Hi all, This is a call for proposals for the Real Time Communications devroom. This document contains information about: - Real-Time Communications developer room (devroom) - speaking opportunities - volunteering ## Call for participation - Real Time Communications (RTC) The Real-Time devroom is about all things involving real-time communication, including: XMPP, SIP, WebRTC, telephony, mobile VoIP, codecs, peer-to-peer, privacy, encryption, broadcasting and more! **We are looking for speakers for the devroom and volunteers who can help manage the scheduling and live Q&A sessions.** The devroom will take place for **a full day on Sunday** To discuss the devroom, volunteer or ask questions, please join the [Free-RTC mailing list](http://lists.freertc.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss) ### Key dates - 8th December: Submission deadline - 22th December: Announcement of selected talks - 3-4 February: Conference date ### Speaking opportunities Please use the [Pentalax](https://fosdem.org/submit) system to submit a talk proposal for the devroom. Note that this is a new submission system and accounts from pentabarf were not migrated: Presenters will have to create a new account. ### First-time speaking? 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 Pentalax system is new, please make sure you take some time to get comfortable with it. We will be looking for relevance to the conference and devroom themes, presentations aimed at developers of free and open source software about RTC-related topics. Please note FOSDEM aims to record and live-stream all talks. The CC-BY license is used. ## Volunteers needed To make the devroom run successfully, we are looking for volunteers. Please reach out to the organizers! ## Spread the word and discuss If you know of any mailing lists where this CfP would be relevant, please forward this document. If this devroom 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 https://planet.freertc.org planet@freertc.org - XMPP https://planet.jabber.org ralphm@ik.nu - SIP https://planet.sip5060.net planet@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@freertc.org** and for any other queries please ask on the [Free-RTC mailing list]. The devroom administration team: - Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <s@saghul.net> - Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda@gmail.com> - Lorenzo Miniero <lminiero@gmail.com> - Ralph Meijer <ralphm@ik.nu> -- Saúl