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BSD Devroom CFP is open
by Rodrigo OSORIO 07 Dec '14

07 Dec '14

This is the call for participation for the BSD devroom at the Fosdem 2015, who takes place in Brussels (Belgium) from 31 January to the 1st February. The topic of the devroom includes all BSD operating systems and every talk is welcome from hacker discussions to real-word examples and presentations about new and shiny features. Important dates -------------------- * Submission deadlines : 2014-12-01 * Acceptance notifications: 2014-12-15 Practical -------------------- * The default duration for talks will be 45 minutes including discussion. Feel free to ask if you want to have a longer or a shorter slot. * Presentations can be recorded and streamed, sending your proposal implies giving permission to be recorded. However, exceptions can be made for exceptional circumstances. * A mailing list for the BSD devroom is available for discussions about devroom organization. You can register at this address : https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/bsd-devroom To submit your proposal, visit : https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15 If you already have a Pentabarf account, please *don't* recreate a new one. If you forgot your password, reset it. If not, follow the instructions to create an account. Then create an “event” and click on "Show all" in the top right corner to display the full form. Your submission must include the following information * The title and subtitle of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be listed with ~500 from other projects) * select “BSD devroom” as the track. * A short abstract of one paragraph * A longer description if you wish to do so * Links to related websites/blogs etc. - Rodrigo Osorio On behalf of the BSD Devroom

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Network devroom call for participation
by Dave Neary 05 Dec '14

05 Dec '14

Hi everyone, We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation in the FOSDEM 2015 Networking DevRoom! Important dates: * Nov 25: Deadline for submissions * Dec 1: Speakers notified of acceptance * Dec 5: Schedule published This is the first time that networking has been included as a stand-alone DevRoom, and this year the topics will cover two distinct fields: * Software Defined Networking (SDN), covering virtual switching, open source SDN controllers, virtual routing * Network management, covering host-level networking - NetworkManager, ConnMan, systemd, wicked, kernel network services, network security, etc We are now inviting proposals for talks about Free/Libre/Open-source Software on the topics of SDN and network management. This is an exciting and growing field, and this is a unique opportunity to show novel ideas and developments to a very knowledgeable technical audience. Topics accepted include, but are not limited to: SDN: * SDN controllers - OpenDaylight, OpenContrail, OpenStack Neutron * Dataplane processing: DPDK, OpenDataplane, netdev, netfilter * Virtual switches: Open vSwitch, Snabb Switch, VDE * Open network protocols: OpenFlow, NETCONF, OpenLISP Network management: * Network management: NetworkManager, ConnMan, systemd-networkd, interoperability among these projects * Common code infrastructure: libnl, libmnl, libsystemd, ell, pyroute2 * Network services: DHCP, DNS, DNSSEC, PPP * Connection management: Wifi, tethering, connection sharing, metric and source based routing, Talks should be aimed at a technical audience, but should not assume that attendees are already familiar with your project or how it solves a general problem. Talk proposals can be very specific solutions to a problem, or can be higher level project overviews for lesser known projects. Please include the following information when submitting a proposal: Your name The title of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be listed with around 250 from other projects) Short abstract of one or two paragraphs Short bio (with photo) The deadline for submissions is November 25th 2014. FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of January 31st-February 1st 2015 and the Networking DevRoom will take place on Saturday, January 31st 2015. Please use the following website to submit your proposals: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15 (you do not need to create a new Pentabarf account if you already have one from past years). You can also join the devroom’s mailing list, which is the official communication channel for the DevRoom: network-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org (subscription page: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/network-devroom) – The Networking DevRoom 2015 Organization Team -- Dave Neary - NFV/SDN Community Strategy Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Ph: +1-978-399-2182 / Cell: +1-978-799-3338

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Configuration Management Devroom CFP extended to December 10
by Dawn Foster 02 Dec '14

02 Dec '14

To follow the extension trend I'm seeing for other devrooms, we have also decided to extend the deadline for the Configuration Management room. The new Configuration Management devroom CFP deadline is December 10. Regards, Dawn On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Dawn Foster <dawn(a)puppetlabs.com> wrote: > The FOSDEM Call for Proposals for the Configuration Management devroom > on January 31, 2015 is open! > > FOSDEM Submissions are due on December 1, 2014. 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 "Configuration 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/FOSDEM15 > > 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. > > This same team of people is also organizing ConfigManagementCamp, > which is in nearby Gent on February 2 and 3. The CFP is also open, and > we encourage you to submit your talks before the December 1, 2014 > deadline. Details: http://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/#contributions > > Regards, > Dawn Foster

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Deadline Extended (was: CFP: Open Source Search Dev Room)
by Leslie Hawthorn 02 Dec '14

