[Open Hardware] [CfP] Open Source Computer Aided Design and Modeling devroom at FOSDEM 2020

We are pleased to announce the CfP for

Open Source Computer Aided Design and Modeling devroom 

at FOSDEM 2020

1-2 February 2020, Brussel, Belgium.

The devroom will take place on Saturday, 1 February 2020, at [ULB (Campus Solbosch)](https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1632534522), in Brussels, Belgium.

We hope you'll join us for a full day of talks, demos and interesting discussions on designing, modeling and testing hardware using Open Source tools. We welcome any talk proposals about the creation of physical objects. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Circuit Design
    * Printed circuit board design tools
    * Circuit simulation
- 3d modeling and analysis
    * Solid modeling tools
    * Meshing, modeling and transforming physical representations
    * Finite element analysis
- 3d printing
    * 3d slicing tools
    * Motor control
- Machine design and integration
    * Open Hardware projects
    * ECAD/MCAD integration
    * Thermal analysis
    * Wire modeling
- Physical Model Data storage
    * Data representation and optimization
    * Version control in hardware data storage
    * Collaborative and team-based hardware design techniques

Slots will be allocated for short (20 minutes) and long (40 minutes) talks. Speakers need to specify their preferred format. Both include time for questions and answers. Depending on the number of submissions, submitters may be asked to utilize an alternate time format.

The submission process
Please submit your proposals at
https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM20 before 20 November 2019.

If you already have a Pentabarf account (for example as a result of having submitted a proposal in the past), make sure you use it to log in and submit your proposal. Do not create a new account if you already have one.

Please include the following information with your submission:

• Abstract
• Preferred Session length
• Speaker bio
• Link to any hardware / code /slides for the talk

When you submit your proposal (creating an "Event" in Pentabarf), make sure you choose the "Open Source Computer Aided Design and Modeling" in the track drop-down menu. Otherwise your proposal may go unnoticed. Fill in at least a title and abstract for the proposed talk and a suggested duration. Keep in mind that much of the value in these meetings comes from the discussions, so please allot at least 20% of the talk time for questions and answers.

Important dates
- Call for papers available: 13 October 2019
- Call for participation closes: 20 November 2019
- Devroom schedule available: 15 December 2019
- Devroom day: Saturday 1 February 2020 (09:00 to 17:00)

Recordings
The talks will be recorded and live-streamed during FOSDEM20. The
recordings will be published under the same licence as all FOSDEM
content (CC-BY). Only presentations will be recorded, not informal
discussions and whatever happens during breaks between presentations.
By agreeing to present at FOSDEM, you give permission to be recorded.
Please contact us if you would like to request an exception to the
recording policy for your talk.

Mailing list
Feel free to subscribe to the [Open Source Computer Aided Design and
Modeling mailing list](https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/open-hardware-devroom)
to submit ideas, ask questions and generally discuss about the event.
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GnuCap and ngspice at 2019 FOSDEM DevRoom CAD and Open Hardware

Today at #FOSDEM: Felix Salfelder presenting "#Gnucap -- The GNU circuit analysis package Architecture, Algorithms and Applications" addressing Compact Model license considerations
"https://buff.ly/2CeG4DV"


Holger Vogt presenting "#ngspice, current status and future developments" pointing to an obstacle in FOSS CAD/EDA adoption: The newer and more complex Libs/PDKs often come along with encrypted model files.
"https://buff.ly/2DR0Fz6"

FOSDEM 2019 CAD and Open Hardware Devroom Call for Participation

This is the call for participation in the FOSDEM 2019 devroom on Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools and Open Hardware, to be held on Sunday 3 February 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. We are looking for contributions under the form of talks and tutorials covering the following main topics:

• Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design tools (e.g. KiCad and gEDA)
• Analogue and digital simulators (e.g. ngspice, Qucs, Gnucap, Xyce, GHDL, Icarus and Verilator)
• Any other EDA tools such as high-level tools for digital hardware design (e.g. Migen) and HDL synthesis tools (e.g. Yosys)
• Field solvers such as openEMS
• Mechanical 2D and 3D CAD tools such as LibreCAD, FreeCAD, OpenSCAD and SolveSpace
• Open Hardware projects such as the Teres laptop and the lowRISC SoC
• Inter-project opportunities for collaboration

We hope to provide an opportunity for attendees to bring themselves up to date on the latest FOSS CAD and Open Hardware developments, share knowledge and identify opportunities to collaborate on development tasks. This devroom is an evolution of the EDA devroom we organised in 2015, 2016 and 2017, which enlarged its scope in the CAD and Open

Hardware devroom in 2018.

Please submit your proposals at
https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19 

before 1 December 2018.

Important dates
8 December 2018: deadline for submission of proposals
15 December 2018: announcement of final schedule
3 February 2019: devroom day

FOSDEM 2019 Call for Participation

XIX FOSDEM Edition 

Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd February 2019 

ULB Campus Solbosch in Brussels.

