FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation

FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation

[Ludovic Courtès]

(+ Cc: guile-user.)

Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:

> FOSDEM Dev track deadline Oct. 9th. The more talk proposals we have
> for Guile/Guix, the better:
>
>   https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/TalkProposals
>
> If you have an idea for a talk on Guile/Guix, please add it before
> coming Monday. Even if you are not sure you can make it. We may find
> someone else to give the talk! Dave, how about your static web
> publishing system, and the the deployment stuff?
>
> We also need non-Guix talks! How about a Guile talk on monads, or
> Guile as part of other GNU projects? The language dev tracks tend to
> be interesting, let's make ours exciting!

Definitely!  Guile hackers, please consider joining a Guile + Guix
developer track at FOSDEM by giving a talk on your favorite topic!

Ludo’.

Re: FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation

[Pjotr Prins]

Exciting news!

FOSDEM has approved a GNU Guile devroom. We will have a 80 person room
for half a day on Saturday January 30th. This is absolutely fabulous
as FOSDEM is one of the main FOSS conferences in the world with
thousands of people attending.

We will have a call for participation soon.

For FOSDEM see

  https://fosdem.org/2016/

FOSDEM is fantastic, look at last year's schedule:

  https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/day/saturday/

There is something for everyone. If you can make it DO.

Pj.

FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation

[Pjotr Prins]

Exciting news!

FOSDEM has approved a GNU Guile devroom. We will have a 80 person room
for half a day on Saturday January 30th. This is absolutely fabulous
as FOSDEM is one of the main FOSS conferences in the world with
thousands of people attending.

We will have a call for participation soon.

For FOSDEM see

  https://fosdem.org/2016/

FOSDEM is fantastic, look at last year's schedule:

  https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/day/saturday/

There is something for everyone. If you can make it DO.

Pj.


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Re: FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation

[Pjotr Prins]

Note that we will have a Guix meet and talks too.

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 08:49:39PM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> Exciting news!
> 
> FOSDEM has approved a GNU Guile devroom. We will have a 80 person room
> for half a day on Saturday January 30th. This is absolutely fabulous
> as FOSDEM is one of the main FOSS conferences in the world with
> thousands of people attending.
> 
> We will have a call for participation soon.
> 
> For FOSDEM see
> 
>   https://fosdem.org/2016/
> 
> FOSDEM is fantastic, look at last year's schedule:
> 
>   https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/day/saturday/
> 
> There is something for everyone. If you can make it DO.
> 
> Pj.
> 

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Re: FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation

[Ludovic Courtès]

Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:

> FOSDEM has approved a GNU Guile devroom. We will have a 80 person room
> for half a day on Saturday January 30th. This is absolutely fabulous
> as FOSDEM is one of the main FOSS conferences in the world with
> thousands of people attending.

Woohoo!  Exciting news indeed, thanks for working on it!

Ludo’.

Re: FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation

[Pjotr Prins]

Submit a talk! Talks can be 15 or 30 minutes w. Q&A. We'll have 3-4
hours to distribute. 

# GNU Guile devroom call for talks @FOSDEM 2016 

For the first time ever, we have a GNU Guile devroom at FOSDEM on January 30,
2016. The call for talk proposals is open! Important members of the GNU Guile
and GNU Guix community will attend. We are excited because FOSDEM is one of the
most important free software conferences and is hosted annually at [Université libre de
Bruxelles in Brussels,
Belgium](https://fosdem.org/2016/practical/transportation/); the devroom will
host up to 80 people.

Submissions for talks are due on November 30, 2015. 

## Topics

GNU Guile is the preferred extension system for the GNU Project which
features an implementation of the Scheme programming language, a dialect of
Lisp. Especially technical talks are invited on topics concerning GNU Guile and
applications that use Guile (such as GNU Guix, Lilypond and Gnucash). In the
talks both experienced Guile programmers and newbies should be addressed.
FOSDEM is a great opportunity to attract people interested in GNU Guile and
Lisp. Examples of (already proposed) talks could be

- Guile programming:
  + functors and monads in Guile
  + composable continuations in Guile
  + POSIX programming in Guile and the FFI
- Web frameworks with GNU Guile
- GNU Guix:
  + GNU/Hurd support in Guix
  + R, Perl, Python and Ruby support in GNU Guix
  + Reproducible pipelines for Guix
  + Guix environments (VM, containers etc.)
- Guile and the network:
  + Software distribution using GNUnet
  + Paving a path to greater network freedom using Guix and Guile

## Submit talk

Feel free to submit your own topic or even run with one of these.  The
most interesting talks will be selected.  Talks are 15 or 30 minutes
(including Q&A; please notify in the application your preference) on
GNU Guile related projects.

Please note that presenting at FOSDEM implies giving permission to be
recorded. The recordings will be published under the same licence as
all FOSDEM content (CC-BY).

Submit your proposal here: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16

If you submitted a talk to a previous FOSDEM, you should already have
an account, so make sure that you log in with your existing account.
You should only need to create an account if you have not submitted a
talk to FOSDEM in recent years.  After you have your account
configured (you will receive a confirmation email), create the event,
and click on "Show all" in the top right corner to diplay the full
form. When submitting your talk make doubly sure to select "GNU Guile
devroom" as track, 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

Re: FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation

[Pjotr Prins]

Hi everyone,

Just a quick heads-up. Submit your FOSDEM talk to 

  https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16/

with a title and a short description (one paragraph is enough). Add
whether you aim for 15 or 30 minutes.

If you are unsure, ping me directly.

Thanks,

Pj.

Re: FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation

[Pjotr Prins]

Oh yes, Guile has the devroom from 10-14 hrs. During lunch we may have
one overlapping hour with the LUA folks - so talks that cross-over
would be interesting too.

On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 06:21:17PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Just a quick heads-up. Submit your FOSDEM talk to 
> 
>   https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16/
> 
> with a title and a short description (one paragraph is enough). Add
> whether you aim for 15 or 30 minutes.
> 
> If you are unsure, ping me directly.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Pj.
> 

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