FOSDEM14

We now invite proposals for main track presentations and developer rooms.

FOSDEM offers open source 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 fourteenth edition will take place on 1 and 2 February 2014 at the usual location: ULB Campus Solbosch in Brussels.

We now invite proposals for main track presentations and developer rooms.

Previous editions have featured 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 travel expenses and arranges accommodation for accepted main track speakers.

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. 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.

Proposals for main track presentations should be submitted using Pentabarf:

https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/

Developer room proposals should be emailed to devrooms@fosdem.org and be as detailed as possible. In particular, coordinators should indicate their affinity with the topic being proposed and provide a rough idea of the content they plan to schedule.

Key dates:

• 15 September
  • deadline for developer room proposals
• 1 October
  • deadline for main track proposals
  • accepted developer rooms announced

We are pleased to announce that FOSDEM 2014 will take place at ULB Campus Solbosch on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 February 2014. Further details and calls for participation will be announced in due course.

Have a nice summer!

Uploading of our videos is almost ready!

There are four videos that aren't uploaded into our video repository currently:

1. Bill Hoffman's Open Science, Open Software, and Reproducible Code talk; we mostly have the recordings, but it will require quite some manual effort to get it finished, since there were some technical issues during the talk, resulting in the recording being a puzzle of overlapping fragments that we need to piece together. This might take some time, and will need to wait until we find the time to do it.
2. Zachary Powell's LinuxonAndroid and SlapOS on Android talk in room H.1301 was properly recorded, but due to a mistake on our end we have lost the recording. There is still a slim chance we may recover a low-quality version of this talk, but it may be irrevocably lost.
3. Similarly, we have also lost the recordings to Nikos Roussos' The neat guide to Fedora RPM Packaging talk.
4. Finally, the Hardening roundtable headed by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera appears not to have been recorded at all.

Other than these four, all videos have been transcoded and uploaded. You can watch the videos by going to the video.fosdem.org archive, or—if you have an HTML5-capable browser—to the individual pages in the schedule where they will appear in a <video> element.

Apart from the videos recorded by the official FOSDEM team, there is also one talk uploaded by the telephony devroom. Note that if you were a devroom organizer and talks were recorded in your devroom in some fashion (be that full video or just audio), the FOSDEM team would be happy to host them on our server; just contact us via wouter@fosdem.org to make that happen.

It's just two days after the event, and the first videos have already been uploaded.

As there are plenty of talks which still require work before we'll be able to upload them, you'll need to bear with us for a while. We will make another announcement once all talks have been published.

To watch our videos, please go to the FOSDEM video archive. Please note that synchronisation with our mirrors may take a while; this needs to happen before you'll be able to see any video.