<<< help spread the word and make FOSDEM awesome >>> FOSDEM is a non-commercial event offering open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renowned for being highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ geeks from all over the world. FOSDEM will take place in Brussels, Belgium on the 2nd and 3rd of February 2013. We invite proposals for *devrooms* and *main track talks*: *Main Track Talks* The main tracks host high-quality seminars for a broad and technical audience. Every track is organized around a theme (security, kernel, collaboration, ...). They are held in the two biggest auditoria and last 50 minutes. Each of the talks is given by a speaker who gets their travel and accommodation costs reimbursed. To apply for a FOSDEM Main Track talk, visit https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_main_speakers.html To suggest a main track speaker that we should invite, mail program@fosdem.org *Devrooms* A devroom is a 'developer room' in which open source communities can organize their own schedule, made of presentations, brainstorming and hacking sessions. Our goal is to stimulate developer collaboration and cross-pollination between projects. Each year we receive more requests than we can host. To better achieve our goals, preference will be given to *proposals involving multiple, collaborating projects*. Projects with similar goals/domains that make separate requests will be asked to co-organize a devroom under their common theme. To propose organizing a devroom, visit https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_devrooms.html Note! Linux distributions should apply to the dedicated distribution mini-conference: https://fosdem.org/2013/distrominiconf.html *Key Dates* - 1 October: deadline for devroom proposals - mid October: devroom announcements - 1 November: deadline main track proposals - mid November: main track announcements - 2 and 3 February: FOSDEM 2013