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FOSDEM 2018 Package management devroom
by Benjamin Nickolls 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

Package Management Devroom at FOSDEM ‘18 On Saturday 3rd February FOSDEM will host its first devroom dedicated to the subject of package management at [ULB](http://www.ulb.ac.be/). Topic As this is the first time we’re hosting a package management devroom we want you to bring your own take. We’re open to exploring issues around distribution, verification, complexity, reproducibility, immutability, versioning, orphaning and sustaining package managers as an essential part of the open source ecosystem. Experiences, cautionary tales and ‘best-practice’ type talks are welcome. We are also considering a panel discussion. Submissions Submissions require a small abstract and a short speaker description and must be submitted via the Pentabarf system no later than 1st of December 2017. The suggested duration for a timeslot to apply for is 25 minutes (20 min presentation + 5 mins questions). The schedule shall be finalized by 15 December 2016. Instructions Go to https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18 <https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18> If you don't have an account from previous years, register Create a new event with your title and abstract and some information about you, please indicate within your submission whether you would like to be a part of a panel discussion. Be sure to set the event track to "Package Management devroom" Note that by submitting a talk you agree to your talk (or panel discussion) being recorded and released under a Creative Commons CC-BY-SA licence. Important Dates - 2017-12-01: Deadline for submissions - 2017-12-11: Talks announced and speakers notified of acceptance - 2017-12-15: Schedule published - 2018-02-02: Package management devroom is LIVE

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FOSDEM 2018 Source Code Analysis devroom - Call for Participation
by Alfredo Beaumont 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

FOSDEM [1] 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. Next year it will be on February 3-4 [2]. Next FOSDEM will have a half day Source Code Analysis devroom for the first time. We think it's a great opportunity to gather developers for different projects to know each other, share ideas and build a community. The devroom is now accepting submissions of talk proposals. We are looking for technical (all levels, from introductory to advanced), developer-oriented talks. The format will be 20 minutes talk, 5-10 minutes for Q&A (30 minutes slot per talk). The topic of the talks should be around what static analysis can do in the FOSS world, how it’s done (tools), and how these tools and results can be combined. These analysis/tools include, but are not limited to: - Parser Generation - Linting - Static Code Analysis - Autocompletion - Code transformation - IDEs - Refactoring In general: all things on top of an Abstract Syntax Tree or previous compiler analysis phases. Please use the Pentabarf [3] system to submit your proposals and file it under the track "Source Code Analysis". You do not need to create a new account if you already have one. When in doubt, please use the devroom mailing list [4]. The deadline for your proposal is on December the 1st. Make sure to include the following in your proposal: - Title of your talk (will be printed in the FOSDEM booklet) - Your full name (will be printed in the FOSDEM booklet) - A short abstract (one or two paragraphs) The official devroom schedule (along with the accepted talks) will be announced on December the 11th on the devroom mailing list and the speakers will be notified via e-mail. The schedule will also be published on the FOSDEM website. *Important dates* - 2017-12-01: Deadline for submissions - 2017-12-11: Talks announced and speakers notified of acceptance - 2017-12-15: Schedule published - 2018-02-04: The devroom takes places [1] https://fosdem.org/ [2] https://fosdem.org/2018/practical/transportation/ [3] https://fosdem.org/submit [4] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/source-code-analysis-devroom

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Fwd: Retrocomputing DevRoom CfP
by Pau Garcia i Quiles 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

