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virtual presence "stands" on FOSDEM
by Kristoff 05 Dec '20

05 Dec '20

Hi all, Small question: We hosted the infostand on Amateur-Radio on FOSDEM for some years now. Off course, as FOSDEM 2021 will be held online, there are no real 'physical' stands next year, ... but has something been foreseen to allow standholders to be virtually present at fosdem 2021 (i.e. on the official FOSDEM website)? Just as all devrooms now organise presentations via online video-presentation, the standholders can do the same. But, making an online video-presentation or online chat-session is only useful, if people find them. I do not know how exactly FOSDEM plans to organise their event, but would it be possible for standholder that hold a virtual online presence that weekend to get a place on the official FOSDEM website? Also, for standholders that plan to organise an online-event at time, it would be nice if that would also get a place on the official FOSDEM calender of the weekend. This would surely would make our events more 'visible' for all the (virtual) visitors of FOSDEM. Thanks in advance. Kr. Bonne,

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FOSDEM 2021: Free Software Radio Devroom CfP
by Nicolas Cuervo Benavides 05 Dec '20

05 Dec '20

Dear friends and fans of software-defined radio and free/open-source radio topics in general, FOSDEM 2021 (the free and open-source developer's meeting usually in Brussels, Europe but **this time virtually**) will again feature a track on Software Defined Radio and any other radio-related topics in the Free Software Radio devroom. Therefore, we invite developers and users from the free software radio community to join us for this track and present your talks or demos. Given the current circumstances and the virtual nature of this event in 2021, we are asking the presenters to pre-record the talks, which will then be gathered by us and streamed during the event. Presenters are also asked to be present online during their timeslot for live Q&A. Software Radio has become an important tool to allow anyone to access the EM spectrum. Using free software radio libraries and applications and cheap hardware, anyone can now start hacking on wireless communications, remote sensing, radar, fun hacks of all sorts, or other applications. At FOSDEM, we hope to network all these projects, and improve collaboration, bring new ideas forward and get more people involved. The track's website resides at the link below. The final schedule will be available through Pentabarf and the official FOSDEM website. Notice that the reference time will be Brussels local time (CET). https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/free_software_radio/ Additional Information will be also available at: https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/FOSDEM_2021 ** Submit your presentations To suggest a talk, go to https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21 and follow the instructions (you need an account, but can use your account from last year if you have one. Please do NOT create a new account if you already have one). You need to create an 'Event'; make sure it's in the Free Software Radio track! Your submission should have the following information: * Your contact Email * A descriptive title and subtitle of your talk * A short abstract * Links related to the project * [Optional] A longer description of the content of your talk. Lengths aren't fixed, but give a realistic estimate, and please don't exceed 30 minutes unless you have something special planned (in that case, contact one of us). We will typically go for 30-minute slots -- shorter talks, unless they're really short, usually tend to screw up the schedule too much. You aren't limited to slide presentations, of course. Be creative. However, FOSDEM is an open-source conference, therefore we ask you to stay clear of marketing presentations and present something relevant to free/open software. We like nitty-gritty technical stuff. Topics discussed in this devroom include: * SDR Frameworks + Tools * Cellular/telecoms software * Free/Open SDR hardware * Wireless security * Random fun wireless hacks * SDR in education * Satellite/spacecraft communication * Ham radio related topics ** Important Dates * Submission deadline: 26 December 2020 * Announcement of selected talks: 31 December 2020 * Conference dates 6 & 7 February 2021 online * Free software radio devroom date: Sunday 7 February 2021 online In the last years we were always full to the brim with presentations, so if you want to present, please make sure to submit your abstracts soon! ** Following steps for accepted talks When your talk is accepted, you will be contacted by a deputy who will help you with the pre-recording of your talk. Together you will make sure that the content has the required quality and is stream-ready. When complete, the recording will be located into the streaming system, and Bob's your uncle. Don't forget that you **must** be available during the allocated timeslot of your talk for live Q&A. ** Steering Committee The track committee consists of: * Phil Balister - "Crofton" * Derek Kozel - "dkozel" * Nicolas Cuervo - "primercuervo" * Martin Braun - "mbr0wn" Hope to hear from you soon! And please forward this announcement. - Nicolas

