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+# Call for Participation
+
+This email is a Call For Participation in the
+**Libre-SOC, FPGA and VLSI Devroom** at FOSDEM 2024.
+
+Devroom date: 3rd February in Brussels, Belgium
+CFP deadline: Friday, 1st December 2023 00:00 (CET, UTC+1).
+
+Final speaker confirmation on Friday, December ?? 2023.
+
+## CFP Introduction
+
+This devroom covers topics mostly related to hardware design
+(FPGA and VLSI/ASIC).
+
+Libre-SOC is a major project in the open-hardware/free-software
+space, and will be sharing progress made so far in areas of efficient
+SVP64 assembler, formal verification, and general PowerISA
+development (proposed advanced biginteger instructions, etc.)
+
+Libre/Open VLSI, very excitingly, has begun to take off, recently.
+NLnet sponsors several VLSI-related projects (Cell Libraries, HDL, VLSI
+tools), Google sponsors Skywater 130nm MPWs.
+
+Please distribute widely to interested parties: anything related to
+VLSI and Open Tape-outs is welcome.
+
+We are looking for any open source topic relating to hardware design,
+including but not limited to:
+- Chip Design
+- Hardware Design
+- ISA usage
+- Open Source Software
+
+This year we welcome talks that are either:
+* 10 min (short introduction of project/topic)
+* 25 min (normal slot)
+* 50 min (extraordinary slot for a topic that needs a deeper explanation)
+
+### What is FOSDEM?
+
+_**FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas
+and collaborate.**
+Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software
+from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels.
+...
+FOSDEM 2024 will take place on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 February 2024.
+It will be an in-person event at the **ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels,
+Belgium, Europe.**
+If you aren't there, you may watch the live streams from the main
+tracks and developer rooms.
+
+### Important stuff:
+
+- FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration.
+- [FOSDEM website](https://fosdem.org/)
+- [FOSDEM code of conduct](https://fosdem.org/2024/practical/conduct/)
+- [FOSDEM Schedule](https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/)
+
+### Desirable topics:
+
+This devroom welcomes anything related to making an ASIC,
+or designing one, or using FPGAs, or developing
+an FPGA Board, or developing tools and techniques that make VLSI ASIC
+design easier, we'd love to hear from you. Here's a list of topics:
+
+- Open Hardware projects
+- VLSI ASIC Design and Manufacture
+ * Libre/Open DIY Foundries (nanoscale 3D printing)
+ * Libre/Open VLSI tools and toolflow
+ * Libre/Open VLSI Cell Libraries
+ * VLSI Simulation and Verification
+- VLSI Tools in use or in development
+ * Silicon-proven (QFlow, coriolis2, OpenLANE)
+ * Under development (LibreEDA, other)
+ * Advances in Algorithmics in Place and Route and Layout
+- FPGAs
+ * Libre/Open FPGA designs
+ * FPGA toolchains and Reverse-Engineering
+ * FPGA workflow
+- VLSI RTL and HDL
+ * Advanced and innovative alternative HDL tools
+ * Formal Correctness Proofs
+ * Testing methodologies
+ * Hardware Trust (and how to break it)
+- Software Engineering as applied to Hardware
+ * Continuous Integration for VLSI
+ * Automated tool development (RTL to GDS-II)
+ * Automated testing
+
+### Topic overlap
+
+There is quite a lot of overlap this year with:
+
+* [??](),
+* [??](),
+* [??](),
+
+It is entirely up to you as a speaker which devroom you choose: the
+main reason for this devroom is to show the recent developments
+within Libre-SOC, however we are happy for others with relevant
+projects/developments to join in.
+
+### How to submit your proposal
+
+To submit a talk, please visit the [FOSDEM 2024 Pretalx
+website](https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2024/cfp).
+
+Click **Submit a proposal**. Make sure you choose the right devroom
+in the track drop-down menu (so that we see it rather than another
+devroom's organisers)
+
+### What should be in your submission
+
+- name
+- short bio
+- contact info
+- title (funny titles are ~~required~~/appreciated)
+- abstract (what you're going talk about, supports markdown)
+- duration
+
+Optional:
+
+- description (more detail description, supports markdown)
+- submission notes (for the organiser only, not made public)
+- session image (if you have an illustration to go with the talk)
+- additional speaker/s (if more than one person presenting)
+
+*TODO: FINISH the proposal submission form to complete this guide.*
+
+### Things to be aware of
+
+* The reference time will be Brussels local lime (CET)
+ <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/belgium/brussels>
+* There will be a Q/A session after the talk is over.
+ Please make sure that you will be available on the
+ day of the event.
+* A facility will be provided for people watching to chat between
+ themselves.
+* A facility will be provided for people watching to submit questions.
+
+### Important Dates
+
+- **December 1st: submission deadline**
+ - FAQ - is the submission deadline final?
+ - (**TODO: MAY NOT BE VALID ANYMORE**)
+ - Technically speaking, you can submit talks till pretalx
+ closes, which should be somewhere in January
+ - However, talks submitted before the 1st get a higher precedence
+- ASAP: announcement selected talks
+- February 3rd: FOSDEM! (with live Q&A during recorded talks)
+
+### Contact us
+
+**TODO: Need to check details**
+
+- [Andrey Miroshnikov](mailto:andrey at technepisteme.xyz)
+- "octavius" on #fosdem and #libre-soc Libera.Chat IRC
+- [Luke Leighton](mailto:lkcl at lkcl.net)
+- "lkcl" or "mwfc" on #fosdem Libera.Chat IRC
+- sadoon on #libre-soc Libera.Chat IRC
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