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            white-space: pre-wrap;">Call for Participation</span></h2>
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            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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            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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            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="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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                style="font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent;
                white-space: pre-wrap;">other resource virtualisation
                technologies: networking, storage, …</span></p>
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                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="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="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="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="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="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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        <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
          0, 0); background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span>
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            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>
        <br>
        <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
          0, 0); background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span>
        <p dir="ltr"
          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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            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;">If necessary, create a Pentabarf
                account and activate it</span></p>
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                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>
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            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>
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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>
          <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;">
            <p dir="ltr"
              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;">
            <p dir="ltr"
              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;">
          <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;">
            <p dir="ltr"
              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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          style="line-height:1.1;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:15pt;"><span
            style="font-size: 23px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
            102, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;
            white-space: pre-wrap;">Contact</span></h2>
        <p dir="ltr"
          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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