Re: FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation

[Christopher Allan Webber]

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.
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
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>> 
>> 
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