Gentle reminder: CFP submission dedline is in one week (18-NOV-2016) On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 05:23:19PM +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > ======================================================================= > > The call for proposals is now open for the Virtualization & IaaS devroom > at the upcoming FOSDEM 2017, to be hosted on February 4, 2017. > > This year will mark FOSDEM’s 17th 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. > FOSDEM will be held once again in Brussels, Belgium, on February 4 & 5, > 2017. > > --------------- > Important Dates > --------------- > > Submission deadline: 18 November 2016 > Acceptance notifications: 04 December 2016 > Final schedule announcement: 11 December 2016 > Devroom: 04 February 2017 (one day) > > ----------------- > 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, QEMU, bhyve, and VirtualBox, and > Infrastructure-as-a-Service projects such as Apache CloudStack, > OpenStack, oVirt, OpenNebula, and Ganeti. > > 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 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. > > -------------------- > Submit Your Proposal > -------------------- > > All submissions must be made via the Pentabarf event planning site. > > https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM17 > > 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 Virtualisation 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 45 minutes, with 35 minutes planned for > presentations, and 10 minutes for Q&A. > > - All presentations will be recorded 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 FOSDEM and deliver your > presentation. We will not consider proposals from prospective speakers > who are unsure whether they will be able to secure funds for travel > and lodging to attend FOSDEM. (Sadly, we are not able to offer travel > funding for prospective speakers.) > > ------------------- > Call for Volunteers > ------------------- > > We are also looking for volunteers to help run the devroom. We need > assistance watching time for the speakers, and helping with video for > the devroom. Please contact Brian Proffitt (bkp at redhat.com), for more > information. > > ---------- > Questions? > ---------- > > If you have any questions about this devroom, please send your questions > to our devroom mailing list. > > iaas-virt-devroom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > You can also subscribe to the list to receive updates about important > dates, session announcements, and to connect with other attendees. > > ======================================================================= -- /kashyap -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
