On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 03:08:24PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Montag, 6. Dezember 2010, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > At the end of September, I called for talk submissions for the FOSDEM 2011 > > distributions miniconf. Unfortunately, to date, the number of > > submissions (from Debian and other distributions alike) has been > > abysmally low. It would be a shame if the two rooms which the miniconf > > was assigned for two days would be mostly unused. > > maybe I just see this as a proof of what I believe anyway...
Same here. > but it seems to me that this can be explained by what I also think: the > shared dev rooms are not particularily attractive. Somehow they lack the > community feeling the Debian room had IME.. Last year, the distro miniconf only succeeded because I started screaming around half november. And then still it wasn't really all that great, IMAO. It might be that all the interesting "pull out of a hat" talks had been done last year, and now nobody can come up with something interesting for a cross-distro talk anymore. > I'm also not sure if there are video volunteers from the DebConf/Debian video > team. Just doing video for the Debian talks is rather unpractical (and not > nice), while OTOH doing for a talk in which one has no interest at all is > also not top on the list, when there are 1000 other more interesting things > to do. What do other "video people" think (and plan)? I'm sure we can find some more volunteers if we plan a bit better this time around. Should I ask on the dist2011 mailinglist? > Of course, we Debian, could hack the dev rooms by submitting tons of Debian > talks, but... hm. Right. > > Therefore, I'd like to reiterate my request for talks. Anything is > > welcome, as long as it involves distribution work. > > > > If I may make some suggestions for interesting talk proposals that would > > fit the miniconf well: > > - Our new kFreeBSD port > > afaik Axel will volunteer for that one. Yes, he told me so -- I didn't check my (very short) list of talks sufficiently. Perhaps I should've done so. Oops. > > - Something about the new v3 source formats > > - Piuparts, the PTS, buildd, popcon, the website and webwml, or anything > > about any other piece of infrastructure, > > I'd certainly be happy to give a small talk about piuparts. I'd be really > interesting to hear something about the status of the new website, best with > an announcement about it being live ;-) Thanks. Lars had been considering doing so, but eventually decided not to; it'd be great if you could do it instead. > > - A round table about strategies for something which every distribution > > must do, such as releasing, squashing bugs, compiling software, or, > > heck, marketing, > > I'd be interested in this... Me too, but it'd need someone to drive that effort. Are you volunteering? > > <plan type="evil"> > > - last but not least, if all else fails, we can just flood the > > distributions miniconf with Debian-specific talks and hope that nobody > > notices if the "distributions" miniconf has turned into the Debian > > Devroom(s!), v2. > > </plan> > > or that ;) :-) -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html _______________________________________________ Debconf-video mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-video
