[Vlaanderen] Draft for call for speakers @ FOSDEM

[Claudio Ramirez]

Hi,


This is the draft of the call for speakers for FOSDEM 2012. Please give
your comments, corrections and ideas regarding this texts. Specifically, I
would very much appreciate your input regarding dates, deadlines and
subjects of talks. Additionally, I am not too sure about the sponsoring
part. We can remove it altogether for the text.

Claudio

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THIS IS A DRAFT AND NOT THE DEFINTIVE CALL FOR SPEAKERS.

 Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels (Belgium), FOSDEM is the
biggest free and non-commercial European event organized by and for the
community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers a place
to meet (see http://fosdem.org/2012/).

Two years ago, the Perl community was for the first time present at FOSDEM.
Our presence –a booth– was very successful. It boosted our confidence and
the following year we came back with a bigger group, a bigger stand and
--for the first time-- a dev-room. The talks were varied, interesting...
and well attended.

 For this upcoming edition (2012), our dev-room request has been approved
(the stand request is still pending and we foresee no problems there). The
stand will be open throughout the weekend. The dev-room event will take
place Sunday February 5th 2012 , between 9 and 17h.

 We, the Perl community, are free to spent our time in the dev-room as we
see fit (of course respecting the frame of Free and Open Source software).
The room itself has 81 seats, WIFI and a VGA projector.

This environment, being a university classroom with raised seats, lends
itself perfectly for talks and classes.

 This is a wonderful opportunity to present your Perl project –big and
small– or teach about subjects you care about. We are looking for a variety
of subjects on all levels: starter and advanced, generic and specialised,
core internals and CPAN. We have 8 hours time, so we have the flexibility
of using different time formats: e.g. lightnings talks of 20 minutes, more
classic talks of 40 minutes or longer, and classes of 1 hour (or longer,
depending on the complexity).

 Please don't doubt to send a proposal (information about yourself,
subject, short description and time needed) if you think you have the
material. If you have several subjects you are enthusiastic to talk about
please send alternative proposals. In the case more than one talk is not
selected, your proposal will help us when putting the schedule together and
even have “backup” talks in case someone cancels.

 Please send your talk or class proposal before January 6th, 2012. We will
confirm the talk/course as soon as possible, with Saturday 2012-01-21 being
our own deadline to send our schedule to the FOSDEM organizer. <THIS NEEDS
MORE WORK>

 Claudio Ramirez (nxadm, padre.claudio at apt-get.be) and the Belgian Perl
Mongers.

 NB: This is a community event without sponsoring. We don't have the means
to pay for your trip and time. If you want to sponsor part of the event,
please feel free to contact us.

 THIS IS A DRAFT AND NOT THE DEFINITIVE CALL FOR SPEAKERS.
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