[CFP] Virtualization & IaaS Devroom

[Piotr Kliczewski]

Friendly reminder that submission deadline for Virtualization & IaaS dev
room is on 20th of December. Please submit your talks!

On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 6:45 PM Piotr Kliczewski <pkliczew at redhat.com> wrote:

> We are excited to announce that the call for proposals is now open for the
> Virtualization & IaaS devroom at the upcoming FOSDEM 2021, to be hosted
> virtually on February 6th 2021.
>
> This year will mark FOSDEM’s 21th anniversary as one of the
> longest-running free and open source software developer events, attracting
> thousands of developers and users from all over the world. Due to Covid-19,
> FOSDEM will be held virtually this year on February 6th & 7th, 2021.
>
> About the Devroom
>
> The Virtualization & IaaS devroom will feature session topics such as
> open source hypervisors and virtual machine managers such as Xen Project,
> KVM, bhyve, and VirtualBox, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service projects such
> as KubeVirt, Apache CloudStack, Foreman, OpenStack, oVirt, 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 users or 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: 20th of December
>
> Acceptance notifications: 25th of December
>
> Final schedule announcement: 31st of December
>
> Recorded presentations upload deadline: 15th of January
>
> Devroom: 6th February 2021
>
> Submit Your Proposal
>
> All submissions must be made via the Pentabarf event planning site[1]. If
> you have not used Pentabarf before, you will need to create an account. If
> you submitted proposals for FOSDEM in previous years, you can use your
> existing account.
>
> After creating the account, select Create Event to start the submission
> process. Make sure to select Virtualization and IaaS devroom from the
> Track list. Please fill out all the required fields, and 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 need to be pre-recorded and put into our system at
> least a couple of weeks before the event.
>
> The presentations should be uploaded by 15th of January 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,
> <NAME>."
>
> In the Submission notes field, please also confirm that if your talk is
> accepted, you will be able to attend the virtual FOSDEM event for the
> Q&A. We will not consider proposals from prospective speakers who are
> unsure whether they will be able to attend the FOSDEM virtual event.
>
> If you are experiencing problems with Pentabarf, the proposal submission
> interface, or have other questions, you can email our devroom mailing
> list[2] and we will try to help you.
>
>
> Code of Conduct
>
> Following the release of the updated code of conduct for FOSDEM, 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.
>
> Call for Volunteers
>
> We are also looking for volunteers to help run the devroom. We need
> assistance with helping speakers to record the presentation as well as
> helping with streaming and chat moderation for the devroom. Please
> contact devroom mailing list [2] for more information.
>
> 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://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM17>https://penta.fosdem
> .org/submission/FOSDEM21
>
> [2] iaas-virt-devroom at lists.fosdem.org
>
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