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CfP: geospatial devroom at FOSDEM
by Johan Van de Wauw 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

Call For papers Geospatial devroom @FOSDEM Please forward! FOSDEM is a free open source event bringing together about 5000 developers in Brussels, Belgium. The goal is to provide open source software developers and communities a place to meet at. The next edition will take place the weekend 31/1 -> 1/2/2015. This year for the first time there will be a geospatial devroom on Sunday 1/2/2015! Geospatial technology becomes more and more part of mainstream IT. The idea is to bring together people with different backgrounds to better explain and understand the opportunities Geospatial can offer. This devroom will host topics explaining the state of the art of geospatial technology, and how it can be used amongst other projects. 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 puposes. Typical topics that will be covered are: * Web and desktop GIS applications * Interoperable geospatial web services and specifications * Collection of data using sensors/drones/satellites * Open hardware for geospatial applications * Geo-analytic algorithms/libraries * Geospatial extensions for classical databases (indexes, operations) * Dedicated databases HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR TALK PROPOSAL 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 the Pentabarf event planning tool at: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15 When submitting your talk in Pentabarf, make sure to select the 'Geospatial devroom' as 'Track'. Please specify in the notes if you prefer for your presentation a short timeslot (lightning talks ~10 minutes) or a long timeslot (20 minutes presentation + discussion). The DEADLINE for submissions is **1st December 2014** Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the organisers of the devroom at fosdem-geospatial(a)gisky.be! Johan Van de Wauw Margherita Di Leo Astrid Emde Anne Ghisla Julien Fastré Martin Hammitzsch Andy Petrella Dirk Frigne Gael Musquet

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First main track presentations!
by Gerry Demaret 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

We received a lot of good proposals and deciding which ones to accept is not an easy task. A number of proposals are still being reviewed and we are still working with some speakers. We can already announce the following main track presentations: Performance track * "Building High-Performance Language Implementations With Low Effort", by Stefan Marr * "IgProf", by Giulio Eulisse * "Superoptimization", by James Pallister * "Ubiquitous Performance Analysis and System Introspection", by Lukas Berk Time track * "Computers, Clocks and Network Time", by George Neville-Neil Languages track * "Design and Implementation of a Perl Number Theory Module", by Dana Jacobsen More information at https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/

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Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom at FOSDEM 2015: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
by Bradley M. Kuhn 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

