Hi folks, I am reaching out my friends working on open source across the spectrum of Open Source SDN/NFV related projects. I am chair of the Software Defined Networking room at FOSDEM 2019. FOSDEM is the authentic, free and Open Source conference for Europe, and typically attracts a huge audience of Engineers from throughout Europe. It takes place each year in February in Brussels. If you know engineers working on Networking open source (FRRouting or anything else networking related) in Europe, this is a great opportunity for them to promote their work. The CFP is open until November 25th, would love to see an abstract from you. Thanks, Ray Kinsella FD.io TSC Member -------------------------------------------------------------------- We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation for the FOSDEM 2019 Software Defined Networking devroom! We are now inviting proposals for talks about Open Source Software on the topic of Software Defined Networking. This is an exciting and growing field, and FOSDEM gives an opportunity to reach a unique audience of very knowledgeable and highly technical, free and open source software activists. **Topics:** This year the DevRoom topics will include the following Software Defined Networking fields. - Infrastructure: virtual switches & routers, routing daemons, firewall, security, etc. - Virtual Network Functions: open source network functions, user-space networking stacks, kernel-space networking innovations. - Tooling: Networking SDK's, libraries, frameworks, debuggers, counters & statistics, domain specific languages & extensions, etc. - Validation: Testing tools & frameworks, traffic generators etc - Orchestration: NFV management, ML2 plugins, CNI plugins, SDN Controllers, etc. This year, the DevRoom will focus on low-level networking and high performance packet processing, network automation of containers, virtual machines and private cloud, and the management of networking applications to maintain very high availability and performance independent of whatever the world can throw at their infrastructure (datacenter outages, fires, broken servers, you name it). The deadline for submissions is November 25th, 2018. FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of February 2-3, 2019 and the Software Defined Networking DevRoom will take place on Saturday, February 2, 2019. See http://mdr78.github.io/fosdem/2018/10/15/fosdem-2019-cfp.html for more information, including how to submit a proposal. As you know FOSDEM has zero marketing budget, we would be grateful if you could help spread the word, by forwarding this email to interested people and mailing lists. - The FOSDEM 2019 Software Defined Networking Devroom Team