Retrocomputing DevRoom Call for Participation FOSDEM is a free software event that offers open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renown for being highly developer-oriented and brings together 8000+ participants from all over the world. It is held in the city of Brussels (Belgium). FOSDEM 2018 will take place during the weekend of February 3rd-4th 2018. More details about the event can be found at http://www.fosdem.org. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The Retrocomputing DevRoom is a first-timer at FOSDEM, with talks about use of older computing hardware and software in modern times. Presentation topics could include but are not limited to: - Emulation of old systems to run videogames, legacy software, etc - Open source software emulation/simulation - Open hardware - Operating systems/executives for retrocomputers/retrosystems - Uses of retrocomputing today - Other retrosystems topics - Opportunities in retrocomputing You are not 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. We are not afraid of technical stuff: devrooms are a place for development teams to meet, discuss, hack and publicly present their project’s latest improvements and future directions. If you will have special needs for your talk (e. g. because you will need to plug some sort of a system), please note that clearly in your proposal so that we can provide it. You can use the Wikipedia definition of retrocomputing as a reference definition to see if you talk qualifies, although it is not exclusive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrocomputing IMPORTANT DATES - 25 Nov 2017: submission deadline for talk proposals - 15 Dec 2017: announcement of the final schedule - 4 Feb 2018: Retrocomputing dev room USEFUL INFORMATION 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 "Retrocomputing DevRoom" track (on the "General" tab). If you do not select a track, then nobody, from any track, will look at your submission! - 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, including discussion. The default duration is 30 minutes. Please note neither FOSDEM nor the Retrocomputing DevRoom will reimburse any expenses you incur 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). Hope to hear from you soon! And please forward this announcement. CONTACT The Retrocomputing DevRoom is managed by Pau Garcia Quiles ( retrocomputing-devroom-manager(a)fosdem.org) A mailing list of speakers, audience and the curious is available, please subscribe at: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/retrocomputing-devroom -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org

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FOSDEM'18 Open Source Design Devroom - Call for Participation
by Victoria Bondarchuk 15 Oct '17

15 Oct '17

Sunday, February 4th, 2018, Brussels, Belgium *# Overview * After successful runs in 2015, 2016 and 2017, there will be again a design devroom at FOSDEM 2018: a full day of talks about design work on free, libre and open source projects. The Open Source Design devroom will take place on Sunday, February 4th. We invite everyone to send in submissions about design work on free, libre and open source projects. We mean ‘design’ in the broadest sense: user research, interface and interaction design, information architecture, visual design, typography, illustration, iconography, accessibility … – all in the context of open source projects, which we believe introduces unique challenges. Designers and developers working with designers (or on a design-minded project) are welcome to submit proposals. *# Possible topics include: * - FOSS design tools - Design techniques and deliverables - Design - engineering collaboration approaches - User engagement and design research activities - Project case studies *# What and how to submit * Recording and licensing: The talks in the Open Source Design devroom will be audio and video recorded, and possibly streamed live too. By submitting a proposal you consent to be recorded and agree to license the content of your talk under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) license. *# Format: * 20-minute presentations *# Submission deadline*: 1st December 2017 *# How to submit * All submissions are made in the Pentabarf event planning tool <https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18/>at https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18/ . When submitting your talk in Pentabarf, make sure to select the ‘Open source design devroom’ as the ‘Track’. If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous year, 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, do not despair: contact victoria dot bondarchuk at gmail dot com *# Organizers * The Open Source Design Devroom is coordinated by the Open Source Design community <http://opensourcedesign.net/> Happy Sunday, Victoria Bondarchuk

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Open Media devroom FOSDEM 2018 - Call For Participation
by Christophe Massiot 15 Oct '17