Call For Participation Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom at FOSDEM 2015 CONFERENCE DATE: Saturday 31 January 2015 in Brussels, Belgium CFP DEADLINE: Monday 17 November 2014 at 12:00 UTC SPEAKERS NOTIFIED: Wednesday 26 November 2014 (on or before) CFP Introduction ================ Open Source and Free Software are possible as a result of hacks on copyright law. Patent and trademark law and the emerging law of data privacy and security also dramatically affect Free Software development. Governance and policies around free software set the rules for collaboration and can be critical to a project's success. Our community has more expertise in this area than you think! The constant mantra of "you'd have to ask a lawyer" has, in our view, given way to the undeniable fact that many participants in Free Software development (both lawyers and non-lawyers are alike) *are* the experts. Topics Sought ============= This DevRoom seeks proposals for 15, 25, 40 and 50 minute talks and/or panel discussions that address the issues of software freedom project policies that are beyond and/or orthogonal to technical issues of the project. Such topics could include, but aren't necessarily limited to: * Who controls the copyright, trademark, or patent licensing, release plans, 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? * 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 a project faced and how did your community deal with it? What lessons did you learn? * 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 impact your community? Are all your developers paid? What policies do you set to welcome volunteers to join a community where most developers are paid? Does reliance on volunteer labor lead to lack of diversity since only the affluent can participate? * How do projects handle conflicts of interest and make sure that relevant interests of contributors are disclosed in important decision making discussions? * Case studies of positive examples of commercial actors in Free Software. 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 many submissions from lawyers, we've found in our careers that non-lawyers often know just as much (and sometimes more) about these topics than lawyers. Developers who regularly face complex policy and legal questions for projects 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 topics for Open Source and Free Software. Be sure to look at past talks in our DevRoom for inspiration: 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 Monday 17 November 2014 at 12:00 UTC Capricious rejection of late submissions may occur. YMMV. Talk to your doctor before choosing to submit a late proposal. Please use the following URL to submit your talk to FOSDEM 2015: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15 and follow the following 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 whether you seek a 15, 25, 40, or 50 minute slot. NOTE: the quality of the submission needs to be progressively *more impressive* the longer time you ask for and we may accept your submission with an alternate duration as our schedule is so tight. * 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. * Affirmative confirmation 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 2015, I hereby agree to license all recordings, slides and any other materials presented under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International license. Sincerely, s/YOUR_NAME/" * Also in the notes field, note your affirmative confirmation of availability to speak on Saturday 31 January 2015 in Brussels. (You may include time slots of non-availability on Saturday, but this may negatively impact acceptance decisions.) Failure to follow these instructions above (and those on the FOSDEM 2015 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(a)faif.us> for assistance. Travel Funding does not exist (sadly)! -------------------------------------- We are volunteer track organizers of a volunteer conference. We cannot sponsor travel ourselves. However, please *do* submit anyway if you aren't sure about your travel funding and mention in your application that you have uncertainties. Please note that we may have to deny your proposal due to lack of travel funding alone, but we would like the opportunity to talk and discuss the situation with highly exceptional speakers who would like to join our DevRoom but can't due to lack of funding. Diversity Statement ------------------- The organizers of this DevRoom are committed to increasing the diversity of the free software movement, and to making the diversity that already exists more visible. 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. Please share any demographic information about yourself in the "Submissions Notes" field that you are comfortable sharing. 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. Based on our many previous years of experience in this DevRoom, we must 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, and since our DevRoom is one day rather than two this year, the decisions will be even harder. About the DevRoom Organizers ============================ The co-organizers of the FOSDEM 2015 Legal and Policy Issues DevRom are (in alphabetical order by surname): - Richard Fontana, Member of Board of Directors of the Open Source Initiative and Associate General Counsel, Hewlett-Packard - Bradley M. Kuhn, Member of Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation and President and Distinguished Technologist, Software Freedom Conservancy - Tom Marble, Creative Technologist, Informatique, Inc. - Karen Sandler, Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy and Director of the GNOME Foundation and Pro Bono General Counsel of QuestionCopyright.org You are welcome to contact us all at <fosdem-legal-policy(a)faif.us> with questions about this CFP. ######################################################################

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Smalltalk Devroom at FOSDEM 2015: Call for Participation
by Stephan Eggermont 13 Oct '14

13 Oct '14

Call for Participation in the Smalltalk Devroom at FOSDEM 2015. http://www.fosdem.org, please forward " A devroom for the Pharo, Squeak, Amber, GST, Etoilé, Seaside, Moose Smalltalk projects & Objective Smalltalk and Newspeak as derived languages. Smalltalk environments offer a very high development productivity, unmatched by their successors. Come do some pair programming with us and experience yourself the advantages of a real OO environment" The meetup will take place Sunday, February 1, 2015, room S.H.2214. This room has 100 seats, a VGA video projector and wireless internet. Presentations will be video recorded (CC BY). Proposals on content and format are welcome. HOW TO SUBMIT: All submissions are made in the Pentabarf event planning tool at https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15 When submitting your talk in Pentabarf, make sure to select the 'Smalltalk devroom' as the 'Track'. If you already have an account there, please reuse it. QUESTIONS & VOLUNTEERS Any questions, and video volunteers, please mail to stephan[@]stack[dot]nl with [FOSDEM] in the subject. I will send out updates on a regular basis to the lists and anyone stating his interest. PLANNED SCHEDULE: Sessions of 30/60 minutes (-5 min setup), last session a two hour hands-on introduction to smalltalk. First session or lunch session can be show-us-your-project, lightning talks. The desired time slot is meant to help you prevent conflicts with other dev rooms in which you might have a talk or your travel arrangements. There are alternative, non smalltalk-specific tracks available: lightning talk and the main track Please submit before December 1, 23:00 GMT+1. Devroom related URLs: http://www.pharo.org http://www.squeak.org/ http://etoileos.com/ http://www.seaside.st/ http://smalltalk.gnu.org/ http://www.moosetechnology.org http://amber-lang.net http://newspeaklanguage.org/ http://http://objective.st http://www.esug.org FOSDEM is the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting, a free and non-commercial two-day weekend event that offers open source contributors a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate.

