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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" lang="en-GB">Hi,</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" lang="en-GB"><br></p>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.<br>
<br>Claudio<br><br>________________________________________<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" lang="en-GB">THIS IS A DRAFT AND NOT
THE DEFINTIVE CALL FOR SPEAKERS.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" lang="en-GB">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 <a href="http://fosdem.org/2012/">http://fosdem.org/2012/</a>).</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in" lang="en-GB">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.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" lang="en-GB">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.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" lang="en-GB">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.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" lang="en-GB">This environment, being a
university classroom with raised seats, lends itself perfectly for
talks and classes.
</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" lang="en-GB">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).
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" lang="en-GB">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.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span lang="en-GB">Please send your
talk or class proposal before January 6th, 2012. We will confirm the
talk/course as soon as possible, with</span> Saturday 2012-01-21<span lang="en-GB">
being our own deadline to send our schedule to the FOSDEM organizer. <THIS NEEDS MORE WORK></span>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span lang="en-GB">Claudio Ramirez
(nxadm, <a href="mailto:padre.claudio@apt-get.be">padre.claudio@apt-get.be</a>) and the
Belgian Perl Mongers.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in" lang="en-GB">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.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" lang="en-GB">THIS IS A DRAFT AND NOT
THE DEFINITIVE CALL FOR SPEAKERS.</p>_____________________________________