FOSDEM 2022 - Declarative and Minimalistic Computing - Call for Participation

[Manolis Ragkousis]

We are excited to announce a devroom on Declarative and Minimalistic
Computing at FOSDEM on 5th and 6th of February, 2022, online!

FOSDEM is one of the most important free software conferences and is
hosted annually at Université libre de Bruxelles in Brussels,
Belgium. Unfortunately again this year FOSDEM will not run a physical
conference but will be online only. Talks will be pre-recorded with
some live content including Q&A sessions and discussion panels.

We accept talks from languages that attempt to minimize use of hardware
and software while trying to make systems simpler, more robust and more
secure. If you are working on improving today's systems taking
declarative/minimalistic approaches feel free to submit a talk
proposal. Examples include the Scheme/Lisp family of programmings 
languages. In past editions, this devroom has received presentations 
from a varied number of language communities, including Forth, Guile, 
Lua, Nim, Racket, Raku and Tcl as well as several experimental projects 
that push minimalism in new directions.

Minimalism and declarative programming are two important topics for
this devroom. Minimalism matters. Minimalism allows for smaller
systems that take less resources and consume less energy. More
importantly, free and open source minimalism allows for secure systems
that are easy to understand. Declarative programming is a programming
paradigm that expresses the logic of a computation without describing
its control flow. Many languages that apply this style attempt to
minimize or eliminate side effects by describing what the program must
accomplish in terms of the problem domain, rather than describe how to
accomplish it as a sequence of the programming language primitives.

Finally, in this year's virtual conference we will honor the late Professor
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist) John 
McCarthy] as the founder of AI and the inventor of LISP. McCarthy with
his work pioneered artificial intelligence, developed the Lisp
programming language family and kickstarted our modern computing world.

We want to invite you to submit a talk on declarative and minimalistic
computing that fits that description. We are especially happy to
receive talk submissions from members of groups underrepresented in
free software.

If you have something you’d like to share with your fellow developers,
please E-mail us! Talks considered for the devroom will have to
be entered in

  - https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22

The deadline for submission is December 20th. If you have a FOSDEM
pentabarf account from a previous year, please use that
account. Otherwise add one on
https://penta.fosdem.org/user/new_account. Reach out to
pjotr.public456@thebird.nl or manolis837@gmail.com if you run into any
trouble.

When submitting your talk make doubly sure to select "Declarative and
Minimalistic Computing devroom" as track (if you don't we won't find
it), and include the following information:

  * The title and subtitle of your talk
  * A short abstract of one paragraph
  * A longer description if you wish to do so
  * Links to related websites/blogs etc
  * Presentations has to be pre-recorded and streamed before the event.
  * Start recording early!

To see what a final talk looks like see

  https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/gnumes/

For accepted talks

  * Once your talk was accepted, we will assign you an organizer to 
help you to produce the pre-recorded content.
  * The organizer will review the content and ensure it has the 
required quality. He is also responsible for ensuring the content is 
into the system and ready to broadcast.
  * During the stream of your talk, you must be available online for 
the Q/A session

Let's make this a fun day!

= Organizers =

Pjotr Prins, Manolis Ragkousis, Ludovic Courtès, Amirouche Boubekki,
Hisham Muhammad, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Ricardo Wurmus, Alex
Sassmannshausen, William Byrd, Oliver Propst, Efraim Flashner, Julien 
Lepiller

= Code of conduct =

  - https://fosdem.org/2022/practical/conduct/

= Original proposal =

  - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2022-devroom-proposal

= Important dates: =

  - Dec 20th 2021:  submission deadline for talk proposals
  - Dec 31th 2021:  announcement of the final schedule
  - Jan 14th 2021:  submission deadline for recordings
  - Feb  5th 2022:  FOSDEM!

= Links: =

   - 
https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FOSDEM2022-devroom-declarative-and-minimalistic-computing-cfp