Welcome to the Testing and Automation FOSDEM 2013 Call For Participation! We will be hosting a developer room all day Saturday, February 2nd 2013 at FOSDEM. This is the first year for the Testing/Automation dev room at FOSDEM. This room is about creating better software through a focus on testing and automation at all layers of the stack. From creating libraries and end-user applications all the way up to a packaging, distribution and deployment. Testing and automation is not isolated to a single toolchain, language or platform, there is much to learn and share regardless of background! Please submit one (or more) 30-40 minute talk proposal(s) OR one (or more) 10 minute lightning talk proposal(s) by 23:59 UTC on December 21st 2012. We will notify all those submitting proposals about their acceptance by the January 6th 2013. Submission form: <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dG9LM2lOY1J5VzFiZTZXWUcxRXhqY1E6MQ> "Official" (full) CFP: <https://gist.github.com/4107243> The devroom selection group is comprised of members of the Jenkins, Cucumber, RSpec, and Selenium projects. We look forward to seeing a great mix of presentations addressing the topic of testing and automation! If you are interested in participating with the organizing of the devroom, please join our mailing list here: <https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/testautomation-devroom> Feel free to forward this call for abstracts and papers to any relevant mailing lists, people and sites. We're looking forward to seeing lots of passionate developers and users discussing the problems and more importantly the solutions facing many in the developer community. February 2nd also marks the 2 year anniversay of the creation of the Jenkins project, so be sure to join us at the end of the day (Feb 2nd) for a birthday toast! Cheers! - R. Tyler Croy -------------------------------------- Code: https://github.com/rtyler Chatter: https://twitter.com/agentdero