The XWiki development team is very happy to announce the call for participation of the devroom "Collaborative information and content management application devroom", held during the 2020 edition of FOSDEM, on the morning of Saturday February 1st.

Please see below for the full call for participation.

Call for Participation

This is the call for participation in the FOSDEM 2020 devroom on Collaborative information and content management applications, to be held on Saturday 1st February 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. We are looking for contributions under the form of conferences, talks or discussions covering the following main topics:

• New projects presentation
• Self-hosted platforms
• Secure collaboration
• Collaborative applications
• Connectors & Integrations
• Knowledge management techniques
• Protocols for collaboration
• …

If you have any idea of a talk fitting into the subject of the devroom, please don't hesitate to let us know about it!
We hope to provide an opportunity for everyone to meet and exchange about collaborative issues encountered while using Open Source solutions; present the some tools used for content management and discuss about global solutions for incentivizing collaboration.

Submission process

Please submit your proposals at https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM20 before December 9th 2019.

If you already have a Pentabarf account (for example as a result of having submitted a proposal in the past), make sure you use it to log in and submit your proposal. Do not create a new account if you already have one. Please provide a bit of information about yourself under Person -> Description -> Abstract. When you submit your proposal (creating an "Event" in Pentabarf), make sure you choose the "Collaborative information and content management applications devroom" in the track drop-down menu. Otherwise your proposal might go unnoticed. Fill in at least a title and abstract for the proposed talk and a suggested duration. Bear in mind that a lot of the value in these meetings comes from the discussions, so please be reasonable regarding the duration of the talk.

Important dates

December 9th 2019: deadline for submission of proposals
December 15th 2019 or before: announcement of final schedule
February 1st 2020, in the morning: devroom day

Recordings

The FOSDEM organizers hope to be able to live-stream and record all the talks. The recordings will be published under the same license as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). Only presentations will be recorded, not informal discussions and whatever happens during breaks between presentations. By agreeing to present at FOSDEM, you automatically give permission to be recorded. The organizers will agree to make exceptions but only for exceptional and well-reasoned cases.

Other information

This developer room is backed up by the following projects : 

• Cryptpad
• Nextcloud
• Tiki
• XWiki

To get a bit more information about the devroom itself, including the initial proposal of the devroom itself, please see this page.

If you have any question about this devroom, please don't hesitate to get in touch by sending us an email to collab-devroom-manager@fosdem.org.

Thanks,
The XWiki development team