Hello Pau, Not quite relevant to the Desktops room, but I was thinking of giving a fifteen minute talk on the VirtualBox Guest Additiosn and "why upstreaming is not quite that simple" (basic answer: we want to keep updating our drivers and tools after the distributions they will run on have gone into maintenance mode). Any ideas where that would be best, assuming I am not entirely too late? Distributions would be my first guess, but again the drivers are more of a kernel thing.
Thanks! Regards, Michael On 02.11.2015 20:50, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > > FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2016 Call for Participation > > FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of Free Software contributors in > the world and happens each February in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). One > of the tracks will be the Desktops DevRoom (formerly known as > “CrossDesktop DevRoom”), which will host Desktop-related talks. > > We are now inviting proposals for talks about Free/Libre/Open-source > Software on the topics of Desktop development, Desktop applications and > interoperability amongst Desktop Environments. This is a unique > opportunity to show novel ideas and developments to a wide technical > audience. > > Topics accepted include, but are not limited to: > > * Open Desktops: Gnome, KDE, Unity, Enlightenment, XFCE, Razor, MATE, > Cinnamon, ReactOS, etc > > * Closed desktops: Windows, Mac OS X, CDE, MorphOS, etc (when talking > about a FLOSS topic) > > * Software development for the desktop > > * Development tools > > * Applications that enhance desktops > > * General desktop matters > > * Cross-platform software development > > * Web > > > Talks can be very specific, such as the advantages/disadvantages of > development with Qt on Wayland over X11/Mir; or as general as > predictions for the fusion of Desktop and web in 5 years time. Topics > that are of interest to the users and developers of all desktop > environments are especially welcome. The FOSDEM 2015 schedule[1] might > give you some inspiration. > > > Submissions > > 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 400 from other projects) > > * Short abstract of one or two paragraphs > > * Short bio (with photo) > > * Requested time: from 15 to 45 minutes. Normal duration is 30 > minutes. Longer duration requests must be properly justified. You > may be assigned LESS time than you request. > > > How to submit > > All submissions are made in the Pentabarf event planning tool: > > https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16 > > When submitting your talk, make sure to select the "Desktops" devroom as > the "Track". Otherwise your talk will not be even considered for any > devroom. > > If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous year, even if > your talk was not accepted, please reuse it. Create an account if, and > only if, you don’t have one from a previous year. If you have any issues > with Pentabarf, please contact pgquiles at elpauer dot org. > > > Deadline > > The deadline for submissions is December 6th 2015. > > FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of January 30th and 31st 2015 and the > Desktops DevRoom will take place on Sunday, January 31st 2015. > > We will contact every submitter with a "yes" or "no" before December > 18th 2015. > > > Recording permission > > The talks in the Desktops devroom will be audio and video recorded, and > possibly streamed live too. > > By submitting a proposal you consent to be recorded and agree to license > the content of your talk under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) license. > > If you want us to stop the recording in the Q & A part (should you have > one), please tell us. We can do that but only for the Q & A part. > > > More information > > The official communication channel for the Desktops DevRoom is its > mailing list desktops-devr...@lists.fosdem.org > <mailto:desktops-devr...@lists.fosdem.org>. > > Use this page to manage your subscription: > > https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/desktops-devroom > > > Organization > > The Desktops DevRoom 2016 is managed by a team representing the most > notable open desktops: > > * Pau Garcia i Quiles, KDE > > * Christophe Fergeau, Gnome > > * Michael Zanetti, Unity > > * Philippe Caseiro, Enlightenment > > * Jérome Leclanche, Razor > > > If you want to join the team, please contact pgquiles at elpauer dot org > > -- > Pau Garcia i Quiles > http://www.elpauer.org > (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > VBox-users-community mailing list > VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe: > mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe > -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. 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