Rather than individual talks what about getting them to schedule a 1/2 day unconference?
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Talks related to DPDK can be proposed for FOSDEM 2015: > https://fosdem.org/2015/ > This conference will take place in Belgium on 31 January & 1 February. > > -- > Thomas > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Network devroom call for participation > Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:33:33 -0400 > From: Dave Neary <dneary at redhat.com> > To: Pavel Simerda <psimerda at redhat.com>, > network-devroom at lists.fosdem.org, fosdem at lists.fosdem.org > > Hi everyone, > > We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation in the FOSDEM > 2015 Networking DevRoom! > > Important dates: > * Nov 25: Deadline for submissions > * Dec 1: Speakers notified of acceptance > * Dec 5: Schedule published > > This is the first time that networking has been included as a > stand-alone DevRoom, and this year the topics will cover two distinct > fields: > * Software Defined Networking (SDN), covering virtual switching, open > source SDN controllers, virtual routing > * Network management, covering host-level networking - NetworkManager, > ConnMan, systemd, wicked, kernel network services, network security, etc > > > We are now inviting proposals for talks about Free/Libre/Open-source > Software on the topics of SDN and network management. This is an > exciting and growing field, and this is a unique opportunity to show > novel ideas and developments to a very knowledgeable technical audience. > > Topics accepted include, but are not limited to: > > SDN: > * SDN controllers - OpenDaylight, OpenContrail, OpenStack Neutron > * Dataplane processing: DPDK, OpenDataplane, netdev, netfilter > * Virtual switches: Open vSwitch, Snabb Switch, VDE > * Open network protocols: OpenFlow, NETCONF, OpenLISP > > Network management: > * Network management: NetworkManager, ConnMan, systemd-networkd, > interoperability among these projects > * Common code infrastructure: libnl, libmnl, libsystemd, ell, pyroute2 > * Network services: DHCP, DNS, DNSSEC, PPP > * Connection management: Wifi, tethering, connection sharing, metric and > source based routing, > > Talks should be aimed at a technical audience, but should not assume > that attendees are already familiar with your project or how it solves a > general problem. Talk proposals can be very specific solutions to a > problem, or can be higher level project overviews for lesser known > projects. > > Please include the following information when submitting a proposal: > > Your name > The title of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be > listed with around 250 from other projects) > Short abstract of one or two paragraphs > Short bio (with photo) > > The deadline for submissions is November 25th 2014. FOSDEM will be held > on the weekend of January 31st-February 1st 2015 and the Networking > DevRoom will take place on Saturday, January 31st 2015. Please use the > following website to submit your proposals: > https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15 (you do not need to create > a new Pentabarf account if you already have one from past years). > > You can also join the devroom?s mailing list, which is the official > communication channel for the DevRoom: network-devroom at lists.fosdem.org > (subscription page: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/network-devroom) > > ? The Networking DevRoom 2015 Organization Team > > -- > Dave Neary - NFV/SDN Community Strategy > Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com > Ph: +1-978-399-2182 / Cell: +1-978-799-3338 >