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One of the co-authors here. Never expected this to end up on HN! For people interested in quatum computing and open source tools, we're also organizing a quantum computing track at FOSDEM19 (February, Brussels) [1].

[1] https://qosf.github.io/fosdem19/

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Thanks for your detailed report! I'm a contributor to a couple of those projects, and it's great to see this kind of feedback.

https://qosf.org from the paper is currently off-line.

This is probably a DNS issue, that I noticed some time ago - using some DNS servers, the qosf.org resolves to wrong IP (which we don't have in our zone at all). If somebody has an idea where this might be coming from, I would be very interested in hearing that.

The correct IP to, i.e. put into /etc/hosts as an workaround is: 169.55.161.194

EDIT: Actually, I might have fixed it. Let me know if you still can't access the website.

Things look okay, now, to me.

https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/qosf.org

But it says call for participation ended 2 weeks ago. Are you going to have something else available?

Hi! Maybe this is a misunderstanding due to FOSDEM lingo - call for participation is not an registration/invite, it is the equivalent of call for papers (that is, talk submissions).

FOSDEM [1] is open to all (there is no registration or fees) - and several thousands of people come every year.

[1] https://fosdem.org/2019/

But otherwise it is a just show up event? Also if it is too late to give a talk, could one do a poster etc?

We don't do poster sessions, but we have a dedicated slot for lightning talks in one of the two days. Shoot us an email at info@qosf.org and we'll see if it's a good fit.

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