From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pjotr Prins Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.comp.gnu.guix.devel Subject: Guix Days & Declarative and Minimalistic Computing: CfP for FOSDEM 2024 Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 08:11:08 +0100 Message-ID: <20231113071108.ucig7tzw4ainn2q6@thebird.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3622"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, Guix Devel To: Manolis Ragkousis Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 13 08:11:53 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1r2R6v-0000li-6d for guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2023 08:11:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r2R6M-0005My-54; Mon, 13 Nov 2023 02:11:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r2R6K-0005MH-4N; Mon, 13 Nov 2023 02:11:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([94.142.245.5]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r2R6H-0006gn-P3; Mon, 13 Nov 2023 02:11:15 -0500 Original-Received: by mail.thebird.nl (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2F8A3103C; Mon, 13 Nov 2023 08:11:08 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=94.142.245.5; envelope-from=pjotr2023@thebird.nl; helo=mail.thebird.nl X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.lisp.guile.devel:22080 gmane.comp.gnu.guix.devel:68432 Archived-At: Dear all, And ahead of FOSDEM we'll organise the annual Guix days again. That is Th+Fr at ICAB in Brussels. They have cheap lodging and some of us plan to stay there: https://icab.be/ So that is 4 days of Geeks and Guix fun! Pj. On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 03:57:25PM +0200, 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: . Heads > up that this year FOSDEM is not relying on the good old Pentabarf but on > Pretalx. All submissions must go through pretalx: > > > 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!