FOSDEM 2019 - Retrocomputing DevRoom CfP
Hello, FOSDEM 2019 - Retrocomputing DevRoom Call for Participation FOSDEM is a free software event that offers open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renown for being highly developer-oriented and brings together 8000+ participants from all over the world. It is held in the city of Brussels (Belgium). FOSDEM 2019 will take place during the weekend of February 2nd-3rd 2019. More details about the event can be found at http://www.fosdem.org. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION After last year's success, the Retrocomputing DevRoom will be back in 2019, with talks about use of older computing hardware and software in modern times. Presentation topics could include but are not limited to: - Emulation of old systems to run videogames, legacy software, etc - New software, hardware or related to be used with classic systems - Open source software emulation/simulation - Open hardware - Operating systems/executives for retrocomputers/retrosystems - Uses of retrocomputing today - Other retrosystems topics - Opportunities in retrocomputing You are not limited to slide presentations, of course. Be creative. However, FOSDEM is an open source conference, therefore we ask you to stay clear of marketing presentations. We are not afraid of technical stuff: devrooms are a place for development teams to meet, discuss, hack and publicly present their project’s latest improvements and future directions. If you will have special needs for your talk (e. g. because you will need to plug some sort of a system), please note that clearly in your proposal so that we can provide it. You can use the Wikipedia definition of retrocomputing as a reference definition to see if you talk qualifies, although it is not exclusive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrocomputing IMPORTANT DATES - 30 November 2018: submission deadline for talk proposals - 16 December 2018: announcement of the final schedule - 2 February 2019: Retrocomputing DevRoom USEFUL INFORMATION Use the FOSDEM Pentabarf tool to submit your proposal: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19 - If necessary, create a Pentabarf account and activate it. Please reuse your account from previous years if you have already created it. - In the "Person" section, provide First name, Last name (in the "General" tab), Email (in the "Contact" tab) and Bio ("Abstract" field in the "Description" tab). - Submit a proposal by clicking on "Create event". - Important! Select the "Retrocomputing DevRoom" track (on the "General" tab). If you do not select a track, then nobody, from any track, will look at your submission! - Provide the title of your talk ("Event title" in the "General" tab). - Provide a description of the subject of the talk and the intended audience (in the "Abstract" field of the "Description" tab) - Provide a rough outline of the talk or goals of the session (a short list of bullet points covering topics that will be discussed) in the "Full description" field in the "Description" tab - Provide an expected length of your talk in the "Duration" field, including discussion. The default duration is 30 minutes. Please note neither FOSDEM nor the Retrocomputing DevRoom will reimburse any expenses you incur RECORDING OF TALKS The FOSDEM organizers plan to have live streaming and recording fully working, both for remote/later viewing of talks, and so that people can watch streams in the hallways when rooms are full. This requires speakers to consent to being recorded and streamed. If you plan to be a speaker, please understand that by doing so you implicitly give consent for your talk to be recorded and streamed. The recordings will be published under the same license as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). Hope to hear from you soon! And please forward this announcement. CONTACT The Retrocomputing DevRoom is managed by Pau Garcia Quiles (retrocomputing-devroom-manager at fosdem.org). A mailing list of speakers, audience and the curious is available, please subscribe at: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/retrocomputing-devroom -- Pau Garcia Quiles http://www.elpauer.org
Hello everyone, Le 28/10/2018 à 23:12, Pau Garcia Quiles a écrit :
Hello,
FOSDEM 2019 - Retrocomputing DevRoom Call for Participation
FOSDEM is a free software event that offers open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renown for being highly developer-oriented and brings together 8000+ participants from all over the world. It is held in the city of Brussels (Belgium).
FOSDEM 2019 will take place during the weekend of February 2nd-3rd 2019. More details about the event can be found at http://www.fosdem.org.
IMPORTANT DATES - 30 November 2018: submission deadline for talk proposals - 16 December 2018: announcement of the final schedule - 2 February 2019: Retrocomputing DevRoom
Sorry I'm quite late on the schedule, I'll work it out this week. All submissions look interesting, but I'm not sure we'll have enough time to put everyone in. Please checkyour talk status in Pentabarf for now : - if you're accepted, and you've asked for 1h: see if you can shorten it a bit, - if it's still "undecided": either I'm not sure we have the time (workshop), or I'd like some FLOSS references to it, do you use FLOSS tools ? If so please add links to them. I'll have a look at it again on wednesday. François.
Hi everyone, Le 24/12/2018 à 13:27, François Revol a écrit :
IMPORTANT DATES - 30 November 2018: submission deadline for talk proposals - 16 December 2018: announcement of the final schedule - 2 February 2019: Retrocomputing DevRoom
Sorry I'm quite late on the schedule, I'll work it out this week.
All submissions look interesting, but I'm not sure we'll have enough time to put everyone in.
Please checkyour talk status in Pentabarf for now :
- if you're accepted, and you've asked for 1h: see if you can shorten it a bit,
- if it's still "undecided": either I'm not sure we have the time (workshop), or I'd like some FLOSS references to it, do you use FLOSS tools ? If so please add links to them.
I'll have a look at it again on wednesday.
I ended up accepting all the submissions as they all seemed interesting, and made a tentative schedule. Be aware I couldn't find time to include pauses so this means slots will include time for question and for next speaker setup, so please be there in advance to not waste time. It seemed like nobody had schedule conflicts with other talks, but please everyone, check the proposed time and mail me quickly in case anything is wrong. I heard the shedule is needed by the end of the week to print booklets (even though it might be possible to make other changes but they won't be in the prints). Also, if you didn't do it yet, please subscribe to the devroom mailing list, in case I miss BCCs for next mails. https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/retrocomputing-devroom François.
