FOSDEM is one of the world's premier meetings of free software developers, with over five thousand people attending each year. FOSDEM 2016 takes place 30-31 January 2016 in Brussels, Belgium. http://fosdem.org
This email contains information about: - Real-Time communications dev-room and lounge, - speaking opportunities, - volunteering in the dev-room and lounge, - related events around FOSDEM, including the XMPP summit, - social events (including the Saturday night dinner), - the Planet aggregation sites for RTC blogs
Call for participation - Real Time Communications (RTC) =======================================================
The Real-Time dev-room and Real-Time lounge is about all things involving real-time communication, including: XMPP, SIP, WebRTC, telephony, mobile VoIP, codecs, privacy and encryption. The dev-room is a successor to the previous XMPP and telephony dev-rooms. We are looking for speakers for the dev-room and volunteers and participants for the tables in the Real-Time lounge.
The dev-room is only on Saturday, 30 January 2016. The lounge will be present for both days.
To discuss the dev-room and lounge, please join the FSFE-sponsored Free RTC mailing list: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc
Speaking opportunities ----------------------
Note: if you used Pentabarf before, please use the same account/username
Main track: the deadline for main track presentations is midnight today, 30 October. Leading developers in the Real-Time Communications field are encouraged to consider submitting a presentation to the main track at https://fosdem.org/submit
Real-Time Communications dev-room: deadline 27 November Please also use the Pentabarf system to submit a talk proposal for the dev-room. On the "General" tab, please look for the "Track" option and choose "Real-Time devroom". https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16/
Other dev-rooms: some speakers may find their topic is in the scope of more than one dev-room. It is permitted to apply to more than one dev-room but please be kind enough to tell us if you do this. You can find the full list of dev-rooms at https://www.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/tracks/
Lightning talks: deadline 27 November The lightning talks are an excellent opportunity to introduce a wider audience to your project. Given that dev-rooms are becoming increasingly busy, all speakers are encouraged to consider applying for a lightning talk as well as a slot in the dev-room. On the "General" tab, please look for the "Track" option and choose "Lightning Talks". https://fosdem.org/submit
First-time speaking? --------------------
FOSDEM dev-rooms are a welcoming environment for people who have never given a talk before. Please feel free to contact the dev-room administrators personally if you would like to ask any questions about it.
Submission guidelines ---------------------
The Pentabarf system will ask for many of the essential details. Please remember to re-use your account from previous years if you have one.
In the "Submission notes", please tell us about: - the purpose of your talk - any other talk applications (dev-rooms, lightning talks, main track) - availability constraints and special needs
You can use HTML in your bio, abstract and description.
If you maintain a blog, please consider providing us with the URL of a feed with posts tagged for your RTC-related work.
We will be looking for relevance to the conference and dev-room themes, presentations aimed at developers of free and open source software about RTC-related topics.
Please feel free to suggest a duration between 20 minutes and 55 minutes but note that the final decision on talk durations will be made by the dev-room administrators. As the two previous dev-rooms have been combined into one, we may decide to give shorter slots than in previous years so that more speakers can participate.
Please note FOSDEM aims to record and live-stream all talks. The CC-BY license is used.
For any questions, please join the FSFE-sponsored Free RTC mailing list: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc
Volunteers needed =================
To make the dev-room and lounge run successfully, we are looking for volunteers:
- FOSDEM provides video recording equipment and live streaming, volunteers are needed to assist in this - organizing one or more restaurant bookings (dependending upon number of participants) for the evening of Saturday, 30 January - participation in the Real-Time lounge - helping attract sponsorship funds for the dev-room to pay for the Saturday night dinner and any other expenses - circulating this Call for Participation to other mailing lists
FOSDEM is made possible by volunteers and if you have time to contribute, please feel free to get involved through https://volunteers.fosdem.org/
Related events - XMPP and RTC summits =====================================
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) has traditionally held a summit in the days before FOSDEM. There is discussion about a similar summit taking place on 28 and 29 January 2016 http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Summit_19 - please join the mailing list for details: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/summit
We are also considering a more general RTC or telephony summit, potentially on 29 January. Please join the Free-RTC mailing list and send an email if you would be interested in participating, sponsoring or hosting such an event.
Social events and dinners =========================
The traditional FOSDEM beer night occurs on Friday, 29 January
On Saturday night, there are usually dinners associated with each of the dev-rooms. Most restaurants in Brussels are not so large so these dinners have space constraints. Please subscribe to the Free-RTC mailing list for further details about the Saturday night dinner options and how you can register for a seat: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc
Spread the word and discuss ===========================
If you know of any mailing lists where this CfP would be relevant, please forward this email. If this dev-room excites you, please blog or microblog about it, especially if you are submitting a talk.
If you regularly blog about RTC topics, please send details about your blog to the planet site administrators:
http://planet.jabber.org ralphm@ik.nu
http://planet.sip5060.net daniel@pocock.pro
http://planet.opentelecoms.org daniel@pocock.pro
Please also link to the Planet sites from your own blog or web site.
Contact =======
For discussion and queries, please join the free-rtc mailing list: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc
The dev-room administration team:
Daniel Pocock daniel@pocock.pro Ralph Meijer ralphm@ik.nu Saúl Ibarra Corretgé saul@ag-projects.com Iain R. Learmonth irl@debian.org