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CFP now open for the Distributions dev room at FOSDEM 2024!

Co-authored by benny Vasquez and Justin W. Flory.

In just over two months, the Fedora Project returns to FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium from 3-4 February 2024 again with a stand, a bunch of friends, and our usual role as organizers of the (Linux) Distributions Developer Room (dev room).

CFP is open until 5 December 2023!

The Distributions dev room opened its CFP a couple of weeks ago. We have seen great ideas come in! If you would like to join us, submit your talk for inclusion no later than December 5th. If you’re looking for ideas, we’ve got a list of potential topics on our official CFP announcement, and you can always look at previous years for more ideas.

Important dates for FOSDEM 2024

CFP closes: Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Deadline for accepted speakers to confirm: Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Final schedule announcement: Friday, 15 December 2023

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Distributions Devroom at FOSDEM 2022

December 9, 2021 / Vipul Siddharth / Comments Off

The Call For Participation is now open for the Distribution Devroom at the upcoming FOSDEM 2022, to be hosted virtually on February 6th.

We welcome submissions targeted at contributors interested in issues unique to distributions, especially in the following topics:

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Fedora @ FOSDEM: how you can participate

January 30, 2021 / marianab / 4 Comments

This year, we are doing FOSDEM virtual style! Every year in Brussels, Belgium, the first weekend of February is dedicated to the Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM), the largest open source, developer-oriented conference of the year. As expected, the conference is going online for the 2021 edition, which gives us Fedorans the chance to learn, share, and spend time with each other and the greater FOSS community. We need your help in making this a fun experience for everyone!

Distro Devroom @ FOSDEM CfP open

December 7, 2020 / Vipul Siddharth / Comments Off

We are excited to announce that the call for proposals is now open for the Distribution Devroom at the upcoming FOSDEM 2021, to be hosted virtually on 6 February 2021.

Fedora-related FOSDEM activities

October 31, 2019 / Ben Cotton / Comments Off

FOSDEM is a free-to-attend event held every year in Brussels, Belgium. It is a community-run event for developers to meet and work together. In 2020 it will be held on 1–2 February—the weekend following DevConf.CZ. The main track proposals are closed, but there are a few Fedora-related or -adjacent activities if you’re interested.

Fedora speakers at FOSDEM 2017

February 3, 2017 / Justin W. Flory / 3 Comments

Excited for FOSDEM 2017? FOSDEM, or the Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting, is held every year in late January or early February. This year, FOSDEM is taking place on February 4th and 5th. At this year’s conference, an estimated 8,000 or more attendees are expected. As one of the largest open source conferences in Europe, there are many Fedora Project developers and representatives attending the event. In addition to our community stand, you will find 24 speakers from the community giving talks over the weekend. This post gives a quick way for you to find out who is speaking and where to find them in FOSDEM!

FOSDEM 2016: Event Report

March 8, 2016 / Remy DeCausemaker / Comments Off

Organizing the #DistroDevRoom

As a longtime FOSS advocate and conference-goer, I have woefully from afar followed the press and event coverage after FOSDEM for many years, wishing on my lucky stars that someday, I too might be able to attend this premier FOSS event in Europe. And this year, finally, I got the opportunity to not only attend, but to help organize the Distributions DevRoom. Devrooms are a sort of mini-track within the larger conference, and ours focused on the common problems that Linux distributions, packagers, and other developers working at grand-scale community collaboration have to face.

FOSDEM 2016 Distro Devroom: Call for Participation

December 8, 2015 / Remy DeCausemaker / Comments Off

FOSDEM 2016 – Distributions Devroom Call for Participation

The FOSDEM Distro 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 issues, eg: content distribution and documentation
Vendor relationships (eg. cloud providers, non-commodity hardware vendors etc )
Future of distributions, emerging trends, evolving user demands 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 problems like package and content management (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

If you do not have an account, create one here
Click ‘Create Event’
Enter your presentation details
Be sure to select the Distributions Devroom track!
Submit

What to include

The title of your submission
1-paragraph Abstract
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 at lists.fosdem.org

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