Call for talks at our FOSDEM 2010 devroom (deadline 2010-01-03)

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Hi List,

FOSDEM is up in just 63 days and we have time until Sunday 2010-01-10  
to finally submit the talks in our devroom to the FOSDEM organizers.  
So I'd say we preferably finish our schedule until 2010-01-03 so that  
the presenters have some time to turn in their abstracts, picture and  
(optionally) bio for the presentation at the FOSDEM website. Until  
the 3rd of January only 29 days are left.


I have set up a list of proposed talks the talks schedule at our  
wiki: http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/FOSDEM_2010#Dev- 
Room_Presentations_and_Events . I think we first should collect all  
talk offers and then start scheduling.


So please send your proposals to the list or - even better - enter  
them on the wiki page above. At first a title, a short summary,  
proposed duration and a preffered time slot would do, so we can start  
scheduling as soon as possible. The FOSDEM organizers strongly  
recommend a granularity of 15 minute blocks. So if a talk is just 15  
(lightning talk), 30 or 45 minutes long - fine!

As an advice: experience tells that 15 minutes are really short  
(hence the moniker "lightning talk"). Usually such a lightning talk  
is only sufficient when you want to put a single new feature into the  
spotlight - let me give an example here: "There's now a GNOME theme  
available for GNUstep" (hint for a talk!) or something along those  
lines. 30 to 45 minutes are a good time for a full featured talk and  
don't underestimate the time needed for a discussion afterwards.


Later I would need the following from the presenters for forwarding  
it to the FOSDEM organizers (they put it on the FOSDEM web site):

* activity title (please try to be descriptive, there are ~250 talks at
  FOSDEM during the week-end ;)),
* a short abstract (1-2 paragraphs),
* a longer description if appropriate,
* optionally a list of links to the project website or similar
* for each speaker:
  * the speaker's real name,
  * a short overview of her bio in a couple of lines,
  * optionally also a longer bio,
  * optionally a picture (please send it to us as 128x128 PNG),
  * optionally links to her website, blog, ...

For examples, see:
* http://archive.fosdem.org/2009/schedule/devrooms/freejava
* http://archive.fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events/java_state_icedtea
* http://archive.fosdem.org/2009/schedule/speakers/mark+reinhold


regards,

        Lars