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Open Source Design Devroom: Call for Participation
by belen barros pena 13 Oct '14

13 Oct '14

This is the Call for Participation for the FOSDEM 2015 Open Source Design devroom. We invite you to send in your submissions about design work on free, libre and open source projects. FOSDEM is the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting, a free and non-commercial two-day weekend event that offers open source contributors a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. For the first time this year, there will be a design devroom at FOSDEM: a full day of talks around design work on free, libre and open source projects. The Open Source Design devroom will take place on Sunday, February 1st. We mean ‘design’ in the broadest sense, from user research, to interface and interaction design, typography, and usability testing - 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. What and how to submit ===================== RECORDING AND LICENSING: It is quite likely that the talks in the Open Source Design devroom will be audio and video recorded. By submitting a proposal you consent to be recorded and agree to license the content of your talk under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY) license. FORMAT: 30-minute presentations (we are leaving 15 minutes for questions and discussion). SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1st December 2014 HOW TO SUBMIT: All submissions are made in the Pentabarf event planning tool at https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15 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 belenbarrospena at gmail dot com WHO COORDINATES THIS OPEN SOURCE DESIGN DEVROOM THING? Belén Barros Pena Jan-Christoph Borchardt Felix Niklas Lewis Nyman Dani Nordin Hylke Bons Lisa Rex Roy Scholten Philipp Sackl Bastian Ilsø Hougaard Mikael Korpela Bernard Tyers

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Call for Participation for Electronic Design Automation Devroom 2015
by Javier Serrano 11 Oct '14

11 Oct '14

I published a CFP for the Electronic Design Automation Devroom 2015 at http://www.ohwr.org/projects/ohr-meta/wiki/FOSDEM2015 Cheers, Javier

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Configuration Management Devroom CFP is open
by Dawn Foster 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

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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Re: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM Digest, Vol 87, Issue 1
by Pieter Hintjens 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

