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FOSDEM 2018 Config Management Devroom Call For Papers is open!
by Heck, Walter 19 Oct '17

19 Oct '17

The FOSDEM Call for Proposals for the Configuration Management devroom on February 4th, 2018 is open! FOSDEM Submissions are due on November 12th, 2017. If you submitted a talk to a previous FOSDEM, you should already have an account in Pentabarf, so make sure that you log in with your existing account. You should only need to create an account if you have not submitted a talk to FOSDEM in recent years. FOSDEM has a bunch of devrooms, so please make sure that you select the "Config Management" devroom in the "Track" dropdown when you submit your talk. Submissions filed under an incorrect devroom will not be noticed. Submit here: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18 Topic Description: Mini-talks from real world case studies, brainstorming and hacking around configuration and systems management from complex virtual environments and cloud computing to desktops and laptops. There is huge interest in automation, monitoring, performance management, configuration management, and DevOps. We are looking for presentations from people who are working in the field on these topics: * Configuration and Systems Management theory, principles and development * Configuration and Systems Management tools - with an emphasis on real world use cases * Techniques and case studies * Audit, Compliance and Security * Various DevOps topics, including collaboration and training tips. Please note that presenting at FOSDEM implies giving permission to be recorded. The recordings will be published under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). This same team of people is also organizing ConfigManagementCamp, which is in nearby Gent on February 5th and 6th. The CFP is also open, and we encourage you to submit your talks before the November 5th, 2017 deadline. Details: http://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/#contributions Regards, The ConfigManagementCamp and FOSDEM CfgMgmt Devroom organising team

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[CFP] FOSDEM 2018, RTC devroom, speakers, volunteers neeeded
by FOSDEM RTC Team 19 Oct '17

19 Oct '17

FOSDEM is one of the world's premier meetings of free software developers, with over five thousand people attending each year. FOSDEM 2018 takes place 3-4 February 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. https://fosdem.org This email contains information about: - Real-Time Communications dev-room and lounge, - speaking opportunities, - volunteering in the dev-room and lounge, - related events around FOSDEM, including the XMPP summit, - social events (the legendary FOSDEM Beer Night and Saturday night dinners provide endless networking opportunities), - the Planet aggregation sites for RTC blogs Call for participation - Real Time Communications (RTC) ======================================================= The Real-Time dev-room and Real-Time lounge is about all things involving real-time communication, including: XMPP, SIP, WebRTC, telephony, mobile VoIP, codecs, peer-to-peer, privacy and encryption. The dev-room is a successor to the previous XMPP and telephony dev-rooms. We are looking for speakers for the dev-room and volunteers and participants for the tables in the Real-Time lounge. The dev-room is only on Sunday, 4th of February 2018. The lounge will be present for both days. To discuss the dev-room and lounge, please join the FSFE-sponsored Free RTC mailing list: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc To be kept aware of major developments in Free RTC, without being on the discussion list, please join the Free-RTC Announce list: http://lists.freertc.org/mailman/listinfo/announce Speaking opportunities ---------------------- Note: if you used FOSDEM Pentabarf before, please use the same account/username Real-Time Communications dev-room: deadline 23:59 UTC on 30th of November. Please use the Pentabarf system to submit a talk proposal for the dev-room. On the "General" tab, please look for the "Track" option and choose "Real Time Communications devroom". https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18/ Other dev-rooms and lightning talks: some speakers may find their topic is in the scope of more than one dev-room. It is encouraged to apply to more than one dev-room and also consider proposing a lightning talk, but please be kind enough to tell us if you do this by filling out the notes in the form. You can find the full list of dev-rooms at https://www.