https://fosdem.org/FOSDEM 20192019-01-30T23:00:00ZFOSDEM teamhttps://fosdem.orgtag:fosdem.org,2019-01-31:/2019/news/2019-01-31-last-set-of-speaker-interviews/Last set of speaker interviews2019-01-30T23:00:00Z2019-01-30T23:00:00Z
<p>We proudly present the last set of speaker interviews. See you at FOSDEM this weekend!</p>
<ul>
<li>Corey Hulen: <a href="/2019/interviews/corey-hulen/">Mattermost’s Approach to Layered Extensibility in Open Source</a></li>
<li>Denis Roio (Jaromil): <a href="/2019/interviews/denis-roio/">Algorithmic Sovereignty and the state of community-driven open source development. Is there a radical interface pedagogy for algorithmic governementality?</a></li>
<li>John Garbutt: <a href="/2019/interviews/john-garbutt/">Square Kilometre Array and its Software Defined Supercomputer. ... and a very fast parallel file system</a></li>
<li>Jon 'maddog' Hall: <a href="/2019/interviews/jon-maddog-hall/">2019 - Fifty years of Unix and Linux advances</a></li>
<li>Roger Dingledine: <a href="/2019/interviews/roger-dingledine/">The Current and Future Tor Project. Updates from the Tor Project</a></li>
<li>Ron Evans: <a href="/2019/interviews/ron-evans/">Go on Microcontrollers: Small Is Going Big. TinyGo takes the Go programming language to the "final frontier" where we could not go before... running directly on microcontrollers.</a></li>
</ul>
<p>If you haven't read our previous <a href="/2019/interviews/">interviews</a> with main track speakers yet, take a look at them. It's for free and no registration necessary, just like the conference!</p>
<p>We proudly present the last set of speaker interviews. See you at FOSDEM this weekend!</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2019-01-26:/2019/news/2019-01-26-third-set-of-speaker-interviews/Third set of speaker interviews2019-01-25T23:00:00Z2019-01-25T23:00:00Z
<p>With only one week left until FOSDEM 2019, we have added some new interviews with our main track and keynote speakers, varying from a keynote talk about the dangers of the cloud to the use of Matrix in the French state and the inner workings of the ZFS Adaptive Replacement Cache:</p>
<ul>
<li>Allan Jude: <a href="/2019/interviews/allan-jude/">ELI5: ZFS Caching. Explain Like I'm 5: How the ZFS Adaptive Replacement Cache works</a></li>
<li>Guido Trotter and Dylan Reid: <a href="/2019/interviews/guido-trotter-dylan-reid/">Crostini: A Linux Desktop on ChromeOS</a></li>
<li>Kyle Rankin: <a href="/2019/interviews/kyle-rankin/">The Cloud is Just Another Sun</a></li>
<li>Lorenzo Fontana: <a href="/2019/interviews/lorenzo-fontana/">eBPF powered Distributed Kubernetes performance analysis</a></li>
<li>Matthew Hodgson: <a href="/2019/interviews/matthew-hodgson/">Matrix in the French State. What happens when a government adopts open source & open standards for all its internal communication?</a></li>
<li>Michael Cheng: <a href="/2019/interviews/michael-cheng/">SSPL, Confluent License, CockroachDB License and the Commons Clause. Is it freedom to choose to be less free?</a></li>
<li>Philip Tricca: <a href="/2019/interviews/philip-tricca/">The TPM2 software community. Getting started as a user, becoming a contributor</a></li>
<li>Sage Weil: <a href="/2019/interviews/sage-weil/">Data services in a hybrid cloud world with Ceph. Making data as portable as your stateless microservices</a></li>
<li>Tomas Vondra: <a href="/2019/interviews/tomas-vondra/">PostgreSQL vs. fsync. How is it possible that PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years, and what we'll do about it.</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Our <a href="/2019/interviews/">interviews</a> page is already filling up nicely with a diverse set of main track speakers. Stay tuned for the last set of interviews next week.</p>
<p>With only one week left until FOSDEM 2019, we have added some new interviews with our main track and keynote speakers, varying from a keynote talk about the dangers of the cloud to the use of Matrix in the French state and the inner workings of the ZFS Adaptive Replacement Cache:</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2019-01-25:/2019/news/2019-01-25-low-emission-zone/Brussels Low Emission Zone2019-01-24T23:00:00Z2019-01-24T23:00:00Z
<p>
As of the end of 2018, the ULB campus Solbosch is located within the Brussels Low Emission Zone (LEZ).