We now invite proposals for main track presentations, developer rooms, stands and lightning talks. FOSDEM offers open source and free software developers a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Renowned for being highly developer oriented, the event brings together some 8000+ geeks from all over the world. We will record and stream all main tracks, devrooms and lightning talks live. The recordings will be published under the same license as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). If, exceptionally, you believe there is a legitimate reason why your presentation should not be streamed or recorded, you must seek our agreement before submitting it.

Main Tracks
Previous editions have featured main tracks centered around security, operating system development, community building, and many other topics. Presentations are expected to be 50 minutes long (including audience questions) and should cater to a varied technical audience. The conference covers reasonable travel expenses agreed in advance and arranges accommodation for accepted main track speakers if needed.

Proposals for main track presentations should be submitted using Pentabarf: https://fosdem.org/submit. If you already created an account in the system for a previous edition, please reuse it rather than re- registering.

Submissions will be reviewed in two batches, beginning with those received by 13 October. The final deadline is 3 November.

Questions or remarks? Contact us at program@fosdem.org.

Key dates:
13 October: deadline for first batch of main track proposals
3 November: final deadline for main track proposals
1 November onwards: main track talks announced (in batches)

Developer Rooms
Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work together on open source and free software projects, to discuss topics relevant to a broader subset of the community, etc. Most content should take the form of presentations. Proposals involving collaboration across project or domain boundaries are strongly encouraged.

Developer room proposals should be submitted through the form at
https://fosdem.org/devroom which contains further information.

Questions or remarks? Contact us at devrooms@fosdem.org.

Key dates:
20 September: deadline for developer room proposals
30 September: accepted developer rooms announced
16 October (or earlier): developer rooms issue Calls for Participation
15 December (or earlier): developer rooms publish complete schedules

Stands
FOSDEM offers open source and free software projects the opportunity to display their work during the event. At its stand, a project can share information, demo software, sell merchandise, give away goodies, and so on, and personally interact with the visitors.

What we offer:
- one 180x80cm table, positioned in one of the buildings with developer
  rooms, for the entire duration of the conference. A second table is
  possible in a few cases, but the pressure on space means this is
  becoming increasingly rare and needs strong justification. Joint
  submissions that share a table between related projects will be
  favoured in the selection process.
- two chairs per table
- one power socket type C/E (if you require adapters or additional
  sockets, please bring them yourself)
- fast uplink shared wireless Internet access

To apply, please fill out the form at: https://fosdem.org/stands which
contains further information.

Questions or remarks? Contact us at stands@fosdem.org.

Key dates:
2 November: deadline for stand proposals
11 November: accepted stands announced

Lightning talks
Lighting talks are short — 15 minute long — talks on a wide variety of topics. Anyone who has something interesting to say about an open source or free software topic can apply. We particularly encourage topics that do not fit in any of the developer rooms.

Proposals for lightning talks should be submitted using Pentabarf: https://fosdem.org/submit. Please select "lightning Talks" in the "track" field. If you already created an account in the system for a previous edition, please reuse it rather than re-registering.

Questions or remarks? Contact us at lightningtalks@fosdem.org.

Key dates:
24 November: deadline for lightning talk proposals
15 December: accepted lightning talks announced

All deadlines are at 23.59 UTC.
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FOSDEM 2018 CAD and Open Hardware Devroom Call for Participation

(Also visible at https://www.ohwr.org/projects/ohr-meta/wiki/FOSDEM2018)

This is the call for participation in the FOSDEM 2018 devroom on Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools and Open Hardware, to be held on Saturday 3 February 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. We are looking for contributions under the form of talks and tutorials covering the following main topics:

• Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design tools (e.g. KiCad and gEDA)
• Analogue and digital simulators (e.g. ngspice, Qucs, Gnucap, Xyce,GHDL, Icarus and Verilator)
• Any other EDA tools such as high-level tools for digital hardware design (e.g. Migen) and HDL synthesis tools (e.g. Yosys)
• Field solvers such as openEMS
• Mechanical 2D and 3D CAD tools such as LibreCAD, FreeCAD, OpenSCAD andSolveSpace
• Open Hardware projects such as the Teres laptop and the lowRISC SoC
• Inter-project opportunities for collaboration

We hope to provide an opportunity for attendees to bring themselves up to date on the latest FOSS CAD and Open Hardware developments, share knowledge and identify opportunities to collaborate on development tasks. This devroom is an evolution of the EDA devroom we organised in 2015, 2016 and 2017.

The submission process: Please submit your proposals at

https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18 before 1 December 2017.

If you already have a Pentabarf account (for example as a result of having submitted a proposal in the past), make sure you use it to log in and submit your proposal. Do not create a new account if you already have one. Please provide a bit of information about yourself under Person -> Description -> Abstract. When you submit your proposal (creating an "Event" in Pentabarf), make sure you choose the "CAD and Open Hardware Devroom" in the track drop-down menu. Otherwise your proposal might go unnoticed. Fill in at least a title and abstract for the proposed talk and a suggested duration. Bear in mind that a lot of the value in these meetings comes from the discussions, so please be reasonable regarding the duration of the talk.