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/tracks/ and apply for a lightning talk at https://fosdem.org/submit Main track: the deadline for main track presentations is 23:59 UTC 3rd of November. Leading developers in the Real-Time Communications field are encouraged to consider submitting a presentation to the main track at https://fosdem.org/submit First-time speaking? -------------------- FOSDEM dev-rooms are a welcoming environment for people who have never given a talk before. Please feel free to contact the dev-room administrators personally if you would like to ask any questions about it. Submission guidelines --------------------- The Pentabarf system will ask for many of the essential details. Please remember to re-use your account from previous years if you have one. In the "Submission notes", please tell us about: - the purpose of your talk - any other talk applications (dev-rooms, lightning talks, main track) - availability constraints and special needs You can use HTML and links in your bio, abstract and description. If you maintain a blog, please consider providing us with the URL of a feed with posts tagged for your RTC-related work. We will be looking for relevance to the conference and dev-room themes, presentations aimed at developers of free and open source software about RTC-related topics. Please feel free to suggest a duration between 20 minutes and 55 minutes but note that the final decision on talk durations will be made by the dev-room administrators based on the number of received proposals. As the two previous dev-rooms have been combined into one, we may decide to give shorter slots than in previous years so that more speakers can participate. Please note FOSDEM aims to record and live-stream all talks. The CC-BY license is used. Volunteers needed ================= To make the dev-room and lounge run successfully, we are looking for volunteers: - FOSDEM provides video recording equipment and live streaming, volunteers are needed to assist in this - organizing one or more restaurant bookings (dependending upon number of participants) for the evening of Saturday, 3rd of February - participation in the Real-Time lounge - helping attract sponsorship funds for the dev-room to pay for the Saturday night dinner and any other expenses - circulating this Call for Participation to other mailing lists Related events - XMPP and RTC summits ===================================== The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) has traditionally held a summit in the days before FOSDEM. There is discussion about a similar summit taking place on the 2nd of February 2018 http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Summit_22 - please join the mailing list for details: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/summit Social events and dinners ========================= The traditional FOSDEM beer night occurs on Friday, 2nd of February. On Saturday night, there are usually dinners associated with each of the dev-rooms. Most restaurants in Brussels are not so large so these dinners have space constraints and reservations are essential. Please subscribe to the Free-RTC mailing list for further details about the Saturday night dinner options and how you can register for a seat: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc Spread the word and discuss =========================== If you know of any mailing lists where this CfP would be relevant, please forward this email. If this dev-room excites you, please blog or microblog about it, especially if you are submitting a talk. If you regularly blog about RTC topics, please send details about your blog to the planet site administrators: All projects http://planet.freertc.org planet(a)freertc.org XMPP http://planet.jabber.org ralphm(a)ik.nu SIP http://planet.sip5060.net planet(a)sip5060.net (Español) http://planet.sip5060.net/es/ planet(a)sip5060.net Please also link to the Planet sites from your own blog or web site as this helps everybody in the free real-time communications community. Contact ======= For any private queries, contact us directly using the address fosdem-rtc-admin(a)freertc.org and for any other queries please ask on the Free-RTC mailing list: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc The dev-room administration team: Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <saghul(a)gmail.com> Iain R. Learmonth <irl(a)debian.org> Ralph Meijer <ralphm(a)ik.nu> Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda(a)gmail.com> Daniel Pocock <daniel(a)pocock.pro>

