Hi all, (note MFT set to distributions@lists.fosdem.org) FOSDEM is a yearly conference that takes place in the campus Solbosch of the Université Libre the Bruxelles, in Brussels, Belgium. The upcoming edition of FOSDEM will happen during the first weekend of February, that is, the 4th and 5th of February, 2012. During the past two editions, there has been a distributions miniconference at FOSDEM, inviting talks from all distribution projects. Distributions that have cooperated in the past include Debian, Fedora, CentOS, openSUSE, Mandriva, NixOS, and more. The distributions miniconference will happen again this year, and we are still seeking proposals for sessions. I've sent out two previous calls for sessions for the miniconference that set the deadline for talk proposals to December 22nd, 2011, which is tomorrow. A list of current proposals can be found at <http://barbershop.grep.be/~wouter/fosdem/2012/talk_proposals.txt>. There are some interesting proposals there, but unfortunately there aren't enough; we'll have two rooms for two days, which means we'll have around 32 hours worth of talk slots. A variety of sessions are welcome; round-table talks, BoFs as well as presentations, on any subject related to distribution development. Sessions can be about a subject specific to one particular distribution, or can be targetted to distribution developers in general. As said, the original deadline was December 22nd, but I am hereby extending the deadline until January 1st, 2012. People interested in holding a talk or chairing a BoF or round table are hereby invited to submit a proposal to the distributions@lists.fosdem.org mailinglist (moderated for non-subscribers), containing the following information: - their name, - a (short) bio, - a title for the session, - an abstract for the session, - an expected duration for the session, including time for questions by the audience. Note that the distributions@lists.fosdem.org mailinglist may also be used to discuss possible BoFs or round tables before actually formally proposing a session, or for general discussion relating to the miniconference. Note: feel free to forward this call to a wider audience on other mailinglists where appropriate. Regards, -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a