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white-space: pre-wrap;">Call for Participation</span></h2>
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style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">The
scope for this devroom is open source, openly-developed
projects in the areas of virtualisation and IaaS type
clouds, ranging from low level to data center, up to cloud
management platforms and cloud resource orchestration.</span></p>
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0, 0); background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span>
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style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sessions
should always target a developer audience. Bonus points for
collaborative sessions that would be appealing to developers
from multiple projects.</span></p>
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0, 0); background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span>
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style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">We
are particularly interested in the following themes:</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent;
white-space: pre-wrap;">low level virtualisation aspects</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent;
white-space: pre-wrap;">new features in classic and
container-based virtualisation technologies</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent;
white-space: pre-wrap;">new use cases for
virtualisation, such as virtualisation in mobile,
automotive and embedded in general</span></p>
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font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:
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style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent;
white-space: pre-wrap;">other resource virtualisation
technologies: networking, storage, …</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent;
white-space: pre-wrap;">deep technical dives into
specific IaaS or virtualisation management projects
features</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent;
white-space: pre-wrap;">relationship between IaaS
projects and specific dependencies (not just
virtualisation)</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent;
white-space: pre-wrap;">integration and development
leveraging solutions from multiple projects</span></p>
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white-space: pre-wrap;">Important dates</span></h2>
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style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent;
font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">Submission
deadline:</span><span style="font-size: 15px;
background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">
Sunday, December 1st, 2013</span></p>
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style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent;
font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">Acceptance
notifications:</span><span style="font-size: 15px;
background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">
Sunday, December 15th, 2013</span></p>
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style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent;
font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">Final
schedule announcement:</span><span style="font-size:
15px; background-color: transparent; white-space:
pre-wrap;"> Friday January 10th, 2014</span></p>
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style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent;
font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">Devroom @
FOSDEM'14:</span><span style="font-size: 15px;
background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">
February 1st & 2nd, 2014</span></p>
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white-space: pre-wrap;">Practical</span></h2>
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style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Submissions
should be </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family:
Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;
font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; white-space:
pre-wrap;">40 minutes</span><span style="font-size: 15px;
font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:
transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and consist of a 30
minute presentation with 10 minutes of Q&A or 40 minutes
of discussions (e.g., requests for feedback, open
discussions, etc.). </span><span style="font-size: 15px;
font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:
transparent; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">Interactivity</span><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">
is encouraged, but optional. Talks are in English only.</span></p>
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0, 0); background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span>
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style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">We
</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial;
color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;
font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">do not</span><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">
provide travel assistance or reimbursement of travel
expenses for accepted speakers.</span></p>
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0, 0); background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span>
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style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Submissions
should be made via the FOSDEM submission page at </span><a
href="https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM14"><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); background-color: transparent; white-space:
pre-wrap;">https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM14</span></a><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">
:</span></p>
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style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent;
white-space: pre-wrap;">If necessary, create a Pentabarf
account and activate it</span></p>
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font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:
transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">
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style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent;
white-space: pre-wrap;">In the “Person” section, provide
First name, Last name (in the “General” tab), Email (in
the “Contact” tab) and Bio (“Abstract” field in the
“Description” tab)</span></p>
</li>
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font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:
transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">
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style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent;
white-space: pre-wrap;">Submit a proposal by clicking on
“</span><span style="font-size: 15px; background-color:
transparent; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create
event</span><span style="font-size: 15px;
background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">"</span></p>
</li>
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font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:
transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">
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style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent;
font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; white-space:
pre-wrap;">Important! </span><span style="font-size:
15px; background-color: transparent; white-space:
pre-wrap;">Select the "</span><span style="font-size:
15px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;
white-space: pre-wrap;">Virtualisation and IaaS</span><span
style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent;
white-space: pre-wrap;">" track (on the “General” tab)</span></p>
</li>
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font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:
transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">
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style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent;
white-space: pre-wrap;">Provide the title of your talk
(“Event title” in the “General” tab)</span></p>
</li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px;
font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:
transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">
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style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent;
white-space: pre-wrap;">Provide a 250-word description
of the subject of the talk and the intended audience (in
the “Abstract” field of the “Description” tab) </span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
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font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:
transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">
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style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent;
white-space: pre-wrap;">Provide a rough outline of the
talk or goals of the session (a short list of bullet
points covering topics that will be discussed) in the
“Full description” field in the “Description” tab</span></p>
</li>
</ul>
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102, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;
white-space: pre-wrap;">Contact</span></h2>
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style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">For
questions w.r.t. the </span><span style="font-size: 15px;
font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:
transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;
white-space: pre-wrap;">Virtualisation and IaaS</span><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">
DevRoom at FOSDEM'14, please contact the organizers via </span><a
href="mailto:fosdem14-virt-and-iaas-devroom@googlegroups.com"><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial;
background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline;
white-space: pre-wrap;">fosdem14-virt-and-iaas-devroom@googlegroups.com</span></a><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">
(or via </span><a
href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/fosdem14-virt-and-iaas-devroom"><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial;
background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline;
white-space: pre-wrap;">https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/fosdem14-virt-and-iaas-devroom</span></a><span
style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">).</span></p>
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