Yay! More things! More FOSDEM! More Internet!!! :-) Very happy to be able to run this devroom again, thank you. On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 7:34 PM, <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. Accepted developer rooms (Philip Paeps) > 2. Re: Accepted developer rooms (Mario Torre) > 3. Re: Accepted developer rooms (Rodrigo Osorio) > 4. Re: Accepted developer rooms (Sanel Zukan) > 5. Re: Accepted developer rooms (Luc Verhaegen) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 16:41:28 +0200 > From: Philip Paeps <philip(a)fosdem.org> > To: fosdem(a)lists.fosdem.org > Subject: [FOSDEM] Accepted developer rooms > Message-ID: <20141001144128.GL59249(a)rincewind.trouble.is> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > We are pleased to announce the list of developer rooms that will be > organised at FOSDEM 2015. > > Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work together > on open source projects, to discuss topics relevant to a broader subset > of the community, etc. The individual developer room organisers will > issue their calls for participation in the next few days. > > Watch this space. > > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Day(s) Topic | > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Both Distributions | > | Both Embedded | > | Both Graphics | > | Both Java | > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Saturday Ada | > | Saturday BSD | > | Saturday Configuration management | > | Saturday Graph processing | > | Saturday Infrastructure as a service | > | Saturday Legal and policy issues | > | Saturday Lisp | > | Saturday Multimedia | > | Saturday Network management and software-defined networking | > | Saturday Open Document editors | > | Saturday Open source search | > | Saturday PostgreSQL | > | Saturday Python | > | Saturday Perl | > | Saturday Ruby | > | Saturday Valgrind | > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Sunday Desktops | > | Sunday Electronic design automation | > | Sunday Geospatial | > | Sunday Go | > | Sunday Internet of things | > | Sunday LLVM toolchain | > | Sunday Microkernel and component-based operating systems | > | Sunday Mozilla | > | Sunday MySQL and friends | > | Sunday Open source design | > | Sunday PHP and friends | > | Sunday Security | > | Sunday Software-defined radio | > | Sunday Smalltalk | > | Sunday Testing and automation | > | Sunday Virtualisation | > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > Philip > > -- > Philip Paeps > Senior Reality Engineer > Ministry of Information > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 17:29:44 +0200 > From: Mario Torre <neugens.limasoftware(a)gmail.com> > To: fosdem <fosdem(a)lists.fosdem.org> > Subject: Re: [FOSDEM] Accepted developer rooms > Message-ID: > <CAGUMyaQ=McQKW5Mf9=yc_KZwJH0t53jQX3UJhVwY+bfmWqHuKA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi Philip, > > On behalf of the Java DevRoom, thanks! > > Cheers, > Mario > Il 01/ott/2014 07:41 "Philip Paeps" <philip(a)fosdem.org> ha scritto: > >> We are pleased to announce the list of developer rooms that will be >> organised at FOSDEM 2015. >> >> Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work together >> on open source projects, to discuss topics relevant to a broader subset >> of the community, etc. The individual developer room organisers will >> issue their calls for participation in the next few days. >> >> Watch this space. >> >> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ >> | Day(s) Topic | >> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ >> | Both Distributions | >> | Both Embedded | >> | Both Graphics | >> | Both Java | >> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ >> | Saturday Ada | >> | Saturday BSD | >> | Saturday Configuration management | >> | Saturday Graph processing | >> | Saturday Infrastructure as a service | >> | Saturday Legal and policy issues | >> | Saturday Lisp | >> | Saturday Multimedia | >> | Saturday Network management and software-defined networking | >> | Saturday Open Document editors | >> | Saturday Open source search | >> | Saturday PostgreSQL | >> | Saturday Python | >> | Saturday Perl | >> | Saturday Ruby | >> | Saturday Valgrind | >> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ >> | Sunday Desktops | >> | Sunday Electronic design automation | >> | Sunday Geospatial | >> | Sunday Go | >> | Sunday Internet of things | >> | Sunday LLVM toolchain | >> | Sunday Microkernel and component-based operating systems | >> | Sunday Mozilla | >> | Sunday MySQL and friends | >> | Sunday Open source design | >> | Sunday PHP and friends | >> | Sunday Security | >> | Sunday Software-defined radio | >> | Sunday Smalltalk | >> | Sunday Testing and automation | >> | Sunday Virtualisation | >> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ >> >> Philip >> >> -- >> Philip Paeps >> Senior Reality Engineer >> Ministry of Information >> _______________________________________________ >> FOSDEM mailing list >> FOSDEM(a)lists.fosdem.org >> https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/fosdem >> >

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Accepted developer rooms
by Philip Paeps 01 Oct '14

01 Oct '14

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Call for participation: lightning talks and stands
by Wynke Stulemeijer 19 Sep '14

19 Sep '14

We now invite proposals for lightning talks and stands. There is still time to submit main track presentations. The deadline for proposing developer rooms has now passed. Please see our previous call for participation for more information on submitting main track proposals. Lightning talks Lighting talks are short — 15 minutes — talks on a wide variety of topics. Anyone who has something interesting to say about an open source topic can apply. We particularly encourage topics that do not fit in any of the developer rooms. Proposals for lightning talks should be submitted using Pentabarf: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15 Please be sure to select "lightning talks" in the "track" field. Questions or remarks? Contact us at lightningtalks(a)fosdem.org. Stands FOSDEM offers open source projects the opportunity to display their work during the event. At their stand, a project can share information, demo software, sell merchandise, give away goodies, and so on, and personally interact with the visitors. What we offer: - one 180x80cm table, positioned in one of the buildings with developer rooms, for the entire duration of the conference. In some cases, a second table may be possible, if you have a good reason to need two. - two chairs per table - one power socket type C/E (if you require adapters or additional sockets, please bring them yourself) - fast uplink shared wireless Internet access Further practical considerations: - The offer for stands is open to open source projects and communities - There is no cost or fee for the stands - The stand should be occupied by at least two people for the duration of the conference. Submission details: Send your request via email to stands(a)fosdem.org. Please include at least the following information: - Project name - Stand description - Project URLs - Your name and relation to the project - Why should FOSDEM accept this proposal? - Optionally, if requesting two tables, motivation for the second table Questions or remarks? Contact us at stands(a)fosdem.org. Key dates: - 1 October * deadline for main track proposals * accepted developer rooms announced - 20 November * deadline for stands and lightning talks - 15 December * accepted stands and lightning talks announced Kind regards, Wynke Stulemeijer.

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