Call for PapersThe Call for Papers has now ended. On Sept 1 there will be a day of Training from KDAB. The conference runs from Sept 2 - 4. There will be talks, workshops, Birds of a Feather sessions (BoFs) and meetings, contributed to by everyone, as well as the traditional social events. KDE Akademy will then continue with BoFs from Monday 5th to Thursday 8th elsewhere in Berlin. The conference will be at the bcc, in Berlin, which has the flexibility to run a diverse program of events so participants can attend presentations and meetings with a great variety of focus and interest. If you are a Qt user, you'll get the top quality talks you'd expect from a Qt conference, as well as presentations and meetings across each of the participating communities. If you normally attend the VideoLAN annual event, you will have access to everything you usually expect from that, as well as the opportunity to learn what’s new from Qt contributors, KDE and FSFE, and so on. Attendees who are not members of any of these communities are also welcome to join this unique, one-off event and take their pick from the unusually wide range of material. What we are looking forThis brings a difference to the Call for Papers you might be familiar with. The reason is that we want presentations, workshop and BoFs that cater for one or more of the whole communities of KDE, Qt, VideoLAN, FSFE and the wider Free software community. The program aims to present a unified event. We are asking for talk proposals on topics relevant to this including:
Don't let this list restrict your ideas though. You can submit a proposal even if it doesn't fit the list of topics as long as it is relevant Proposal guidelinesProvide the following information on the proposal form:
We encourage you to rehearse your presentation well. If you don't have someone to test your talk on or would like help practising your presentation, you can ask the Program Committee Proposals must be submitted by May 15th, 23:59:59 CEST deadline extended till May 22nd, 23:59:59 CEST. QtCon will attract people from all over the world. For this reason, all talks are in English. Please don't let this requirement stop you. Your ideas and commitment are what your audience will want to know about.
Workshops and talks include time for Q&A. Lightning talks do not have Q&A. QtCon has a tight schedule, so beginning and ending times are enforced. If your presentation must be longer than the standard time, please provide reasons why this is so. For lightning talks, we will be collecting all of the presentations the day before the lightning track. All of the presentations will be set-up and ready to go at the start of the lightning track. QtCon is upbeat, but it is not frivolous. Help us see that you care about your topic, your presentation and your audience. Typos, sloppy or all-lowercase formatting and similar appearance oversights leave a bad impression and may count against your proposal. There's no need to overdo it. If it takes more than two paragraphs to get to the point of your topic, it's too much and should be slimmed down. The quicker you can make a good impression, the better. We are looking for originality. Having the same people talking about the same things doesn't accomplish that goal. Thus, we favor original and novel content. If you have presented on a topic elsewhere, please add a new twist, new research, or recent development, something unique. Of course, if your talk is plain awesome as is, go for that. Everyone submitting a proposal will be notified mid June, as to whether or not their proposal was accepted for the QtCon Program. Talks will be recorded and published on the Internet for free, along with a copy of the slide deck, live demo or anything else associated with the presentations. This benefits the larger Community and those who can't make it to QtCon. You will retain full ownership of your slides and other materials, we request that you make your materials available explicitly under the CC-BY license. If you have any questions please contact the Program Committee If you are interested, you can access our talk submission system by clicking here. |