Who can represent Cypht at FOSDEM 2025? (and ideally propose a presentation)

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We are looking for some community members to step up!

SUBJECT:
Call for Participation: "Modern Email" devroom

DATE:
30 Oct 2024 23:55:40 +0100

FROM:
Mechiel Lukkien

TO:
fosdem mailing list

Email is the workhorse of digital communication. It's one of the oldest
decentralized messaging platforms, and we must keep implementations up
to date
with new standards/techniques/programming languages.

Call for Participation

The "Modern Email" developer room seeks speakers, volunteers, and
participants!
We want to get together as email developers/users, learn about each
other's
projects, have technical discussions, exchange
implementation/operational
experiences, and share plans and visions for the future of email.

The Devroom will be held on Saturday, February 1 2025, a full day, with
primarily talks
on the schedule. The submission deadline for talks is December 1st,
2024.

• Speaker: As a speaker, you're invited to present your work in the
  developer room.
• Volunteer: As a volunteer, you would be helping us out during the
  sessions.
• Participant: As a participant, whether introverted or extroverted,
  you
  are excellent to everyone and make the day!

Please distribute this CfP as widely as possible to interested parties!

Topics

Some suggestions for talks:

• Overview of the current state of email (as a keynote)
• Your free/open source software project(s) related to email. From demo
  to details.
• Current developments, upcoming standards, e.g. JMAP
  (https://jmap.io/),
  structured email (https://structured.email/), ...
• Efforts to modernize our email ecosystem, e.g., through
  implementations in
  modern languages.
• Integrating email with other software, e.g., through APIs.
• Message/transport security/authenticity.
• Experiences with deliverability, email operations, anti-spam,
  hosting, ...
• Related technologies such as calendaring/PIM.
• Visionary talks
• Where should email be in 10 years?
• Can we add end-to-end encryption (to the masses) through, e.g., MLS?
• Can we provide simple solutions for on-prem (private) hosting?
• ...

Submission

We ask for a short talk abstract (+ proposed duration) and a speaker
biography
(+ contact info). Any material that shows your affinity to the field is
also
appreciated, e.g., a collection of links to your work, talks, projects,
blog
posts, etc.

Submissions must be made through Pretalx
(https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp) no later than December 1st
(23:55
CET).

The suggested duration for a talk is 25 minutes (20 minutes
presentation + 5
minutes Q&A). However, we explicitly invite you to propose the best
duration
for your talk. If the best way to present your project is a 5-minute
lightning
talk, we'll happily arrange a lightning session!

Depending on the proposals, we may contact you to adapt the time of the
session
to fit the devroom schedule.

Important: Choose "Modern Email" in the track drop-down menu when
submitting
your proposal.

Once the devroom schedule is finalized, we will contact you to help you
prepare
your talk.

Side events

Pre-FOSDEM Hackathon (Friday)

Upon frequent request, we'd like to organize an informal pre-FOSDEM
email
hackathon on Friday (31st of January). Please add your name and ideas
to
https://hackmd.io/@ndFSGqY1SC6Cc0DEpHHU1w/r1dkwOAeyx if you're
interested and
if you have ideas/proposals. It would also be great if someone could
provide/recommend a meeting space for the event (we'd expect some 10-20
people
probably?).

Friends-of-Email Dinner (Saturday)

Following last year's good practice, we'd like to reserve a table for
an
informal "friends of email" dinner/drinks session either on FRI or SAT
evening.
Add your name to https://hackmd.io/@ndFSGqY1SC6Cc0DEpHHU1w/HyMUuORxye)
or email
us if you'd like to join, so we can guess the group size (we were some
20+
people last time! Venue proposals welcome as well.

Recordings

Talks and Q&A sessions at FOSDEM will be recorded. The recordings will
be
published under the same license as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). By
agreeing to
present at FOSDEM, you automatically give permission to be recorded.
The
organizers will agree to make exceptions only for exceptional and
well-reasoned
cases.

Important dates

• October 30th, 2024: Modern Email DevRoom open for submissions
• December 1st, 2024: Modern Email DevRoom submission deadline
• December 15th, 2024: Announcement of final schedule
• January 31st, 2025: Modern Email Hackathon (TBD)
• February 1st, 2025: FOSDEM Day 1 - "Modern Email" DevRoom day! and
  Dinner in the evening

Contact

For the latest details, see: https://github.com/modern-email/FOSDEM-25

Join the matrix room (also for coordination during FOSDEM):
https://matrix.to/#/#modern-email-fosdem-25:matrix.org

Contact the organizers:

• Benoit Tellier @chibenwa
• Damian Poddebniak @duesee
• Hans-Jörg Happel @audriga
• Mechiel Lukkien @mjl-

We are looking forward to a great day at FOSDEM with you!