[FOSDEM] Call for Participation: Open Source Firmware, BMC and Bootloader devroom

[Piotr Król]

FOSDEM'25 Open Source Firmware, BMC and Bootloader devroom
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The Open Source Firmware, BMC and Bootloader devroom will take place on
Saturday, 1st February 2025 at FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium.


Call for Participation
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We are opening the call for participation to our devroom, with the 
deadline for talk proposals set on Sunday, 1st December 2024 23:59:59 
UTC. Accepted talks will be announced by 15th December 2024.


Devroom Scope
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The devroom will focus on various topics related to the open source
firmware, BMC and bootloaders including security issues. It will help to
get together all interested people in one place, present and discuss
current developments and issues haunting the community. Additionally, it
will foster awareness among attendees about pre-OS topics.

Possible topics: GRUB, TrustedGRUB, iPXE, systemd-boot/sd-boot, 
TrenchBoot, coreboot, oreboot, LinuxBoot, Libreboot, Heads, Dasharo, 
SeaBIOS, UEFI, OVMF, TianoCore, hostboot, IPMI, OpenBMC, u-bmc, EFI 
Unified Kernel Images (UKI), TPM, attestation, security of firmware, 
BMC, bootloaders, embedded controllers and related topics and technologies.

Ideal submissions are actionable and opinionated. Submissions may be in
the form of 10 and 25 minutes talks.

Dates
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Submission Deadline:     01-Dec-2024 @ 23:59:59 UTC
Acceptance Notification: 15-Dec-2024
Final Schedule Posted:   15-Dec-2024


How to submit
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Visit https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp

1) Click "Submit a proposal"
2) Enter your presentation details
3) Be sure to select the Open Source Firmware, BMC and Bootloader 
devroom track!
4) Submit


What to include
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- The title of your submission
- A 1-paragraph abstract
- A longer description including the benefit of your talk to your target
    audience, including a definition of your target audience
- Approximate length/type of submission (talk, BoF, ...)
- Links to related websites/blogs/talk material (if any)


Administrative Notes
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FOSDEM'25 is going physical again and will take place in Brussels, 
Belgium. The talks will be presented live along with Q&A. Presenting at 
FOSDEM implies permission to record your session and distribute the 
recording afterwards. All videos will be made available under the 
standard FOSDEM content license (CC-BY).

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the devroom organizers:
     Daniel Kiper (daniel.kiper at oracle.com) and
     Piotr Król (piotr.krol at 3mdeb.com).

Daniel & Piotr

-- 
Piotr Król
Founder
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https://3mdeb.com | @3mdeb_com
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