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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Dear friends and fans of free tools and editors everywhere!</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:14px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Next year's FOSDEM (the free and open source developer's meeting in Brussels, Europe) will for the second time feature a track dedicated to developers and users of free tools and editors:</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,238)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="text-decoration-line:underline;font-kerning:none"><a href="https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/free_tools_and_editors/">https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/free_tools_and_editors/</a></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:14px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">CALL FOR PARTICIPATION</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:14px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">We therefore invite developers and users of free tools and editors of all kinds to participate in this track and present your projects, roadmaps, demos, hacks, and codes. At FOSDEM, we hope to network all these projects and improve collaboration, bring new ideas forward, and get more people involved.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:14px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">To suggest a talk, go to the following location:</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,238)"><span class="gmail-s2" style="text-decoration-line:underline;font-kerning:none"><a href="https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19">https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM20</a></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:14px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">...and follow the instructions (you need an account, but can use your account from last year if you have one). You need to create an 'Event’; make sure it's in the "Free Tools and Editors devroom”. Length per session will be comparable to last year, see below:</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/free_tools_and_editors/">https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/free_tools_and_editors/</a><br></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:14px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">You aren't limited to slide presentations, of course — in fact, we hope you’ll focus on code. Be creative. However, FOSDEM is an open source conference, therefore we ask you to stay very clear of marketing presentations and focus on presenting something relevant to free/open tools and editors. We like nitty-gritty technical stuff!</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:14px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Topics discussed in this devroom can relate to any programming language, and focus on:</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:14px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">* Libraries and frameworks</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">* Code generators</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">* Code editors</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">* Visual tools</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:14px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">IMPORTANT DATES</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:14px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">FOSDEM is February 1st and 2nd, 2020.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:14px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">* Sunday 24 November 2019, midnight CEST: Submission Deadline</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">* Monday 16 December 2019: Schedule is finalized. We will announce the detailed agenda shortly after that.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">* Sunday 2 February 2020: The devroom takes places</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:14px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">FOSDEM is always full to the brim with presentations, so if you want to present, please make sure to submit your abstracts soon!</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:14px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">CONTACT</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:14px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">The track committee consists of:</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:14px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Trisha Gee, JetBrains</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Lars Vogel, vogella GmbH, representing Eclipse</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Geertjan Wielenga, Apache NetBeans</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:14px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Hope to hear from you soon! And please forward this announcement.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:14px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Courier;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Trisha, Lars, and Geertjan</span></p></div>