Important dates

• 1 December 2017: deadline for submission of proposals
• 8 December 2017: announcement of final schedule
• 3 February 2018: devroom day

Recordings: The FOSDEM organisers hope to be able to live-stream and record all the talks. The recordings will be published under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). Only presentations will be recorded, not informal discussions and whatever happens during the lunch break. By agreeing to present at FOSDEM, you automatically give permission to be recorded. The organisers will agree to make exceptions but only for exceptional and well-reasoned cases.

Mailing list: Feel free to subscribe to the mailing list of the CAD and Open Hardware devroom to submit ideas, ask questions and generally discuss about the event:

https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/open-hardware-devroom

Spread the word!

FOSDEM 2017 EDA Devroom Call for Participation

FOSDEM 2017 Electronic Design Automation Devroom
Call for Participation

This is the call for participation in the FOSDEM 2017 devroom on Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, to be held on Sunday 5 February 2017 in Brussels, Belgium. We are looking for contributions under the form of talks and tutorials covering the following main topics:

• Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design tools (e.g. KiCad and gEDA)
• Analogue and digital simulators (e.g. ngspice, Qucs, Gnucap, Xyce, GHDL, Icarus and Verilator)
• Any other EDA tools such as high-level tools for digital hardware design (e.g. Migen) and HDL synthesis tools (e.g.Yosys)
• Inter-project opportunities for collaboration

We hope to provide an opportunity for attendees to bring themselves up to date on the latest FOSS EDA developments, share knowledge and identify opportunities to collaborate on development tasks. Have a look at last year's event for a taste of what the EDA devroom is about.

The submission process
Please submit your proposals at 

https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM17 

before 1 December 2016.

If you already have a Pentabarf account (for example as a result of having submitted a proposal in the past), make sure you use it to log in and submit your proposal. Do not create a new account if you already have one. Please provide a bit of information about yourself under Person -> Description -> Abstract. When you submit your proposal (creating an "Event" in Pentabarf), make sure you choose the "Electronic Design Automation (EDA) devroom" in the track drop-down menu. Otherwise your proposal might go unnoticed. Fill in at least a title and abstract for the proposed talk and a suggested duration. Bear in mind that a lot of the value in these meetings comes from the discussions, so please be reasonable regarding the duration of the talk.

Important dates

• 1 December 2016: deadline for submission of proposals
• 11 December 2016: announcement of final schedule
• 5 February 2017: devroom day

Recordings
The FOSDEM organisers hope to be able to live-stream and record all the talks. The recordings will be published under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). Only presentations will be recorded, not informal discussions and whatever happens during the lunch break. By agreeing to present at FOSDEM, you automatically give permission to be recorded. The organisers will agree to make exceptions but only for exceptional and well-reasoned cases.
Mailing list

Feel free to subscribe to the mailing list of the EDA devroom to submit ideas, ask questions and generally discuss about the event.

Spread the word!
This is the third EDA devroom at FOSDEM. The first two were very well received. Let's make sure as many projects and developers as possible are present. Thanks!

[Call for Participation] FOSDEM 2016 Electronic Design Automation Devroom

 Call for Participation 

FOSDEM 2016 Electronic Design Automation Devroom 

This is the call for participation in the FOSDEM 2016 devroom on Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, to be held on Saturday 30 January 2016 in Brussels, Belgium. We are looking for contributions under the form of talks covering the following main topics:

• Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design tools (e.g. KiCad and gEDA)
• Analogue and digital simulators (e.g. ngspice, Qucs, Gnucap, Xyce, GHDL, Icarus and Verilator)
• Any other EDA tools such as high-level tools for digital hardware design (e.g. Migen)
• Inter-project opportunities for collaboration

We hope to provide an opportunity for attendees to bring themselves up to date on the latest FOSS EDA developments, share knowledge and identify opportunities to collaborate on development tasks. Have a look at last year's event for a taste of what the EDA devroom is about.

The submission process
Please submit your proposals at https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16 

before 4 December 2015.

If you already have a Pentabarf account (for example as a result of having submitted a proposal in the past), make sure you use it to log in and submit your proposal. Do not create a new account if you already have one. Please provide a bit of information about yourself under Person -> Description -> Abstract. When you submit your proposal (creating an "Event" in Pentabarf), make sure you choose the "EDA devroom" in the track drop-down menu. Otherwise your proposal might go unnoticed. Fill in at least a title and abstract for the proposed talk and a suggested duration. Bear in mind that a lot of the value in these meetings comes from the discussions, so please be reasonable regarding the duration of the talk.

Important dates

• 4 December 2015: deadline for submission of proposals
• 18 December 2015: announcement of final schedule
• 30 January 2016: devroom day

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