# FOSDEM 23 - Emulator Development Room CFP

The Call for papers for the FOSDEM emulator development room is hereby open!

At long last, the upcoming FOSDEM 23 will once again take place **IRL** at the [Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium](https://fosdem.org/2023/practical/transportation/).

### What is FOSDEM?

~~Stolen~~/Borrowed from the website:

_**FOSDEM 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._

#### Important stuff:

- FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration.

- [FOSDEM website](https://fosdem.org/)

- [FOSDEM code of conduct](https://fosdem.org/2023/practical/conduct/)

- [Emulator devroom schedule](https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/track/emulator_development/)

### Desirable topics

Really **anything** goes, but here are some ideas (for inspiration):

- Console emulator development

- Computer emulator development

- Hardware on hardware emulation

- OS emulation development

- Virtual Machine development

- Emulation history

- ...

#### Desirable speakers

We honestly don't care. Experienced speakers are very welcome, but hobbyists and/or first time speakers are equally welcome. As long as you have passion and/or knowledge you care to share.

### How to submit your proposal

To submit a talk, please visit the [FOSDEM 2023 Pentabarf website](https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM23) (we are all but certain that pentabarf has something to do with the 5th dimension 🍎).

Create an **event** and click on **Show all** in the top right corner to display the full form.

### What should be in your submission

- name

- short bio

- contact info

- title (funny titles are ~~required~~/appreciated)

- abstract (what you're gonna talk about)

- duration

### Important Dates

- **December 15th: submission deadline**

- FAQ - is the submission deadline final?

- Technically speaking, you can submit talks till pentabarf closes, which should be somewhere in January

- However, talks submitted before the 16th get a higher precedence

- ASAP: announcement selected talks

- February 5th: FOSDEM!

### [Contact us](mailto:emulator-devroom-manager@fosdem.org)

- [Mahmoud Abdelghany](https://twitter.com/blackbeard0x14e)

- [Christophe Creeten](mailto:christophecreeten@hotmail.com)

- [Niels Renard](https://twitter.com/nielsrenard)