On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 07:49:19PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > I have been organising the fosdem devroom for Xorg for many years now, > but i am kind of tired of begging and scraping together talks to fill > out a rather well-visited devroom. I feel it is better to only spend > sunday on Xorg and would like to organise a coreboot devroom on saturday > instead. It will be just as much, or even less organisational labour for > me, and this way the coreboot can have saturday afternoon for a cool > devroom on the coolest open source conference around. > > Saturday means that we have 5 talk slots, and i would like to see at > least a few general talks, one general about coreboot, one about > flashrom (i think carldaniel has already "volunteered" for that one) and > one about SerialICE. And then we have 2 more slots where we can take > another topic further in depth. > > When i say general here, you don't have to worry about staying shallow, > the average fosdem visitor is a very experienced user and often a > developer and is not afraid of technical stuff. General talks about the > 3 main topics mean: start off general, then dive into the nitty-gritty, > but the situation of coreboot, and the two sideprojects, is that people > are not that well informed about these projects (it is not something > that everyone has been exposed to in daily free software use). > > Now, why should we do this? Because we really reach a cool audience here > who will be contributing to the projects later on. It's also a nice > place to meet up with current contributors. And when the coreboot > devroom is not on, you can of course go and visit the massive selection > of other talks and other projects represented at FOSDEM. And when the > event is over, you get some known people together and go and eat well in > brussels. > > Fosdem website is here: http://www.fosdem.org you can still check the > shedules for the previous years. > > For those who are interested in coming; you are responsible for your own > expenses, but FOSDEM is an amazingly good value event. No other > conference i have visited has given me more knowledge, contacts, or > motivation than FOSDEM. > > I currently do not need to know who will be holding which talk, i just > need to know that there is enough interest in this, so i can write up my > proposal (due sunday). If we can get a few of the core european > developers to come to brussels that weekend, then some can be > blackmailed into holding talks (:)), and then the whole thing will be a > success. > > Get me some shouts asap, because if i don't get any, i'll just do the > usual Xorg thing, but without begging this year. > > Luc Verhaegen.
Seems Peter Stuge didn't need much blackmailing already :) Come on people, we can get this thing rolling. Luc Verhaegen. -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