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[CFP] FOSDEM 2018, RTC devroom, speakers, volunteers neeeded
by FOSDEM RTC Team 19 Oct '17

19 Oct '17

FOSDEM is one of the world's premier meetings of free software developers, with over five thousand people attending each year. FOSDEM 2018 takes place 3-4 February 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. https://fosdem.org This email contains information about: - Real-Time Communications dev-room and lounge, - speaking opportunities, - volunteering in the dev-room and lounge, - related events around FOSDEM, including the XMPP summit, - social events (the legendary FOSDEM Beer Night and Saturday night dinners provide endless networking opportunities), - the Planet aggregation sites for RTC blogs Call for participation - Real Time Communications (RTC) ======================================================= The Real-Time dev-room and Real-Time lounge is about all things involving real-time communication, including: XMPP, SIP, WebRTC, telephony, mobile VoIP, codecs, peer-to-peer, privacy and encryption. The dev-room is a successor to the previous XMPP and telephony dev-rooms. We are looking for speakers for the dev-room and volunteers and participants for the tables in the Real-Time lounge. The dev-room is only on Sunday, 4th of February 2018. The lounge will be present for both days. To discuss the dev-room and lounge, please join the FSFE-sponsored Free RTC mailing list: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc To be kept aware of major developments in Free RTC, without being on the discussion list, please join the Free-RTC Announce list: http://lists.freertc.org/mailman/listinfo/announce Speaking opportunities ---------------------- Note: if you used FOSDEM Pentabarf before, please use the same account/username Real-Time Communications dev-room: deadline 23:59 UTC on 30th of November. Please use the Pentabarf system to submit a talk proposal for the dev-room. On the "General" tab, please look for the "Track" option and choose "Real Time Communications devroom". https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18/ Other dev-rooms and lightning talks: some speakers may find their topic is in the scope of more than one dev-room. It is encouraged to apply to more than one dev-room and also consider proposing a lightning talk, but please be kind enough to tell us if you do this by filling out the notes in the form. You can find the full list of dev-rooms at https://www.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/tracks/ and apply for a lightning talk at https://fosdem.org/submit Main track: the deadline for main track presentations is 23:59 UTC 3rd of November. Leading developers in the Real-Time Communications field are encouraged to consider submitting a presentation to the main track at https://fosdem.org/submit First-time speaking? -------------------- FOSDEM dev-rooms are a welcoming environment for people who have never given a talk before. Please feel free to contact the dev-room administrators personally if you would like to ask any questions about it. Submission guidelines --------------------- The Pentabarf system will ask for many of the essential details. Please remember to re-use your account from previous years if you have one. In the "Submission notes", please tell us about: - the purpose of your talk - any other talk applications (dev-rooms, lightning talks, main track) - availability constraints and special needs You can use HTML and links in your bio, abstract and description. If you maintain a blog, please consider providing us with the URL of a feed with posts tagged for your RTC-related work. We will be looking for relevance to the conference and dev-room themes, presentations aimed at developers of free and open source software about RTC-related topics. Please feel free to suggest a duration between 20 minutes and 55 minutes but note that the final decision on talk durations will be made by the dev-room administrators based on the number of received proposals. As the two previous dev-rooms have been combined into one, we may decide to give shorter slots than in previous years so that more speakers can participate. Please note FOSDEM aims to record and live-stream all talks. The CC-BY license is used. Volunteers needed ================= To make the dev-room and lounge run successfully, we are looking for volunteers: - FOSDEM provides video recording equipment and live streaming, volunteers are needed to assist in this - organizing one or more restaurant bookings (dependending upon number of participants) for the evening of Saturday, 3rd of February - participation in the Real-Time lounge - helping attract sponsorship funds for the dev-room to pay for the Saturday night dinner and any other expenses - circulating this Call for Participation to other mailing lists Related events - XMPP and RTC summits ===================================== The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) has traditionally held a summit in the days before FOSDEM. There is discussion about a similar summit taking place on the 2nd of February 2018 http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Summit_22 - please join the mailing list for details: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/summit Social events and dinners ========================= The traditional FOSDEM beer night occurs on Friday, 2nd of February. On Saturday night, there are usually dinners associated with each of the dev-rooms. Most restaurants in Brussels are not so large so these dinners have space constraints and reservations are essential. Please subscribe to the Free-RTC mailing list for further details about the Saturday night dinner options and how you can register for a seat: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc Spread the word and discuss =========================== If you know of any mailing lists where this CfP would be relevant, please forward this email. If this dev-room excites you, please blog or microblog about it, especially if you are submitting a talk. If you regularly blog about RTC topics, please send details about your blog to the planet site administrators: All projects http://planet.freertc.org planet(a)freertc.org XMPP http://planet.jabber.org ralphm(a)ik.nu SIP http://planet.sip5060.net planet(a)sip5060.net (Español) http://planet.sip5060.net/es/ planet(a)sip5060.net Please also link to the Planet sites from your own blog or web site as this helps everybody in the free real-time communications community. Contact ======= For any private queries, contact us directly using the address fosdem-rtc-admin(a)freertc.org and for any other queries please ask on the Free-RTC mailing list: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc The dev-room administration team: Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <saghul(a)gmail.com> Iain R. Learmonth <irl(a)debian.org> Ralph Meijer <ralphm(a)ik.nu> Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda(a)gmail.com> Daniel Pocock <daniel(a)pocock.pro>

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[CFP] FOSDEM 2018 - Testing/Automation Devroom
by R. Tyler Croy 17 Oct '17

