Devroom submission
The demand for devrooms far exceeds the supply so we do not want rooms to be planned to be empty during the event. By applying for a devroom you are making a commitment to fill the schedule.
Devroom coordinators must enter a complete schedule into our conference system by 15th December. It is particularly important to be available and to respond promptly to emails about the schedule for about a week either side of this date.
- Saturday devroom schedules should contain between 7.5 and 8.5 hours of content, beginning at 10.30 and running until between 18.00 and 19.00.
- Sunday schedules should contain between 7 and 8 hours of content and start between 09.00 and 10.00 and run through until 17.00.
- No lunch breaks should be scheduled.
If you don't think you can fill a full day, please try to join up with another project and submit a joint devroom application or indicate on this submission form that you are requesting only half-a-day and would like FOSDEM to try to pair you up with another similar request for half-a-day.
Because our room capacity is limited, we will record and stream all devrooms live. The recordings will be published under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). If, exceptionally, there is a reason why any particular speaker or discussion should not be streamed or recorded, you must seek our agreement before including this in your schedule as such permission is unlikely to be granted.
You also agree to find:
- one (or more) volunteers to take responsibility for the devroom at times you are not present, such as when you go for lunch;
- one (or more) volunteers to manage the microphone handover and camera through the day. Full instructions will be supplied.
Key dates
- 20 September - deadline for developer room proposals
- 30 September - accepted developer rooms announced
- 15 October (or earlier) - developer rooms issue Calls for Participation
- 15 December (or earlier) - developer rooms publish complete schedules