<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hej all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Call for Participations to the first <i class=""><a href="http://Matrix.org" class="">Matrix.org</a> Foundation and Community</i> devroom can be found here: <a href="https://matrix.org/blog/2021/12/02/call-for-participation-for-the-fosdem-2022-matrix-dev-room" class="">https://matrix.org/blog/2021/12/02/call-for-participation-for-the-fosdem-2022-matrix-dev-room</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You will find it reproduced below:</div><div class=""><h2 id="a-full-day-of-matrix-talks" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 32px; line-height: 36px; margin-top: 20px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; position: relative;" class="">A full day of Matrix talks</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;" class="">This year, the <a href="http://Matrix.org" class="">Matrix.org</a> Foundation is excited to host the first ever <em style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><a href="http://Matrix.org" class="">Matrix.org</a> Foundation and Community</em> devroom at FOSDEM. A full day of talks, demos and workshops around Matrix itself and projects built on top of Matrix.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;" class="">Matrix is the open source project that publishes the Matrix open standard for secure, decentralised, real-time communication, and its Apache licensed reference implementations.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;" class="">We encourage people working on the Matrix protocol or building on it in an open source project to submit a proposal! Note that companies are welcome to talk about the Matrix details of their open source projects, but marketing talks are not welcome.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;" class="">We want this devroom to be a space where the Matrix community can show its work, where developers can talk about the challenges they faced and how they overcame them, and where people can get a glimpse of the future of the Matrix protocol and ecosystem.</p><div class=""><h2 id="talk-details" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 32px; line-height: 36px; margin-top: 20px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; position: relative;" class="">Talk Details</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;" class="">The talks will be pre-recorded in January. They will be played during FOSDEM, followed by a session of live Q&A depending on the format. During the playback of the talk, people will be able to comment and ask questions in the chat (via Matrix!).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;" class="">The talks can follow one of three formats:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 40px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">5 min lightning talk, ideal to showcase your project and make people want to have a look at it</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">20 min talk + 10 min Q&A, for topics that can be covered briefly</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">50 min talk + 10 min Q&A for more complex subjects which need more focus</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;" class="">We strongly encourage you to prepare a demo when it makes sense, so people can actually see what your work looks like in practice!</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;" class="">Of course, the proposal must respect the FOSDEM terms as well:</p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 10px 20px 10px 28px; border-left-width: 5px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol";" class=""><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">The conference language is English. All content must relate to Free and Open Source Software. By participating in the event you agree to the publication of your recordings, slides and other content provided under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY).</div></blockquote></div></div><div class=""><h2 id="submitting-a-proposal" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 32px; line-height: 36px; margin-top: 20px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; position: relative;" class="">Submitting a Proposal</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;" class="">Proposals must be <a href="https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 152, 212); text-decoration: none;" class="">submitted on FOSDEM's conference management system Pentabarf</a> before December 17th 2021. If you are not used to Pentabarf, you can follow this <a href="https://eyskens.me/beginners-guide-to-pentabarf/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 152, 212); text-decoration: none;" class="">beginners guide to Pentabarf</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;" class="">We expect to receive more requests than we have slots available. The devroom organisers (two community members and one core team rep) will be reviewing the proposals and accepting them based on the potential positive impact the project has on Matrix (as defined in by the Mission section of <a href="https://matrix.org/foundation" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 152, 212); text-decoration: none;" class="">https://matrix.org/foundation</a>).</p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;" class="">If a project proposal has been turned down, it doesn't mean we don't believe it has good potential. Maintainers are invited to join the <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#twim:matrix.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 152, 212); text-decoration: none;" class="">#twim:matrix.org</a> Matrix room to give it some visibility.</div></div></body></html>