All, A friendly reminder that the submission deadline is in 5 days.
Thanks, Piotr On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 2:44 PM Piotr Kliczewski <pklic...@redhat.com> wrote: > We are excited to announce that the call for proposals is now open for the > Virtualization & IaaS devroom at the upcoming FOSDEM 2022, to be hosted > virtually on February 5th 2022. > > This year will mark FOSDEM’s 22nd anniversary as one of the > longest-running free and open source software developer events, attracting > thousands of developers and users from all over the world. Due to Covid-19, > FOSDEM will be held virtually this year on February 5th & 6th, 2022. > > About the Devroom > > The Virtualization & IaaS devroom will feature session topics such as open > source hypervisors and virtual machine managers such as Xen Project, KVM, > bhyve, and VirtualBox, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service projects such as > KubeVirt, Apache CloudStack, Foreman, OpenStack, oVirt, QEMU and OpenNebula. > > This devroom will host presentations that focus on topics of shared > interest, such as KVM; libvirt; shared storage; virtualized networking; > cloud security; clustering and high availability; interfacing with multiple > hypervisors; hyperconverged deployments; and scaling across hundreds or > thousands of servers. > > Presentations in this devroom will be aimed at users or developers working > on these platforms who are looking to collaborate and improve shared > infrastructure or solve common problems. We seek topics that encourage > dialog between projects and continued work post-FOSDEM. > > Important Dates > > Submission deadline: 20th of December > > Acceptance notifications: 25th of December > > Final schedule announcement: 31st of December > > Recorded presentations upload deadline: 15th of January > > Devroom: 6th February 2022 > > Submit Your Proposal > > All submissions must be made via the Pentabarf event planning site[1]. If > you have not used Pentabarf before, you will need to create an account. If > you submitted proposals for FOSDEM in previous years, you can use your > existing account. > > After creating the account, select Create Event to start the submission > process. Make sure to select Virtualization and IaaS devroom from the Track > list. Please fill out all the required fields, and provide a meaningful > abstract and description of your proposed session. > > Submission Guidelines > > We expect more proposals than we can possibly accept, so it is vitally > important that you submit your proposal on or before the deadline. Late > submissions are unlikely to be considered. > > All presentation slots are 30 minutes, with 20 minutes planned for > presentations, and 10 minutes for Q&A. > > All presentations will need to be pre-recorded and put into our system at > least a couple of weeks before the event. > > The presentations should be uploaded by 15th of January and made > available under Creative > > Commons licenses. In the Submission notes field, please indicate that you > agree that your presentation will be licensed under the CC-By-SA-4.0 or > CC-By-4.0 license and that you agree to have your presentation recorded. > For example: > > "If my presentation is accepted for FOSDEM, I hereby agree to license all > recordings, slides, and other associated materials under the Creative > Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License. Sincerely, > <NAME>." > > In the Submission notes field, please also confirm that if your talk is > accepted, you will be able to attend the virtual FOSDEM event for the Q&A. > We will not consider proposals from prospective speakers who are unsure > whether they will be able to attend the FOSDEM virtual event. > > If you are experiencing problems with Pentabarf, the proposal submission > interface, or have other questions, you can email our devroom mailing > list[2] and we will try to help you. > > > Code of Conduct > > Following the release of the updated code of conduct for FOSDEM, we'd like > to remind all speakers and attendees that all of the presentations and > discussions in our devroom are held under the guidelines set in the CoC and > we expect attendees, speakers, and volunteers to follow the CoC at all > times. > > If you submit a proposal and it is accepted, you will be required to > confirm that you accept the FOSDEM CoC. If you have any questions about the > CoC or wish to have one of the devroom organizers review your presentation > slides or any other content for CoC compliance, please email us and we will > do our best to assist you. > > Call for Volunteers > > We are also looking for volunteers to help run the devroom. We need > assistance with helping speakers to record the presentation as well as > helping with streaming and chat moderation for the devroom. Please contact > devroom mailing list [2] for more information. > > Questions? > > If you have any questions about this devroom, please send your questions > to our devroom mailing list. You can also subscribe to the list to receive > updates about important dates, session announcements, and to connect with > other attendees. > > See you all at FOSDEM! > > [1] https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22 > > [2] iaas-virt-devroom at lists.fosdem.org >