https://fosdem.org/FOSDEM 20202020-01-28T00:00:00ZFOSDEM teamhttps://fosdem.orgtag:fosdem.org,2020-01-28:/2020/news/2020-01-28-last-set-of-speaker-interviews/Last set of speaker interviews2020-01-28T00:00:00Z2020-01-28T00:00:00Z
<p>We proudly present the last set of speaker interviews. See you at FOSDEM this weekend!</p>
<ul>
<li>Chris Aniszczyk, Max Sills and Michael Cheng: <a href="/2020/interviews/chris-aniszczyk-max-sills-michael-cheng/">Open Source Under Attack. How we, the OSI and others can defend it</a></li>
<li>Danese Cooper: <a href="/2020/interviews/danese-cooper/">How FOSS could revolutionize municipal government. with recent real-world examples</a></li>
<li>James Bottomley and Mike Rapoport: <a href="/2020/interviews/james-bottomley-mike-rapoport/">Address Space Isolation in the Linux Kernel</a></li>
<li>Kris Nova: <a href="/2020/interviews/kris-nova/">Fixing the Kubernetes clusterfuck. Understanding security from the kernel up</a></li>
<li>Krzysztof Daniel: <a href="/2020/interviews/krzysztof-daniel/">Is the Open door closing?. Past 15 years review and a glimpse into the future.</a></li>
<li>Mateusz Kowalski and Kamila Součková: <a href="/2020/interviews/mateusz-kowalski-kamila-souckova/">SCION. Future internet that you can use today</a></li>
<li>Merlijn B. W. Wajer and Bart Ribbers: <a href="/2020/interviews/merlijn-b-w-wajer-bart-ribbers/">Regaining control of your smartphone with postmarketOS and Maemo Leste. Status of Linux on the smartphone</a></li>
<li>Pili Guerra: <a href="/2020/interviews/pili-guerra/">State of the Onion. The Road to Mainstream Adoption and Improved Censorship Circumvention</a></li>
<li>Steven Goodwin: <a href="/2020/interviews/steven-goodwin/">FOSDEM@20 - A Celebration. The cliché of constant change</a></li>
<li>Thierry Carrez: <a href="/2020/interviews/thierry-carrez/">Why open infrastructure matters</a></li>
<li>Thorsten Leemhuis: <a href="/2020/interviews/thorsten-leemhuis/">The Linux Kernel: We have to finish this thing one day ;). Solving big problems in small steps for more than two decades</a></li>
<li>Vladislav Shpilevoy: <a href="/2020/interviews/vladislav-shpilevoy/">SWIM - Protocol to Build a Cluster. SWIM gossip protocol, its implementation, and improvements</a></li>
</ul>
<p>If you haven't read our previous <a href="/2020/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,2020-01-26:/2020/news/2020-01-26-keysigning-list-published/Keysigning: key list published2020-01-26T00:00:00Z2020-01-26T00:00:00Z
<p>
Submission has closed for the PGP keysigning event.
The list of all submitted keys is now published.
</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.
</p>
<p>
If you are participating in the PGP keysigning, you must now:
</p><ul>
<li>Download the list of keys;
</li><li>Verify that your key fingerprint is correct;
</li><li>Optionally, verify the integrity of the file using the detached signature;
</li><li>Print the list of keys on paper;
</li><li>Calculate the checksums, as detailed in the list, and fill them in on the designated spots.
</li></ul>
<p>
If you do not have your own list of keys with your own checksums, you will not be able to participate in the keysigning party! Remember to bring this list, a pen and your ID to the event on Sunday.
</p>
<p>
For more information about this event, and the location of the files
mentioned, see
<a href="/2020/keysigning/">the keysigning page</a>.
</p>
<p>
Submission has closed for the PGP keysigning event.
The list of all submitted keys is now published.
