Call For Participation
Welcome to the Free Java Developer Room at FOSDEM 2011 Call For Participation!
NOTE: CFP is now closed.
We encourage you to submit a talk idea for Java/DevJam/2011/Fosdem
Submit one (or more) 5, 25 or 50 minute talk proposal(s) by the 3rd 17th of December.
We will notify all those submitting proposals about acceptance by the 10th 21st of December.
This year's theme is "Java Sans Frontières". In particular we are looking for talks that cover:
- Why Free Java technology is awesome
- Virtual Machine
- Universality: porting to new operating system / architecture combinations
- Specialized hardware (e.g. large, mobile or embedded)
- Standing on the Shoulders of Free Java
- Extending the language/platform (invokedynamic, lambda, fork/join, jigsaw, etc.)
- Dynamic languages such as Ruby, Scala and Clojure
- Applications built on dynamic languages such as Rails, Lift, Ring
- The future of Free Java
- Building and growing the Free Java community
The role, governance and state of Free Java projects such as OpenJDK, IcedTea, GNU Classpath, Apache Harmony, etc.
- Experiences with the JCP
To submit a talk proposal (and yes you may submit more than one), please compose an e-mail with the following information:
- Title
- Funny titles appreciated, but please do include the name of your project.
- Abstract (at least two paragraphs)
- If possible describe why Free Java is helpful or perhaps even essential to your project.
- What the audience will learn from the talk.
- How can people help out with the project, what feedback are you looking for?
- Desired length: 5, 25, 50 min
- Please state if your talk could be shorter or longer (in case the organizers need to adjust the schedule)
- Note: the 5 minute "lightning talks" will be grouped together
Sponsorship request (note: we do not yet have any sponsors)
- I do not need sponsorship
- I would appreciate sponsorship, but it is not required for me to attend
- I need sponsorship to attend (travel amount requested in Euros)
- Interest in video:
- Yes: please record the talks
- Maybe: I don't mind if you record the talks
- No: please do not record my talk
- Brief Bio (pointers to your microblog, blog and/or projects)
And send it to fosdem@developer.classpath.org by the 3rd of December (remove "NOSPAM.").
Please note: FOSDEM is a FLOSS community event, by and for the community, please insure your topic is appropriate (i.e. this isn't the right forum for commercial product presentations)