Hi François, Thank you very much for accepting my proposal for "Making Open Source Hardware for Retrogaming on Raspberry Pi". It is a really exciting opportunity! My flights arrives at late night on Friday in Belgium so I will be there on Saturday morning. I don't have any conflicts with other talks on Saturday. I will fit my slides and talk in 15min which will allow a couple of additional minutes for questions and for next speaker setup. Thanks, Leon On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 7:20 AM François Revol <revol@free.fr> wrote:
Hi everyone,
Le 24/12/2018 à 13:27, François Revol a écrit :
IMPORTANT DATES - 30 November 2018: submission deadline for talk proposals - 16 December 2018: announcement of the final schedule - 2 February 2019: Retrocomputing DevRoom
Sorry I'm quite late on the schedule, I'll work it out this week.
All submissions look interesting, but I'm not sure we'll have enough time to put everyone in.
Please checkyour talk status in Pentabarf for now :
- if you're accepted, and you've asked for 1h: see if you can shorten it a bit,
- if it's still "undecided": either I'm not sure we have the time (workshop), or I'd like some FLOSS references to it, do you use FLOSS tools ? If so please add links to them.
I'll have a look at it again on wednesday.
I ended up accepting all the submissions as they all seemed interesting, and made a tentative schedule.
Be aware I couldn't find time to include pauses so this means slots will include time for question and for next speaker setup, so please be there in advance to not waste time.
It seemed like nobody had schedule conflicts with other talks, but please everyone, check the proposed time and mail me quickly in case anything is wrong.
I heard the shedule is needed by the end of the week to print booklets (even though it might be possible to make other changes but they won't be in the prints).
Also, if you didn't do it yet, please subscribe to the devroom mailing list, in case I miss BCCs for next mails. https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/retrocomputing-devroom
François.
Hi everyone, Le 27/12/2018 à 06:19, François Revol a écrit :
Sorry I'm quite late on the schedule, I'll work it out this week.
All submissions look interesting, but I'm not sure we'll have enough time to put everyone in.
So, I learnt yesterday that we actually have to share the room with PHP on saturday. Because I wasn't on the managers list and didn't see the info, and I just inferred without even thinking about asking, and only noticed when trying to schedule things at the same time as their own talks in the same room… This means meaning we won't have the whole day, so I had to make some more choices than I wanted. So I'm sorry but I had to reject some more talks. Please, check the status of your submissions again in pentabarf. I still have one left as undecided, because I'm not sure we can keep the room until 15:00, or if we should leave some time for the PHP handover, I'll try to clarify this. So the schedule might still change a bit today. Again, I'm very sorry, hopefully we'll get more time next year. François.
Hello everyone, Le 31/12/2018 à 05:45, François Revol a écrit :
Hi everyone,
Le 27/12/2018 à 06:19, François Revol a écrit :
Sorry I'm quite late on the schedule, I'll work it out this week.
All submissions look interesting, but I'm not sure we'll have enough time to put everyone in.
So, I learnt yesterday that we actually have to share the room with PHP on saturday. Because I wasn't on the managers list and didn't see the info, and I just inferred without even thinking about asking, and only noticed when trying to schedule things at the same time as their own talks in the same room…
Again I apologize for the trouble. Here is a little update: I managed to fit one more talk, and I'm still trying to add a last one, if the PHP guys agree to move their first talk a bit. The current schedule is online and updated automatically regularly from pentabarf: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/retrocomputing/ It's still subject to adjustments, if I can get the last slot. Since we had to shorten some talks from their intended length, I'll be asking people to note their questions on an etherpad, to let speakers answer them there, in case we don't have time for Q&A. Then I'll make a post on the mailing list after FOSDEM to make sure the pad is archived. The pad could also be used to add more references. https://bimestriel.framapad.org/p/FOSDEM_2019_RetroComputing Thanks for your patience. François.
Hi everyone who managed the obstacle course of getting a talk, I hope everyone is busy finishing their slides… A bit late but here are some informations regarding the organization (mostly copy-pasted from the Hardware Enablement info I must admit): - The devroom takes place in room K.4.601 on Saturday February 2. - Talk times include questions and next-speaker setup (which should as possible happen meanwhile), - an etherpad is available for more Q&A & to add more references: https://bimestriel.framapad.org/p/FOSDEM_2019_RetroComputing - I left two 5min pauses in the schedule but please stay on time, - Please show up before your talk starts and introduce yourself to the people with devroom manager shirts; - We need HDMI output this year (VGA is apparently no longer possible), but I bought a VGA-to-HDMI converter and I'll bring various adapters for DisplayPort and DVI, if you have a Mac please bring yours; - there is a good chance the preferred resolution will be 1280x720; - Talks are streamed live and recorded: make sure you repeat questions that are asked in the microphone; - Keep in mind that FOSDEM is not a commercial event: we want to hear about free digital technology and old stuff, not products and marketing! - If you need to contact us: - Email: retro-devroom-manager@fosdem.org - IRC: mmu_man on freenode - Phone (for emergency): +33675904178 The final schedule is available online: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/retrocomputing/ As well as in the FOSDEM companion app, and Giggity which supports many other events as well: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/be.digitalia.fosdem/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.gaast.giggity/ Thanks and see you in Brussels! François.
participants (3)
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François Revol -
Leon Anavi -
Pau Garcia Quiles