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 2019 edition of FOSDEM, on the afternoon of Saturday 2nd February.

Please see below for the full call for participation.

Call for Participation

This is the call for participation in the FOSDEM 2019 devroom on Collaborative information and content management applications, to be held on Saturday 2nd February 2019 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/FOSDEM19 before December 10th 2018.

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 10th 2018: deadline for submission of proposals
December 16th 2018 or before: announcement of final schedule
February 2nd 2019, in the afternoon: 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
• OW2
• 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

Between the 12th and the 20th of October, Ludovic Dubost, Anca Luca and Clément Aubin will be in San Francisco. They're looking forward to meeting contributors and friends from the area, so let them know if you want to grab a coffee and exchange ideas.

What's more is that you can join themat the hackathon hosted by Noisebridge, on Saturday, 20 October. The event will start with a presentation about CryptPad, the end-to-end encrypted realtime collaboration tool, followed by the hackathon on CryptPad and XWiki, the open source software, where you can bring your contribution to the code.

The host will be Steve Phillips, creator of CrypTag & Cypherpunks Write Code and lead developer of LeapChat. Noisebridge is a hackerspace for technical-creative projects, doocratically run by its members. They are a non-profit educational institution intended for public benefit. Located in the heart of San Francisco, their motto is: We teach, we learn, we share. 

For more details about the event read a blog article posted on the XWiki SAS blog.