15 Oct '17

Hi all, The Open Media devroom will again be organised at FOSDEM 2018, and we are looking for propositions of talks and panels. FOSDEM is one of the largest (5,000+ hackers!) gatherings of Free and Open Source Software contributors in the world and happens each February in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). This year, the Open Media devroom will take place on: Saturday, February 3rd, 2018 # About the Open Media devroom The Open Media room will focus on all Free & Open Source media projects, including software and hardware, spanning from building audio & video applications, through standards, formats, codecs, video analytics and search to Web video, IPTV, broadcasting and radio practices and much more. If you're interested in video, image or audio technologies, and the breadth of available open source technologies and communities for media - the Open Media room is for you! For more information about the previous year sessions: https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/open_media/ # CFP Guidelines The deadline for submission is: December 1st 2017 (Friday). * To submit your proposal, visit: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18 * A typical presentation will last for up to 20 minutes, with an additional 5 minutes Q&A and 5 minutes for speaker switching/prep in between. Panel discussions may last up to 35 minutes. (Feel free to ask if you want to have a longer or a shorter slot.) IMPORTANT: Please make sure to select **”Open Media devroom”** track for your submission. * You will need to create an account (or use your account from previous years) and then go to "create event”, and add the details of your presentation. * Selected talks will be notified by December 15th 2017. * All sessions will be recorded and be made available under CC-BY licence by FOSDEM at https://video.fosdem.org/ . # Your submission must include the following information * The title and subtitle of your talk (please be descriptive). * select **”Open Media devroom”** as the track. * 1 paragraph detailing what the talk will discuss, and why attendees should attend it. * A longer description if you have more details to share. * Links to related material/websites/blogs etc. # Community The official communication channel is the Open Media devroom mailing-list. Join the list at: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/open-media-devroom You may also be interested to check out the list of Open Source resources collected by the European Broadcasting Union at: https://ebu.io/opensource And please don't hesitate to contact us for more information! Christophe, Ben, Frans and Kieran, On behalf of the Open Media devroom.

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[CFP] Decentralized Internet & Privacy devroom
by Julien Rabier 15 Oct '17

15 Oct '17

Welcome to Decentralized Internet & Privacy at FOSDEM 2018 (Brussels, Belgium, February 4th). Open Source and Free Software initial promises were to empower individuals when it came to computing. Three decades later, computing practices are tightly coupled to the Internet ecosystem. PCs are less and less used while smartphones are soaring and data is collected and stored on servers on which we have very limited control as users. What happened to user's freedom and privacy in the meantime? The outlook is not so great: we have less and less control over our digital environment. Network neutrality is heavily attacked and mainstream software products are usually proprietary or run on servers we don't have control over. Modern technology has given the powerful new abilities to eavesdrop and collect data on people - with critical social and political consequences. FOSDEM is a free software event that offers free software communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renown for being highly developer- oriented and brings together 8000+ participants from all over the world. It is held in the city of Brussels (Belgium). In 2018, FOSDEM will take place during the weekend of February 3rd-4th 2018. More details about the event can be found at http://fosdem.org/. On Sunday, February 4th, the Decentralized Internet & Privacy devroom will be a place for development teams to present the state of their project and future directions, answer questions from the audience and followup in the hacking rooms nearby afterwards. Call For Participation ====================== There is a bright future ahead of us if we unite our efforts toward decentralized services and Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD as defined by EFF). This devroom welcomes all technical projects and initiatives, to share their progress and inspire others. Presentation topics could include: Technologies and initiatives focused on decentralization: - Community-driven networks - Community based around self-hosting or local hosting - Self-hosting solutions - Ethical hosting providers / alternatives to GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft) - Decentralized / federated network protocols and platforms - Decentralized / distributed instant messaging, file sharing and content storage Technologies and initiatives focused on privacy: - Anonymous overlay networks - Whistleblower platforms - Privacy oriented Operating Systems - Infrastructure supporting anonymous browsing - Operational security: how to minimize the amount of information someone can collect about you online and on the streets - Basic threat modeling: what sort of paranoia do you realistically need to have? - Steps to minimize damage in the event of a breach Talks are expected to be technical as it is FOSDEM. ** Important dates - 26 Nov 2017: submission deadline for talk proposals - 15 Dec 2017: announcement of the final schedule - 4 Feb 2018: Decentralized Internet & Privacy (Sunday) Talk proposals will be reviewed by a steering committee: - heartsucker (SecureDrop // Freedom of the Press Foundation Volunteer) - Loïc Dachary (SecureDrop // Artisan Logiciel Libre) - Tristan Nitot (Cozy Cloud // Chief Product Officer) - Julien Rabier (Ilico) - Bram (YunoHost // Neutrinet) 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 "Decentralized Internet & Privacy" 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 10 minutes of discussion into your proposal. Suggested talk length is 20 minutes and 10 minutes for questions. 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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Containers devroom at FOSDEM 2018: Call for papers
by Stéphane Graber 15 Oct '17

