Events/2009/Call for Participation

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We are seeking talks related to Open Source Databases of all kind, not just relational databases! Submission about tools and technologies related to OSS databases (e.g. connectors/APIs) are also welcome.

Submitting your proposals

We will use FrOSCon's Pentabarf conference coordination system to collect talk submissions and perform the organizing and scheduling of the talks. Please create an account there, if you don't have one already. Once you have activated your account via the email address you provided, please log into the system and create a new event. Make sure to select track OpenSQLCamp for your submission!

The deadline for submitting your proposal was Sunday, July 19th, 2009 (12:00pm PST) - the call for papers has ended now.

We will try to synchronize our schedule and speaking slots with the main conference program, to allow easy switching between sessions in the Developer Rooms and the main conference. So your talk should fit into the "Lecture" format and will last one hour (incl. Q&A).

There are 6 slots available on each day, making room for 12 talks in total:

  1. 10:00-11:00
  2. 11:15-12:15
  3. 14:00-15:00
  4. 15:15-16:15
  5. 16:30-17:30
  6. 17:45-18:45

We will try to perform the review and voting about the sessions in public, so the community and potential audience will have a say about which sessions they want to listen to. The details of how this will be done are described on the Reviewing and Voting page. Here is a list of proposed talks.

A number of database-related talks have already been submitted to the general FrOSCon program. The FrOSCon organizers will evaluate if some of these talks would be more suitable for the OpenSQLCamp track, but stated that they would be interested to keep some of the submitted sessions as part of the database track of the main conference.

Some ideas and suggestions for submissions

See Events/Portland2009/Sessions for other proposals.

  • An introduction/overview about a certain database project/product or related tool
  • A deeply technical and developer-centric session about some project's internals or an API to connect to a database
  • Providing "best practices" information for administrators

Any submission is welcome, as long as it has technical content and it's not a vendor pitch for a proprietary program! Open Source is a prerequisite. The conference languages are German and English, so your talk could be of either language.

You should also read Giuseppe's advice on how to get your proposal accepted (it was aimed for the MySQL Conference, but the overall message still applies).
Baron Schwartz and Colin Charles wrote about the same topic - please keep these recommendations in mind when writing up your proposal! This makes it much easier for us to rate and review your submission.

Josh Berkus also wrote three excellent blog postings on the topic of submitting tech talk abstracts, that are worth a read:

Suggested projects

Some database projects and related technologies that we would like to be present at OpenSQLCamp include the following (in alphabetical order, without claim to completeness):

We plan to approach and invite these communities directly to participate and contribute.

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