Re: Declarative and Minimalistic Computing devroom CfP

[Pjotr Prins]

Thanks Manolis for getting this going! 

Guix days will be held before FOSDEM on 30+31 January 2025 at ICAB. 

https://icab.be/

So we have 4 days of unconditional fun!

FOSDEM is this amazing conference with 15 parallel tracks - there is
something for everyone! See last year:

https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/day/saturday/

It is our favorite conference with Guix days - and we keep coming
back. For Guix days do sign up - we have limited space. You can add
your name here after signing up:

https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/FOSDEM2025

If you want to give a Guix/Guile/Lisp talk - consider submitting to
our devroom below. There will also be opportunities at Guix days.
Don't feel shy. Even if you have never given a talk before, it is a
great place to try for a forgiving audience. Ask Manolis :)

Ping either of us if you have a private question. Looking forward to
meeting up with great friends again!

Pj.

On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 10:24:57PM +0200, Manolis Ragkousis wrote:
> We are excited to announce the Call for Participation for the Declarative
> and Minimalistic Computing devroom at FOSDEM on February, 2025! The
> submission deadline for talk proposals is 1st of December, 2024.
> 
> FOSDEM is one of the most important free software conferences and is
> hosted annually at Université libre de Bruxelles in Brussels,
> Belgium. This year FOSDEM will be a physical conference. Talks will be done
> in person.
> 
> We accept talks from languages that attempt to minimize use of hardware
> and software while trying to make systems simpler, more robust and more
> secure. If you are working on improving today's systems taking
> declarative/minimalistic approaches feel free to submit a talk
> proposal. Examples include the Scheme/Lisp family of programmings languages.
> In past editions, this devroom has received presentations from a varied
> number of language communities, including Forth, Guile, Lua, Nim, Racket,
> Raku and Tcl as well as several experimental projects that push minimalism
> in new directions.
> 
> Minimalism and declarative programming are two important topics for
> this devroom. Minimalism matters. Minimalism allows for smaller
> systems that take less resources and consume less energy. More
> importantly, free and open source minimalism allows for secure systems
> that are easy to understand. Declarative programming is a programming
> paradigm that expresses the logic of a computation without describing
> its control flow. Many languages that apply this style attempt to
> minimize or eliminate side effects by describing what the program must
> accomplish in terms of the problem domain, rather than describe how to
> accomplish it as a sequence of the programming language primitives.
> 
> Finally, in this year's conference we encourage speakers to honor
> individuals in computing from a diversity perspective. Individuals who have
> inspired them and whose work is relevant to their presentations.
> 
> We want to invite you to submit a talk on declarative and minimalistic
> computing that fits that description. We are especially happy to
> receive talk submissions from members of groups underrepresented in
> free software.
> 
> If you have something you’d like to share with your fellow developers,
> please E-mail us! Reach out to
> pjotr.public456@thebird.nl or manolis837@gmail.com if you run into any
> trouble.
> 
> The deadline for submission is December 1st. Proposals must be submitted on
> FOSDEM's conference management system: <https://pretalx.fosdem.org/>. All
> submissions must go through pretalx: <https://fosdem.org/submit>
> 
> When submitting your talk make doubly sure to select "Declarative and
> Minimalistic Computing devroom" as track (if you don't we won't find
> it), and include the following information:
> 
>   * The title and subtitle of your talk
>   * A short abstract of one paragraph
>   * A longer description if you wish to do so
>   * Links to related websites/blogs etc
> 
> To see what a final talk looks like see
> 
>   https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/gnumes/
> 
> Let's make this a fun day!
> 
> = Organizers =
> 
>  - Pjotr Prins (pjotr.public456@thebird.nl)
>  - Manolis Ragkousis (manolis837@gmail.com)
>  - Bonface Munyoki (me@bonfacemunyoki.com)
>  - Jonathan McHugh (indieterminacy@libre.brussels)
>  - Arun Isaac (arunisaac@systemreboot.net)
>  - Amirouche Boubekki (amirouche.boubekki@gmail.com)
>  - Hisham Muhammad (hisham@gobolinux.org)
>  - Ludovic Courtès (ludo@gnu.org) - GNU Guile, GNU Guix
>  - Jan Nieuwenhuizen (janneke@gnu.org) - GNU Mes project leader
>  - William Byrd (webyrd@gmail.com)
>  - Oliver Propst (oliver.propst@gmail.com)
>  - Julien Lepiller (julien@lepiller.eu)
> 
> = Code of conduct =
> 
>   - https://fosdem.org/2025/practical/conduct/
> 
> = Original proposal =
> 
>   - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2025-devroom-proposal
> 
> = Important dates: =
> 
>   - Dec 1st 2024:  submission deadline for talk proposals
>   - Dec 15th 2024:  announcement of the final schedule
>   - Feb 2nd 2024:  FOSDEM!
> 
> https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2025-devroom-declarative-and-minimalistic-computing-cfp
> 

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