For the latest info: https://github.com/modern-email/FOSDEM-24
Email is the workhorse of digital communication. It's one of the oldest decentralized messaging platforms, and we must keep implementations up to date with new standards/techniques/programming languages.
The "Modern Email" developer room is new at FOSDEM and seeks speakers, volunteers, and participants! We want to get together as email developers/users, learn about each other's projects, have technical discussions, exchange implementation/operational experiences, and share plans and visions for the future of email.
The Devroom will be held on Sunday, February 4 in the afternoon, with
primarily talks on the schedule. The submission deadline for talks is
December 1st, 2023 December 4th, 2023 (23:59 CET) (updated). We will also informally meet with email developers on
Saturday (that could be you; join us!)
- Speaker: As a speaker, you're invited to present your work in the developer room.
- Volunteer: As a volunteer, you would be helping us out during the sessions.
- Participant: As a participant, whether introverted or extroverted, you are excellent to everyone and make the day!
Please distribute this CfP as widely as possible to interested parties!
Some suggestions for talks:
- Overview of the current state of email (as a keynote)
- Your free/open source software project(s) related to email. From demo to details.
- Current developments, upcoming standards, e.g. JMAP, structured data, ...
- Efforts to modernize our email ecosystem, e.g., through implementations in modern languages.
- Integrating email with other software, e.g., through APIs.
- Message/transport security/authenticity.
- Experiences with deliverability, email operations, anti-spam, hosting, ...
- Related technologies such as calendaring/PIM.
- Visionary talks
- Where should email be in 10 years?
- Can we add end-to-end encryption (to the masses) through, e.g., MLS?
- Can we provide simple solutions for on-prem (private) hosting?
- ...
We ask for a short talk abstract (+ proposed duration) and a speaker biography (+ contact info). Any material that shows your affinity to the field is also appreciated, e.g., a collection of links to your work, talks, projects, blog posts, etc.
Submissions must be made through Pretalx (https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2024/cfp) no later than December 1st.
The suggested duration for a talk is 25 minutes (20 minutes presentation + 5 minutes Q&A). However, we explicitly invite you to propose the best duration for your talk. If the best way to present your project is a 5-minute lightning talk, we'll happily arrange a lightning session!
Depending on the proposals, we may contact you to adapt the time of the session to fit the devroom schedule.
Important: Choose "Modern Email" in the track drop-down menu when submitting your proposal. Otherwise, your proposal might go unnoticed!
Once the devroom schedule is finalized, we will contact you to help you prepare your talk.
Talks and Q&A sessions at FOSDEM will be recorded. The recordings will be published under the same license as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). By agreeing to present at FOSDEM, you automatically give permission to be recorded. The organizers will agree to make exceptions only for exceptional and well-reasoned cases.
December 1st, 2023December 4th, 2023 ((23:59 CET)) (updated): Deadline for submission of proposals- December 15th, 2023: Announcement of final schedule
- February 3rd, 2024: FOSDEM Day 1
- February 4th, 2024: FOSDEM Day 2 - "Modern Email" DevRoom day!
For the latest details, see: https://github.com/modern-email/FOSDEM-24
Join the matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/#modern-email-fosdem-24-cfp:matrix.org
Contact the organizers:
- Benoit Tellier, btellier@linagora.com
- Damian Poddebniak, poddebniak@mailbox.org
- Hans-Jörg Happel, happel@audriga.com
- Mechiel Lukkien, mechiel@ueber.net
We are looking forward to a great day at FOSDEM with you!