freebsd announce - Feb 2014 - EuroBSDCon 2014 - Call for Papers

EuroBSDcon 2014: September 25-28 in Sofia, Bulgaria

EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for users and
developers of BSD-based systems. The conference will take place
September 25 to 28 at InterExpo Congress Center in Sofia (see
http://iec.bg/en/).  Tutorials will be held on thursday and friday,
while the shorter talks and papers program is on saturday and sunday.


Call for Talk and Presentation Proposals (CFP)

The EuroBSDcon program committee is inviting BSD developers and users
to submit innovative and original talk proposals not previously
presented at other European conferences. Topics of interest to the
conference include, but are not limited to applications, architecture,
implementation, performance and security of BSD-based operating
systems, as well as topics concerning the economic or organizational
aspects of BSD use. Presentations are expected to be 45 minutes and
are to be delivered in English.


Call for Tutorial Proposals

The EuroBSDcon program committee is also inviting qualified
practitioners in their field to submit proposals for half or full day
tutorials on topics relevant to development, implementation and use of
BSD-based systems.

Half-day tutorials are expected to be 2.5 to 3 hours and full-day
tutorials 5 to 6 hours. Tutorials are to be held in English.

Submissions

Proposals should be sent by email to submission at eurobsdcon.org.

They should contain a short and concise text description in about 100
words. The submission should also include a short CV of the speaker
and an estimate of the expected travel expenses. Please submit each
proposal as a separate email.

Important dates

The EuroBSDcon program committee is accepting talk and tutorial
proposals until May 19th, 2014. Speakers will be informed of
acceptance status by June 10th, 2014. Other important dates will be
announced soon at the conference website http://2014.EuroBSDcon.org/ .

Program Committee

This year's program committee is

Peter Hansteen (Chair, representing OpenBSD, peter at bsdly dot net)
Janne Johansson (representing OpenBSD, jj at OpenBSD dot org)
Vasil Dimov (representing FreeBSD, vd at FreeBSD dot org)
Ollivier Robert (representing FreeBSD, roberto at FreeBSD dot net)
Martin Husemann (representing NetBSD, martin at NetBSD dot org)
Marc Balmer (representing NetBSD, mbalmer at NetBSD dot org)
Shteryana Shopova (OC liaison, syrinx at FreeBSD dot org)

I am looking forward to your submissions and hope to see you in Sofia,
Shteryana Shopova
On the behalf of EuroBSDcon 2014 Program Committee