[FOSDEM] Community devroom CFP

[laura.czajkowski at gmail.com]

FOSDEM 2024 In Person – Community DevRoom Call for Participation!

Key dates / New updates

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   Conference dates 4-5 February, 2023 In person
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   Community DevRoom date: TBC
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   Submission deadline: Friday 1st December
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   Announcement of selected talks: Thursday 15th December
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   You must be available in person to present your talk
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   Talk submissions should be 30 mins and this should include Q&A time.


IN MORE DETAIL

The Community DevRoom will be back at FOSDEM 2024. Our goals in running
this DevRoom are to:

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   Educate those who are primarily software developers on
   community-oriented topics that are vital in the process of software
   development, e.g. effective collaboration
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   Provide concrete advice on dealing with squishy human problems
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   FOSS Projects are made up of people and, in turn, these people form a
   community of practice, or purpose.
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   This devroom will provide concrete, useful advice on how to best enable
   volunteer contributors, community leaders, and folks just starting their
   journeys with open source to be successful, with the intended outcome that
   more free and open source software gets written and used.

TALK TOPICS

Here are some topics we are interested in hearing more about this year:

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   Establishing good community governance practices to ensure an equal
   playing field for all contributors
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   Deep diving into the rise of open source practices and OSPO creation in
   academia and government
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   Mapping the landscape for sustaining open source communities when many
   large corporations have discontinued their investments in open source over
   the past year
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   Exploring the impact of licensing changes on the open source ecosystem,
   community, and businesses
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   Applying the transferable skills we have learned as open source
   community participants to other areas, e.g. what should I explore doing
   next if working in the open source space is no longer a viable option for
   me due to ongoing layoffs
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   Creating local-first communities and authentic and sustainable
   connections with contributors who are not able to attend in person
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   Sustainability in FOSS from a community perspective, e.g. keeping
   contributors motivated and able to pay their bills and addressing
   maintainer burnout
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   Self-care in our communities, for both community members and community
   leaders, e.g. how are we all dealing with burnout and the ongoing impact of
   the pandemic
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   Community Management best practices


Amongst many others….Again, these are just suggestions. We welcome
proposals on any aspect of community building!

HOW TO SUBMIT A TALK

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   Head to the FOSDEM 2024 pretalx
   <https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2024/cfp> website. This has replaced
   Pentabarf !



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   Follow the instructions to create an account.
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   Once logged in, select “submit a CFP”.
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   Your submission must include the following information:


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   Proposal title
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   Track - Select Community from the drop down list
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   Abstract
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   Description
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   Add any other details as needed to the Submission notes.
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   New Feature ( optional) : Session Image Use this if you want an
   illustration to go with your proposal. Please do not upload files larger
   than 10.0MB!
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   Additional speaker
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   Click Continue or you can save and come back to it
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   About your proposal: Which open source license do you use?
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      FOSDEM is an open-source software conference, please specify which OSI
      approved license <https://opensource.org/licenses/> your proposal
      uses.
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   Extra review material, only shown to reviewers (not published when
   scheduled)
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   Extra Contact details (optional)
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   Click Continue or you can save and come back to it
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   Finally tell us your name
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   Biography
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   Availability


If you need to get in touch with the organisers or program committee of the
Community DevRoom, email us at community-devroom at lists.fosdem.org

Shirley Bailes
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/shirleybailes?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAAAC1lhcB5lhszQR_x6Jco0SAhluxpIBWLTs&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_search_srp_all%3B1CPuBMNVT5ut54S2X%2BrDeQ%3D%3D>,
Laura Czajkowski <https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauraczajkowski/>and Leslie
Hawthorn
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliehawthorn?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAAAAIlTwB0ibXjzaEwnXLg-xw8E5DKntAuBg&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_search_srp_all%3B7FgrCiVFTpCgpEghadXlgg%3D%3D>,-
Community DevRoom Co-Organizers
Thanks
Laura
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