Dear friends and fans of free tools and editors everywhere! Next year's FOSDEM (the free and open source developer's meeting in Brussels, Europe) will for the second time feature a track dedicated to developers and users of free tools and editors: https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/free_tools_and_editors/ <https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/free_tools_and_editors/> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION We therefore invite developers and users of free tools and editors of all kinds to participate in this track and present your projects, roadmaps, demos, hacks, and codes. At FOSDEM, we hope to network all these projects and improve collaboration, bring new ideas forward, and get more people involved. To suggest a talk, go to the following location: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM20 <https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19> ...and follow the instructions (you need an account, but can use your account from last year if you have one). You need to create an 'Event’; make sure it's in the "Free Tools and Editors devroom”. Length per session will be comparable to last year, see below: https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/free_tools_and_editors/ You aren't limited to slide presentations, of course — in fact, we hope you’ll focus on code. Be creative. However, FOSDEM is an open source conference, therefore we ask you to stay very clear of marketing presentations and focus on presenting something relevant to free/open tools and editors. We like nitty-gritty technical stuff! Topics discussed in this devroom can relate to any programming language, and focus on: * Libraries and frameworks * Code generators * Code editors * Visual tools IMPORTANT DATES FOSDEM is February 1st and 2nd, 2020. * Sunday 24 November 2019, midnight CEST: Submission Deadline * Monday 16 December 2019: Schedule is finalized. We will announce the detailed agenda shortly after that. * Sunday 2 February 2020: The devroom takes places FOSDEM is always full to the brim with presentations, so if you want to present, please make sure to submit your abstracts soon! CONTACT The track committee consists of: Trisha Gee, JetBrains Lars Vogel, vogella GmbH, representing Eclipse Geertjan Wielenga, Apache NetBeans Hope to hear from you soon! And please forward this announcement. Trisha, Lars, and Geertjan