Thanks Manolis for getting this going! Guix days will be held before FOSDEM on 30+31 January 2025 at ICAB.
https://icab.be/ So we have 4 days of unconditional fun! FOSDEM is this amazing conference with 15 parallel tracks - there is something for everyone! See last year: https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/day/saturday/ It is our favorite conference with Guix days - and we keep coming back. For Guix days do sign up - we have limited space. You can add your name here after signing up: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/FOSDEM2025 If you want to give a Guix/Guile/Lisp talk - consider submitting to our devroom below. There will also be opportunities at Guix days. Don't feel shy. Even if you have never given a talk before, it is a great place to try for a forgiving audience. Ask Manolis :) Ping either of us if you have a private question. Looking forward to meeting up with great friends again! Pj. On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 10:24:57PM +0200, Manolis Ragkousis wrote: > We are excited to announce the Call for Participation for the Declarative > and Minimalistic Computing devroom at FOSDEM on February, 2025! The > submission deadline for talk proposals is 1st of December, 2024. > > FOSDEM is one of the most important free software conferences and is > hosted annually at Université libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, > Belgium. This year FOSDEM will be a physical conference. Talks will be done > in person. > > We accept talks from languages that attempt to minimize use of hardware > and software while trying to make systems simpler, more robust and more > secure. If you are working on improving today's systems taking > declarative/minimalistic approaches feel free to submit a talk > proposal. Examples include the Scheme/Lisp family of programmings languages. > In past editions, this devroom has received presentations from a varied > number of language communities, including Forth, Guile, Lua, Nim, Racket, > Raku and Tcl as well as several experimental projects that push minimalism > in new directions. > > Minimalism and declarative programming are two important topics for > this devroom. Minimalism matters. Minimalism allows for smaller > systems that take less resources and consume less energy. More > importantly, free and open source minimalism allows for secure systems > that are easy to understand. Declarative programming is a programming > paradigm that expresses the logic of a computation without describing > its control flow. Many languages that apply this style attempt to > minimize or eliminate side effects by describing what the program must > accomplish in terms of the problem domain, rather than describe how to > accomplish it as a sequence of the programming language primitives. > > Finally, in this year's conference we encourage speakers to honor > individuals in computing from a diversity perspective. Individuals who have > inspired them and whose work is relevant to their presentations. > > We want to invite you to submit a talk on declarative and minimalistic > computing that fits that description. We are especially happy to > receive talk submissions from members of groups underrepresented in > free software. > > If you have something you’d like to share with your fellow developers, > please E-mail us! Reach out to > pjotr.public...@thebird.nl or manolis...@gmail.com if you run into any > trouble. > > The deadline for submission is December 1st. Proposals must be submitted on > FOSDEM's conference management system: <https://pretalx.fosdem.org/>. All > submissions must go through pretalx: <https://fosdem.org/submit> > > When submitting your talk make doubly sure to select "Declarative and > Minimalistic Computing devroom" as track (if you don't we won't find > it), and include the following information: > > * The title and subtitle of your talk > * A short abstract of one paragraph > * A longer description if you wish to do so > * Links to related websites/blogs etc > > To see what a final talk looks like see > > https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/gnumes/ > > Let's make this a fun day! > > = Organizers = > > - Pjotr Prins (pjotr.public...@thebird.nl) > - Manolis Ragkousis (manolis...@gmail.com) > - Bonface Munyoki (m...@bonfacemunyoki.com) > - Jonathan McHugh (indieterminacy@libre.brussels) > - Arun Isaac (arunis...@systemreboot.net) > - Amirouche Boubekki (amirouche.boube...@gmail.com) > - Hisham Muhammad (his...@gobolinux.org) > - Ludovic Courtès (l...@gnu.org) - GNU Guile, GNU Guix > - Jan Nieuwenhuizen (jann...@gnu.org) - GNU Mes project leader > - William Byrd (web...@gmail.com) > - Oliver Propst (oliver.pro...@gmail.com) > - Julien Lepiller (jul...@lepiller.eu) > > = Code of conduct = > > - https://fosdem.org/2025/practical/conduct/ > > = Original proposal = > > - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2025-devroom-proposal > > = Important dates: = > > - Dec 1st 2024: submission deadline for talk proposals > - Dec 15th 2024: announcement of the final schedule > - Feb 2nd 2024: FOSDEM! > > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2025-devroom-declarative-and-minimalistic-computing-cfp > --
