[FOSDEM] [devroom-managers] Declarative and Minimalistic Computing devroom CfP

[Tobias Platen]

I enjoyed this devroom in 2025, I might want to submit my own talk.
Maybe about Guile/Guix or Lua/Luanti. This year there will also be
a games an VR devroom. My Luanti VR branch will fit that devroom
better. But I also plan to contribute to GNU Guix this month....

On Sat, 2025-11-01 at 06:42 +0200, Manolis Ragkousis wrote:
> We are excited to announce the Call for Participation for the 
> Declarative and Minimalistic Computing devroom at FOSDEM 2026, which 
> will take place on Sunday, 1 February 2026 (half-day, morning) at the
> Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
> The submission deadline for talk proposals is 1 December 2025.
> 
> FOSDEM is one of the most important free software conferences in the 
> world and is held annually in Brussels. This year’s edition will
> again 
> be an in-person event, bringing together thousands of contributors
> and 
> enthusiasts from around the globe.
> 
> Our devroom welcomes talks exploring languages, systems, and
> approaches 
> that strive for simplicity, robustness, and security through
> declarative 
> and minimalistic design. We’re interested in projects and ideas that 
> reduce complexity, minimize hardware and software dependencies, and 
> promote transparent, understandable computing systems.
> 
> Examples include (but are not limited to) projects from the
> Scheme/Lisp 
> family, Guile, Lua, Nim, Racket, Raku, Forth, and Tcl, as well as 
> experimental systems that push minimalism and declarative design in
> new 
> directions.
> 
> Minimalism and declarative programming are two important topics for
> this devroom. Minimalism matters. Minimalism allows for smaller
> systems that take less resources and consume less energy. More
> importantly, free and open source minimalism allows for secure
> systems
> that are easy to understand. Declarative programming is a programming
> paradigm that expresses the logic of a computation without describing
> its control flow. Many languages that apply this style attempt to
> minimize or eliminate side effects by describing what the program
> must
> accomplish in terms of the problem domain, rather than describe how
> to
> accomplish it as a sequence of the programming language primitives.
> 
> Finally, in this year's conference we encourage speakers to honor 
> individuals in computing from a diversity perspective. Individuals
> who 
> have inspired them and whose work is relevant to their presentations.
> 
> If you are developing or researching systems, languages, or tools
> that 
> embrace declarative or minimalistic principles, we invite you to
> submit 
> a proposal.
> We especially encourage submissions from individuals and communities 
> underrepresented in free and open-source software.
> 
> If you have something you’d like to share with your fellow
> developers,
> please E-mail us! Reach out to
> pjotr.public456 at thebird.nl or manolis837 at gmail.com if you run into
> any
> trouble.
> 
> The deadline for submission is December 1st, 2025. Proposals must be 
> submitted on FOSDEM's conference management system: 
> <https://pretalx.fosdem.org/>. All submissions must go through
> pretalx: 
> <https://fosdem.org/submit>
> 
> When submitting your talk make doubly sure to select "Declarative and
> Minimalistic Computing devroom" as track (if you don't we won't find
> it), and include the following information:
> 
>    * The title and subtitle of your talk
>    * A short abstract of one paragraph
>    * A longer description if you wish to do so
>    * Links to related websites/blogs etc
> 
> To see what a final talk looks like see
> 
>    https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/gnumes/
> 
> Let's make this a fun day!
> 
> = Organizers =
> 
>   - Pjotr Prins (pjotr.public456 at thebird.nl)
>   - Manolis Ragkousis (manolis837 at gmail.com)
>   - Bonface Munyoki (me at bonfacemunyoki.com)
>   - Jonathan McHugh (indieterminacy at libre.brussels)
>   - Arun Isaac (arunisaac at systemreboot.net)
>   - Amirouche Boubekki (amirouche.boubekki at gmail.com)
>   - Hisham Muhammad (hisham at gobolinux.org)
>   - Ludovic Courtès (ludo at gnu.org) - GNU Guile, GNU Guix
>   - Jan Nieuwenhuizen (janneke at gnu.org) - GNU Mes project leader
>   - William Byrd (webyrd at gmail.com)
>   - Oliver Propst (oliver.propst at gmail.com)
>   - Julien Lepiller (julien at lepiller.eu)
> 
> = Code of conduct =
> 
>    - https://fosdem.org/2026/practical/conduct/
> 
> = Original proposal =
> 
>    - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2026-devroom-proposal
> 
> = Important dates =
> 
>    - Dec 1st 2025:  submission deadline for talk proposals
>    - Dec 15th 2025:  announcement of the final schedule
>    - Sunday, 1 February 2026:  FOSDEM!
> 
> https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2026-devroom-declarative-and-minimalistic-computing-cfp
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Tobias Platen

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