On 10/31/2015 09:43 AM, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > Hi, > > At FOSDEM on sunday 31st of january 2016, there will be another graphics > DevRoom. URL: https://fosdem.org/2016/ > > At first, I wanted to skip another year (like in 2011), as speaker > turn-out was disgracefully low last year. But when i heard from some > usual speaker suspects earlier this month (the first time anyone asked > me about a FOSDEM16 devroom btw), followed by the fact that the devroom > request deadline was sheduled a month later than the last few years, i > did end up filing, but this time for a single day only. Claiming two > days would simply not have been fair towards all the other projects > that usually get rejected (FOSDEM typically rejects half the requests, > leading to only about 25 devrooms in parallel). Anyway... > > The focus of this DevRoom is of course the same as the last few years, > namely: > * Graphics drivers: from display to media to 3d drivers, both in kernel > or userspace. Be it part of DRM, KMS, (direct)FB, V4L, Xorg, Mesa... > * Input drivers: kernel and userspace. > * Windowing systems: X, Wayland, Mir, directFB, ... > * Even colour management, low level toolkit stuff, and other areas which > i might have overlooked above are accepted. > > Slots are 50 minutes long, and scheduled hourly. This partly to avoid > confusion and people running all over the place all the time. As a > speaker, you do not have to fill your whole hour, gaps are never wasted > time. > > Slots will be handed out on a first come, first serve basis. The best > slots will go to those who apply the earliest. The amount of slots is > currently not known yet, but there are only 8 slots available, so act > quickly. > > Talk Submission: > ---------------- > > Like the last few years, the pentabarf system will be used for talk
Properly pronounced like "pent up barf." It seems like they should have a "Replace pentabarf" BoF to just fix it. :) > submission. It is not perfect from a devroom organizer and talk > submitters usability point-of-view, but the new interface is not fully > implemented yet, and the fosdem organizers have reverted to the old one > for this year. It is however workable and it ended up working out > pretty well these last few years. > > https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16 After you submit, is it supposed to give any sort of feedback that your submission was received? > Remember that FOSDEM is not like XDC, it's not some 50 odd people > meeting with a sliding schedule which only gets filled out on the last > day. Upwards of 8000 people are visiting this event, and most of them > get a printed booklet or use the schedule on the FOSDEM website or an > app for their phone to figure out what to watch or participate in next. > So please put some effort in your talk submission and details. > > Since this an open source community event, please refrain from turning > in a talk that is a pure corporate or product commercial. Also, if you > are unsure on whether you can come or not (this is FOSDEM, why are you > not there anyway?), please wait with submitting your talk. Submitting a > talk and then not turning up because you could not be bothered is a > sure-fire way to get larted and then to never be allowed to talk again. > > Also, all talks will be recorded, and will be made available as CC-BY > after a bit of time. Since we have only a single day devroom, we > probably will not end up being streamed live. > > As for deadlines, the fosdem organizers are doing their booklet > differently again, and they need to have the schedule finished by the > 18th of december. Given that there are only 8 slots, i trust that this > will not be an issue this year. > > Don't count on this deadline: first come first serve! There are perhaps > only 8 slots. And the worst slots will be assigned to those who come > last. Do you really want to talk on sunday at 9:00 when people are still > in zombie mode after 2 nights at the delirium bar, if they are here at all? > > Use your account from last year, so you can try to recycle some of your > data from last year. If you have forgotten your password, then you can > reset it here: https://penta.fosdem.org/user/forgot_password > > Necessary information: > ---------------------- > > Below is a list of what i need to see filled in when you apply for a > devroom before i consider it a valid submission. Remember: first come, > first serve. The best slots are for the earliest submissions and there > are only 8 slots. > > On your personal page: > * General: > * First and last name > * Nickname > * Image > * Contact: > * email > * mobile number (this is a very hard requirement as there will be no > other reliable form of emergency communication on the day) > * Description: > * Abstract > * Description > > Create an event: > * On the General page: > * Event title > * Event subtitle. > * Track: Graphics Devroom > * Event type: Lecture (talk) or Meeting (BoF) > * Persons: > * Add yourself as speaker. > * Description: > * Abstract: > * Full Description > * Links: > * Add relevant links. > > Everything else can be ignored or will be filled in by me or the FOSDEM > organizers. Remember, i will only schedule your talk after the basics > are somewhat filled in (you still can change them until december 18th). > > That's about it. Hope to see you all at FOSDEM :) > > Luc Verhaegen. > _______________________________________________ > mesa-dev mailing list > mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev > _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
