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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 93CB03027F X-Migadu-Scanner: mx12.migadu.com X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -6.10 X-Spam-Score: -6.10 X-TUID: zXTsFmghlVrB 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!