I enjoyed this devroom in 2025, I might want to submit my own talk. Maybe about Guile/Guix or Lua/Luanti. This year there will also be a games an VR devroom. My Luanti VR branch will fit that devroom better. But I also plan to contribute to GNU Guix this month....
On Sat, 2025-11-01 at 06:42 +0200, Manolis Ragkousis wrote: > We are excited to announce the Call for Participation for the > Declarative and Minimalistic Computing devroom at FOSDEM 2026, which > will take place on Sunday, 1 February 2026 (half-day, morning) at the > Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. > The submission deadline for talk proposals is 1 December 2025. > > FOSDEM is one of the most important free software conferences in the > world and is held annually in Brussels. This year’s edition will > again > be an in-person event, bringing together thousands of contributors > and > enthusiasts from around the globe. > > Our devroom welcomes talks exploring languages, systems, and > approaches > that strive for simplicity, robustness, and security through > declarative > and minimalistic design. We’re interested in projects and ideas that > reduce complexity, minimize hardware and software dependencies, and > promote transparent, understandable computing systems. > > Examples include (but are not limited to) projects from the > Scheme/Lisp > family, Guile, Lua, Nim, Racket, Raku, Forth, and Tcl, as well as > experimental systems that push minimalism and declarative design 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. > > If you are developing or researching systems, languages, or tools > that > embrace declarative or minimalistic principles, we invite you to > submit > a proposal. > We especially encourage submissions from individuals and communities > underrepresented in free and open-source software. > > If you have something you’d like to share with your fellow > developers, > please E-mail us! Reach out to > [email protected] or [email protected] if you run into > any > trouble. > > The deadline for submission is December 1st, 2025. 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 ([email protected]) > - Manolis Ragkousis ([email protected]) > - Bonface Munyoki ([email protected]) > - Jonathan McHugh ([email protected]) > - Arun Isaac ([email protected]) > - Amirouche Boubekki ([email protected]) > - Hisham Muhammad ([email protected]) > - Ludovic Courtès ([email protected]) - GNU Guile, GNU Guix > - Jan Nieuwenhuizen ([email protected]) - GNU Mes project leader > - William Byrd ([email protected]) > - Oliver Propst ([email protected]) > - Julien Lepiller ([email protected]) > > = Code of conduct = > > - https://fosdem.org/2026/practical/conduct/ > > = Original proposal = > > - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2026-devroom-proposal > > = Important dates = > > - Dec 1st 2025: submission deadline for talk proposals > - Dec 15th 2025: announcement of the final schedule > - Sunday, 1 February 2026: FOSDEM! > > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2026-devroom-declarative-and-minimalistic-computing-cfp > _______________________________________________ > devroom-managers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/devroom-managers -- Tobias Platen jami.net: 98f2876d46a2680ec0b9e5413907e80cee0ded3d xmpp: tobias_platen AT fsfe.org
