[FOSDEM] Call for participation: Network Devroom at FOSDEM 2025

[Luca Deri]

We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation for the FOSDEM 2025 (On-campus) Network Devroom

The FOSDEM Network devroom hosts a diversity of talks covering open source networking projects and technologies. The scope of the Network devroom is broad and targets those software developers engaged in network design, monitoring, management and software development with open source tools.

We typically host a variety of talks on networking topics including:
  - Network monitoring (inventory, discovery and telemetry)
  - Network management (enterprise, carrier-grade, cloud, IoT)
  - Networking protocols (the full alphabet soup)
  - Cybersecurity (IPS, IDS, Deep-Packet Inspection)
  - Development tools (libraries, SDKs, plugins)
  - Network stacks


Suggested Topics
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If it moves network packets, monitors, or interacts with, or supervises entities that move network packets, it is likely a topic the devroom is interested in. A very /non-exhaustive/ list of the projects and topics we would love to see on the schedule are:

  Monitoring     CheckMK, collectd, Icinga2, Naemon, ntopng 
  Frameworks  DPDK, eBPF, FD.io/VPP, PF_RING, XDP
  Switching      FastClick, Open vSwitch, Snabb
  Stacks          BSD, F-Stack, Linux
  Container      CNI, Cilium, Docker, Falco, Kubernetes
  Routing         BIRD, FRRouting, Go-BGP
  Security         nDPI, OPNsense, Snort, Suricata, Wazuh, Zeek
  Scanning       nmap, OpenVAS, zmap
  Peer-to-peer DHTs, Gossip, hole punching
  Tooling         Moongen, Scapy, TRex, VSPerf, Warp17
  Telcos          free5GC, Kamailio, Magma Core, Nephio, Osmocom

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.


Important Dates
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Submission deadline: 1st December 2024
Acceptance notifications: 6th December
Final schedule announcement: 15th December 2024
Devroom: Sunday, February 2nd 2025


Proposals
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To submit a talk, please visit the [FOSDEM 2025 Pretalx website](https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp).

Please select the "Network" as the *track* and ensure you include all the requested information when submitting a proposal including:
- name
- short bio
- contact info
- title (funny titles are ~~required~~/appreciated)
- abstract (what you're gonna talk about)
- duration


Code of Conduct
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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 organisers review your presentation slides or any other content for CoC compliance, please email us and we will do our best to assist you.

[FOSDEM Code of Conduct] https://fosdem.org/2025/practical/conduct/


Contact Us
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You can send a mail to network-devroom-manager at fosdem.org

Alexander Biehl <ab at zatroa.net>
Alfredo Cardigliano <cardigliano at ntop.org>
Luca Deri <deri at ntop.org>
"Charles Eckel (eckelcu)" <eckelcu at cisco.com>
Alessandro Improta <aimprota at catchpoint.com>
Max Inden <mail at max-inden.de>
Vincent Jardin <vjardin at free.fr>
Samuele Pilleri <pillerisamuele at gmail.com>
Luca Sani <lsani at catchpoint.com>
Stephan Schmidt <stephan at lostboi.net>