FOSDEM '15 Virtualization devroom Please forward to any project or individual that might be interested in participating in this devroom! ------------------------- Important Dates and Info! ------------------------- Submission deadline: 1 December 2014 Acceptance notifications: 15 December 2014 Final schedule announcement: 9 January 2015 Devroom: 1 February 2015 ------------------------- Call for Participation ------------------------- The virtualization devroom will feature sessions around open source hypervisors and virtual machine managers such as KVM, Xen, bhyve, and VirtualBox. This room will focus on shared components and software, topics of shared interest such as libvirt, hardware passthrough, porting to ARM or other non-x86_64 platforms, virtualization management, Spice, etc. Presentations will be aimed at developers working on these platforms and improving the shared infrastructure, or common problems. The devroom organizers will seek topics that encourage dialog between projects and continued work post-FOSDEM. ------------------------- Call for Volunteers ------------------------- We are also looking for volunteers to help run the devroom. We need assistance watching time for the speakers, and helping with video for the devroom. Please contact Joe Brockmeier (jzb at redhat.com) for more information here. ------------------------- Details: READ CAREFULLY ------------------------- This year at FOSDEM there will be a one-day devroom to focus on virtualization projects. If your project is related to IaaS, we would love to see your submissions. Please note that we expect more proposals than we can possibly accept, so it is vitally important that you submit your proposal on or before the deadline. Late submissions are unlikely to be considered. All slots are 40 minutes, with 30 minutes planned for presentations, and 10 minutes for Q&A. All presentations *will* be recorded and made available under Creative Commons licenses. Please indicate when submitting your talk that your presentation will be licensed under the CC-By-SA-4.0 or CC-By-4.0 license when submitting the talk and that you agree to have your presentation recorded. For example: "If my presentation is accepted for FOSDEM, I hereby agree to license all recordings, slides, and other associated materials under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License. Sincerely, <NAME>." Also, in the notes field, please confirm tnat if your talk is accepted that you *will* be able to attend FOSDEM and deliver your presentation. We will not consider proposals from prospective speakers unsure whether they will be able to secure funds for travel and lodging to attend FOSDEM. (Sadly, we are not able to offer travel funding for prospective speakers.) ------------------------- How to Submit ------------------------- All submissions are made via the Pentabarf event planning site: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15 If you have not used Pentabarf before, you will need to create an account. After creating the account, select "Create Event" and then be sure to select "Virtualization" from the options under "Track." Please fill out all of the required fields! ------------------------- Questions ------------------------- If you have any questions about this devroom, please send your questions to: iaas-virt-devroom@lists.fosdem.org We will respond as quickly as possible. Thanks!