17 Oct '17

(pardon my markdown, this can also be viewed: https://github.com/fosdem-testingautomation/fosdem-testingautomation.github…) 2018 will be the sixth year for the Testing/Automation dev room at [FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2016). This room is about creating better software through a focus on testing and automation at all layers of the stack. From creating libraries and end-user applications all the way down to packaging, distribution and deployment. Testing and automation is not isolated to a single toolchain, language or platform, there is much to learn and share regardless of background! # What Since this is the sixth year we're hosting the Testing and Automation dev room, here are some ideas of what we would like to see, and what worked in prior years, they're just ideas though! Check out the [2013](https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/testing_and_automation…, [2014](https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/track/testing_and_automation…, [2015](https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/testing_and_automation…, [2016](https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/testing_and_automation…, [2017](https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/testing_and_automation… schedules for inspiration. ### Testing in the real, open source world * War stories/strategies for testing large scale or complex projects * Tools that extend the ability to test low-level code * Projects that are introducing new/interesting ways of testing "systems" ### Cool Tools (good candidates for lightning talks) * Explain/demo how your open source tool made developing quality software better * 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." # Where FOSDEM is hosted at [Universite libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium](https://fosdem.org/2018/practical/transportation/). The Testing and Automation dev room is likely slated for Building H, room 2213, which seats ~100. # When * CFP Submission Deadline: **23:59 UTC, 26 November 2017** * Schedule Announced: **15 December 2017** * Presentations: **3 February 2018** # How Please submit one (or more) 30-40 minute talk proposal(s) OR one (or more) 10 minute lightning talk proposal(s) by **23:59 UTC on November 26th 2017**. We will notify all those submitting proposals about their acceptance by December 15th 2017. To submit a talk proposal (you can submit multiple proposals if you'd like) with [Pentabarf](https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18/), the FOSDEM paper submission system. Be sure to select `Testing and Automation` otherwise we won't see it! You can create an account, or use an existing account if you already have one. Please note: FOSDEM is a [FLOSS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software) community event, by and for the community, please ensure your topic is appropriate (i.e. this isn't the right forum for commercial product presentations) # Who * [R. Tyler Croy](https://github.com/rtyler) - Jenkins hacker * [Mark Waite](https://github.com/markewaite) - Jenkins/Git hacker For more/update-to-date information, please see https://fosdem-testingautomation.github.io - R. Tyler Croy ------------------------------------------------------ Code: <https://github.com/rtyler> Chatter: <https://twitter.com/agentdero> xmpp: rtyler(a)jabber.org % gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key 1426C7DC3F51E16F ------------------------------------------------------

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Graph Processing Devroom CfP
by Martin Junghanns 17 Oct '17

17 Oct '17

Hi, we updated our Devroom website and the CfP. Please update your list with the following link: https://graphdevroom.github.io/ Submission deadline will be: November 26th Thank you very much! See you in February. Cheers, Martin

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FOSDEM PGDay and Devroom 2018 - Call for Papers
by Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum 17 Oct '17

17 Oct '17

FOSDEM PGDay 2018 is a one day conference that will be held ahead of the main FOSDEM event in Brussels, Belgium, on Feb 2nd, 2018. This will be a one-day PostgreSQL focused event with a single track of talks. This conference will be held at the Brussels Marriott Hotel. Registration is required to attend and since we have a limited number of seats available for this event, we urge everybody to register as soon as possible once open. PostgreSQL Europe will also have our regular devroom at the main FOSDEM event during the weekend. No registration is required to attend this day. For full details about the conference, venue and hotel, see the event website at https://2018.fosdempgday.org/. The call for papers is now open for both FOSDEM PGDay and our devroom. We are looking for talks to fill both these days with content for both insiders and new users. Submissions can be made to both events, or just one, please note in the submission form at which event you are interested in presenting. Note that we are NOT using the FOSDEM Pentabarf system for submissions. The website has all the details at https://2018.fosdempgday.org/callforpapers/. The deadline for submissions is November 19th, 2018, so get your submissions in soon! We hope to see you in Brussels! -- Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum German PostgreSQL User Group European PostgreSQL User Group - Board of Directors Volunteer Regional Contact, Germany - PostgreSQL Project

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Unsubscribe
by Ivan Ivanov 17 Oct '17

