposal might go unnoticed. Fill in at least a title and abstract for the proposed talk and a suggested duration. Bear in mind that a lot of the value in these meetings come from the discussions, so please be reasonable regarding the duration of the talk. Once the schedule of the devroom will be finalized, we will contact you in order to help you record your talk in advance, and ensure that the recording is of good quality. = Important dates = * December 26th 2021: deadline for submission of proposals * December 31st 2021 or before: announcement of final schedule * January 1st to January 15th 2022: speakers record their talks * February 6th 2022: devroom day, online = What's the organization this year? = While the global organization of the event is still in progress, here are some elements that we already know regarding the organization of the devroom. Please consider them before submitting a proposal: * Talks have to be pre-recorded in advance between the first two weeks of January, and will be streamed during the event. * Q/A session will be taken live, just after each recorded talk. As such, please make sure that you will be online and available on the day of the event. * A facility will be provided for people watching to chat between themselves. * A facility will be provided for people watching to submit questions. * The reference time will be Brussels local lime (CET). = Recordings = 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 in the Public Code devroom, you automatically give permission to be recorded. [1] https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22 -- Jan Ainali, Codebase Steward @jan_ainali Foundation for Public Code https://publiccode.net

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[CFP] Virtualization & IaaS Devroom
by Piotr Kliczewski 30 Nov '21

30 Nov '21

We are excited to announce that the call for proposals is now open for the Virtualization & IaaS devroom at the upcoming FOSDEM 2022, to be hosted virtually on February 5th 2022. This year will mark FOSDEM’s 22nd anniversary as one of the longest-running free and open source software developer events, attracting thousands of developers and users from all over the world. Due to Covid-19, FOSDEM will be held virtually this year on February 5th & 6th, 2022. About the Devroom The Virtualization & IaaS devroom will feature session topics such as open source hypervisors and virtual machine managers such as Xen Project, KVM, bhyve, and VirtualBox, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service projects such as KubeVirt, Apache CloudStack, Foreman, OpenStack, oVirt, QEMU and OpenNebula. This devroom will host presentations that focus on topics of shared interest, such as KVM; libvirt; shared storage; virtualized networking; cloud security; clustering and high availability; interfacing with multiple hypervisors; hyperconverged deployments; and scaling across hundreds or thousands of servers. Presentations in this devroom will be aimed at users or developers working on these platforms who are looking to collaborate and improve shared infrastructure or solve common problems. We seek topics that encourage dialog between projects and continued work post-FOSDEM. Important Dates Submission deadline: 20th of December Acceptance notifications: 25th of December Final schedule announcement: 31st of December Recorded presentations upload deadline: 15th of January Devroom: 6th February 2022 Submit Your Proposal All submissions must be made via the Pentabarf event planning site[1]. If you have not used Pentabarf before, you will need to create an account. If you submitted proposals for FOSDEM in previous years, you can use your existing account. After creating the account, select Create Event to start the submission process. Make sure to select Virtualization and IaaS devroom from the Track list. Please fill out all the required fields, and provide a meaningful abstract and description of your proposed session. Submission Guidelines We expect more proposals than we can possibly accept, so it is vitally important that you submit your proposal on or before the deadline. Late submissions are unlikely to be considered. All presentation slots are 30 minutes, with 20 minutes planned for presentations, and 10 minutes for Q&A. All presentations will need to be pre-recorded and put into our system at least a couple of weeks before the event. The presentations should be uploaded by 15th of January and made available under Creative Commons licenses. In the Submission notes field, please indicate that you agree that your presentation will be licensed under the CC-By-SA-4.0 or CC-By-4.0 license and that you agree to have your presentation recorded. For example: "If my presentation is accepted for FOSDEM, I hereby agree to license all recordings, slides, and other associated materials under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License. Sincerely, <NAME>." In the Submission notes field, please also confirm that if your talk is accepted, you will be able to attend the virtual FOSDEM event for the Q&A. We will not consider proposals from prospective speakers who are unsure whether they will be able to attend the FOSDEM virtual event. If you are experiencing problems with Pentabarf, the proposal submission interface, or have other questions, you can email our devroom mailing list[2] and we will try to help you. Code of Conduct Following the release of the updated code of conduct for FOSDEM, 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 CoC 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. Call for Volunteers We are also looking for volunteers to help run the devroom. We need assistance with helping speakers to record the presentation as well as helping with streaming and chat moderation for the devroom. Please contact devroom mailing list [2] for more information. Questions? If you have any questions about this devroom, please send your questions to our devroom mailing list. You can also subscribe to the list to receive updates about important dates, session announcements, and to connect with other attendees. See you all at FOSDEM! [1] https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22 [2] iaas-virt-devroom at lists.fosdem.org

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