15 Oct '17

Hey everyone, We'll be running a containers devroom at FOSDEM 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. This edition will be during the weekend of the 3rd and 4th of February. We're looking for anything container related, regardless of operating systems and ranging from low level kernel work all the way to high level management tools. Talk length should be one of 10, 20 or 40 minutes. The submission deadline is November 30th with notifications going out by December 11th. More details on the devroom can be found here: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/fosdem-containers-devroom-call-for-pa… Submissions should be sent through: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18 Should you have any question, you can reach the devroom organizers through: containers-devroom-manager(a)fosdem.org Looking forward to seeing you all in Brussels! Stéphane PS: Please forward this message to any relevant project mailing-lists.

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Call for Participation: Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom at FOSDEM 2018
by Tom Marble 13 Oct '17

13 Oct '17

########################################################################### Call For Participation Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom at FOSDEM 2018 CONFERENCE DATE: Saturday & Sunday 3-4 February 2018 in Brussels, Belgium DEVROOM DATE: Sunday 4 February 2018 CFP DEADLINE: Sunday 26 November 2017 at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) SPEAKERS NOTIFIED: Sunday 3 December 2017 (on or before) CFP Introduction ================ Copyright law provides many of the basic legal underpinnings of Open Source and Free Software. Patent and trademark law and legal frameworks relating to data privacy and security also have significant effects on Free Software development. Governance and policies around free software projects set the rules for collaboration and can be critical to a project's success. Our community has substantial expertise in this area yet there are few venues to discuss these matters in a forum open to all. Hackers, lawyers, policy experts, and community leaders all possess expertise in these matters. TL;DR ===== Hackers, contributors and lawyers alike are encouraged to submit on any project policy or legal topic. Successful proposals will cover topics of interest at a medium to advanced level. Fill out an application on FOSDEM's Pentabarf. (See below for details.) Topics Sought ============= This DevRoom seeks proposals for 25 minute talks and/or open discussion sessions in an unconference format that address issues of software freedom project policies and legal issues that extend beyond and/or are orthogonal to technical issues faced by projects. Such topics could include, but aren't necessarily limited to: * 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? Do you want to ask questions of a room full of experts about your project's governance? * 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 advise 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? * 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 Open Source and 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! Should I Submit? ================ However, 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 Open Source and Free Software. Look at past talks in our DevRoom for inspiration: 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 26 November 2017 at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) Please use the following URL to submit your talk to FOSDEM 2018: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18 and follow these rules: * 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.) * 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 25 minute time slot. If you select any other time amount, your submission is very likely to be rejected. Only choose a longer slot if your proposal is exceptionally interesting and is a group discussion rather than a solo talk. * 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 2018, 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 Sunday, 4 February 2018 in Brussels. (You may include time slots of non-availability on Sunday, but this may negatively impact acceptance decisions.) Failure to follow these instructions above (and those on the FOSDEM 2018 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 "Submissions 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. This year, our DevRoom is one day, so unfortunately we expect that most proposals will be rejected. Please, submit your best possible work and put effort into crafting your submission to give yourself the best chance of acceptance. About the DevRoom Organizers ============================ The co-organizers of the FOSDEM 2018 Legal and Policy Issues DevRom are (in alphabetical order by surname): - Richard Fontana, Member of Board of Directors of the Open Source Initiative; Senior Commercial Counsel, Red Hat - Bradley M. Kuhn, Distinguished Technologist of Software Freedom Conservancy and Member of Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation - Tom Marble, Creative Technologist, Informatique, Inc. - Karen Sandler, Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, pro bono counsel to the Free Software Foundation and the GNOME Foundation, Visiting Scholar/Faculty team of Center for Research in Open Source Software, University of California Santa Cruz You are welcome to contact us all at <fosdem-legal-policy at faif.us> with questions about this CFP. ###########################################################################

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FOSDEM'18 Rust Devroom Call for Participation
by Andy Georges 13 Oct '17

