<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">On behalf of oVirt and the Xen Project, we are excited to announce that the call for proposals is now open for the Virtualization & IaaS devroom at the upcoming FOSDEM 2017, to be hosted on February 4, 2017.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">This year will mark FOSDEM’s 17th anniversary as one of the longest-running free and open source software developer events, attracting thousands of developers and users from all over the world. FOSDEM will be held once again in Brussels, Belgium, on February 4 & 5, 2017.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">This devroom is a collaborative effort, and is organized by dedicated folks from projects such as OpenStack, Xen Project, Mesos, oVirt, QEMU, and Foreman. We would like to invite all those who are involved in these fields to submit your proposals by November 18th, 2016.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">About the Devroom</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The Virtualization & IaaS devroom will feature session topics such as open source hypervisors and virtual machine managers such as Xen Project, KVM, bhyve, and VirtualBox, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service projects such as Apache CloudStack, OpenStack, oVirt, QEMU, OpenNebula, and Ganeti.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">This devroom will host presentations that focus on topics of shared interest, such as KVM; libvirt; shared storage; virtualized networking; cloud security; clustering and high availability; interfacing with multiple hypervisors; hyperconverged deployments; and scaling across hundreds or thousands of servers.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Presentations in this devroom will be aimed at developers working on these platforms who are looking to collaborate and improve shared infrastructure or solve common problems. We seek topics that encourage dialog between projects and continued work post-FOSDEM.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Important Dates</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Submission deadline: 18 November 2016</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Acceptance notifications: 04 December 2016</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Final schedule announcement: 11 December 2016</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Devroom: 04 February 2017 (one day)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Submit Your Proposal</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">All submissions must be made via the Pentabarf event planning site[1]. If you have not used Pentabarf before, you will need to create an account. If you submitted proposals for FOSDEM in previous years, you can use your existing account.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">After creating the account, select Create Event to start the submission process. Make sure to select Virtualisation and IaaS devroom from the Track list. Please fill out all the required fields, and provide a meaningful abstract and description of your proposed session.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Submission Guidelines</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">We expect more proposals than we can possibly accept, so it is vitally important that you submit your proposal on or before the deadline. Late submissions are unlikely to be considered.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">All presentation slots are 45 minutes, with 35 minutes planned for presentations, and 10 minutes for Q&A.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">All presentations will be recorded and made available under Creative Commons licenses. In the Submission notes field, please indicate that you agree that your presentation will be licensed under the CC-By-SA-4.0 or CC-By-4.0 license and that you agree to have your presentation recorded. For example:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">"If my presentation is accepted for FOSDEM, I hereby agree to license all recordings, slides, and other associated materials under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License. Sincerely, <NAME>."</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">In the Submission notes field, please also confirm that if your talk is accepted, you will be able to attend FOSDEM and deliver your presentation. We will not consider proposals from prospective speakers who are unsure whether they will be able to secure funds for travel and lodging to attend FOSDEM. (Sadly, we are not able to offer travel funding for prospective speakers.)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Speaker Mentoring Program</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">As a part of the rising efforts to grow our communities and encourage a diverse and inclusive conference ecosystem, we're happy to announce that we'll be offering mentoring for new speakers. Our mentors can help you with tasks such as reviewing your abstract, reviewing your presentation outline or slides, or practicing your talk with you.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">You may apply to the mentoring program as a newcomer speaker if you:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Never presented before or</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Presented only lightning talks or</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Presented full-length talks at small meetups (<50 ppl)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Submission Guidelines</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Mentored presentations will have 25-minute slots, where 20 minutes will include the presentation and 5 minutes will be reserved for questions.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The number of newcomer session slots is limited, so we will probably not be able to accept all applications.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">You must submit your talk and abstract to apply for the mentoring program, our mentors are volunteering their time and will happily provide feedback but won't write your presentation for you!</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">If you are experiencing problems with Pentabarf, the proposal submission interface, or have other questions, you can email our devroom mailing list[2] and we will try to help you.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">How to Apply</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">In addition to agreeing to video recording and confirming that you can attend FOSDEM in case your session is accepted, please write "speaker mentoring program application" in the "Submission notes" field, and list any prior speaking experience or other relevant information for your application.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Call for Mentors</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Interested in mentoring newcomer speakers? We'd love to have your help! Please email iaas-virt-devroom at </span><a href="http://lists.fosdem.org/" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">lists.fosdem.org</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> with a short speaker biography and any specific fields of expertise (for example, KVM, OpenStack, storage, etc.) so that we can match you with a newcomer speaker from a similar field. Estimated time investment can be as low as a 5-10 hours in total, usually distributed weekly or bi-weekly.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Never mentored a newcomer speaker but interested to try? As the mentoring program coordinator, I will be happy to answer your questions and give you tips on how to optimize the mentoring process. Email Brian Proffitt[3] and he will be happy to answer your questions!</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Code of Conduct</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Following the release of the updated code of conduct for FOSDEM, 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.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">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 organizers review your presentation slides or any other content for CoC compliance, please email us and we will do our best to assist you.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Call for Volunteers</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">We are also looking for volunteers to help run the devroom. We need assistance watching time for the speakers, and helping with video for the devroom. Please contact me, Brian Proffitt, for more information.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Questions?</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">If you have any questions about this devroom, please send your questions to our devroom mailing list. You can also subscribe to the list to receive updates about important dates, session announcements, and to connect with other attendees.</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">See you all at FOSDEM!</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">[1] <a href="https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM17" target="_blank">https://penta.fosdem.org/<wbr>submission/FOSDEM17</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">[2] <a href="mailto:iaas-virt-devroom@lists.fosdem.org" target="_blank">iaas-virt-devroom@lists.<wbr>fosdem.org</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">[3] <a href="mailto:bkp@redhat.com" target="_blank">bkp@redhat.com</a></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Brian Proffitt<div>Principal Community Analyst</div><div>Open Source and Standards</div><div>@TheTechScribe</div><div>574.383.9BKP</div></div></div>
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