We are excited to announce that the call for proposals is now open for the Network monitoring, discovery and inventory devroom at the upcoming FOSDEM 2021, to be hosted virtually on February 6th 2021. This year will mark FOSDEM’s 21th anniversary as one of the longest-running free and open source software developer events, attracting thousands of developers and users from all over the world. Due to Covid-19, FOSDEM will be held virtually this year on February 6th & 7th, 2021. Please visit our website https://thola.io/posts/thola-fosdem/ for more information and consider sharing this call for participation with friends and colleagues. About our devroom The Network monitoring, discovery and inventory devroom aims to host talks about all network monitoring systems and connected projects. The talks can cover the following subjects: - Monitoring (such as Nagios, Icinga2, Naemon, etc.) in large networks - New check-plugin features - New monitoring features - New inventory and discovery features - Community discussion Key dates Submission deadline: 26 December 2020 Announcement of selected talks: 31 December 2020 Conference dates 6 & 7 February 2021 online devroom date: Saturday 6 February 2021 online Code of Conduct FOSDEM Code of Conduct: https://fosdem.org/2021/practical/conduct/ Following the release of the updated code of conduct for FOSDEM, we'd like to remind all speakers and attendees that all of the presentations and discussions in our devroom are held under the guidelines set in the CoC and we expect attendees, speakers, and volunteers to follow the CoC at all times. If you submit a proposal and it is accepted, you will be required to confirm that you accept the FOSDEM CoC. If you have any questions about the CoC or wish to have one of the devroom organizers review your presentation slides or any other content for CoC compliance, please email us and we will do our best to assist you. Submit a talk Visit the FOSDEM 2021 Pentabarf website: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission Create an “event” and click on “Show all” in the top right corner to display the full form. Your submission must include the following information - Your contact Email - The title and subtitle of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be listed with ~500 from other projects) select “Network monitoring, discovery and inventory devroom” as the track. - A short abstract of one paragraph - A longer description if you wish to do so - Links to related websites / blogs etc. Contact us You can reach out directly to the organizers if you have a specific request or question: - Stephan Schmidt - "lostboi" - (stephan at lostboi.net) - Alexander Biehl - "zatroa" - (ab at zatroa.net) See you all at FOSDEM!