17 Oct '17

Sent from my phone > On Oct 17, 2017, at 13:00, fosdem-request(a)lists.fosdem.org wrote: > > Send FOSDEM mailing list submissions to > fosdem(a)lists.fosdem.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/fosdem > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > fosdem-request(a)lists.fosdem.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > fosdem-owner(a)lists.fosdem.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of FOSDEM digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Geospatial devroom - Call for Participation (Johan Van de Wauw) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 21:17:50 +0200 > From: Johan Van de Wauw <johan.vandewauw(a)gmail.com> > To: FOSDEM visitors <fosdem(a)lists.fosdem.org> > Subject: [FOSDEM] Geospatial devroom - Call for Participation > Message-ID: > <CAJOp35nH=cS0pzri1jbHUndVjD0kB4zc+yGqrU1dvsQyVPAwMg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Please forward! > > FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 8000 > developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source > software developers and communities a place to meet and share > thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are > welcome. The next edition will take place on 3 - 4 February 2018. For > the fourth time there will be a Geospatial devroom and will be > happening on Sunday *4/2/2018*! > > Geospatial technologies and mapping used to be specialist work, but > nowadays location and maps are becoming part of many > projects/applications, which usually use only a small subset of the > possibilities the data and software offer. > > The geospatial devroom is the place to talk about open, geo-related > data and software and their ecosystem. This includes standards and > tools, e.g. for spatial databases, and online mapping, geospatial > services, used for collecting, storing, delivering, analysing, and > visualizing purposes. > > We welcome submissions about: > * Web and desktop GIS applications; > * Collaborative editing / versioning of geodata and metadata; > * Interoperable geospatial web services and specifications; > * Collection of data using sensors / UAVs / satellites; > * Geo-analytic algorithms / libraries; > * Geospatial extensions for classical databases (indexes, operations) > and dedicated databases; > * Big geodata, distributed and scalable GIS applications; > * Volunteered Geographic information - Crowdsourced geodata. > > HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL FOR A TALK > > Are you thrilled to present your work to other open source developers? > Would you like to run a discussion? Any other ideas? Please submit > your proposal at: > > https://fosdem.org/submit > > Make sure to select the 'Geospatial devroom' as 'Track'. If you have > an account from previous years, you should be using the same. > > Please specify in the notes if you prefer for your presentation either > a short timeslot (lightning talks ~10 minutes) or a long timeslot (20 > minutes presentation + discussion). However, note that time slots are > indicative and will be assigned according to the timing of the > session. > > The DEADLINE for submissions is Thursday **1st December 2017**. > > Notification of acceptance will be sent to the Authors by 11/12/2017 > at the latest. > > Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch > with the organisers of the devroom at fosdem-geospatial at gisky.be! > > Want to know what FOSDEM geospatial is like? Check out the videos and > the presentations of our previous editions. > > The organizers > Johan Van de Wauw > Margherita Di Leo > Anne Ghisla > Martin Hammitzsch > Marc Vloemans > > [1] https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ > [2] https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/ > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > FOSDEM mailing list > FOSDEM(a)lists.fosdem.org > https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/fosdem > > End of FOSDEM Digest, Vol 109, Issue 13 > ***************************************

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Geospatial devroom - Call for Participation
by Johan Van de Wauw 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

Please forward! FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event bringing together about 8000 developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source software developers and communities a place to meet and share thoughts. The participation is free of charge, although donations are welcome. The next edition will take place on 3 - 4 February 2018. For the fourth time there will be a Geospatial devroom and will be happening on Sunday *4/2/2018*! Geospatial technologies and mapping used to be specialist work, but nowadays location and maps are becoming part of many projects/applications, which usually use only a small subset of the possibilities the data and software offer. The geospatial devroom is the place to talk about open, geo-related data and software and their ecosystem. This includes standards and tools, e.g. for spatial databases, and online mapping, geospatial services, used for collecting, storing, delivering, analysing, and visualizing purposes. We welcome submissions about: * Web and desktop GIS applications; * Collaborative editing / versioning of geodata and metadata; * Interoperable geospatial web services and specifications; * Collection of data using sensors / UAVs / satellites; * Geo-analytic algorithms / libraries; * Geospatial extensions for classical databases (indexes, operations) and dedicated databases; * Big geodata, distributed and scalable GIS applications; * Volunteered Geographic information - Crowdsourced geodata. HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL FOR A TALK Are you thrilled to present your work to other open source developers? Would you like to run a discussion? Any other ideas? Please submit your proposal at: https://fosdem.org/submit Make sure to select the 'Geospatial devroom' as 'Track'. If you have an account from previous years, you should be using the same. Please specify in the notes if you prefer for your presentation either a short timeslot (lightning talks ~10 minutes) or a long timeslot (20 minutes presentation + discussion). However, note that time slots are indicative and will be assigned according to the timing of the session. The DEADLINE for submissions is Thursday **1st December 2017**. Notification of acceptance will be sent to the Authors by 11/12/2017 at the latest. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the organisers of the devroom at fosdem-geospatial at gisky.be! Want to know what FOSDEM geospatial is like? Check out the videos and the presentations of our previous editions. The organizers Johan Van de Wauw Margherita Di Leo Anne Ghisla Martin Hammitzsch Marc Vloemans [1] https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/geospatial/ [2] https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/geospatial/

