Re: Call for talks: Minimalistic Languages Devroom at FOSDEM 2019

[Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>]

Just a heads up. We should have enough room for Guile, Mes and (other)
Guix related talks. Mail your ideas here (or to Manolis or me). Main
goal could be to recruit new people. We also have the two Guix days before
FOSDEM which can be focussed on hacking and discussions rather than
talks.

Pj.

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 05:48:23PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello Guilers & Guix!
> 
> Guile, Guix, and Lua fellows are organizing the “Minimalistic Languages”
> track at this year’s FOSDEM:
> 
>   https://fosdem.org/2019
> 
> Consider submitting a talk about what you’ve been hacking on!
> 
> Ludo’.
> 
> 
> * Minimalistic Languages Devroom call for talks @ FOSDEM 2019
> 
> (posted at https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2019-devroom-minimalism)
> 
> We are excited to announce a devroom on minimalistic languages (with
> big ideas) at FOSDEM on Saturday February 2nd 2019!
> 
> FOSDEM is one of the most important free software conferences and is
> hosted annually at Université libre de Bruxelles in Brussels,
> Belgium. FOSDEM is fantastic, check last year's schedule for Saturday
> (https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/day/saturday/)
> 
> 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. Finally, we believe that minimalism is educational and
> brings back the fun of the early days of computing where people learn
> to understand systems from the ground up. Speakers will be asked to
> accentuate the educational side of their projects.
> 
> We have a room Saturday 2 February 2019. We want to invite you to
> submit a talk on the use of minimalistic languages that fits that
> description. We are especially happy to receive talk submissions from
> members of any underrepresented groups.
> 
> If you have something you’d like to share with your fellow developers,
> please head to pentabarf at
> 
>   - https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19
> 
> The deadline for submission is November 25th. If you have a FOSDEM
> pentabarf account from a previous year, please use that
> account. Otherwise add one on
> https://penta.fosdem.org/user/new_account. Reach out to
> pjotr.public456@thebird.nl if you run into any trouble.
> 
> When submitting your talk make doubly sure to select "Minimalistic
> Languages 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
> 
> Let's make this a fun day!
> 
> ** Organisers
> 
> Pjotr Prins, Manolis Ragkousis, Hisham Muhammad, Ricardo Wurmus,
> Ludovic Courtès, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Alex Sassmannshausen, and Amirouche Boubekki
> 
> ** Code of conduct
> 
>   - https://fosdem.org/2019/practical/conduct/
> 
> ** Original proposal
> 
>   - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2019-devroom-proposal
> 
> ** Important dates:
> 
>   - Nov 25th 2018:  submission deadline for talk proposals
>   - Dec 17th 2018:  announcement of the final schedule
>   - Feb  2nd 2019:  FOSDEM!