Hello fellow Mozillians, It’s that time of the year again! The Call for Papers for Europe’s largest FLOSS event, FOSDEM, happening on February 6th & 7th 2020 in Brusselson the Internet is now officially open. Just like for the past 19 years, Mozilla is going to host a Developer room at FOSDEM 2021 for a full day and we would love to see and hear all your wonderful talks. For those of you that have no idea what FOSDEM is about, I recommend taking a look at their website (https://fosdem.org <https://fosdem.org/>) Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work together on open source projects and to discuss topics relevant to a broader subset of the community. Proposals should not be limited to the list but those are the ones that stand a higher chance of getting accepted. However, we do encourage you to submit talks on subjects that are not on the list, some of our best talks were on subjects we did not expect at all. However, please keep in mind that the public at FOSDEM is quite technical and knowledgeable about open-source in general. If you want any help or feedback to write your proposal, please get in touch with me. I am happy to put you in relation with someone that can help you to perfect your proposal and/or give you useful feedback. The list of suggested topics is the following: * Web Technologies: HTML, CSS & Layouts * MDN Web Docs * Firefox Developer Tools * Firefox in General * Privacy & Security * Performance * Network on Web browsers * Diversity & Inclusion * … Essential infos: * Submit your proposal on Pentabarf (https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21 <https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21>) , you can find a tutorial about how to use Pentabarf courtesy of the wonderful folks at the Go Devroom (https://eyskens.me/beginners-guide-to-pentabarf/) * Talk proposals deadline: 26th of December at midnight (anywhere in the world). * Acceptance/rejection notice: At the latest for the 31st of December. * Duration: 15 to 45 minutes talks (including questions) would be preferred, anything over 45 minutes and we might ask you to shorten it to fit in the 45 minutes time frame. * You need to be able to pre-record (which implies to have appropriate equipment to do so) your talk for the 21st of January and be available on the 7th of February at the time of your talk broadcast to answer questions. * If you encounter any issues with the proposal tool, please get in touch with me! Community Participation Guidelines The Mozilla devroom respects Mozilla’s community participation guidelines along with the FOSDEM Code of Conduct. These guidelines cover our behaviour as participants, facilitators, space wranglers, staff, volunteers, vendors, and anyone else involved in making the Mozilla devroom possible. -- https://hacking-mind.blogspot.com