</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2020-01-18:/2020/news/2020-01-18-second-set-of-speaker-interviews/Second set of speaker interviews2020-01-18T00:00:00Z2020-01-18T00:00:00Z
<p>We have just published the second set of interviews with our main track and keynote speakers.</p>
<p>The following interviews give you a lot of interesting reading material about various topics, from the forgotten history of early Unix to the next technological shift of computing:</p>
<ul>
<li>Daniel Riek: <a href="/2020/interviews/daniel-riek/">How Containers and Kubernetes re-defined the GNU/Linux Operating System. A Greybeard's Worst Nightmare</a></li>
<li>David Stewart: <a href="/2020/interviews/david-stewart/">Improving protections against speculative execution side channel</a></li>
<li>James Bottomley: <a href="/2020/interviews/james-bottomley/">The Selfish Contributor Explained</a></li>
<li>Jon 'maddog' Hall: <a href="/2020/interviews/jon-maddog-hall/">FOSSH - 2000 to 2020 and beyond!. maddog continues to pontificate</a></li>
<li>Justin W. Flory and Michael Nolan: <a href="/2020/interviews/justin-w-flory-michael-nolan/">Freedom and AI: Can Free Software include ethical AI systems?. Exploring the intersection of Free software and AI</a></li>
<li>Liam Proven: <a href="/2020/interviews/liam-proven/">Generation gaps</a></li>
<li>Lubosz Sarnecki: <a href="/2020/interviews/lubosz-sarnecki/">The year of the virtual Linux desktop</a></li>
<li>Matthew Hodgson: <a href="/2020/interviews/matthew-hodgson/">Making & Breaking Matrix's E2E encryption. In which we exercise the threat model for Matrix's E2E encrypted decentralised communication</a></li>
<li>Matthias Kirschner: <a href="/2020/interviews/matthias-kirschner/">The core values of software freedom</a></li>
<li>Michael Meeks: <a href="/2020/interviews/michael-meeks/">LibreOffice turns ten and what's next. Lots to learn, and get excited about</a></li>
<li>Molly de Blanc: <a href="/2020/interviews/molly-de-blanc/">The Ethics Behind Your IoT</a></li>
<li>Ton Roosendaal: <a href="/2020/interviews/ton-roosendaal/">Blender, Coming of Age. 18 years of Blender open source projects</a></li>
<li>Warner Losh: <a href="/2020/interviews/warner-losh/">The Hidden Early History of Unix. The Forgotten history of early Unix</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Last week, we already published our <a href="/2020/news/2020-01-10-first-speaker-interviews/">first set of speaker interviews</a>. If you can't wait for FOSDEM 2020, get a glimpse of the talks in all these interviews.</p>
<p>We have just published the second set of interviews with our main track and keynote speakers.</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2020-01-12:/2020/news/2020-01-12-sightseeing/Guided sightseeing tours2020-01-12T00:00:00Z2020-01-12T00:00:00Z
<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="/2020/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,2020-01-10:/2020/news/2020-01-10-first-speaker-interviews/First speaker interviews2020-01-10T00:00:00Z2020-01-10T00:00:00Z
<p>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="/2020/interviews/">interviews</a>:</p>
<ul>
<li>Amanda Brock: <a href="/2020/interviews/amanda-brock/">United Nations Technology and Innovation Labs. Open Source isn't just eating the world, it's changing it</a></li>
<li>Daniel Stenberg: <a href="/2020/interviews/daniel-stenberg/">HTTP/3 for everyone. The next generation HTTP is coming</a></li>
<li>Free Ekanayaka: <a href="/2020/interviews/free-ekanayaka/">dqlite: High-availability SQLite. An embeddable, distributed and fault tolerant SQL engine</a></li>
<li>Geir Høydalsvik: <a href="/2020/interviews/geir-hoydalsvik/">MySQL Goes to 8!</a></li>
<li>James Shubin: <a href="/2020/interviews/james-shubin/">Over Twenty Years Of Automation</a></li>
<li>Joe Conway: <a href="/2020/interviews/joe-conway/">SECCOMP your PostgreSQL</a></li>
<li>Ludovic Courtès: <a href="/2020/interviews/ludovic-courtes/">Guix: Unifying provisioning, deployment, and package management in the age of containers</a></li>
<li>Paul-Antoine Arras: <a href="/2020/interviews/paul-antoine-arras/">SaBRe: Load-time selective binary rewriting</a></li>
</ul>
Stay tuned for more interviews in the next weeks.
