Hi Pjotr, I can donate some time on Saturday to help if you still need it. Please let me know. -- Chris Pjotr Prins 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! >> >> >> > >>