13 Oct '17

# FOSDEM'18 Rust Devroom Call for Participation When: Sunday, 4 February 2018 Where: Brussels, Belgium. ## Overview Welcome to the 1st edition of the Rust devroom, co-located with FOSDEM 2018 (https://fosdem.org/2018/) FOSDEM is an annual conference about free and open source software, attended by over 5000 developers and open-source enthusiasts from all over the world. The devroom is a colocated conference-within-a-conference that gives us the opportunity to come together and chat, hack, and share stories about Rust usage in FLOSS ecosystems. The devroom will take place on Sunday, 4 February 2018, at ULB (Campus Solbosch) (https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1632534522) in Brussels, Belgium. Join us to enjoy a full day of talks, demos and interesting discussions on Rust. Sounds interesting? Submit your talk proposal below and see you in Brussels! ## Topics We welcome any talk proposals about Rust-related projects. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - The Rust language - Recent features and future roadmap - Architecting large projects - Rust usage across FLOSS projects (Tor, VLC, Gnome, Firefox, etc.) - Projects written in Rust (show and tell, architecture and API design) - Tooling - Build tools (cargo, clippy, rustfmt, etc.) - Packaging libraries and executables written in Rust - Profiling, FFI, etc. - Documentation and education initiatives - Community initiatives - How to contribute - RFC process Slots will be allocated for short (20 minutes) and long (40 minutes) talks. Speakers need to specify their preferred format. Both include time for questions and answers. Depending on number of submissions and topics, submitters could be asked for a different format instead. ## Submission We invite authors to submit original, high-quality work with sufficient background material to be clear to the Rust community. Please be aware of the fact that Devroom talks at FOSDEM will be recorded. By submitting a proposal you agree to being recorded and to have your talk made available. Submissions must include: - Abstract - Session type - Session length - Expected prior knowledge / intended audience - Speaker bio - Links to code / slides / material for the talk (optional) - Links to previous talks by the speaker Submit here: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18 When submitting your talk in Pentabarf, make sure to select the 'Rust Devroom' as the 'Track'. If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous FOSDEM edition, 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, do not despair: contact rust [dash] devroom [at] lists.fosdem.org ## Dates - Call for papers available: 13 October 2017 - Call for participation closes: 24 November 2017 - Devroom schedule available: 15 December 2017 - Devroom day: Sunday 4 February 2018 (09:00 to 17:00) ## Devroom Organizers * [Andy Georges](https://github.com/iktovian) - [HPC team at Ghent University](https://www.vscentrum.be/) * [Ewan Higgs](https://github.com/ehiggs) - [Western Digital](http://www.wdc.com) * [Luca Bruno](https://github.com/lucab) - [CoreOS](http://coreos.com/) Please, take a moment to read the [FOSDEM Code of Conduct](https://fosdem.org/2018/practical/conduct/). Hope to see you there, Andy, Ewan, Luca

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Go Devroom CfP - FOSDEM 2018
by Francesc Campoy Flores 13 Oct '17

13 Oct '17

Hi gophers, The Go community has been represented at FOSDEM <https://fosdem.org/> every year since 2014, and 2018 will not be an exception! This time the Go devroom got a full (large!) room on Saturday February 3rd and we are now looking for speakers. The format will be 30 minutes talk with some time for Q&A at the end. This is a great opportunity for new speakers, and we will have people helping you craft your talk and slides if so you wish. So if you, or someone you know, are working on something cool that might be good on stage … submit a proposal! Do you want to be one of them? Please submit your proposal using pentabarf here <https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18>. The deadline for submission is November 30th. If you have an account from previous years you can reuse it. Do you want to help organize the devroom? We need people to help with the cameras, set up, and proposal review. Please send me an email to go-devroom-manager(a)fosdem.org if you'd like to help out with this. Any topics related to Go are welcome, with a preference for open source projects rather than product pitches. The room will follow Go's Code of Conduct <https://golang.org/conduct>. Cheers, Francesc Campoy

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