[rdo-dev] FOSDEM IaaS DevRoom call for papers closing soon

Wed Nov 22 14:57:03 UTC 2017

If you might be attending FOSDEM - http://fosdem.org/ - in Brussels, in 
early February, please consider submitting a talk to the IaaS DevRoom. 
The deadline for submission is December 1st - a little more than a week.

Your presentation must be submitted at 
https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18

The complete details are included below:

On behalf of oVirt and the Xen Project, we are excited to announce that 
the call for proposals is now open for the Virtualization & IaaS devroom 
at the upcoming FOSDEM 2018, to be hosted on February 3 and 4, 2017.

This year will mark FOSDEM’s 18th 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 3 & 4, 
2018.

This devroom is a collaborative effort, and is organized by dedicated 
folks from projects such as OpenStack, Xen Project,, oVirt, QEMU, and 
Foreman. We would like to invite all those who are involved in these 
fields to submit your proposals by December 1st, 2017.

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 Apache CloudStack, OpenStack, oVirt, QEMU, 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.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: 01 December 2017
Acceptance notifications: 14 December 2017
Final schedule announcement: 21 December 2017
Devroom: 03 and 04 February 2018 (two days- different rooms)

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 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.)

Speaker Mentoring Program

As a part of the rising efforts to grow our communities and encourage a 
diverse and inclusive conference ecosystem, we're happy to announce that 
we'll be offering mentoring for new speakers. Our mentors can help you 
with tasks such as reviewing your abstract, reviewing your presentation 
outline or slides, or practicing your talk with you.

You may apply to the mentoring program as a newcomer speaker if you:

Never presented before or
Presented only lightning talks or
Presented full-length talks at small meetups (<50 ppl)

Submission Guidelines

Mentored presentations will have 25-minute slots, where 20 minutes will 
include the presentation and 5 minutes will be reserved for questions.

The number of newcomer session slots is limited, so we will probably not 
be able to accept all applications.

You must submit your talk and abstract to apply for the mentoring 
program, our mentors are volunteering their time and will happily 
provide feedback but won't write your presentation for you!

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.

How to Apply

In addition to agreeing to video recording and confirming that you can 
attend FOSDEM in case your session is accepted, please write "speaker 
mentoring program application" in the "Submission notes" field, and list 
any prior speaking experience or other relevant information for your 
application.

Call for Mentors

Interested in mentoring newcomer speakers? We'd love to have your help! 
Please email iaas-virt-devroom at lists.fosdem.org with a short speaker 
biography and any specific fields of expertise (for example, KVM, 
OpenStack, storage, etc.) so that we can match you with a newcomer 
speaker from a similar field. Estimated time investment can be as low as 
a 5-10 hours in total, usually distributed weekly or bi-weekly.

Never mentored a newcomer speaker but interested to try? As the 
mentoring program coordinator, email Brian Proffitt[3] and he will be 
happy to answer your questions!

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 watching time for the speakers, and helping with video for 
the devroom. Please contact me, Brian Proffitt, 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/FOSDEM18
[2] iaas-virt-devroom at lists.fosdem.org
[3] bkp at redhat.com

-- 
Rich Bowen: Community Architect
rbowen at redhat.com
@rbowen // @RDOCommunity // @CentOSProject
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