[FOSDEM] Call for Participation in the "Modern Email" Developer Room at FOSDEM '25!
For the latest info: https://github.com/modern-email/FOSDEM-25
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.
The "Modern Email" developer room is new at FOSDEM and 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 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!
Upon frequent request, we'd like to organize an informal pre-FOSDEM email hackathon on Friday (31st of January). Please note here 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?).
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. Note here 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.
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, 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?
- ...
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. Otherwise, your proposal might go unnoticed!
Once the devroom schedule is finalized, we will contact you to help you prepare your talk.
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.
- 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
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, btellier@linagora.com
- Damian Poddebniak, poddebniak@mailbox.org
- Hans-Jörg Happel, happel@audriga.com
- Mechiel Lukkien, mechiel@ueber.net
We are looking forward to a great day at FOSDEM with you!