Hello all, The date of the submission deadline for recordings was a typo. I have updated the CfP at the wiki link https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2021-devroom-declarative-and-minimalistic-computing to the 7th of January.
Of course keep in mind that this is not a hard deadline, and we can change this based on the current situation. So please don't worry :) Thank you! Manolis On 12/1/20 10:14 PM, Manolis Ragkousis wrote: > We are excited to announce a devroom on Declarative and Minimalistic > Computing at FOSDEM on Sunday February 7th 2021, online! > > FOSDEM is one of the most important free software conferences and is > hosted annually at Université libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, > Belgium. Unfortunately this year FOSDEM will not run a physical > conference but will be online only. Talks will be pre-recorded with > some live content including Q&A sessions and discussion panels. > > We accept talks from languages that attempt to minimize use of hardware > and software while try 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 are Scheme/Lisp family of programmings languages. > > Minimalism and declarative programming are two important topic 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 virtual conference we will honour the late > Professor Edsger Dijkstra as a pioneer who laid foundations for many > of these ideas. > > We have a room Sunday 6 February 2021. 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! Talks considered for the devroom will have to > be entered in > > - https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM21 > > The deadline for submission is December 15th. 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.public...@thebird.nl or manolis...@gmail.com if you run into any > trouble. > > 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 > * Presentations has to be pre-recorded and streamed before the event. > * Start recording early! > > To see what a final talk looks like see > > https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/gnumes/ > > For accepted talks > > * Once your talk was accepted, we will assign you an organiser to help > you to produce the pre-recorded content. > * The organiser will review the content and ensure it has the required > quality. He is also responsable to ensure the content is into the system > and ready to broadcast. > * During the stream of your talk, you must be available online for the > Q/A session > > Let's make this a fun day! > > = Organisers = > > Manolis Ragkousis, Ludovic Courtès, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Pjotr Prins > (pjotr.public...@thebird.nl), William Byrd, Ricardo Wurmus, Alex > Sassmannshausen, Amirouche Boubekki, Efraim Flashner, Bonface M. K. > > = Code of conduct = > > - https://fosdem.org/2021/practical/conduct/ > > = Original proposal = > > - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2021-devroom-proposal > > = Important dates: = > > - Dec 15th 2020: submission deadline for talk proposals > - Dec 15th 2020: submission deadline for recordings > - Dec 31th 2020: announcement of the final schedule > - Feb 6th 2021: FOSDEM! > > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2021-devroom-declarative-and-minimalistic-computing >
