# FOSDEM - Real Time Communications devroom CfP ## Overview [FOSDEM] is one of the world's premier meetings of free software developers, with over five thousand people attending each year. FOSDEM 2025 takes place 1-2 February 2025. This document contains information about: - Real-Time Communications developer room (devroom) - Speaking opportunities ## 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! The devroom will take place for **half a day, on Saturday afternoon.** ### Key dates - 1st of December: Submission deadline (strict) - 15th of December: Announcement of selected talks - 1-2 February: Conference date (the RTC devroom will be on Saturday afternoon) ### 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 Please use the [Pretalx] system to submit a talk proposal for the devroom. 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. **Note that talk length might be adjusted since we only have half a day.** ## 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 feel free to send details about your blog to these planet site administrators: - RTC https://planet.freertc.org planet@freertc.org - XMPP https://planet.jabber.org ralphm@ik.nu 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 queries, contact us directly using the address **rtc-devroom-manager@fosdem.org**. The devroom administration team: - Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <s@saghul.net> - Lorenzo Miniero <lminiero@gmail.com> - Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda@gmail.com> - Ralph Meijer <ralphm@ik.nu> [FOSDEM]: https://fosdem.org [Pentalax]: https://fosdem.org/submit