MeeGo Conference Spring 2011/CfP Drafting

Revision as of 18:25, 7 February 2011

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Following up on the success of the Dublin conference, the global developer
community around MeeGo is set to reunite in San Francisco for the MeeGo
Conference Spring 2011.

From application developers to platform designers, from hardware vendors
to open source enthusiasts - anyone engaged in MeeGo is invited to
contribute and participate at the San Francisco Regency Hyatt, California, USA from
May 23 through May 25th, 2010.

While much will be the same as in Dublin, there are a few changes. The San Francisco 
conference will be somewhat more focused on the industry and not just on the developers.
And instead of an un-conference day we will have three days of scheduled sessions but 
will keep 15-20% of the slots open until right before the conference and even during 
the conference to allow scheduling of "Late Breaking News" sessions, impromptu developer 
meetings, etc. 


We are inviting proposals for presentations in a wide variety of areas:

Device/Product development
- New devices and war stories of product development
  (experiences, process, challenges, differentiation)
- Improvements and developments in MeeGo hardware adaptation
  (performance, power, Linux kernel developments, porting process, etc.)
- Information around supported hardware platforms
  (tutorials/introductions, improvements/developments, challenges)

Platform development
- Current and possible future components within the MeeGo architecture
 (status, overview and roadmap)
- Platform tools and process
 (tutorials/introductions, improvements/developments, tips and tricks, etc.)
- Quality Assurance
 (methods, tools, tutorials, experiences)

App development
- MeeGo API and SDK
  (tutorials, news, roadmaps, tips and tricks for making great
   applications, development tools and helpers)
- Internationalization and localization
- Design guidelines and User Experience
  (different MeeGo verticals, form factors, crossing the boundaries between them,
   differentiation)
- Apps existing and upcoming
  (development stories, sharing experience, etc.)

MeeGo project, process and progress
- Activity reports and roadmaps from various project areas
- Project challenges and discussions on project and process
- Marketing, outreach; engaging companies, governments and others
- Community building and fostering
- Documentation, artwork, infrastructure

We also welcome submissions on any other MeeGo related topics. Be
creative, the program committee will look at each and every submission in order to
create a vibrant and interesting conference. This includes community and
open source related proposals as well as commercial or proprietary
developments around MeeGo.


Submissions should include:
- Author(s) (including their work affiliation)
- Short BIO (100-150 words, written in 3rd person)
- Short Abstract (120-150 words, crisply defines the topic)
- Abstract (300-500 words, explains the scope of the presentation)
- Preferred session duration (default is 30 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A, but we'll entertain
  other requests where possible)

Please also mention if this will include any form of product
presentation. In general we are not soliciting sales pitches,
but it is ok for technical presentations to refer to (or announce)
MeeGo related products.

If you will need travel support, also note this in your submission.

In order to submit a proposal, please register at the conference website LINK and create a proposal using this LINK. 
Submissions will be due by March 4, 2011. Around that time we'll open a
second process for lightning talk submissions.

We expect to have a large subset of the presentations approved and
scheduled by March 18 and are planning to have the final program
ready before April 1.

The Program Committee

Dirk Hohndel
Thiago Macieira
Carsten Munk