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[CFP] Emulator Development Room
by Mahmoud Abdelghany 05 Dec '20

05 Dec '20

FOSDEM 21 - Emulator Development Room CFP We are pleased to announce the opening of the Call for papers for the inaugural edition of the FOSDEM emulator development room. Due to obvious reasons, the upcoming FOSDEM 21 will take placeonline. Unfortunate as that might be for some of us, it will also give some travel weary and/or shy -speakers the chance to participate. What is FOSDEM? StolenBorrowed from the website: FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. In 2021, they will gather online. Important stuff: - FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration. - [FOSDEM website](https://fosdem.org/) - [FOSDEM code of conduct](https://fosdem.org/2021/practical/conduct/) Desirable topics Reallyanythinggoes, but here are some ideas(for inspiration): - Console emulator development - Computer emulator development - Hardware emulation - OS emulation development - Virtual Machine development - Emulation legality - Emulation history - ... Desirable speakers We honestly don't care. Experienced speakers are very welcome, but hobbyists and/or first time speakers are also more than welcome. How to submit your proposal To submit a talk, please visit the[FOSDEM 2021 Pentabarf website](https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21)(we're not sure whether pentabarf means barfing in 5 directions, or in 5 colors). Create aneventand click onShow allin the top right corner to display the full form. What should be in your submission - name - short bio - contact info - title(funny titles are appreciated) - abstract(what you're gonna talk about) - duration(25 min or 50 min) Important Dates - December 28th: submission deadline - January 6th: announcement selected talks - February 6th: FOSDEM! Contact us - [Mahmoud Abdelghany](https://twitter.com/blackbeard0x14e) - [Christophe Creeten](mailto:christophecreeten@hotmail.com) - [Niels Renard](https://twitter.com/nielsrenard) - sorry, but the others are too shy ¯\(ツ)/¯ Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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Distribution Devroom CFP
by Vipul Siddharth 05 Dec '20

05 Dec '20

We are excited to announce that the call for proposals is now open for the Distribution devroom at the upcoming FOSDEM 2021, to be hosted virtually on February 6th 2021. As more and more workloads are being considered for containerization in the future and are finally landing in virtualized environments today, distributions remain a critical success factor and are more important than ever. Containers, like virtual machines, are not magical and rely on piles of software being assembled in a way that is repeatable, reliable, and functional. This is at the very heart of the problem that distributions have always solved. Each distribution is responsible for building, testing, and releasing software as well as managing the lifecycle of each application in the collection. Additionally, distributions do very important work in ensuring that various versions of upstream software work well together and can co-exist. Distributions are also, often responsible, for "de-vendoring" upstream software so that security fixes can be applied more quickly. We welcome submissions targeted at contributors interested in issues unique to distributions, especially in the following topics: # Topics and Areas of Focus ## Focus Areas - The ways that distribution technologies can be leveraged to allow for easier creation of a multi-verse of artifacts from single source trees. This includes the increasing move toward self-contained applications and providing multiple non-parallel installed versions of software. - Efforts being made in shared environments around Build/Test/Release cycles. - Topics related to the delivery problem as it impacts updates in terms of both size and rollback/reliability are expected to be featured. ## Additional Topic Ideas - Distribution and Community collaborations, eg: how does code flow from developers to end users across communities, ensuring trust and code audibility - Automating building software for redistribution to minimize human involvement, eg: bots that branch and build software, bots that participate as team members extending human involvement - Cross-distribution collaboration on common issues, eg: content distribution, infrastructure, and documentation - Growing distribution communities, eg: onboarding new users, helping new contributors learn community values and technology, increasing contributor technical skills, recognizing and rewarding contribution - Principles of Rolling Releases, Long Term Supported Releases (LTS), Feature gated releases, and calendar releases - Distribution construction, installation, deployment, packaging and content management - Balancing new code and active upstreams verus security updates, back porting and minimization of user breaking changes - Delivering architecture independent software universally across architectures within the confines of distribution systems - Effectively communicating the difference in experience across architectures for developers, packagers, and users - Working with vendors and including them in the community - The future of distributions, emerging trends and evolving user demands from the idea of a platform Ideal submissions are actionable and opinionated. Submissions may be in the form of 25 or 50 minute talks, panel sessions, round-table discussions, or Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions. Due to the virtual format of FOSDEM 2021, the preferred length for talk submissions is 25 minutes. Important Dates ------ Submission Deadline: 20-Dec-2020 @ 2359 UTC Acceptance notifications: 25-Dec-2020 @ 2359 UTC Final schedule announcement: 31st of December @ 2359 UTC How to submit -------------- Visit https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21 1.) If you do not have an account, create one here 2.) Click 'Create Event' 3.) Enter your presentation details 4.) Be sure to select the Distributions Devroom track! 5.) Submit What to include --------------- - The title of your submission - A 1-paragraph Abstract - A longer description including the benefit of your talk to your target audience, including a definition of your target audience. - Approximate length / type of submission (talk, BoF, ...) - Links to related websites/blogs/talk material (if any) Administrative Notes ---------------- All presentations will need to be pre-recorded and put into our system at least a couple of weeks before the event. Once your talk was accepted, we will assign you a volunteer to help you to produce the pre-recorded content. The volunteer will review the content and ensure its quality. They will also be responsible to ensure that the content is into the system and ready to broadcast. Durin the stream of your talk, you must be available online for the Q/A session The recordings will be published under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). If you have any questions, feel free to contact the devroom organizers: distributions-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org (https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/distributions-devroom) -- Vipul Siddharth He/His/Him Fedora & CentOS Infrastructure Team