02 Dec '14

Hello everyone, We have extended the deadline for submissions to the Open Source Search Dev Room to Monday, 9 December at 23:59 CET. Cheers, LH On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Leslie Hawthorn <mebelh(a)gmail.com> wrote: > ***Please forward this CFP to anyone who may be interested in > participating.*** > > Search has evolved to be much more than simply full-text search. We > now rely on “search engines” for a wide variety of functionality: > search as navigation, search as analytics and backend for data > visualization and sometimes, dare we say it, as a data store. The > purpose of this dev room is to explore the new world of open source > search engines: their enhanced functionality, new use cases, feature > and architectural deep dives, and the position of search in relation > to the wider set of software tools. > > We welcome proposals from folks working with or on open source search > engines (e.g. Apache Lucene, Apache Solr, Elasticsearch, Seeks, > Sphinx, etc.) or technologies that heavily depend upon search (e.g. > NoSQL databases, Nutch, Apache Hadoop). We are particularly interested > in presentations on search algorithms, machine learning, real-world > implementation/deployment stories and explorations of the future of > search. > > Talks should be 30-60 minutes in length, including time for Q&A. > > You can submit your talks to us here: > > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11yLMj9ZlRD1EMU3Knp5y6eO3H5BRK7V38G0OxSfp84… > > Should you have any questions, you can contact the Dev Room > organizers: opensourcesearch-devroom(a)lists.fosdem.org > > Cheers, > LH on behalf of the Open Source Search Dev Room Program Committee* > > * Boaz Leskes, Isabel Drost-Fromm, Leslie Hawthorn, Ted Dunning, > Torsten Curdt, Uwe Schindler > > > -- > Leslie Hawthorn > Work Email: leslie.hawthorn(a)elasticsearch.com > http://hawthornlandings.org > http://identi.ca/lh > http://twitter.com/lhawthorn > -- Leslie Hawthorn http://hawthornlandings.org http://identi.ca/lh http://twitter.com/lhawthorn

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Open Source Design Devroom Deadline Extended
by belen barros pena 01 Dec '14

01 Dec '14

The coordinators of the Open Source Design Devroom have agreed to extend the submission deadline until December 8th, so you have a full extra week to submit / tweak your session. Looking forward to receiving your hundreds of proposals ;) and meeting you all in Brussels! Belén

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Ruby Devroom Deadline Extended
by R. Tyler Croy 01 Dec '14

01 Dec '14

The Ruby Devroom organization committee has extended the Call for Presentations deadline until the 12th of December. The announcement of accepted talks will still be as soon as possible on December 15th to allow speakers to have arrangements made, but we wanted to give more speakers an opportunity to submit presentations :) Looking forward to seeing you all in Brussels! - R. Tyler Croy ------------------------------------------------------ Code: <https://github.com/rtyler> Chatter: <https://twitter.com/agentdero> % gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key 3F51E16F ------------------------------------------------------

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Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2015 - deadline Sun 14 Dec 2014
by Dirk Craeynest 29 Nov '14

29 Nov '14

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Presentations 6th Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2015 Saturday 31 January 2015, Brussels, Belgium http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/15/150131-fosdem.html Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe Deadline Sunday 14 December 2014 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The 6th Ada Developer Room will take place on Saturday 31 January at FOSDEM 2015 in Brussels, Belgium. The Call for Presentations is still open: the extended deadline is Sunday 14 December 2014. Do you have a talk you want to give? Do you have a project you would like to present? Would you like to get more people involved with your project? We're inviting proposals that are related to Ada software development, and include a technical oriented discussion. You're not limited to slide presentations, of course. Be creative. Propose something fun to share with people so they might feel some of your enthusiasm for Ada! Speaking slots are 25 or 50 minutes, including Q&A. Depending on interest, we might also organize a session with lightning presentations (e.g. 5 minutes each). Please provide a proposed title, the preferred length, plus an abstract and a short bio similar in style as on the program for previous Ada DevRooms, see for example [1]. We need that to put the draft program together mid December. Please react ASAP, and submit proposals by December 14, 2014 at the latest. We're looking forward to more proposals! Dirk Craeynest, FOSDEM Team of Ada-Belgium Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/-Europe/SIGAda/WG9 mail) PS: The full Call for Presentations is posted on the dedicated web-page on the Ada-Belgium site [2]. [1] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/14/140201-fosdem.html [2] http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/15/150131-fosdem.html Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm

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How to include a co-speaker for a talk
by Lalatendu Mohanty 29 Nov '14

29 Nov '14

Hi, I have submitted a proposal for a talk i.e. "The CentOS Storage SIG and GlusterFS" in "Distribution devroom" track. This talk/lecture will be done by me and Kaleb (CC'ed). But I could not find a way in Pentabarf to add him as a co-speaker. Kindly let me know how I can do that. Thanks, Lala

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Keysigning: please submit your keys
by Niels Laukens 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

The keysigning infrastructure seems to have held up well this year. I spent some time today preparing the infrastructure for FOSDEM 2015. Same procedure as last year: if you intend to participate in the keysigning event, please submit the keys you'd like to have signed to ksp.fosdem.org. If you're using GnuPG, that can be easily accomplished with: % gpg --keyserver ksp.fosdem.org --send-key <your-keyid> Please check that your key was correctly submitted by pointing a webbrowser at http://ksp.fosdem.org/. If your key is missing after you submitted it, send me an email and I'll try to find out what's up. Key submissions close Monday before FOSDEM to give me some time to try to remember how I generated the lists again. Get submitting.

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News item for the new Open Media devroom
by Coinchon, Mathias 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hello, Here's a news item on the new "Open Media" devroom: https://tech.ebu.ch/news/join-the-open-media-track-at-fosdem-2015-17nov14 This devroom is new and co-organised by EBU and FOMS. From EBU side, the objective is to gather open developments related to broadcast media (radio, TV) such as audio/video encoding and processing, playout, production, media exchange&delivery, transmission. There's a growing interest and uses of Free Open Source software in the broadcast community and we regularly organise events. So if you see talks that would fit to this devroom, please don't hesitate to make suggestions or to forward the information about this new devroom. The deadline for the call for presentation is on 1st December. Best Regards Mathias Coinchon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error, please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by the mailgateway **************************************************

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