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There will be a two-day "Virtualisation and IaaS" devroom at FOSDEM 2014
(Brussels, February 1-2). See below for the CFP.

Note: For this edition we'll avoid high-level, generic project
presentations and give priority to deep dives and developer-oriented
content, so please take that into account before submitting anything.

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Call for Participation
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The scope for this devroom is open source, openly-developed projects in
the areas of virtualisation and IaaS type clouds, ranging from low level
to data center, up to cloud management platforms and cloud resource
orchestration.

Sessions should always target a developer audience. Bonus points for
collaborative sessions that would be appealing to developers from
multiple projects.

We are particularly interested in the following themes:
* low level virtualisation aspects
* new features in classic and container-based virtualisation technologies
* new use cases for virtualisation, such as virtualisation in mobile,
automotive and embedded in general
* other resource virtualisation technologies: networking, storage, …
* deep technical dives into specific IaaS or virtualisation management
projects features
* relationship between IaaS projects and specific dependencies (not just
virtualisation)
* integration and development leveraging solutions from multiple projects


Important dates
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Submission deadline: Sunday, December 1st, 2013
Acceptance notifications: Sunday, December 15th, 2013
Final schedule announcement: Friday January 10th, 2014
Devroom @ FOSDEM'14: February 1st & 2nd, 2014


Practical
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Submissions should be 40 minutes, and consist of a 30 minute
presentation with 10 minutes of Q&A or 40 minutes of discussions (e.g.,
requests for feedback, open discussions, etc.). Interactivity is
encouraged, but optional. Talks are in English only.

We do not provide travel assistance or reimbursement of travel expenses
for accepted speakers.

Submissions should be made via the FOSDEM submission page at
https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM14 :

* If necessary, create a Pentabarf account and activate 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 "Virtualisation and IaaS" track (on the
“General” tab)
* Provide the title of your talk (“Event title” in the “General” tab)
* Provide a 250-word 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


Contact
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For questions w.r.t. the Virtualisation and IaaS DevRoom at FOSDEM'14,
please contact the organizers via
fosdem14-virt-and-iaas-devroom at googlegroups.com (or via
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/fosdem14-virt-and-iaas-devroom).


This CFP is also visible at:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/fosdem14-virt-and-iaas-devroom/04y5YkyqzIo

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)