On Nov 02 15:46, Brian Stinson wrote: > FOSDEM 2016 - Distributions Devroom Call for Participation > > The Distributions devroom will take place 30 & 31 January, 2016 at FOSDEM, in > room K.4.201 at Université Libre de Bruxelles, in Brussels, Belgium. > > As Linux distributions converge on similar tools, the problem space overlapping > different distributions is growing. This standardization across the > distributions presents an opportunity to develop generic solutions to the > problems of aggregating, building, and maintaining the pieces that go into a > distribution. > > We welcome submissions targeted at developers interested in issues unique to > distributions, especially in the following topics: > > - Cross-distribution collaboration on common issues, eg: content distribution and documentation > - Working with vendor relationships (eg. cloud providers, non-commodity hardware vendors etc ) > - The future of distributions, emerging trends and evolving user demands from the idea of a platform > - User experience management ( onboarding new users, facilitating technical growth, user to contribution transitions etc ) > - Building trust and code relationships with the upstream components of a distribution > - Solving traditional problems like package management, and content management (eg. rpm/dpkg/ostree/coreos ) > - Contributor resource management, centralised trust management, key trust etc > - Integration technologies like installers, deployment facilitation ( eg. cloud contextualisation ) > > Submissions may be in the form of 30-55 minute talks, panel sessions, > round-table discussions, Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions or lightning talks. > > Dates > ------ > > Submission Deadline: 10th Dec 2015 > Acceptance Notification: 15th Dec 2015 > Final Schedule Posted: 17th Dec 2015 > > > How to submit > -------------- > > Visit https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16 > > 1.) If you do not have an account, create one here > 2.) Click 'Create Event' > 3.) Enter your presentation details > 4.) Be sure to select the Distributions Devroom track! > 5.) Submit > > > What to include > --------------- > - The title of your submission > - A 1-paragraph Abstract > - A longer description including the benefit of your talk to your target audience > - Approximate length / type of submission (talk, BoF, ...) > - Links to related websites/blogs/talk material (if any) > > If you have any questions, feel free to contact the devroom organizers: > distributions-devroom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/distributions-devroom) > > Cheers! > Karanbir Singh (twitter: @kbsingh) and Brian Stinson (twitter: @bstinsonmhk) > > for and on behalf of The Distributions Devroom Program Committee Hi Folks, Just a reminder that the CFP for the Distributions Devroom will close on Thursday 10-December. Cheers! -- Brian Stinson -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