Drivers of cars registered abroad are required to register before entering the LEZ, or risk being fined.
Registration is free of charge.
</p>
<p>
More information can be found <a href="https://www.lez.brussels/en">here</a>.
</p>
<p>
As of the end of 2018, the ULB campus Solbosch is located within the Brussels Low Emission Zone (LEZ).
Drivers of cars registered abroad are required to register before entering the LEZ, or risk being fined.
Registration is free of charge.
</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2019-01-23:/2019/news/2019-01-23-sightseeing/Guided sightseeing tours2019-01-22T23:00:00Z2019-01-22T23:00:00Z
<p>
If your non-geek partner and/or kids are joining you to FOSDEM, they may
be interested in spending some time exploring Brussels while you attend the conference.
</p>
<p>
Like previous years, FOSDEM is organising
<a href="/2019/sightseeing/">sightseeing tours</a>.
</p>
<p>
If your non-geek partner and/or kids are joining you to FOSDEM, they may
be interested in spending some time exploring Brussels while you attend the conference.
</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2019-01-19:/2019/news/2019-01-19-second-set-of-speaker-interviews/Second set of speaker interviews2019-01-18T23:00:00Z2019-01-18T23:00:00Z
<p>We have just published the second set of interviews with our main track and keynote speakers.</p>
<p>The following <a href="/2019/interviews/">interviews</a> give you a lot of interesting reading material about various topics, from ethics to databases and AI systems:</p>
<ul>
<li>Bradley M. Kuhn and Karen Sandler: <a href="/2019/interviews/bradley-m-kuhn-karen-sandler/">Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?. Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software</a></li>
<li>Deb Nicholson: <a href="/2019/interviews/deb-nicholson/">Blockchain: The Ethical Considerations</a></li>
<li>Drew Moseley: <a href="/2019/interviews/drew-moseley/">Mender - an open source OTA software update manager for IoT</a></li>
<li>Duarte Nunes: <a href="/2019/interviews/duarte-nunes/">Raft in Scylla. Consensus in an eventually consistent database</a></li>
<li>Fernando Laudares: <a href="/2019/interviews/fernando-laudares/">Hugepages and databases. working with abundant memory in modern servers</a></li>
<li>Hong Phuc: <a href="/2019/interviews/hong-phuc-dang/">SUSI.AI: An Open Source Platform for Conversational Web</a></li>
<li>Jasper Nuyens: <a href="/2019/interviews/jasper-nuyens/">Tesla Hacking to FreedomEV!. Bringing Freedom to electric vehicle software</a></li>
<li>Jeremie Galarneau: <a href="/2019/interviews/jeremie-galarneau/">Fine-grained Distributed Application Monitoring Using LTTng</a></li>
<li>Jonathan Looney: <a href="/2019/interviews/jonathan-looney/">Netflix and FreeBSD. Using Open Source to Deliver Streaming Video</a></li>
<li>Scott Hanselman: <a href="/2019/interviews/scott-hanselman/">Open Source C#, .NET, and Blazor - everywhere PLUS WebAssembly</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Last week, we already published our <a href="/2019/news/2019-01-10-first-speaker-interviews/">first set of speaker interviews</a>. If you can't wait for FOSDEM 2019, get a glimpse of the talks in all these interviews. A lot more interviews are coming during the next weeks, we have only published half of them now!</p>
<p>We have just published the second set of interviews with our main track and keynote speakers.</p>
<p>The following <a href="page:/interviews">interviews</a> give you a lot of interesting reading material about various topics, from ethics to databases and AI systems:</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2019-01-10:/2019/news/2019-01-10-first-speaker-interviews/First speaker interviews2019-01-09T23:00:00Z2019-01-09T23:00:00Z
<p>During the holidays we have performed some interviews with main track speakers from various tracks.</p>
<p>To get up to speed with the topics discussed in the main track talks, you can start reading the following <a href="/2019/interviews/">interviews</a>:</p>
<ul>
<li>Chris Brind: <a href="/2019/interviews/chris-brind/">Open Source at DuckDuckGo. Raising the Standard of Trust Online</a></li>
<li>Daniel Stenberg: <a href="/2019/interviews/daniel-stenberg/">DNS over HTTPS - the good, the bad and the ugly. Why, how, when and who gets to control how names are resolved</a></li>
