[Gluster-devel] FOSDEM Call for Participation: Software Defined Storage devroom

[Niels de Vos]

Reminder! The Call for Participation ends later this week. There is
still time to propose talks.


On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 12:40:27PM +0200, Niels de Vos wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Jan Fajerski <jfajerski at suse.com> -----
> 
> > Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 12:55:28 +0200
> > From: Jan Fajerski <jfajerski at suse.com>
> > To: ceph-devel at vger.kernel.org, ceph-users at ceph.com, gluster-users at gluster.org
> > Cc: devroom-managers at lists.fosdem.org, fosdem at lists.fosdem.org
> > Subject: [Gluster-users] FOSDEM Call for Participation: Software Defined Storage devroom
> > 
> > 
> > CfP for the Software Defined Storage devroom at FOSDEM 2018
> > (Brussels, Belgium, February 4th).
> > 
> > FOSDEM is a free software event that offers open source communities a place to
> > meet, share ideas and collaborate.  It is renown for being highly developer-
> > oriented and brings together 8000+ participants from all over the world.  It
> > is held in the city of Brussels (Belgium).
> > 
> > FOSDEM 2018 will take place during the weekend of February 3rd-4th 2018. More
> > details about the event can be found at http://fosdem.org/
> > 
> > ** Call For Participation
> > 
> > The Software Defined Storage devroom will go into it's second round for
> > talks around Open Source Software Defined Storage projects, management tools
> > and real world deployments.
> > 
> > Presentation topics could include but are not limited too:
> > 
> > - Your work on a SDS project like Ceph, GlusterFS or LizardFS
> > 
> > - Your work on or with SDS related projects like SWIFT or Container Storage
> > Interface
> > 
> > - Management tools for SDS deployments
> > 
> > - Monitoring tools for SDS clusters
> > 
> > ** Important dates:
> > 
> > - 26 Nov 2017:  submission deadline for talk proposals
> > - 15 Dec 2017:  announcement of the final schedule
> > -  4 Feb 2018:  Software Defined Storage dev room
> > 
> > Talk proposals will be reviewed by a steering committee:
> > - Leonardo Vaz (Ceph Community Manager - Red Hat Inc.)
> > - Joao Luis (Core Ceph contributor - SUSE)
> > - Jan Fajerski (Ceph Developer - SUSE)
> > 
> > Use the FOSDEM 'pentabarf' tool to submit your proposal:
> > https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18
> > 
> > - If necessary, create a Pentabarf account and activate it.
> > Please reuse your account from previous years if you have
> > already created it.
> > 
> > - In the "Person" section, provide First name, Last name
> > (in the "General" tab), Email (in the "Contact" tab)
> > and Bio ("Abstract" field in the "Description" tab).
> > 
> > - Submit a proposal by clicking on "Create event".
> > 
> > - Important! Select the "Software Defined Storage devroom" track
> > (on the "General" tab).
> > 
> > - Provide the title of your talk ("Event title" in the "General" tab).
> > 
> > - Provide a description of the subject of the talk and the
> > intended audience (in the "Abstract" field of the "Description" tab)
> > 
> > - Provide a rough outline of the talk or goals of the session (a short
> > list of bullet points covering topics that will be discussed) in the
> > "Full description" field in the "Description" tab
> > 
> > - Provide an expected length of your talk in the "Duration" field. Please
> > count at least 10 minutes of discussion into your proposal.
> > 
> > Suggested talk length would be 15, 20+10, 30+15, and 45+15 minutes.
> > 
> > ** Recording of talks
> > 
> > The FOSDEM organizers plan to have live streaming and recording fully working,
> > both for remote/later viewing of talks, and so that people can watch streams
> > in the hallways when rooms are full. This requires speakers to consent to
> > being recorded and streamed. If you plan to be a speaker, please understand
> > that by doing so you implicitly give consent for your talk to be recorded and
> > streamed. The recordings will be published under the same license as all
> > FOSDEM content (CC-BY).
> > 
> > Hope to hear from you soon! And please forward this announcement.
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