Hi,
At FOSDEM on sunday the 2nd of february 2020, there will be another hardware enablement DevRoom. URL: https://fosdem.org/2020/
This devroom covers topics related to hardware support and enablement with free software. It includes the following topics: * peripheral/controller firmwares * hw support and drivers in bootloaders * kernel drivers and hardware interfaces * hardware-related adaptation in operating systems * tools for firmware flashing * tools for low-level development
FOSDEM is very much an open source community event, please refrain from turning in a talk that is meant to be purely corporate or a product commercial. Also, this is a highly technical devroom on a conference aimed at developers and advanced users, so only submit a talk on a subject you actually are involved with. Finally, this devrooms focus is the technical aspects of the hardware and its enablement in free projects, rather than the specific applications and use cases that benefit from it.
With the return of the Embedded and Automotive DevRoom, we have the ability to schedule full hour talks again, and to go in-depth. If you however only need half an hour, then this is of course also possible.
Talk Submission:
The venerable pentabarf system will once again be used for talk submission.
https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM20
When in pentabarf, spend some time on the abstract and description, for both the event and the speaker. The abstract should be a shortened description, and the event abstract will sometimes even be printed directly in the booklet. BUT, on the website the abstract is immediately followed by the full description. If your abstract is fully descriptive, while terse, you might get away with just the abstract. As soon as your talk is scheduled by the devroom managers, you can see the result of your handiwork on the main website.
Please re-use your old pentabarf account instead of creating a new one: lost password: https://penta.fosdem.org/user/forgot_password
Talks are either 50 minutes or 20 minutes long, plus 5 minutes for questions.
All talks will be recorded, and will be streamed out live, and will later be made available as CC-BY, sometimes minutes after your talk has finished.
As for deadlines, the fosdem organizers want to have a finished schedule by the 15th of december, but do not count on that deadline, there are only a limited number of slots available. Given my belatedness in sending out this CFP, i might get a few more days if i am really really nice to the core FOSDEM organizers, but again, do not count on that (extra hugs only go so far when you're built like i am).
On your personal page: * General: * First and last name * Nickname * Image * Contact: * email address * mobile number (this is a very hard requirement as there will be no other reliable form of emergency communication on the day) * Description: * Abstract * Description
Create an event: * On the General page: * Event title * Event subtitle. * Track: Hardware Enablement Devroom * Event type: Lecture (talk) or Meeting (BoF) * Persons: * Add yourself as speaker. * Description: * Abstract: * Full Description * Schedule: * select your preferred talk length, either 55 or 25 minutes. * Links: * Add relevant links.
The mobile phone number is the hardest requirement, so you can be contacted on-the-day when something comes up. Speakers will all receive my mobile number in return.
Neither email nor phonenumber are publicy visible, nor will this information be used for anything outside of devroom organization. After your talk has been scheduled, i usually only send out a single email with some organizational details in the days before the event.
Everything else can be ignored or will be filled in by me or the FOSDEM organizers.
I will be keeping a keen eye on your submissions and will come back with further questions or make small fixes as needed. Feel free to poke me with any questions or anything, both on irc (libv@freenode) and on email (hardware-devroom-manager@fosdem.org).
That's about it. Hope to see you all at FOSDEM :)
Luc Verhaegen.