The following (in Markdown format) is also available at https://hackmd.io/@spdx/FOSDEM-2025-CfP ------ # FOSDEM 2025 - SBOM devroom info and CfP ## Overview [FOSDEM] is one of the world's premier meetings of free software developers, with thousands of people attending each year. FOSDEM 2025 will take place on the weekend of 1-2 February 2024 in Brussels. This is the Call for Participation (CfP) in the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) Devroom at FOSDEM 2025. ## Details The SBOM Devroom will take place for a full day (09:00-17:00), on Sunday 2 February 2024, and will be an in-person event in a room to be announced later. The SBOM Devroom at FOSDEM is an informal, technical event oriented to authors, users, and enthusiasts of FLOSS programs that produce, consume, or transform SBOMs. While other domains like construction, mechanical engineering, or even computer hardware have long used the concept of Bill of Materials (BOMs), software traditionally has not followed this best practice. There have been efforts running for over a decade to address this, and recent developments have pushed forward the use and wide adoption of Software BOMs. Since most of today’s software is made up of Open Source, it is important that this information can be accurately conveyed. It includes, but is not limited to, metadata such as name and version, but also licensing or security information. The goal of the devroom is for interested people to get in touch with each other, exchange ideas and opinions, have interesting and hopefully productive discussions, and finally what is most important: have fun. **We are looking for presenters!** ## Call for participation We are interested in presentations on any topic related to Software Bill of Materials: usage, content, definitions, standardization efforts, etc. An indicative, non-exclusive, list of topics is: - Use of different types of SBOMs (e.g., Design, Source, Build, Deployed, Runtime, etc.) in the Software Supply Chain - Verification and linking of SBOMs to other relevant artifacts - Case studies and lessons learned from real-life use or introduction of SBOMs - Special areas of interest not covered by current SBOM formats, that need discussion to be included ### Key dates * 1 December: Submission deadline (be careful: Brussels time!) * 15 December: Announcement of devroom schedule * 2 February: SBOM devroom in FOSDEM (You must be available in person to give your presentation!) ### Submission process Please use the [FOSDEM submission] system to submit a talk proposal for the devroom. Remember to select "Software Bill of Materials" for the "Track" pop-up selection! ### First-time speakers FOSDEM devrooms are a welcoming environment for people who have never given a talk before. Please feel free to contact the devroom administrators personally if you would like to ask any questions about it. ### Submission guidelines The proposal submission system will ask for all the relevant information, in a succession of three screens. We will be looking for relevance to the conference and devroom themes, but essentially any presentation about SBOMs would qualify. Please note that the audience is expected to be _developers_ of Free and Open Source Software and will most probably be _knowledgeable_ in at least some aspects of SBOMs. Therefore aim your presentation accordingly; no need to introduce what SBOMs are, for example. Feel free to indicate in the "Submission Notes" area your preferred duration for your presentation between 5 and 45 minutes, but please note that the final decision on duration will be made by the devroom organizers based on the number of accepted proposals. As the overall duration of the devroom is fixed, the only way to accommodate more speakers is by limiting the length of each talk. Keep in mind that, as the event will be in-person, we also need to account for switching between speakers. Shorter presentations are **strongly** encouraged! Please note that FOSDEM aims to live-stream and record all presentations. The CC-BY license is used for the recordings. ## Volunteers needed To make the devroom run successfully, we are always looking for volunteers. If you will be attending the devroom and would like to help run it better, please reach out to the organizers! ## Spread the word and discuss If you know of any mailing lists or other online venues where this info and CfP would be relevant, please feel free to forward this document. ## Contact The organizers of the devroom can be reached by sending email to sbom-devroom-manager@fosdem.org. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any inquiry or suggestion for the devroom. For any private queries, you may also contact the organizers directly: - Alexios Zavras <fosdem@zvr.gr> - Kate Stewart <stewart@linux.com> - Adolfo García Veytia <adolfo.garcia@uservers.net> [FOSDEM]: https://fosdem.org [FOSDEM submission]: https://fosdem.org/submit ------ -- zvr -