I’ll be there. I’m not likely to present though :)
Will any GNUstep people be at FOSdem? Prime material for apresentation, I think...-- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamprovenEmail: lproven@cix.co.uk • Google Mail/Talk/Plus: lproven@gmail.comTwitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven • Skype/LinkedIn/AIM/Yahoo: liamprovenUK: +44 7939-087884 • ČR/WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal: +420 702 829 053---------- Forwarded message ----------Online at:https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2017-October/002648.htmlThe Distributions devroom will take place Sunday 4 February 2018 atFOSDEM, in Brussels, Belgium at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.For this year's distributions devroom, we want to focus on the ways thatdistribution technologies can be leveraged to allow for easiercreation of a multi-verse of artifacts from single source trees. We alsowant to continue to highlight the huge efforts being made in sharedenvironments around Build/Test/Release cycles.We welcome submissions targeted at contributors interested in issuesunique to distributions, especially in the following topics:- Distribution and Community collaborations, eg: how does code flow from developers to end users across communities, ensuring trust and code audibility- Automating building software for redistribution to minimize human involvement, eg: bots that branch and build software, bots that participate as team members extending human involvement- Cross-distribution collaboration on common issues, eg: content distribution, infrastructure, and documentation- Growing distribution communities, eg: onboarding new users, helping new contributors learn community values and technology, increasing contributor technical skills, recognizing and rewarding contribution- Principals of Rolling Releases, Long Term Supported Releases (LTS), Feature gated releases, and calendar releases- Distribution construction, installation, deployment, packaging and content management- Balancing new code and active upstreams verus security updates, back porting and minimization of user breaking changes- Delivering architecture independent software universally across architectures within the confines of distribution systems- Effectively communicating the difference in experience across architectures for developers, packagers, and users- Working with vendors and including them in the community- The future of distributions, emerging trends and evolving user demands from the idea of a platformIdeal submissions are actionable and opinionated. Submissions maybe in the form of 25 or 50 minute talks, panel sessions, round-tablediscussions, or Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions.Dates------Submission Deadline: 03-Dec-2017 @ 2359 GMTAcceptance Notification: 8-Dec-2017Final Schedule Posted: 15-Dec-2017How to submit--------------Visit https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM181.) If you do not have an account, create one here2.) Click 'Create Event'3.) Enter your presentation details4.) Be sure to select the Distributions Devroom track!5.) SubmitWhat to include---------------- The title of your submission- A 1-paragraph Abstract- A longer description including the benefit of your talk to your target audience, including a definition of your target audience.- Approximate length / type of submission (talk, BoF, ...)- Links to related websites/blogs/talk material (if any)Administrative Notes----------------We will be live-streaming and recording the Distributions Devroom.Presenting at FOSDEM implies permission to record your session anddistribute the recording afterwards. All videos will be made availableunder the standard FOSDEM content license (CC-BY).If you have any questions, feel free to contact thedevroom organizers: distributions-devroom@lists.fosdem.org(https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/distributions-devroom)Cheers!Brian Exelbierd (twitter: @bexelbie) and Brian Stinson (twitter:@bstinsonmhk) for and on behalf of The Distributions Devroom ProgramCommittee_______________________________________________Discuss-gnustep mailing listDiscuss-gnustep@gnu.orghttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
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