<li>Joe Conway: <a href="/2019/interviews/joe-conway/">PostgreSQL Goes to 11!</a></li>
<li>Juan Linietsky: <a href="/2019/interviews/juan-linietsky/">Making the next blockbuster game with FOSS tools. Using Free Software tools to achieve high quality game visuals.</a></li>
<li>Richard Jones: <a href="/2019/interviews/richard-jones/">Better loop mounts with NBD. Take your loop mounts to the next level with nbdkit</a></li>
<li>Ruben Verborgh: <a href="/2019/interviews/ruben-verborgh/">Solid: taking back the Web through decentralization. App development as we know it will radically change</a></li>
<li>Will the Chill Braswell: <a href="/2019/interviews/william-braswell/">Perl 11. The Future of Saint Larry's Language</a></li>
</ul>
Stay tuned for more interviews in the next weeks.
<p>During the holidays we have performed some interviews with main track speakers from various tracks.</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2019-01-10:/2019/news/2019-01-10-call-for-volunteers/Call for volunteers2019-01-09T23:00:00Z2019-01-09T23:00:00Z
<p>
With FOSDEM just around the corner, it is time for us to enlist your help.
</p>
<p>
Every year, an enthusiastic band of volunteers make FOSDEM happen and make it a fun and safe place for all our attendees. We could not do this without you. This year we again need as many hands as possible, especially for heralding during the conference, during the buildup (starting Friday at noon) and teardown (Sunday evening). No need to worry about missing lunch. Food will be provided.
</p>
<p>
Would you like to be part of the team that makes FOSDEM tick? <a href="https://volunteers.fosdem.org">Sign up here!</a> You could really help us out with the following:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Heralding - Briefly introduce the speakers and the topics of their talks, make sure all talks end on time by giving speakers cues near the end of their time slot. Keep an eye out on room safety and report potential issues such as overcrowded rooms before it becomes more than a "potential" issue. </li>
<li>Build-up - Setting up the venue on Friday: this mostly involves carrying tables to their destinations and setting them up, putting up signage, covering the walls in brown paper... in short: transform the campus into a conference venue. We need as many volunteers as possible for this task.</li>
<li>Tear-down - (and cleanup) on Sunday evening: collecting beer bottles, tearing down the network, pulling brown paper off the walls, taking down the signage, stacking the rental tables in neat heaps, broom the floors etc. Basically, make sure we're welcome again next year. </li>
<li>Infodesk - Available at the infodesk during the weekend: help out fellow attendees with their questions, sell t-shirts etc. Proficiency in English is a must, but if you are proficient in other languages as well, it certainly wouldn't hurt.</li>
<li>Video - Capturing and recording video. Ensure the livestreams to thousands are up and running and all talks are recorded. This year we're also doing subtitling. </li>
<li>Network - Deploying the network on Friday: rolling out, neatly securing and crimping UTP cables. People with experience rolling out networks and crimping cables are very welcome!</li>
<li>Beer event - Be a steward at the beer event, (one of) the greatest FOSDEM-side-activities. During Friday night, the Delirium Café is ours and we organize a world-famous beer event with equally famous Belgian beers. Your role will be to check whether a visitor is indeed FOSDEM-related and sell drinks tokens.</li>
</ul>
<p>For more information, please have a look at <a href="https://volunteers.fosdem.org/faq/">our volunteer FAQ</a></p>
<p>If any or all of these sound like your kind of gig, pick your task(s) at <a href="https://volunteers.fosdem.org">our volunteer tool</a>, subscribe to <a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/volunteers">the volunteers mailing list</a> and keep an eye on #fosdem-volunteers on <a href="https://freenode.net/">freenode</a> (also available <a href="https://webchat.freenode.net?channels=fosdem-volunteers">via webchat</a>). Feel free to shout out and introduce yourself!</p>
<p>
With FOSDEM just around the corner, it is time for us to enlist your help.
