[FOSDEM] FOSDEM 2021 SDN Devroom CFP

[Kinsella, Ray]

We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation for the FOSDEM
2021 Software Defined Networking devroom! FOSDEM is a free event for
software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.

- FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration.
- FOSDEM website: http://www.fosdem.org/
- FOSDEM code of conduct: https://fosdem.org/2021/practical/conduct/

Please forward this CFP to anyone you think may be interested in attending or presenting.

New rules / what changes since last year
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  For obvious reasons, this year the event will not take place in a
  physical location but online.

  - The reference time will be Brussels local lime (CET).
  - Talks will be pre-recorded in advance, and streamed during the event
  - Q/A session will be live
  - A facility will be provided for people watching to chat between
    themselves
  - A facility will be provided for people watching to submit questions
  - Clearly the venue will be more comfortable this year, please don't
    expect this level of service every year!


Important Dates
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   20th Dec       Submission deadline            
   24th Dec       Announcement of selected talks 
   15th Jan       Presentations upload deadline  
   6th & 7th Feb  Conference dates (online)      
   Sun 6th Feb    SDN devroom date (online)    
  
  Talks covering any projects or technologies within the networking
  domain are welcome, with the only condition being that the project or
  technology must be free and open source. The SDN devroom team are
  asking contributors to make a special effort to attend, present,
  contribute and discuss at this years FOSDEM. Please accept our
  apologies for the relative lateness of this CFP, there is a huge
  amount of work going on behind the scenes to make this years FOSDEM
  happen. 


Topics:
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  If it moves network packets, or interacts with, or supervises entities
  that moves network packets, it is likely a topic the devroom is
  interested in. This year the devroom topics will include the following
  fields.

   Domain          IoT, Cloud, Enterprise, Service Provider, Wireless and Cellular.                          
   Physical        low power, mesh, high throughput, low latency, optical, wireless                          
   Infrastructure  switching, routing, load balancing, translation, authentic, crypto, detection, intercept 
   Tooling         libraries, frameworks, tracing, debugging, domain specific languages and extensions.      
   Telemetry       counters & statistics, interference, analysis, automation.                                
   Validation      performance, latency, packet manipulation & fuzzing, traffic generators.                  
   Orchestration   management, network-layer plugins and controllers.                                        


Suggested Projects:
===================

  A /non-exhaustive/ representative list of the projects and topics we
  would love to see on the schedule are:

   Frameworks   DPDK, eBPF, XDP                                                                            
   Switching    Snabb, OpenvSwitch, Tungsten Fabric, Lagopus, FastClick                                    
   Stacks       Linux, *BSD, FD.io, F-Stack, DMM, mTCP, Seastar, YAStack                                   
   Controllers  Istio/Envoy, Network Service Mesh, Neutron, CNI, Canal, ODL, ONOS, Plumgrid, OVN, Contrail 
   Edge         Akraino, Openness                                                                          
   Routing      FRRouting, BIRD, Netopeer, Go-BGP                                                          
   Management   ONAP, Open-O, ManageIQ, Juju, OpenBaton, Tacker, OSM, Ganglia, NetSNMP, PNDA.io            
   Security     Suricata, Snort, Zeek                                                                      
   Tooling      VSPerf, CSIT, TRex, Moongen, Scapy, Warp17                                                 

  Talks should be aimed at a technical audience, but should not assume
  that attendees are already familiar with your project or how it solves
  a given problem. Talk proposals may cover very specific solutions to a
  problem, or may be a higher level project overview for lesser known
  projects.


Proposals:
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  Proposals should be made through the FOSDEM Pentabarf submission tool.
  You do not need to create a new Pentabarf account if you already have
  one from a past year.

  https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21

  Please select the "Software Defined Networking" as the *track* and
  ensure you include the following information when submitting a
  proposal:

   Section  Field                   Notes                                                                             
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Person   First/Last/Public Name  Your name.                                                                        
   Person   Abstract                Short bio.                                                                        
   Person   Photo                   Please provide a photo.                                                           
   Event    Event Title             *This is the title of your talk* - please be descriptive to encourage attendance. 
   Event    Abstract                Short abstract of one or two paragraphs.                                          
   Event    Duration                Please indicate the length of your talk; 15 min, 30 min or 45 min                 

  The deadline for submissions is December 20th, 2020. FOSDEM will be
  held on the weekend of February 6-7, 2021 and the Software Defined
  Networking devroom will take place on Sunday, February 7, 2021.

  Please also join the devroom’s mailing list, which is the official
  communication channel for the devroom:

  network-devroom at lists.fosdem.org (subscription page)
  https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/network-devroom


Notifications:
==============

  As usual, mostly due to time limitations I am reaching out to my
  regular contact list with mailchimp. I entirely understand if you do
  not wish to be reached in this way. If this is case please send me a
  note at mdr at ashroe.eu, and I will remove you from the distribution.

Team:
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  Ray Kinsella
  Thomas Monjalon
  Emma Foley
  Chris Price
  Charles Eckel