<p>We have performed some interviews with main track speakers from various tracks.</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2019-12-31:/2020/news/2019-12-31-call-for-volunteers/Call for volunteers2019-12-31T00:00:00Z2019-12-31T00:00:00Z<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.</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 our <a href="https://volunteers.fosdem.org/faq/">volunteer FAQ</a>.
</p>
<p>
If any or all of these sound like your kind of gig, pick your task(s) at our <a href="https://volunteers.fosdem.org/">volunteer tool</a>, <a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/volunteers">subscribe to the volunteers mailing list</a> and keep an eye on #fosdem-volunteers on freenode (also available via <a href="https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=fosdem-volunteers">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,2019-12-23:/2020/news/2019-12-23-keysigning-submit-your-keys/Keysigning: submit your keys2019-12-23T00:00:00Z2019-12-23T00:00:00Z
<p>
Our keyserver is now accepting submissions for the FOSDEM 2020
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="/2020/keysigning/">keysigning page</a>.
</p>
<p>
Key submissions close on Wednesday 22 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 2020
keysigning event.
</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2019-11-19:/2020/news/2019-11-19-accepted-stands/Accepted stands2019-11-19T00:00:00Z2019-11-19T00:00:00Z<p>
It took a little longer than expected, but we are happy to announce the
list of accepted stands for FOSDEM 2020.
</p>
<p>
New this year is that some stands will switch between Saturday and Sunday,
so we can give more projects the opportunity to present themselves to the
community.
</p>
<p>
There will be stands in the K, H and AW building, but who will be where
will be announced closer to the event.
We hope to see you all in February!
</p>
<table class="table table-striped table-condensed table-bordered">
<thead>
<tr>
<th colspan="3"><h4>Entire Conference</h4></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Stand</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>CentOS</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Debian</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Gentoo Linux</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>FreeBSD</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Fedora Project</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>openSUSE</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>openMandriva</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>illumos</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Automative Grade Linux</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Coreboot + Flashrom + LinuxBoot</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Micropython & Espruino</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>openwifi</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>openHAB</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>OpenEmbedded</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Infobooth on amateur radio (HAM-radio)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>KDE</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>GNOME</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>CoderDojo</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Skolelinux / AlekSIS / Teckids</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>0 A.D.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Godot Engine</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Raku</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Javascript</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Eclipse Foundation</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Nuspell</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Integration Process Community</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>OpenStack</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Jenkins</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>oVirt & Foreman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Grafana</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>XCP-ng</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>KubeVirt & Metal3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>GitLab</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>PostgreSQL</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Percona</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>YottaDB</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>PostGraphile</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LibreOffice</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Nextcloud</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>CiviCRM</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Kopano</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mozilla</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>OWASP</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Realtime Lounge</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Matrix</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mattermost</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>wolfSSL</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Linphone</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Apache Software Foundation</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Free Software Foundation Europe</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>OW2 Open Source Community</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<thead>
<tr>
<th colspan="3"><h4>Saturday</h4></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Stand</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Haiku</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Technoethical</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Linux Professional Institute</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sugar Labs</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>AdoptOpenJDK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Checkmk</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>OpenTAP</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tine 2.0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MuseScore</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mautic</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>OpenUK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Google Summer of Code</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<thead>
<tr>
<th colspan="3"><h4>Sunday</h4></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Stand</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>ReactOS</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>PINE64</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Open Source Design</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MIT App Inventor</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Pharo</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ntopng</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Open Source Test Management</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tracim</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Free Culture Podcasts</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3Box</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>FOSSASIA</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Software Freedom Conservancy</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>
It took a little longer than expected, but we are happy to announce the
list of accepted stands for FOSDEM 2020.
</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2019-10-01:/2020/news/2019-10-01-accepted-developer-rooms/Accepted developer rooms2019-10-01T00:00:00Z2019-10-01T00:00:00Z<p>
We are pleased to announce the developer rooms that will be organised at
FOSDEM 2020.
