Declarative and Minimalistic Computing: CfP for FOSDEM 2024

Declarative and Minimalistic Computing: CfP for FOSDEM 2024

[Manolis Ragkousis]

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: <https://pretalx.fosdem.org/>. 
Heads up that this year FOSDEM is not relying on the good old Pentabarf 
but on Pretalx. All submissions must go through pretalx: 
<https://fosdem.org/submit>

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!

Guix Days & Declarative and Minimalistic Computing: CfP for FOSDEM 2024

[Pjotr Prins]

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: <https://pretalx.fosdem.org/>. Heads
> up that this year FOSDEM is not relying on the good old Pentabarf but on
> Pretalx. All submissions must go through pretalx:
> <https://fosdem.org/submit>
> 
> 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!

Re: Guix Days & Declarative and Minimalistic Computing: CfP for FOSDEM 2024

[Pjotr Prins]

Dear all,

The first weekend of February we have a half day at FOSDEM on
Declarative and Minimalistic Computing:

=>
https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2024-devroom-declarative-and-minimalistic-computing-cfp

This is the 5th time we are organising this room with Guix and Guile
talks!

Please spread among our small community. FOSDEM is great, so if you
happen to want to come to Brussels you can also attend the Guix days
before:

=> https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/FOSDEM2024

For those who want to give talks, the deadline is in a week. 

Pj.


On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 08:11:08AM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> 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: <https://pretalx.fosdem.org/>. Heads
> > up that this year FOSDEM is not relying on the good old Pentabarf but on
> > Pretalx. All submissions must go through pretalx:
> > <https://fosdem.org/submit>
> > 
> > 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!
> 

Re: Guix Days & Declarative and Minimalistic Computing: CfP for FOSDEM 2024

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hey!

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

> Please spread among our small community. FOSDEM is great, so if you
> happen to want to come to Brussels you can also attend the Guix days
> before:
>
> => https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/FOSDEM2024

I added my name there; consider doing it too.  :-)

Looking forward to meeting all the wonderful people again!

Ludo’.

Re: Declarative and Minimalistic Computing: CfP for FOSDEM 2024

[Manolis Ragkousis]

We are working on a decision on which talks to accept, we will have it 
ready by tomorrow evening.

On 11/12/23 15:57, 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: <https://pretalx.fosdem.org/>. 
> Heads up that this year FOSDEM is not relying on the good old Pentabarf 
> but on Pretalx. All submissions must go through pretalx: 
> <https://fosdem.org/submit>
> 
> 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!