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<span style="font-weight: 400;">* # FOSDEM 2025 - Retrocomputing Devroom - Call for papers # *</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">* Retrocomputing Devroom - WHAT</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">FOSDEM offers open source and free software developers a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Renowned for being highly developer-oriented, the event brings together some 8500+ participants from all over the world.</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The twenty-fourth edition will take place Saturday 01st and Sunday 02nd February 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. </span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Retrocomputing DevRoom will welcome your talks about usage of older computing hardware and software in modern times.</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">* Presentation topics may include, but are not limited to:</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"> - Emulation of old systems (i.e. to run videogames, legacy software, etc.);</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"> - New software, hardware or related to be used with classic systems;</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"> - Open source software emulation/simulation;</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"> - Open hardware;</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"> - Operating systems for retrocomputers & retrosystems;</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"> - Uses of retrocomputing today;</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"> - Other retrocomputing topics;</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">FOSDEM is an open source conference, therefore commercial and/or marketing presentations are not allowed.</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">* Timeline - WHEN</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">- Deadline submission of your talk proposal: December 01st 2024;</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">- Accepted talks to be notified by December 15th, 2024;</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">- FOSDEM dates 01st & 02nd February 2025;</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">- Retrocomputing devroom: February 02nd, 2025 (afternoon).</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">* Submission of proposal - practicalities - HOW</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We are accepting talks of 20-30 minutes, with time for Q&A's afterwards.</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Should you need less or more time, please let us know in your submission.</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The conference language is English.</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Talks will be delivered live, no pre-recorded talks!!</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">All submissions have to be made in the pretalx event planning tool:</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">https://fosdem.org/submit</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">While creating your proposal, please provide the title of your talk, a </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">short abstract (one or two paragraphs), and some information about yourself </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">(name, bio, and photo). </span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">If you used Pentabarf for a previous FOSDEM edition, we are sorry to inform you the data wasn't migrated.</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Make sure you select "Retrocomoputing" Devroom!!</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">* Recording Permission - CONSENT</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">All FOSDEM talks will be recorded; this requires speakers to consent to being recorded and streamed.</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Therefore, should you wish to be a speaker, please note you implicitly give consent for your talk to be recorded and streamed. The recordings will be published under the same license as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY).</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">* Volunteering - SUPPORT</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">A couple of volunteers would be welcome to support during the afternoon session, ie.: pass the mic. around the room; control room attendance capacity; technical setup; etc.</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Please reach out if you want to contribute in that sense.</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">* Contact</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">retrocomputing-devroom-manager@fosdem.org</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">* See you at FOSDEM!</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels.</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">https://fosdem.org/2024/</span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">By participating to the FOSDEM, you are required to adhere to the Code of Conduct: </span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">https://fosdem.org/2025/practical/conduct/</span>
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