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[CFP] Emulator Development Room
by Mahmoud Abdelghany 04 Dec '20

04 Dec '20

Find the up to date CFP here: https://github.com/blackbeard334/fosdem21-emulator-devroom-cfp # FOSDEM 21 - Emulator Development Room CFP We are pleased to announce the opening of the Call for papers for the inaugural edition of the FOSDEM emulator development room. Due to obvious reasons, the upcoming FOSDEM 21 will take place **online**. Unfortunate as that might be for some of us, it will also give some travel weary and/or shy -speakers the chance to participate. ### What is FOSDEM? ~~Stolen~~ Borrowed from the website: _**FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.** Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. In 2021, they will gather online._ #### Important stuff: - FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration. - [FOSDEM website](https://fosdem.org/) - [FOSDEM code of conduct](https://fosdem.org/2021/practical/conduct/) ### Desirable topics Really **anything** goes, but here are some ideas(for inspiration): - Console emulator development - Computer emulator development - Hardware emulation - OS emulation development - Virtual Machine development - Emulation legality - Emulation history - ... #### Desirable speakers We honestly don't care. Experienced speakers are very welcome, but hobbyists and/or first time speakers are also more than welcome. ### How to submit your proposal To submit a talk, please visit the [FOSDEM 2021 Pentabarf website](https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21) (we're not sure whether pentabarf means barfing in 5 directions, or in 5 colors). Create an **event** and click on **Show all** in the top right corner to display the full form. ### What should be in your submission - name - short bio - contact info - title(funny titles are appreciated) - abstract(what you're gonna talk about) - duration(25 min or 50 min) ### Important Dates - **December 28th: submission deadline** - January 6th: announcement selected talks - February 6th: FOSDEM! ### Contact us - [Mahmoud Abdelghany](https://twitter.com/blackbeard0x14e) - [Christophe Creeten](mailto:christophecreeten@hotmail.com) - [Niels Renard](https://twitter.com/nielsrenard) - sorry, but the others are too shy ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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Re: [FOSDEM] OpenUK and FOSDEM
by Alasdair G Kergon 03 Dec '20

03 Dec '20

On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 05:55:12PM +0000, Amanda Brock wrote: > We will likely do something through our Stand if we are successful in applying for one. Do you happen to know when the stands open? We're still setting up the systems we need for stand submissions but hopefully within a week or so now. Alasdair

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OpenUK and FOSDEM
by Amanda Brock 03 Dec '20

03 Dec '20

OpenUK is interested in the potential of bringing UK people together into groups to watch FOSDEM 2021 depending on the rules in the UK in February. We’d like to discuss this opportunity with the FOSDEM team please. Cheers Amanda Amanda Brock CEO, OpenUK.uk +44 (0)7718516954