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CfP Announcement: Virtualization and IaaS Devroom
by Piotr Kliczewski 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

On behalf of oVirt and the Xen Project, we are excited to announce that the call for proposals is now open for the Virtualization & IaaS devroom at the upcoming FOSDEM 2018, to be hosted on February 3 and 4, 2017. This year will mark FOSDEM’s 18th 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. FOSDEM will be held once again in Brussels, Belgium, on February 3 & 4, 2018. This devroom is a collaborative effort, and is organized by dedicated folks from projects such as OpenStack, Xen Project,, oVirt, QEMU, and Foreman. We would like to invite all those who are involved in these fields to submit your proposals by December 1st, 2017. 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 Apache CloudStack, OpenStack, oVirt, QEMU, OpenNebula, and Ganeti. 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 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: 01 December 2017 Acceptance notifications: 14 December 2017 Final schedule announcement: 21 December 2017 Devroom: 03 and 04 February 2018 (two days- different rooms) 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 45 minutes, with 35 minutes planned for presentations, and 10 minutes for Q&A. All presentations will be recorded 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 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.) Speaker Mentoring Program As a part of the rising efforts to grow our communities and encourage a diverse and inclusive conference ecosystem, we're happy to announce that we'll be offering mentoring for new speakers. Our mentors can help you with tasks such as reviewing your abstract, reviewing your presentation outline or slides, or practicing your talk with you. You may apply to the mentoring program as a newcomer speaker if you: Never presented before or Presented only lightning talks or Presented full-length talks at small meetups (<50 ppl) Submission Guidelines Mentored presentations will have 25-minute slots, where 20 minutes will include the presentation and 5 minutes will be reserved for questions. The number of newcomer session slots is limited, so we will probably not be able to accept all applications. You must submit your talk and abstract to apply for the mentoring program, our mentors are volunteering their time and will happily provide feedback but won't write your presentation for you! 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. How to Apply In addition to agreeing to video recording and confirming that you can attend FOSDEM in case your session is accepted, please write "speaker mentoring program application" in the "Submission notes" field, and list any prior speaking experience or other relevant information for your application. Call for Mentors Interested in mentoring newcomer speakers? We'd love to have your help! Please email iaas-virt-devroom at lists.fosdem.org with a short speaker biography and any specific fields of expertise (for example, KVM, OpenStack, storage, etc.) so that we can match you with a newcomer speaker from a similar field. Estimated time investment can be as low as a 5-10 hours in total, usually distributed weekly or bi-weekly. Never mentored a newcomer speaker but interested to try? As the mentoring program coordinator, email Brian Proffitt[3] and he will be happy to answer your questions! 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 watching time for the speakers, and helping with video for the devroom. Please contact me, Brian Proffitt, 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/FOSDEM17>https://penta.fosdem.org/ submission/FOSDEM18 [2] iaas-virt-devroom at lists.fosdem.org <https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/fosdem>[3] bkp at redhat.com <https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/fosdem>

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FOSDEM 2018 Monitoring & Cloud devroom - CFP
by Carl Bergquist 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

# Monitoring & Cloud devroom at FOSDEM 2018 FOSDEM 2018 will take place during the weekend of February 3rd-4th 2018. More details about the event can be found at http://fosdem.org/ # Call For Participation The Monitoring & Cloud developer room is devoted to all things monitoring. Presentation topics could include: - Monitoring cloud native services - Running container platforms/orchestrator - Application performance management - Cultural aspects of building good monitoring. - Anything regarding Metrics/Logs/Distributed tracing - Monitoring tools and technologies Talks should be either - 25min followed by 5min Q&A - 5min lighting talk Important dates: - 26 Nov 2017: submission deadline for talk proposals - 15 Dec 2017: announcement of the final schedule - 3 Feb 2018: Monitoring and Cloud devroom (Saturday) Talk proposals will be reviewed by a steering committee: Carl Bergquist, Ben Kochie , Brian Brazil, Fabian Stäber, Ihor Dvoretskyi, Richard Hartmann # Submit your proposal Use the FOSDEM 'pentabarf' tool to submit your proposal: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18 - If necessary, create a Pentabarf account and activate it. Please reuse your account from previous years if you have already created it. - 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 Cloud" 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. Please count at least 5 minutes of discussion into your proposal. 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. If you plan to be a speaker, please understand that by doing so you implicitly give consent for your talk to be recorded and streamed. The recordings will be published under the same license as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY).

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