Call for proposals opens August 3 2015 .

Call for proposals closes September 3 2015 .

Selected proposals will be announced on September 23 2015 .

If you are one or more of the following:

Developer or programmer

Systems administrator

Hacker or geek

Enterprise developer or manager

IT manager, CxO or entrepreneur

Trainer or educator

Open source enthusiast or activist

There are three ways to propose a session:

A proposal for a talk/panel during the conference part : these are 30 minute slots that will have the full attention of all attendees, as everybody will be in that one room. An Ignite talk that will be presented during the Ignite sessions. These are 5 minutes slots with slides changing every 15 seconds (20 slides total) which are also presented to all attendees in one room Open Space session : even without a prepared presentation we welcome the discussion and interaction by having people propose a session on the fly during Open Space. Check the Open Space explanation for more information.

Proposals should include as much detail about the topic and format for the presentation as possible. Vague and overly broad proposals don’t showcase your skills and knowledge, and our volunteer reviewers aren’t mind readers. The more you can tell us, the more likely the proposal will be selected.

Our main criteria to make it to the top selection are:

original content: content not yet presented at other conferences, or a new angle to an existing problem

new presenters: people who are new to the space and have insightful stuff to say; we want to hear everybody's voice

no vendor pitches: as much as we value vendors and sponsors, we just don't think this is the right forum. You can demo at your table or during Open Space.

How to submit a proposal: Send an email to [[email protected] ] with the following information

Proposal working title (can be changed later) Type (presentation, panel discussion, moderated general discussion, debate, etc.,ignite) Description or abstract

Rules:

Be specific... we aren't mind readers (a description of about 20 lines is about right)

Detail is good... but not as important as explaining why your proposal would be interesting

Propose your own talk; don't have your marketing department do it for you.

Nominations welcome... if you know someone who has content/experience relevant to the DevOps conversation, please point us in their direction!

Multiple proposals welcome... just follow the other rules

Good sample talk: https://us.pycon.org/2014/speaking/proposal_advice/samples/SpacePug/