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[CFP] Collab devroom @ FOSDEM 2021
by Clément Aubin 03 Dec '20

03 Dec '20

Hi everyone, On behalf of the Collaboration and content management applications devroom, I'm happy to announce that our call for participation is now open. See below for the full CFP ; you can also access it directly on https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Events/Fosdem2021/DevRoom/CFP/ . = Call for participation = This is the call for participation in the FOSDEM 2021 devroom on Collaborative information and content management applications, to be held on Saturday 6th February 2021 online. We are looking for contributions under the form of conferences, talks or discussions covering the following main topics: * New projects presentation * Self-hosted platforms * Secure collaboration * Collaborative applications * Connectors & Integrations * Knowledge management techniques * Protocols for collaboration * … If you have any idea of a talk fitting into the subject of the devroom, please don't hesitate to let us know about it! We hope to provide an opportunity for everyone to meet and exchange about collaborative issues encountered while using Open Source solutions; present the some tools used for content management and discuss about global solutions for incentivizing collaboration. = Submission process = Please submit your proposals at https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21 before December 26th 2020. 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 (creating an "Event" in Pentabarf), make sure you choose the "Collaborative information and content management applications 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 comes 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 2020: deadline for submission of proposals * December 31st 2020 or before: announcement of final schedule * January 1st to January 15th: speakers record their talks * February 6th 2021: devroom day, online = What's the organization this year ? = While the global organization of the event is still in progress, here are the elements that we already know regarding the organization of the devroom. Please consider them before submitting a proposal : * The reference time will be Brussels local lime (CET). * 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. = 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. Thanks, Clément

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Python devroom 2021 CfP
by Eric Gazoni 03 Dec '20

03 Dec '20

[Call for Proposals] We are happy to announce that we will be running a Python devroom again at FOSDEM 2021. As for many events, this year’s edition will be converted into an online edition, and take place on the 6th and 7th of February, with the Python devroom being available on Sunday 7th. 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. As the online edition will allow for anyone to join from anywhere, these numbers might very well reach higher numbers. You can check the Python-FOSDEM website (https://www.python-fosdem.org) or the Belgium Python mailing list ( https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/belgium) to stay updated. Good luck to everyone applying. We’re looking forward to meeting you all online at FOSDEM 2021! [About FOSDEM] - Official website: https://fosdem.org/2021/ - FOSDEM Code of Conduct: https://fosdem.org/2021/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 committers; - 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 devroom will be held on 7th of February 2021, online - Submission link: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21 - 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/FOSDEM21 - Submission deadline: 26th of December 2020 - Announcement of selected talks: 31st of December 2020 - Deadline for uploading talks recordings: 15th of January 2021 The sooner we can start planning a draft schedule the better, so please submit your application ASAP. Only register your talk once! Registering for several tracks will not increase your chances, better reach out to the devroom organizers directly if you are unsure in which track your talk belongs. 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. All presentations will be streamed live under the FOSDEM content licence. 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, 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 "00:30:00" - 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 online 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/2021/ - http://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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Cfp Testing and Automation devroom, FOSDEM'21
by Alexander Todorov 03 Dec '20

03 Dec '20

Hello everyone, on behalf of Testing and Automation devroom I'd like to announce that call for participation is now open. Here are some ideas for topics that are a good fit for this devroom: Testing in the real, open source world - War stories/strategies for testing large scale or complex projects - Demistyfy resource e.g. systems/device/cloud provisioning in a CI loop - Tools that extend the ability to test low-level code, e.g. bootloaders, init systems, etc. - Projects that are introducing new/interesting ways of testing "systems" - Address the automated testing frameworks fragmentation - Lessons learned from testing Cool Tools (good candidates for lightning talks) - How your open source tool made developing quality software better - What tools do you use to setup your CI/CD - Combining projects/plugins/tools to build amazing things "Not enough people in the open source community know how to use $X, but here's a tutorial on how to use $X to make your project better." In the past we've had both newbies/students and experienced professionals and past speakers as part of the audience and talks covering from beginner/practical to advanced/abstract topics. If you have doubts then submit your proposal and leave a comment for the devroom managers and we'll get back to you. For more info see: https://fosdem-testingautomation.github.io/ Happy testing, Alex

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