Wineconf 2022 - with X.org - October 4-6

[Jeremy White]

Hello all!

After a 2 year hiatus the Wine Developers Conference, AKA WineConf, is 
being held in conjunction with the X.Org Developers Conference (XDC) in 
Minneapolis, MN from October 4th until Oct 6th, with a Wine focus on the 
5th and 6th.

This year, the two events are being held together allowing attendees to 
freely attend any programming they desire. The event is free to attend 
and open to the general public.

We will concentrate the Wine related events on the 5th and 6th, so if 
your available travel time is limited, you can come just for those two days.

Programming for the conference will consist of multiple tracks taking 
place in several rooms.  There will be one main track for Wine and one 
or two overflow rooms for discussion. As always there will be plenty of 
time where there will be no programming to allow participants to engage 
in spontaneous conversation.  This is being called the 'hallway track'.

We are now requesting proposals for talks, workshops and demos for this 
year.  When you propose your talk, if you have a preference toward a 
time slot and day please express that. This year the conference is 
longer, so there should be plenty of slots for all the relevant and 
interested presenters.  Topics should obviously be of interest to the 
other attendees, i.e., the broader Wine community, but note that that 
doesn't imply the talk has to be about Wine itself.

Additionally while proposals for pre-recorded or virtual presentations 
can be submitted, as of writing, we have a strong preference for 
in-person talks.

Presentations should fall into one of the the following formats:

Talk (full slot)
Technical presentation in the main WineConf track, with around 35 
minutes of presentation plus 10 minutes of Q&A. This can be anything: a 
talk about work-in-progress, a proposal for change, analysis of trends, etc.

Talk (half slot)
Technical presentation in the main WineConf track, with around 15 
minutes of presentation and 5 minutes of Q&A. This can be anything: a 
talk about work-in-progress, a proposal for change, analysis of trends, etc.

Demo (10 minutes)
We will try to schedule them early and have a demo place throughout the 
conference.

Lightning Talk (5 minutes)
Scheduled throughout the conference in the main WineConf track. Any 
hallway track discussions summaries have priority.

Workshop Discussion Topic
Discussion topic for a smaller group. Ideally two people submit a 
proposal, one to lead the discussion and make sure it stays on track, 
second person to keep notes. Please mention relevant talk submissions 
for the main track that should kick of the discussion. These talks will 
be scheduled early in the conference program. Summary of the discussion 
will be presented at the end of the conference in a lightning talk.

Presenters will be selected from those who submit before the deadline: 
July 4, 2022. There is usually time left for late talk proposals, but do 
not count on it. Please do submit your proposal in a timely fashion. You 
can submit Workshop, Demo and Lightning Talk proposals any time, even 
during the conference.

To make a proposal please visit the website here:

     https://indico.freedesktop.org/event/2/abstracts/

The Wine project is able to sponsor travel, if required, with the goal 
to allow anyone with interest in attending this conference to do so. Any 
program proposal will be considered for a grant, please include your 
request in your submission. Grants are approved independently of program 
acceptance.

We are really looking forward to seeing you all this year!

Cheers,

Jeremy, on behalf of the XDC + WineConf 2022 committee