Email is the workhorse of digital communication. It's one of the oldest decentralized messaging platforms, and we must keep implementations up to date with new standards/techniques/programming languages. # Call for Participation The "Modern Email" developer room seeks speakers, volunteers, and participants! We want to get together as email developers/users, learn about each other's projects, have technical discussions, exchange implementation/operational experiences, and share plans and visions for the future of email. The Devroom will be held on Saturday, February 1 2025, a full day, with primarily talks on the schedule. The submission deadline for talks is December 1st, 2024. * Speaker: As a speaker, you're invited to present your work in the developer room. * Volunteer: As a volunteer, you would be helping us out during the sessions. * Participant: As a participant, whether introverted or extroverted, you are excellent to everyone and make the day! Please distribute this CfP as widely as possible to interested parties! # Topics Some suggestions for talks: * Overview of the current state of email (as a keynote) * Your free/open source software project(s) related to email. From demo to details. * Current developments, upcoming standards, e.g. JMAP (https://jmap.io), structured email (https://structured.email), ... * Efforts to modernize our email ecosystem, e.g., through implementations in modern languages. * Integrating email with other software, e.g., through APIs. * Message/transport security/authenticity. * Experiences with deliverability, email operations, anti-spam, hosting, ... * Related technologies such as calendaring/PIM. * Visionary talks * Where should email be in 10 years? * Can we add end-to-end encryption (to the masses) through, e.g., MLS? * Can we provide simple solutions for on-prem (private) hosting? * ... # Submission We ask for a short talk abstract (+ proposed duration) and a speaker biography (+ contact info). Any material that shows your affinity to the field is also appreciated, e.g., a collection of links to your work, talks, projects, blog posts, etc. Submissions must be made through Pretalx (https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp) no later than December 1st (23:55 CET). The suggested duration for a talk is 25 minutes (20 minutes presentation + 5 minutes Q&A). However, we explicitly invite you to propose the best duration for your talk. If the best way to present your project is a 5-minute lightning talk, we'll happily arrange a lightning session! Depending on the proposals, we may contact you to adapt the time of the session to fit the devroom schedule. Important: Choose "Modern Email" in the track drop-down menu when submitting your proposal. Once the devroom schedule is finalized, we will contact you to help you prepare your talk. # Side events ## Pre-FOSDEM Hackathon (Friday) Upon frequent request, we'd like to organize an informal pre-FOSDEM email hackathon on Friday (31st of January). Please add your name and ideas to https://hackmd.io/@ndFSGqY1SC6Cc0DEpHHU1w/r1dkwOAeyx if you're interested and if you have ideas/proposals. It would also be great if someone could provide/recommend a meeting space for the event (we'd expect some 10-20 people probably?). ## Friends-of-Email Dinner (Saturday) Following last year's good practice, we'd like to reserve a table for an informal "friends of email" dinner/drinks session either on FRI or SAT evening. Add your name to https://hackmd.io/@ndFSGqY1SC6Cc0DEpHHU1w/HyMUuORxye) or email us if you'd like to join, so we can guess the group size (we were some 20+ people last time! Venue proposals welcome as well. # Recordings Talks and Q&A sessions at FOSDEM will be recorded. The recordings will be published under the same license as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). By agreeing to present at FOSDEM, you automatically give permission to be recorded. The organizers will agree to make exceptions only for exceptional and well-reasoned cases. # Important dates * October 30th, 2024: Modern Email DevRoom open for submissions * December 1st, 2024: Modern Email DevRoom submission deadline * December 15th, 2024: Announcement of final schedule * January 31st, 2025: Modern Email Hackathon (TBD) * February 1st, 2025: FOSDEM Day 1 - "Modern Email" DevRoom day! and Dinner in the evening # Contact For the latest details, see: https://github.com/modern-email/FOSDEM-25 Join the matrix room (also for coordination during FOSDEM): https://matrix.to/#/#modern-email-fosdem-25:matrix.org Contact the organizers: * Benoit Tellier, btellier@linagora.com * Damian Poddebniak, poddebniak@mailbox.org * Hans-Jörg Happel, happel@audriga.com * Mechiel Lukkien, mechiel@ueber.net We are looking forward to a great day at FOSDEM with you!