FOSDEM 1&2 February 2014 – Brussels, Belgium – Call for Speakers

Call for Speakers.
Fosdem, Brussels, 1 & 2 february 2014
https://fosdem.org/2014/

Where? Free University Brussels, Campus Solbosh:
https://fosdem.org/2014/practical/transportation/

Why so early?
We just sent out the proposals for the Perl-devroom and the Perl-booth.  We hope both proposals get accepted.

This time we want to ask people to not just send in proposals for (lightning) talks for the Perl-devroom (but such proposals would still be most welcome) but also for the main room.  That’s a big college room that can hold hundreds of attendees (which is much more than the Perl-devroom, which earlier this year could hold 75 attendees).  More attention to Perl!

Deadline for (50 minute) talks for the main room is 1 october 2013.
The deadline for (15 minute) lightning talks in the main room is 20 november.

So be quick and send in your presentation proposal.  By the way, selection of these main track talks is done by the organisation of Fosdem, not by our team (we only select talks for the devroom).  Please look here for how to submit your proposal:

https://fosdem.org/2014/news/2013-08-06-call-for-participation/

Proposals for the Perl-devroom can be sent to us:

To:
Claudio Ramirez (nxadm, email: padre.claudio at apt-get.be)
and
Wendy van Dijk (email: nl.pm at wendy.org).

Thank you. Hope to meet you all in Brussels.

URL for your blog posts, twitter & Facebook messages:

https://wendyga.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/fosdem-1-2-feb-2014-brussels-call-for-speakers/

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Copied and adapted from last year’s Call for Speakers:

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Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels (Belgium), FOSDEM is the biggest free and non-commercial European event organized by and for the community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet (see http://fosdem.org/2014/). Last year between 5,000 and 6,000 attendees visited Fosdem.

Over the last years the Perl community had an increasing presence at FOSDEM. Over the last three years we managed to have both a booth and a dev-room. We collected an impressive positive return and wish to renew the experience.

Our devroom request for both days of this upcoming edition (2014) is sent to the organisers and we await a yes or no (will be announced on 1 October).  The same for a booth (announcement of accepted booths is on 15 December).

If the request for the devroom is granted, we will have a university classroom with raised seats.  It lends itself perfectly for talks. This is a wonderful opportunity to present your Perl project ­big and small­ or talk about subjects you care about. We are looking for a variety of subjects on all levels: starter and advanced, generic and specialized, core internals and CPAN. Each day we have 8 hours time, so we have the flexibility of using different time formats: e.g. talks of 20 minutes, more classic talks of 40 minutes or longer (although we learned from experience that longer talks should be split into slices of 20 or 40 minutes).

Please don’t doubt to send a proposal (information about yourself, subject, short description of the presentation, and time needed). If you have several subjects you are enthusiastic to talk about please send alternative proposals. In the case more than one talk is not selected, your proposal will help us when putting the schedule together and even have backup talks in case someone cancels. Also mention your time constraints (if any).

Please send your talk proposal by e-mail to the address below. You will receive a reaction within 2 days. We will try to submit a definitive schedule in time for the booklet of Fosdem.  We don’t know yet what the deadline is for inclusion in the booklet.

Please forward / distribute this call as wide as possible (certainly to your local mongers).

Claudio Ramirez (nxadm, email: padre.claudio at apt-get.be)
and
Wendy van Dijk (email: nl.pm at wendy.org).

NB1: This is a community event without sponsoring. We don’t have the means to pay for your trip and time. If you want to sponsor part of the event, please feel free to contact us.

NB2: We’ll also appreciate volunteers, booth and dev-room. Please tell us your availabilities so we can also prepare a planning for this.

NB3: We also appreciate promotional materials of your company or organisation for this event.  Brochures, flyers, pens, buttons, stickers, little toy animals, etc, etc: it is welcome.  The more interesting stuff is gone quickly: we had 250 pens of a well-known hotel-booking company and all were gone in 2 days.  Over 2,000 Tuits were handed out.  We had a new Perl 6 flyer and we handed out over a hundred of them.  Please let us know that you want to send us your promotional materials and we will let you know the address to send it to.