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Re: FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation
From: |
Christopher Allan Webber |
Subject: |
Re: FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Sep 2015 12:08:49 -0500 |
If there's interest in it, I signed up for a second talk about expanding
the Guile community, kind of based on my overly-exuberant email to
guile-devel last night. I'm not sure if anyone would be interested in
that! But it's something I really care about.
Pjotr Prins writes:
> Would it be worth contacting the other GNU projects that use Guile?
> Can someone put this announcement on the Guile mailing list?
>
> Pj.
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 06:53:38AM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote:
>> FOSDEM Dev track deadline Oct. 9th. The more talk proposals we have
>> for Guile/Guix, the better:
>>
>> https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/TalkProposals
>>
>> If you have an idea for a talk on Guile/Guix, please add it before
>> coming Monday. Even if you are not sure you can make it. We may find
>> someone else to give the talk! Dave, how about your static web
>> publishing system, and the the deployment stuff?
>>
>> We also need non-Guix talks! How about a Guile talk on monads, or
>> Guile as part of other GNU projects? The language dev tracks tend to
>> be interesting, let's make ours exciting!
>>
>> Pj.
>>
>> ----- Forwarded message from Alasdair G Kergon <address@hidden> -----
>>
>> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 22:14:38 +0100
>> From: Alasdair G Kergon <address@hidden>
>> To: address@hidden
>> Subject: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation
>> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i
>>
>> 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 5000+ geeks from
>> all over the world.
>>
>> The sixteenth edition will take place on Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st
>> January 2016 at the usual location: ULB Campus Solbosch in Brussels.
>>
>> We now invite proposals for main track presentations, developer rooms,
>> stands and lightning talks.
>>
>> Main Tracks
>> -----------
>> Previous editions have featured main tracks centered around security,
>> operating system development, community building, and many other
>> topics. Presentations are expected to be 50 minutes long and should
>> cater to a varied technical audience. The conference covers
>> reasonable travel expenses agreed in advance and arranges
>> accommodation for accepted main track speakers.
>>
>> Proposals for main track presentations should be submitted using
>> Pentabarf:
>> https://fosdem.org/submit
>>
>> This year, submissions will be reviewed in two batches, beginning with
>> those received by 16 October.
>>
>> Questions or remarks? Contact us at address@hidden
>>
>> Key dates:
>> 16 October
>> - deadline for first batch of main track proposals
>>
>> 30 October
>> - final deadline for main track proposals
>>
>> 2 November onwards
>> - main track talks announced (in batches)
>>
>> Developer Rooms
>> ---------------
>> Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work
>> together on open source and free software projects, to discuss topics
>> relevant to a broader subset of the community, etc. Content may be
>> scheduled in any format, subject to approval. Popular formats include
>> presentation tracks, hacking sessions and panel discussions.
>> Proposals involving collaboration across project or domain boundaries
>> are strongly encouraged.
>>
>> Developer room proposals should be submitted through the form at
>> https://fosdem.org/devroom
>> which contains further information.
>>
>> Questions or remarks? Contact us at address@hidden
>>
>> Key dates:
>> 9 October
>> - deadline for developer room proposals
>>
>> 19 October
>> - accepted developer rooms announced
>>
>> 2 November (or earlier)
>> - developer rooms issue Calls for Participation
>>
>> 18 December (or earlier)
>> - developer rooms publish complete schedules
>>
>> Stands
>> ------
>> FOSDEM offers open source and free software projects the opportunity
>> to display their work during the event. At its stand, a project can
>> share information, demo software, sell merchandise, give away goodies,
>> and so on, and personally interact with the visitors.
>>
>> What we offer:
>>
>> - one 180x80cm table, positioned in one of the buildings with
>> developer rooms, for the entire duration of the conference. In some
>> cases, a second table may be possible, if you have a good reason to
>> need two.
>> - two chairs per table
>> - one power socket type C/E (if you require adapters or additional
>> sockets, please bring them yourself)
>> - fast uplink shared wireless Internet access
>>
>> To apply, please fill out the form at:
>> https://fosdem.org/stands
>> which contains further information.
>>
>> Questions or remarks? Contact us at address@hidden
>>
>> Key dates:
>> 13 November
>> - deadline for stand proposals
>>
>> 30 November
>> - accepted stands announced
>>
>> Lightning talks
>> ---------------
>> Lighting talks are short - 15 minutes - talks on a wide variety of
>> topics. Anyone who has something interesting to say about an open
>> source or free software topic can apply. We particularly encourage
>> topics that do not fit in any of the developer rooms.
>>
>> Proposals for lightning talks should be submitted using Pentabarf:
>>
>> https://fosdem.org/submit
>>
>> Please select "Lightning Talks" in the "track" field.
>>
>> Questions or remarks? Contact us at address@hidden
>>
>> Key dates:
>> 27 November
>> - deadline for lightning talk proposals
>>
>> 14 December
>> - accepted lightning talks announced
>>
>> All deadlines are at 23.59 UTC.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> FOSDEM mailing list
>> address@hidden
>> https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/fosdem
>>
>>
>> ----- End forwarded message -----
>>
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