# FOSDEM '14 - Call for Participation **URL:** \ **Category:** GNU Radio\ **Created:** [October 14, 2013, 4:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fosdem-14-call-for-participation/246444 "2013-10-14T16:37:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rafa\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/958977/32.png) [@Rafa\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Rafa_F)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 4:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fosdem-14-call-for-participation/246444/1 "2013-10-14T16:37:43Z")
Dear friends and colleagues, next year’s FOSDEM (the free and open source developer’s meeting in Brussels, Europe) will feature a new track on Software Defined Radio. Therefore, we invite developers and users from the free software radio community and to join us for this track and present your talks or demos. Software Radio has become an important tool to allow anyone access the EM spectrum. Using free software radio libraries and applications and cheap hardware, anyone can now start hacking on wireless communications, remote sensing, radar or other applications. At FOSDEM, we hope to network all these projects and improve collaboration, bring new ideas forward and get more people involved. The track’s web site resides at: [http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/FOSDEM14](http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/FOSDEM14) Here, we will publish updates and the final schedule. \*\* Submit your presentations To suggest a talk, go to [- Pentabarf 0.4.5](https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM14) and follow the instructions. You need to create an ‘Event’; make sure it’s in the Software Defined Radio track! Lengths aren’t fixed, but give a realistic estimate and please don’t exceed 30 minutes unless you have something special planned (in that case, contact one of us). Also, don’t forget to include time for Q&A. Typical slot lengths would be 30 Minutes including QA. You aren’t limited to slide presentations, of course. Be creative. However, FOSDEM is an open source conference, therefore we ask you to stay clear of marketing presentations. Of course, we like nitty-gritty technical stuff. We will reserve time to simply hack, it won’t all be talks. \*\* Important Dates FOSDEM is February 1st & 2nd 2014. - December 1st 2013: Submission Deadline - December 20th 2013: Speaker Notification - January 10th 2014: Announcement of final schedule - February 2nd 2014: SDR Track \*\* Steering Committee The track committee consists of: - Philipp Balister (OpenEmbedded / OpenSDR) - Martin B. (GNU Radio) - Sylvain M. (OsmoCom) Hope to hear of you soon! Martin – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Communications Engineering Lab (CEL) Dipl.-Ing. Martin B. Research Associate Kaiserstraße 12 Building 05.01 76131 Karlsruhe Phone: +49 721 608-43790 Fax: +49 721 608-46071 www.cel.kit.edu KIT – University of the State of Baden-Württemberg and National Laboratory of the Helmholtz Association ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_BSSCEL](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Martin\_BSSCEL](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Martin_BSSCEL)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fosdem-14-call-for-participation/246444/2 "2013-10-20T17:38:36Z")
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 04:36:33PM +0200, Martin B. (CEL) wrote: > Dear friends and colleagues, > > next year’s FOSDEM (the free and open source developer’s meeting in Brussels, > Europe) will feature a new track on Software Defined Radio. > Therefore, we invite developers and users from the free software radio community > and to join us for this track and present your talks or demos. To anyone attending FOSDEM: We need volunteers to handle our A/V setup, so that we can record videos of the talks. FOSDEM guys will provide all the hardware and do a short tutorial on how to use it. So if you’re interested in the SDR talks anyway, you’d be doing us a huge favour if you help us with this. If you’re interested, contact me off-list. More people is better than fewer. Cheers, Martin – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Communications Engineering Lab (CEL) Dipl.-Ing. Martin B. Research Associate Kaiserstraße 12 Building 05.01 76131 Karlsruhe Phone: +49 721 608-43790 Fax: +49 721 608-46071 www.cel.kit.edu KIT – University of the State of Baden-Württemberg and National Laboratory of the Helmholtz Association ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_BSSCEL](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Martin\_BSSCEL](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Martin_BSSCEL)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fosdem-14-call-for-participation/246444/3 "2013-11-13T15:08:07Z")
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 06:32:28PM +0100, Martin B. (CEL) wrote: > Hi guys, > > once again, I’d like to invite everyone to submit presentations! > We are very open to anything you have, and the slots don’t have fixed > lengths, so be it short or long, tutorial or presentation, come and > participate! Since I’ve been getting lots of questions regarding this, here’s the FAQ: - What do I have to submit? For the CfP deadline (1.12.) we only need a short abstract, a title and an approx. duration (usually 30 mins). Basically, we need to know who’s definitely coming and what they’re talking about, so we can make a nice schedule, perhaps group the presentations by subject etc. This takes about 5 Minutes, as we don’t need any slides etc. right now. (But you have to sign up to Pentabarf). - What kind of presentation are you expecting? We’re very open here. Most of the presentations will probably be along the lines of “here’s cool project X I’ve been working on”, which is great. We want to see lots of different cool projects X, Y and Z! However, if you want do do a tutorial, a group experiment etc., why not? Or a contest? Perhaps contact us outside of Pentabarf if it’s too funky. - Relevant dates? CfP deadline is December 1st, Notification December 20th and the actual track is February 2nd. MB – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Communications Engineering Lab (CEL) Dipl.-Ing. Martin B. Research Associate Kaiserstraße 12 Building 05.01 76131 Karlsruhe Phone: +49 721 608-43790 Fax: +49 721 608-46071 www.cel.kit.edu KIT – University of the State of Baden-Württemberg and National Laboratory of the Helmholtz Association ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_BSSCEL](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Martin\_BSSCEL](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Martin_BSSCEL)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fosdem-14-call-for-participation/246444/4 "2013-11-11T18:33:31Z")
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 04:36:33PM +0200, Martin B. (CEL) wrote: > Dear friends and colleagues, > > next year’s FOSDEM (the free and open source developer’s meeting in Brussels, > Europe) will feature a new track on Software Defined Radio. > Therefore, we invite developers and users from the free software radio community > and to join us for this track and present your talks or demos. > > […] > The track’s web site resides at: > [http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/FOSDEM14](http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/FOSDEM14) Hi guys, once again, I’d like to invite everyone to submit presentations! We are very open to anything you have, and the slots don’t have fixed lengths, so be it short or long, tutorial or presentation, come and participate! Quick reminder: FOSDEM is a “free software” happening in Brussels, Belgium. It’s February 1st and 2nd, and it’s free (although you’ll have to pay your own beers). So have you… - Made something cool with SDRs? - Hacked wireless telecommunications? - Used SDR sensors for something new and awesome? - Some random project? We are looking to get a diversity of talks, ranging from signal processing, SDR hardware, projects, out-of-tree modules… Also, to make sure this is not misunderstood: This is _not_ solely a GNU Radio event. We are looking to mix people from different projects, and bring FLOSS devs together from all over the world. MB – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Communications Engineering Lab (CEL) Dipl.-Ing. Martin B. Research Associate Kaiserstraße 12 Building 05.01 76131 Karlsruhe Phone: +49 721 608-43790 Fax: +49 721 608-46071 www.cel.kit.edu KIT – University of the State of Baden-Württemberg and National Laboratory of the Helmholtz Association