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If you are unsure whether it is suitable, just run it by me personally. Anything Guile or Guix is of interest. We also want talks on Racket, Lua, C and Zig. Pj. On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 10:29:48PM +0200, Manolis Ragkousis wrote: > We are excited to announce a devroom on Declarative and Minimalistic > Computing at FOSDEM on 4th of February, 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 and we will also have virtual > talks! > > 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 virtual conference we will honour the late Professor > [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie Dennis Ritchie] the creator of > the C programming language and the Unix operating system. C was designed as > a minimal language that reflects the underlying CPU architecture closely, > i.e., a high-level assembler. C is very popular today and the Linux kernel > is almost completely written in C. In this edition we will also invite > speakers that are working on new projects and minimalistic languages in the > spirit of C. > > 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! Talks considered for the devroom will have to > be entered in > > - https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM23 > > The deadline for submission is December 3rd. 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 or manolis837@gmail.com if you run into any > trouble. > > 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/2023/practical/conduct/ > > = Original proposal = > > - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2023-devroom-proposal > > = Important dates: = > > - Dec 3rd 2022: submission deadline for talk proposals > - Dec 15th 2022: announcement of the final schedule > - Feb 4th 2023: FOSDEM! > > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2023-devroom-declarative-and-minimalistic-computing-cfp