</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2019-01-02:/2019/news/2019-01-02-keysigning-submit-your-keys/Keysigning: submit your keys2019-01-01T23:00:00Z2019-01-01T23:00:00Z
<p>
Our keyserver is now accepting submissions for the FOSDEM 2019
keysigning event.
</p>
<p>
The annual PGP keysigning event at FOSDEM is one of the largest of its
kind. With more than one hundred participants every year, it is an
excellent opportunity to strengthen the web of trust.
For instructions on how to participate in this event, see the
<a href="/2019/keysigning/">keysigning page</a>.
</p>
<p>
Key submissions on Wednesday 23 January, to give us
some time to generate and distribute the list of participants.
Remember to bring a printed copy of this list to FOSDEM.
</p>
<p>
Our keyserver is now accepting submissions for the FOSDEM 2019
keysigning event.
</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2018-10-14:/2019/news/2018-10-14-accepted-developer-rooms/Accepted developer rooms2018-10-13T22:00:00Z2018-10-13T22:00:00Z
<p>
We are pleased to announce the developer rooms that will be
organised at FOSDEM 2019.
</p>
<p>
Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work
together on open source projects, to discuss topics relevant to a
broader subset of the community, etc. The individual developer room
organisers will issue their calls for participation in the next few
days.
</p>
<p>
We will update this table with links to the calls for participation.
</p>
<table class="table table-striped table-condensed table-bordered">
<thead>
<tr>
<th colspan="3"><h4>Saturday 2 February 2019</h4></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Topic</th>
<th>Call for Participation</th>
<th>CfP deadline</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>.NET and TypeScript</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002794.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-03</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ada</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002801.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>BSD</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002741.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-10</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Collaborative Information and Content Management Applications</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002774.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-10</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Decentralized Internet and Privacy</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002769.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-11-26</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Free Java</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002766.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Go</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002767.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-11-30</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Graph Processing</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002800.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-02</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Graphics</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002806.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-14</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Infra Management</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002744.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Legal</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002773.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-11-25</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Minimalistic Languages</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002760.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-11-25</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mozilla</td>
<td><a href="https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/fosdem-2019-call-for-proposals/33038">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-11-25</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MySQL, MariaDB and Friends</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002733.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-11-15</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Open Document Editors</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002820.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-24</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Open Media</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002736.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-03</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Open Source Design</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002746.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>PHP and Friends</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002768.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-11-25</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Quantum Computing</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002811.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-11</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>RISC-V</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002743.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-11-25</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Retrocomputing </td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002782.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-11-30</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Software Defined Networking</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002758.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-11-25</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tool the Docs </td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002798.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-11-25</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Virtualization and IaaS</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002757.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-01</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<thead>
<tr>
<th colspan="3"><h4>Sunday 3 February 2019</h4></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Topic</th>
<th>Call for Participation</th>
<th>CfP deadline</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Blockchain</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002778.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>CAD and Open Hardware</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002752.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Community</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002776.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-11-23</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Containers</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002790.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-14</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>DNS</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002739.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Distributions</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002786.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-02</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Free Software Radio</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002732.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-07</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Free Tools and Editors</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002783.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-07</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Geospatial</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002793.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>HPC, Big Data and Data Science</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002745.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-11-23</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hardware Enablement</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002797.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Javascript</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002780.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-11-28</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LLVM</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002737.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-11-25</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Machine Learning on Code</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002764.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-11-30</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Microkernels and Component-based OS</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002742.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Monitoring and Observability</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002770.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-11-26</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>PostgreSQL</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002796.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-11-19</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Python</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002781.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Real Time Communications</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002784.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-02</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Rust</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002740.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-11-25</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Search</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002805.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-14</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Security</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002777.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Software Defined Storage</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002735.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2018-11-25</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>
We are pleased to announce the developer rooms that will be
organised at FOSDEM 2019.
