FOSDEM 2024 Microkernel and Component-based OS devroom schedule proposal

[Martin Decky]

Dear all,

please see below the current proposal of the schedule of the Microkernel 
and Component-based OS devroom at FOSDEM 2024. (This email also serves 
as an official confirmation of the acceptance of your talk, in case you 
have missed the email from pretalx.)

As you can probably see immediately, the duration of the talks had to be 
reduced in almost all cases in order to accommodate all the accepted 
talks (only a single proposal has been rejected, since it was not a good 
match for the topics of the devroom). Sadly, the total duration of the 
devroom this year, as allocated by the FOSDEM organizers, is one half 
compared to the previous years.

I fully understand that shortening the talk duration is very unfortunate 
and delivering a quality talk in 20 minutes is challenging. If this 
constraint is prohibitive for you and you would rather withdraw your 
talk under these circumstances, then please let me know ASAP. However, I 
still believe that something is better than nothing and I strongly 
encourage you to accept the challenge.

Begin | End   | Speaker             | Title
------+-------+---------------------+--------------------------------------
15:00 | 15:20 | Alex Auvolat        | A microkernel-based ...
15:20 | 15:40 | Johannes Schlatow   | Streamlining application ...
15:40 | 16:00 | Andreia Ocanoaia    | Run Node.js in a unikernel ...
16:00 | 16:30 | Udo Steinberg       | Using the NOVA microhypervisor ...
16:30 | 17:00 | Szymon Duchniewicz  | Improving the Space Efficiency ...
17:00 | 17:20 | Razvan Deaconescu   | Unikernels Are Here: ...
17:20 | 17:40 | Matias Vara Larsen  | Is Toro unikernel faster for MPI?
17:40 | 18:00 | Martin Kröning      | News from the Hermit Crab ...
18:00 | 18:20 | Simon Kuenzer       | Linux Binary Compatible ...
18:20 | 18:40 | Waldemar Kozaczuk   | Support Dynamically Linked ...
18:40 | 19:00 | C. Mainas, A. Nanos | Bunny: A Modular Approach ...

If you see any issue or a scheduling conflict on your side in this 
schedule proposal, then please do not hesitate to approach me ASAP. The 
later we do any adjustments in the schedule, the harder it might be (but 
we will try to do our best). I am certainly also open to any other 
comments and suggestions.

FYI: The devroom has been scheduled to the room UD2.208 (Decroly) with a 
capacity of 174.

A few other remarks:

(1) Please click on the link you have received in the email from pretalx 
to confirm your talk. Without that, your talk will not appear in the 
public schedule on the FOSDEM web site. If you have not received the 
email from pretalx, then please let me know about your confirmation by 
any other means.

(2) Given the short talk slots and no slack time for the changeovers, I 
would like to request all the speakers to send me their presentations in 
advance in a PDF (possibly including prerecorded videos with demos, 
etc.). We will run the slide decks from a single laptop to minimize the 
complications with connecting to the beamer, to the streaming box, etc.

(3) The deadline for the presentation materials is February 2nd 2024 by 
the very latest. In your own interest, try to send me your materials 
sooner than that, so that we can iron out any possible issues with time 
to spare.

(4) In case you absolutely need to present from your own laptop (e.g. 
because of a live demo, etc.), it will be certainly possible. But please 
note that the setup time will cut into your own talk slot and please be 
prepared to give your talk only using the previously collected materials 
from the common laptop in case something goes wrong with setting up your 
own laptop. Once again, a prerecorded demo might be a reasonable 
compromise given the constraints.

(5) It is perfectly fine to not have a Q&A time in your talk and answer 
the questions from the audience in a hallway discussion. Again, this is 
certainly not ideal, but we have to deal with what we have.

(6) We will start organizing the traditional microkernel dinner in 
January. If you have any suggestions or preferences, feel free to talk 
to me.

Happy holidays and looking forward to meeting you at FOSDEM in February!


Best regards

Martin Decky
-- 
Martin Decky, Ph.D.
Senior Software Engineer
Kernkonzept GmbH

Work:     martin.decky at kernkonzept.com
Personal: martin at decky.cz