We have extended the submission deadline for proposals until 6th December. Kind regards, Ivo Raisr
2017-10-13 12:37 GMT+02:00 Ivo Raisr <iv...@ivosh.net>: > Debugging Tools developer room at FOSDEM 2018 > (Brussels, Belgium, February 3th). > > FOSDEM is a free software event that offers open source communities a > place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renown for being > highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ hackers from all > over the world. It is held in the city of Brussels (Belgium). > http://fosdem.org/ > > FOSDEM 2018 will take place during the weekend of Saturday, February 3th > and Sunday February 4th 2018. On Saturday we will have a devroom for > Debugging Tools, jointly organized by the Valgrind and GDB projects. > Devrooms are a place for development teams to meet, discuss, hack and publicly > present the project's latest improvements and future directions. > > We will have a whole day to hang out together as community > embracing debugging tools, such as Valgrind, gdb, RR, Infinity, radare... > Please join us, regardless of whether you are a core hacker, > a plugin hacker, a user, a packager or a hacker on a > project that integrates, extends or complements debugging tools. > > ** Call for Participation > > We would like to organize a series of talks/discussions on various > topics relevant to both core hackers, new developers, users, packagers > and cross project functionality. Please do submit a talk proposal by > Friday December 1st 2017, so we can make a list of activities during the > day. > > Some possible topics for talks/discussions are: > > - The recently added functional changes (for users). > - Get feedback on what what kinds of new functionality would be > useful. Which tools and functionality users would like to see. > - Discuss release/bugfixing strategy/policy (core hackers, packagers). > - Connecting debugging tools together. > - Latest DWARF extensions, going from binary back to source. > - Multi, multi, multi... threads, processes and targets. > - Debugging anything, everywhere. Dealing with complex systems. > - Dealing with the dynamic loader and the kernel. > - Intercepting and interposing functions and events. > - Adding GDB features, such as designing GDB python scripts for your > data structures. > - Advances in gdbserver and the GDB remote serial protocol. > - Adding Valgrind features (adding syscalls for a platform or VEX > instructions for an architecture port). > - Infrastructure changes to the Valgrind JIT framework. > - Your interesting use case with a debugging tool. > > ** How to Submit > > There are two ways. > The first one is to use the FOSDEM 'pentabarf' tool to submit your proposal: > https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18 > > - If necessary, create a Pentabarf account and activate it. > Please reuse your account from previous years if you have > already created it. > > - In the "Person" section, provide First name, Last name > (in the "General" tab), Email (in the "Contact" tab) > and Bio ("Abstract" field in the "Description" tab). > > - Submit a proposal by clicking on "Create event". > > - Important! Select the "Debugging Tools devroom" track > (on the "General" tab). > > - Provide the title of your talk ("Event title" in the "General" tab). > > - Provide a description of the subject of the talk and the > intended audience (in the "Abstract" field of the "Description" tab) > > - Provide a rough outline of the talk or goals of the session (a short > list of bullet points covering topics that will be discussed) in the > "Full description" field in the "Description" tab > > The second way is to email your talk proposal to > debugging-tools-devroom-mana...@fosdem.org alias. > > Julian, Philippe, Mark, Ivosh, and Pedro will review the proposals and > organize the > schedule for the day. Please feel free to suggest or discuss any ideas > for the devroom on debugging-tools-devroom-mana...@fosdem.org alias. > > ** Recording of Talks > > As usually the FOSDEM organisers plan to have live streaming and > recording fully working, both for remote/later viewing of talks, and > so that people can watch streams in the hallways when rooms are full. > This obviously requires speakers to consent to being recorded and > streamed. If you plan to be a speaker, please understand that by > doing so you implicitly give consent for your talk to be recorded and > streamed. The recordings will be published under the same licence as > all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). > > Important dates: > > Talk/Discussion Submission deadline: Friday 1 Dec 2017 > Devroom Schedule announcement: Friday 15 Dec 2017 > Devroom day: Saturday 3 Feb 2018 > > Hope to see you all at FOSDEM 2018 in the joint Debugging Tools devroom. > Brussels (Belgium), Saturday February 3th 2018. > > On behalf of the devroom committee, > Ivo Raisr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Valgrind-users mailing list Valgrind-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users