We are excited to announce that the call for proposals is now open for the
Virtualization and Cloud infrastructure devroom at the upcoming FOSDEM
2025, to be hosted on Sunday (Feb 2) 2025.
This devroom is a collaborative effort, and is organized by dedicated folks
from projects such as OpenStack, Xen Project, KubeVirt, QEMU, KVM, and
Foreman. We invite everyone involved in these fields to submit your
proposals by December 8th, 2024.
About the Devroom
The Virtualization & IaaS devroom will feature session topics such as open
source hypervisors or virtual machine managers such as Xen Project, KVM,
bhyve and VirtualBox as well as Infrastructure-as-a-Service projects such
as KubeVirt, Apache CloudStack, OpenStack, QEMU and OpenNebula.
This devroom will host presentations that focus on topics of shared
interest, such as KVM; libvirt; shared storage; virtualized networking;
cloud security; clustering and high availability; interfacing with multiple
hypervisors; hyperconverged deployments; and scaling across hundreds or
thousands of servers.
Presentations in this devroom will be aimed at developers working on these
platforms who are looking to collaborate and improve shared infrastructure
or solve common problems. We seek topics that encourage dialog between
projects and continued work post-FOSDEM.
Important Dates
Submission deadline: 8th December 2024
Acceptance notifications: 10th December 2024
Final schedule announcement: 15th December 2024
Devroom: 2nd February 2025
Submit Your Proposal
All submissions must be made via the Pretalx event planning site[1]. It is
a new submission system so you will need to create an account. If you
submitted proposals for FOSDEM in previous years, you won’t be able to use
your existing account.
During submission please make sure to select Virtualization and Cloud
infrastructure from the Track list. Please provide a meaningful abstract
and description of your proposed session.
Submission Guidelines
We expect more proposals than we can possibly accept, so it is vitally
important that you submit your proposal on or before the deadline. Late
submissions are unlikely to be considered.
All presentation slots are 30 minutes, with 20 minutes planned for
presentations, and 10 minutes for Q&A.
All presentations will be recorded and made available under Creative
Commons licenses. In the Submission notes field, please indicate that you
agree that your presentation will be licensed under the CC-By-SA-4.0 or
CC-By-4.0 license and that you agree to have your presentation recorded.
For example:
"If my presentation is accepted for FOSDEM, I hereby agree to license all
recordings, slides, and other associated materials under the Creative
Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License.
Sincerely,
."
In the Submission notes field, please also confirm that if your talk is
accepted, you will be able to attend FOSDEM and deliver your presentation.
We will not consider proposals from prospective speakers who are unsure
whether they will be able to secure funds for travel and lodging to attend
FOSDEM. (Sadly, we are not able to offer travel funding for prospective
speakers.)
Code of Conduct
Following the release of the updated code of conduct for FOSDEM[3], we'd
like to remind all speakers and attendees that all of the presentations and
discussions in our devroom are held under the guidelines set in the CoC and
we expect attendees, speakers, and volunteers to follow the CoC at all
times.
If you submit a proposal and it is accepted, you will be required to
confirm that you accept the FOSDEM CoC. If you have any questions about the
CoC or wish to have one of the devroom organizers review your presentation
slides or any other content for CoC compliance, please email us and we will
do our best to assist you.
Questions?
If you have any questions about this devroom, please send your questions to
our devroom mailing list. You can also subscribe to the list to receive
updates about important dates, session announcements, and to connect with
other attendees.
See you all at FOSDEM!
[1] https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp
[2] virtualization-devroom-manager at fosdem.org
[3] https://fosdem.org/2025/practical/conduct/
