From: Manolis Ragkousis <manolis837@gmail.com>
To: guile-devel@gnu.org, Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
fosdem@lists.fosdem.org,
Closed list for devroom managers
<devroom-managers@lists.fosdem.org>,
lua-l@lists.lua.org
Cc: Pjotr Prins <pjotr2020@thebird.nl>,
Rutger van Beusekom <rutger.van.beusekom@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Declarative and Minimalistic Computing: CfP for FOSDEM 2024
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2023 20:00:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <04fd074b-5328-456b-8fe6-61dea79f1297@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4229037-4c04-4b72-8da9-4bf5a2c2836d@gmail.com>
We are working on a decision on which talks to accept, we will have it
ready by tomorrow evening.
On 11/12/23 15:57, Manolis Ragkousis wrote:
> We are excited to announce the Call for Participation for the
> Declarative and Minimalistic Computing devroom at FOSDEM on February,
> 2024! The submission deadline for talk proposals is December 1st, 2023.
>
> FOSDEM is one of the most important free software conferences and is
> hosted annually at Université libre de Bruxelles in Brussels,
> Belgium. This year FOSDEM will be a physical conference. Talks will be
> done in person.
>
> We accept talks from languages that attempt to minimize use of hardware
> and software while trying to make systems simpler, more robust and more
> secure. If you are working on improving today's systems taking
> declarative/minimalistic approaches feel free to submit a talk
> proposal. Examples include the Scheme/Lisp family of programmings
> languages. In past editions, this devroom has received presentations
> from a varied number of language communities, including Forth, Guile,
> Lua, Nim, Racket, Raku and Tcl as well as several experimental projects
> that push minimalism in new directions.
>
> Minimalism and declarative programming are two important topics for
> this devroom. Minimalism matters. Minimalism allows for smaller
> systems that take less resources and consume less energy. More
> importantly, free and open source minimalism allows for secure systems
> that are easy to understand. Declarative programming is a programming
> paradigm that expresses the logic of a computation without describing
> its control flow. Many languages that apply this style attempt to
> minimize or eliminate side effects by describing what the program must
> accomplish in terms of the problem domain, rather than describe how to
> accomplish it as a sequence of the programming language primitives.
>
> Finally, in this year's conference, we will honor the late Joe Armstrong
> for his pioneering contributions to concurrent and fault-tolerant
> computing systems. Armstrong is best known as the principal inventor of
> the Erlang programming language, which embodies the principles of
> concurrency, distribution, and fault-tolerance, making it a cornerstone
> in the realm of declarative and minimalistic computing. Erlang has been
> instrumental in powering highly scalable and reliable systems,
> particularly in telecommunications and distributed systems.
>
> We want to invite you to submit a talk on declarative and minimalistic
> computing that fits that description. We are especially happy to
> receive talk submissions from members of groups underrepresented in
> free software.
>
> If you have something you’d like to share with your fellow developers,
> please E-mail us! Reach out to
> pjotr.public456@thebird.nl or manolis837@gmail.com if you run into any
> trouble.
>
> The deadline for submission is December 1st. Proposals must be submitted
> on FOSDEM's conference management system: <https://pretalx.fosdem.org/>.
> Heads up that this year FOSDEM is not relying on the good old Pentabarf
> but on Pretalx. All submissions must go through pretalx:
> <https://fosdem.org/submit>
>
> When submitting your talk make doubly sure to select "Declarative and
> Minimalistic Computing devroom" as track (if you don't we won't find
> it), and include the following information:
>
> * The title and subtitle of your talk
> * A short abstract of one paragraph
> * A longer description if you wish to do so
> * Links to related websites/blogs etc
>
> To see what a final talk looks like see
>
> https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/gnumes/
>
> Let's make this a fun day!
>
> = Organizers =
>
> Pjotr Prins, Manolis Ragkousis, Jonhathan McHugh, Bonface Munyoki, Arun
> Isaac, Ludovic Courtès, Amirouche Boubekki,
> Hisham Muhammad, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Ricardo Wurmus, Alex
> Sassmannshausen, William Byrd, Oliver Propst, Efraim Flashner, Julien
> Lepiller
>
> = Code of conduct =
>
> - https://fosdem.org/2024/practical/conduct/
>
> = Original proposal =
>
> - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2024-devroom-proposal
>
> = Important dates: =
>
> - Dec 1st 2023: submission deadline for talk proposals
> - Dec 15th 2023: announcement of the final schedule
> - Feb 4th 2024: FOSDEM!
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-17 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-12 13:57 Declarative and Minimalistic Computing: CfP for FOSDEM 2024 Manolis Ragkousis
2023-11-13 7:11 ` Guix Days & " Pjotr Prins
2023-11-23 7:25 ` Pjotr Prins
2023-12-09 9:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-12-17 18:00 ` Manolis Ragkousis [this message]
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