--- The same CfP can be found at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gpa_4fMaVOv3srdh4zLCwF2KjjRIjJODAjrOyY7B... in case you prefer nice formatting -- The Monitoring & Observability developer room is devoted to all things monitoring and enabling humans to grok computer, system, and other data. Presentation topics could include: * Anything regarding metrics/logs/distributed tracing/profiling * Application performance management * Monitoring tools and technologies * Using IT best practices in other fields. Maybe you’re managing wind farms? A brewery? And general directions could be: * Beginner-friendly content * Cultural aspects of building good monitoring * Success and failures Talks will have two durations: * 25 min followed by 5 min Q&A * 5min lighting talk Timeline & Selection * Important dates: * 2019-10-05: This CfP opens * 2019-11-26: Submission deadline for talk proposals * 2019-12-15: Announcement of the final schedule * 2020-02-02: Monitoring and Observability devroom (Sunday, 09:00-17:00) Talk proposals will be reviewed by a program committee (alphabetical order): * Carl Bergquist <Grafana Labs> * Brian Brazil <Robust Perception> * Ben Kochie <GitLab> * Richard “RichiH” Hartmann <SpaceNet> * Fabian Stäber <Instana> Submit your proposal * Use the FOSDEM’s pentabarf to submit your proposal at https://penta.fosdem.org/submission * If necessary, create a Pentabarf account and activate it. Please reuse your account from previous years if you have already created one in the past. * In the "Person" section, provide First name, Last name (in the "General" tab), Email (in the "Contact" tab) and Bio ("Abstract" field in the "Description" tab). * Submit a proposal by clicking on "Create event". * Important! Select the "Monitoring and Observability" track (on the "General" tab). * Provide the title of your talk ("Event title" in the "General" tab). * Provide a description of the subject of the talk and the intended audience (in the "Abstract" field of the "Description" tab) * Provide a rough outline of the talk or goals of the session (a short list of bullet points covering topics that will be discussed) in the "Full description" field in the "Description" tab * Provide an expected length of your talk in the "Duration" field. Either 25 or 5 min. Travel assistance Please note that as this is a community conference with a very tight budget, we cannot cover any travel or lodging costs. Recording of talks The FOSDEM organizers plan to have live streaming and recording fully working, both for remote/later viewing of talks, and so that people can watch streams in the hallways when rooms are full. This requires speakers to consent to being recorded and streamed. By submitting an event, you give consent for you, your talk, and your content to be recorded and streamed. You also agree to share your slides in PDF and optionally other formats. The recordings will be published under the same license as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). Code of Conduct We follow FOSDEM’s CoC: https://fosdem.org/2020/practical/conduct/. We also request respect towards the speakers, especially quiet entry/exit by attendees so that Q&A can run in parallel. If question is repurposed for commentary, we will shut it down. In short: Be excellent to each other -- Richard