Raphael Bauduin recently chatted with me to let me know about the coming Profoss virtualization event and the fact that they were putting out a call for papers and speakers on the subject of virtualization.   

Profoss is organizing events to spread objective information about professional uses of Free and Open Source based solutions, and is looking for speakers for its next event about virtualization, taking place in Brussels on the 22nd and 23rd of January.

If you have deployed a Free or Open Source virtualization technology in a demanding professional environment, if you're a services company with extended expertise with virtualization, or if you have developed virtualization software under an open source license, or built a product based on open source technology, and want to share your experience with your peers, please don't hesitate to submit your proposal as described below.

Talks should not be commercial shows, but bring interesting information for professional ICT users, based on real world experience. Here is an non-exhaustive list of possible subjects: introduction to virtualization; deployment experiences with Xen, KVM, VirtualBox, Linux vServer, Solaris Zones, Virtuozzo/OpenVZ; support for virtualization in hardware (eg processors); how to manage the deployment of a virtualization technology in a company, without falling in the trap of over-virtualization; the future of virtualization; virtualization on the desktop; security concerns with virtualization technologies; impact of virtualization on the enterprise infrastructure, eg network; virtualisation, only for the OS? ; etc.

Each speaker gets a 50 minute time slot, and talks are to be given in English. Travel and hotel costs for speakers are taken in charge by the organization.