Hi all,
The Call for Proposals for the Open Source Design devroom at FOSDEM'22 has been announced:
Submission deadline is December 23rd 2021.
Here is the full text of the CFP:
The Open Source Design devroom showcases design work happening within
free and open source projects, because yes, there is design alive in
FOSS.
We mean “design” in a broad sense, and we include within that term
typography, graphic design, interaction design, user experience,
human-computer interaction, accessibility, information architecture,
content strategy, service design, design research and .
We hope to see you there.
We have 1 full day of the conference on Saturday the 5th of February.
The event will be online and all presentations will be pre-recorded, but
you are required to be online and present during your presentation and
for 5-10 minutes after to answer any questions the audience watching
your talk may have.
To submit your talk you will need to create a pentabarf account (if you
do not already have one) and make the submission through the FOSDEM pentabarf system. Pentabarf is the official name of the FOSDEM talk submission and management system (see beginner’s guide).
When prompted to select ‘Track’ be sure to select ‘Open Source Design’ devroom otherwise we will not recieve your submission.
Types of talks Open Source Design are looking for:
- How you have contributed as a designer to OSS and your experiences
- What OSS can do to include designers in their OSS
- Show design work, methods, examples and guides
- Inclusion, diversity, mentoring and governance of OSS from a design perspective
- Anything else related to design and OSS!
Requirements
To be able to submit a talk you must fulfill these formal requirements:
- You should target a talk duration of 20 minutes with 5 mins of Q&A (leaves us with 5 mins change over for talks).
- We are also open to durations up to 40 minutes with 5 mins of
Q&A for talks with a bigger scope, but we would encourage sticking
to 20 minute durations.
- Be able to pre-record a talk in advance. In order for us to check
over the recording all videos must be submitted by January 22nd 2022.
- Since FOSDEM is held during European (CET timezone) day hours you
need to be available during the day on the 5th of February for your
presentation and the ensuing Q&A.
Important Dates and Deadlines
Submission deadline for talk proposal: December 23rd 2021
Selected talks announced: December 31st 2021
After all talks are rated, we will inform you about the status of your submission starting Mid-December.
Video recording submission: January 22nd 2022
Open Source Design will be programed on Saturday the 5th February 2022.
All deadline times are 23:59 UTC.
Additional support
Make sure to check out the FOSDEM Code of Conduct.
For any questions about this call for participation you can reach out to us in the Open Source Design discourse forum or via email
Looking forward to your proposals,
The Open Source Design people