[sr-dev] [SR-Users] [CFP] FOSDEM 2017, RTC devroom, speakers, volunteers neeeded

Tue Nov 15 09:10:47 CET 2016

Hello,

a short reminder for those interested in submitting a talk proposal for
FOSDEM 2017 -- see the details in the initial email.

Cheers,
Daniel

On 24/10/16 11:09, FOSDEM RTC Team wrote:
> FOSDEM is one of the world's premier meetings of free software developers,
> with over five thousand people attending each year.  FOSDEM 2017
> takes place 4-5 February 2017 in Brussels, Belgium.  https://fosdem.org
>
> This email contains information about:
> - Real-Time communications dev-room and lounge,
> - speaking opportunities,
> - volunteering in the dev-room and lounge,
> - related events around FOSDEM, including the XMPP summit,
> - social events (the legendary FOSDEM Beer Night and Saturday night dinners
>     provide endless networking opportunities),
> - the Planet aggregation sites for RTC blogs
>
> Call for participation - Real Time Communications (RTC)
> =======================================================
>
> The Real-Time dev-room and Real-Time lounge is about all things involving
> real-time communication, including: XMPP, SIP, WebRTC, telephony,
> mobile VoIP, codecs, peer-to-peer, privacy and encryption.  The dev-room
> is a successor to the previous XMPP and telephony dev-rooms.
> We are looking for speakers for the dev-room and volunteers and
> participants for the tables in the Real-Time lounge.
>
> The dev-room is only on Saturday, 4 February 2017.  The lounge will
> be present for both days.
>
> To discuss the dev-room and lounge, please join the FSFE-sponsored
> Free RTC mailing list: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc
>
> To be kept aware of major developments in Free RTC, without being on the
> discussion list, please join the Free-RTC Announce list:
> http://lists.freertc.org/mailman/listinfo/announce
>
> Speaking opportunities
> ----------------------
>
> Note: if you used FOSDEM Pentabarf before, please use the same account/username
>
> Real-Time Communications dev-room: deadline 23:59 UTC on 17 November.
> Please use the Pentabarf system to submit a talk proposal for the
> dev-room.  On the "General" tab, please look for the "Track" option and
> choose "Real-Time devroom".  https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM17/
>
> Other dev-rooms and lightning talks: some speakers may find their topic is
> in the scope of more than one dev-room.  It is encouraged to apply to more
> than one dev-room and also consider proposing a lightning talk, but please
> be kind enough to tell us if you do this by filling out the notes in the form.
> You can find the full list of dev-rooms at
>    https://www.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/tracks/
> and apply for a lightning talk at https://fosdem.org/submit
>
> Main track: the deadline for main track presentations is 23:59 UTC
> 31 October.  Leading developers in the Real-Time Communications
> field are encouraged to consider submitting a presentation to
> the main track at https://fosdem.org/submit
>
> First-time speaking?
> --------------------
>
> FOSDEM dev-rooms are a welcoming environment for people who have never
> given a talk before.  Please feel free to contact the dev-room administrators
> personally if you would like to ask any questions about it.
>
> Submission guidelines
> ---------------------
>
> The Pentabarf system will ask for many of the essential details.  Please
> remember to re-use your account from previous years if you have one.
>
> In the "Submission notes", please tell us about:
> - the purpose of your talk
> - any other talk applications (dev-rooms, lightning talks, main track)
> - availability constraints and special needs
>
> You can use HTML and links in your bio, abstract and description.
>
> If you maintain a blog, please consider providing us with the
> URL of a feed with posts tagged for your RTC-related work.
>
> We will be looking for relevance to the conference and dev-room themes,
> presentations aimed at developers of free and open source software about
> RTC-related topics.
>
> Please feel free to suggest a duration between 20 minutes and 55 minutes
> but note that the final decision on talk durations will be made by the
> dev-room administrators.  As the two previous dev-rooms have been
> combined into one, we may decide to give shorter slots than in previous
> years so that more speakers can participate.
>
> Please note FOSDEM aims to record and live-stream all talks.
> The CC-BY license is used.
>
> Volunteers needed
> =================
>
> To make the dev-room and lounge run successfully, we are looking for
> volunteers:
>
> - FOSDEM provides video recording equipment and live streaming,
>   volunteers are needed to assist in this
> - organizing one or more restaurant bookings (dependending upon number of
>   participants) for the evening of Saturday, 4 February
> - participation in the Real-Time lounge
> - helping attract sponsorship funds for the dev-room to pay for the
>   Saturday night dinner and any other expenses
> - circulating this Call for Participation to other mailing lists
>
> See the mailing list discussion for more details about volunteering:
> https://lists.fsfe.org/pipermail/free-rtc/2016-October/000285.html
>
> Related events - XMPP and RTC summits
> =====================================
>
> The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) has traditionally held a summit
> in the days before FOSDEM.  There is discussion about a similar
> summit taking place on 2 and 3 February 2017
> http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Summit_21 - please join the mailing
> list for details: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/summit
>
> We are also considering a more general RTC or telephony summit,
> potentially in collaboration with the XMPP summit.
> Please join the Free-RTC mailing list and send an email if you would
> be interested in participating, sponsoring or hosting such an event.
>
> Social events and dinners
> =========================
>
> The traditional FOSDEM beer night occurs on Friday, 3 February.
>
> On Saturday night, there are usually dinners associated with
> each of the dev-rooms.  Most restaurants in Brussels are not so
> large so these dinners have space constraints and reservations are
> essential.  Please subscribe to the Free-RTC mailing list for
> further details about the Saturday night dinner options and how
> you can register for a seat: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc
>
> Spread the word and discuss
> ===========================
>
> If you know of any mailing lists where this CfP would be relevant, please
> forward this email. If this dev-room excites you, please blog or microblog
> about it, especially if you are submitting a talk.
>
> If you regularly blog about RTC topics, please send details about your
> blog to the planet site administrators:
>
>   All projects    http://planet.freertc.org       planet at freertc.org
>
>   XMPP            http://planet.jabber.org        ralphm at ik.nu
>
>   SIP             http://planet.sip5060.net       planet at sip5060.net
>     (Español)     http://planet.sip5060.net/es/   planet at sip5060.net
>
> Please also link to the Planet sites from your own blog or web site as
> this helps everybody in the free real-time communications community.
>
> Contact
> =======
>
> For any private queries, contact us directly using the address 
> fosdem-rtc-admin at freertc.org and for any other queries please ask on
> the Free-RTC mailing list:
> https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc
>
> The dev-room administration team:
>
>   Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <saghul at gmail.com>
>   Iain R. Learmonth <irl at debian.org>
>   Ralph Meijer <ralphm at ik.nu>
>   Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda at gmail.com>
>   Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.pro>
>
>
>
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