</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>
<table class="table table-striped table-condensed table-bordered">
<thead>
<tr>
<th colspan="3"><h4>Saturday 1 February 2020</h4></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Topic</th>
<th>Call for Participation</th>
<th>CfP deadline</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Ada</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002935.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-25</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Backup and Recovery</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002934.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-29</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Coding for Language Communities</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002899.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Collaborative Information and Content Management Applications</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002882.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-09</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Containers</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002888.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-29</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Dependency Management</td>
<td><a href="https://l.ow2.org/FOSDEM20">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-04</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>DNS</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002905.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Embedded, Mobile and Automotive</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002920.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-06</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Erlang, Elixir and Friends</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002901.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-25</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Free Java</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002917.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Game Development</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002884.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Graphics</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002943.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Graph Systems and Algorithms</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002900.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hardware-aided Trusted Computing</td>
<td><a href="https://pastebin.com/JzxPpsXB">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Infra Management</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002923.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-30</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Legal and Policy Issues</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002883.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-17</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LLVM</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002881.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-24</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MySQL, MariaDB and Friends</td>
<td><a href="https://www.mysqlmariadbandfriends.eu/post/2020-committee/">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-20</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Open Document Editors</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002921.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-30</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Open Research Tools and Technologies</td>
<td><a href="https://research-fosdem.github.io/">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Open Source Computer Aided Modeling and Design</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002898.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-20</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Open Source Firmware, BMC and Bootloader</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002933.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Python</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002885.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-24</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Quantum Computing</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002940.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Retrocomputing</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/retrocomputing-devroom/2019-October/000026.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-30</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>RISC-V</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002925.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-24</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Security</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002909.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Software Defined Networking</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002886.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-24</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Testing and Automation</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002897.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-10</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Web Performance</td>
<td><a href="https://github.com/wikimedia/fosdem20-web-performance-cfp">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-02</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<thead>
<tr>
<th colspan="3"><h4>Sunday 2 February 2020</h4></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Topic</th>
<th>Call for Participation</th>
<th>CfP deadline</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>BSD</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002890.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-24</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Community</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002893.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-27</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002880.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-30</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Debugging Tools</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002902.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Decentralized Internet and Privacy</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002903.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Distributions</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002936.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Free Software Radio</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002922.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-06</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Free Tools and Editors</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002904.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-24</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Geospatial</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/dutch/2019-October/001773.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Go</td>
<td><a href="https://medium.com/@maartjeme/go-devroom-cfp-fosdem-2020-7615f2ed390">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-30</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hardware Enablement</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002955.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-15</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>HPC, Big Data, and Data Science</td>
<td><a href="https://hpc-bigdata-fosdem20.github.io/">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-22</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Internet of Things</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002929.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-15</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>JavaScript</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002892.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-24</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Kotlin</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002931.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-07</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Microkernels and Component-based OS</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002878.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Minimalistic, Experimental and Emerging Languages</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002916.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-26</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Monitoring and Observability</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002879.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-26</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mozilla</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002895.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-15</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Open Media</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002906.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-02</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Open Source Design</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002896.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-01</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>PostgreSQL</td>
<td><a href="https://2020.fosdempgday.org/callforpapers/">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-18</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Real Time Communications</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002938.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-15</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Rust</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002894.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-25</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Software Defined Storage</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002891.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-11-24</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Virtualization and IaaS</td>
<td><a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002889.html">announcement</a></td>
<td>2019-12-01</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>
We are pleased to announce the developer rooms that will be organised at
FOSDEM 2020.
</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2019-08-13:/2020/news/2019-08-13-call-for-participation/Call for participation2019-08-13T00:00:00Z2019-08-13T00:00:00Z
<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 twentieth edition will take place on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd
February 2020 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
via e-mail to <a href="mailto:program@fosdem.org">program@fosdem.org</a>
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. You can reset your password here:
<a href="https://penta.fosdem.org/user/forgot_password">https://penta.fosdem.org/user/forgot_password</a>
</p>
<p>
Submissions will be reviewed in two batches, beginning with
those received by 11 October. The final deadline is 8 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>11 October
<ul>
<li>deadline for first batch of main track proposals</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>8 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>15 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. 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/stand">https://fosdem.org/stand</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>1 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>22 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>