From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: Call for talks: Minimalistic Languages Devroom at FOSDEM 2019 Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:52:09 +0100 Message-ID: <20190122095209.twvfnakvcq2fgurl@thebird.nl> References: <87r2gobmm0.fsf@gnu.org> <20181020112552.2bzrhg2mc2q5755n@thebird.nl> <20181121183623.isbvu6dcvye3amgg@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181121183623.isbvu6dcvye3amgg@thebird.nl> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "guile-user" To: Pjotr Prins Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= , Guile User , manolis837@gmail.com List-Id: guix-devel.gnu.org Dear all,=20 On Saturday we have a minimalistic devroom with an interesting agenda: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/minimalistic_languages/ we need one or two volunteers to operate/monitor the video/audio recording and two volunteers to help me with the room itself (get speakers started, keep people out of the room when full).=20 You can E-mail me here or privately. Pj. On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 07:36:23PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote: > Hello Guilers & Guix! >=20 > Another heads up. Deadline for submitting talks is 25th - i.e., this > weekend. We invite talks on your work in Mes, Guix or Guile and > related. FOSDEM is a great place to advertise Guix and the more=20 > talks we have the better! Don't be shy, we all started once giving a > first talk. >=20 > So far, we have 8 talks. If you have an idea for a talk you can post > it to us and we enter it into the system. >=20 > Pjotr & Manolis >=20 >=20 > Guile, Guix, and Lua fellows are organizing the =E2=80=9CMinimalistic L= anguages=E2=80=9D > track at this year=E2=80=99s FOSDEM: >=20 > https://fosdem.org/2019 >=20 > Consider submitting a talk about what you=E2=80=99ve been hacking on! >=20 > * Minimalistic Languages Devroom call for talks @ FOSDEM 2019 >=20 > (posted at https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2019-devroom-minimalism) >=20 > We are excited to announce a devroom on minimalistic languages (with > big ideas) at FOSDEM on Saturday February 2nd 2019! >=20 > FOSDEM is one of the most important free software conferences and is > hosted annually at Universit=C3=A9 libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, > Belgium. FOSDEM is fantastic, check last year's schedule for Saturday > (https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/day/saturday/) >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > If you have something you=E2=80=99d like to share with your fellow deve= lopers, > please head to pentabarf at >=20 > - https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19 >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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: >=20 > * 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 >=20 > Let's make this a fun day! >=20 > ** Organisers >=20 > Pjotr Prins, Manolis Ragkousis, Hisham Muhammad, Ricardo Wurmus, > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Alex Sassmannshausen, and Amir= ouche Boubekki >=20 > ** Code of conduct >=20 > - https://fosdem.org/2019/practical/conduct/ >=20 > ** Original proposal >=20 > - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2019-devroom-proposal >=20 > ** Important dates: >=20 > - Nov 25th 2018: submission deadline for talk proposals > - Dec 17th 2018: announcement of the final schedule > - Feb 2nd 2019: FOSDEM! >=20 >=20 > >=20 >=20