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

[Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>]

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Hi Pjotr,

I can donate some time on Saturday to help if you still need it.  Please
let me know.

-- 
Chris

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

> Dear all, 
>
> 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). 
>
> 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!
>> 
>> 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 
>> talks we have the better! Don't be shy, we all started once giving a
>> first talk.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Pjotr & Manolis
>> 
>> 
>> 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!
>> 
>> * 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!
>> 
>> 
>> > 
>> 

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