</p>
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<p>
We now invite proposals for main track presentations, developer rooms,
stands and lightning talks.
</p>
<p>
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 8000+ geeks from
all over the world.
</p>
<p>
The nineteenth edition will take place on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd
February 2019 at the usual location: ULB Campus Solbosch in Brussels.
</p>
<p>
We will record and stream all main tracks, devrooms and lightning talks live.
The recordings will be
published under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). If,
exceptionally, you believe there is a legitimate reason why your presentation
should not be streamed or recorded, you must seek our agreement before
submitting it.
</p>
<h3>Main Tracks</h3>
<p>
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 (including audience
questions) 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 if needed.
</p>
<p>
Proposals for main track presentations should be submitted using
Pentabarf: <a href="https://fosdem.org/submit">https://fosdem.org/submit</a>.
If you already created an account in the system for a previous edition,
please reuse it rather than re-registering.
</p>
<p>
Submissions will be reviewed in two batches, beginning with
those received by 13 October. The final deadline is 3 November.
</p>
<p>
Questions or remarks? Contact us at <a href="mailto:program@fosdem.org">program@fosdem.org</a>.
</p>
<p>
Key dates:
</p><ul>
<li>13 October
<ul>
<li>deadline for first batch of main track proposals</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>3 November
<ul>
<li>final deadline for main track proposals</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>1 November onwards
<ul>
<li>main track talks announced (in batches)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Developer Rooms</h3>
<p>
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.
Most content should take the form of presentations.
Proposals involving collaboration across project or domain boundaries
are strongly encouraged.
</p>
<p>
Developer room proposals should be submitted through the form at
<a href="https://fosdem.org/devroom">https://fosdem.org/devroom</a>
which contains further information.
</p>
<p>
Questions or remarks? Contact us at <a href="mailto:devrooms@fosdem.org">devrooms@fosdem.org</a>.
</p>
<p>
Key dates:
</p><ul>
<li>20 September
<ul>
<li>deadline for developer room proposals</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>30 September
<ul>
<li>accepted developer rooms announced</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>16 October (or earlier)
<ul>
<li>developer rooms issue Calls for Participation</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>15 December (or earlier)
<ul>
<li>developer rooms publish complete schedules</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Stands</h3>
<p>
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.
</p>
<h4>What we offer</h4>
<ul>
<li>one 180x80cm table, positioned in one of the buildings with developer
rooms, for the entire duration of the conference. A second table is
possible in a few cases, but the pressure on space means this is
becoming increasingly rare and needs strong justification. Joint
submissions that share a table between related projects will be
favoured in the selection process.</li>
<li>two chairs per table</li>
<li>one power socket type C/E (if you require adapters or additional
sockets, please bring them yourself)</li>
<li>fast uplink shared wireless Internet access</li>
</ul>
<p>
To apply, please fill out the form at:
<a href="https://fosdem.org/stands">https://fosdem.org/stands</a>
which contains further information.
</p>
<p>
Questions or remarks? Contact us at <a href="mailto:stands@fosdem.org">stands@fosdem.org</a>.
</p>
<h4>Key dates</h4>
<ul>
<li>2 November
<ul>
<li>deadline for stand proposals</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>11 November
<ul>
<li>accepted stands announced</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Lightning talks</h3>
<p>
Lighting talks are short — 15 minute long — 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.
</p>
<p>
Proposals for lightning talks should be submitted using Pentabarf:
<a href="https://fosdem.org/submit">https://fosdem.org/submit</a>.
Please select "lightning Talks" in the "track" field. If you already
created an account in the system for a previous edition, please reuse
it rather than re-registering.
</p>
<p>
Questions or remarks? Contact us at <a href="mailto:lightningtalks@fosdem.org">lightningtalks@fosdem.org</a>.
</p>
<h4>Key dates</h4>
<ul>
<li>24 November
<ul>
<li>deadline for lightning talk proposals</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>15 December
<ul>
<li>accepted lightning talks announced</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>
All deadlines are at 23.59 UTC.
</p>
<p>
We now invite proposals for main track presentations, developer rooms,
stands and lightning talks.
</p>