I'm adding talk-be to this discussion. I'm living 30km from Brussels, so I can easily come to help with a stand or a dev room. Last year I helped out at the Openstreetmap stand and there was definitely an interest in the project.
Do you see a stand in a dev room as some sort of mapping party or an actual effort to create/discuss code of editors/renderers/PostGIS and the like? Polyglot 2012/8/13 Katie Filbert <[email protected]> > Would OSM folks be interested in being part of a devroom at FOSDEM? It > could make sense to partner with the Wikimedia folks? > > Who typically handles stuff like this? I've not been to FOSDEM yet but > probably will go this year. > > Cheers, > Katie > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Arthur Richards <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 8:16 PM > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: FOSDEM calls for devroom organizers and > main track speakers > To: Siebrand <[email protected]>, Wikimedia developers < > [email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > > > It would be awesome if we could put together a devroom at FOSDEM. > > Over the last couple of years, FOSDEM has become my favorite > conference. The ethos of the conference is fantastic - totally > grassroots, transparent, and open. It draws an unbelievable crowd. The > technical breadth and depth of the talks is generally impressive. And > the Wikimedia/Mediawiki-related talks pack the rooms - at least they > did the last couple of years. We should have a much bigger presence at > this event - from my perspective, it seems like it is a fantastic > learning, community building, and recruiting opportunity - perhaps > even more so than most of the other conferences at which we have a > presence. > > If folks think this would be something cool to do, it might also be > worth teaming with some other similarly-minded orgs with some overlap > - like Mozilla, Creative Commons, OLPC, CiviCRM, etc. From the > invitation for proposals, it sounds like this would increase our odds > at securing a devroom, it would certainly help us further > cross-pollinate, and ultimately strengthen the broader open source > community. > > What do you all think? > > Arthur > > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Siebrand Mazeland <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Forwarded from [email protected]. Subscribe at > > https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/fosdem. > > > > Siebrand > > > > > > ---------------------------- Original Message > ---------------------------- > > Subject: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM calls for devroom organizers and main track > speakers > > From: "Tias Guns" <[email protected]> > > Date: Sun, August 12, 2012 14:40 > > To: "Fosdem Announce" <[email protected]> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > <<< help spread the word and make FOSDEM awesome >>> > > > > > > FOSDEM is a non-commercial event offering open source communities a > > place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renowned for being > > highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ geeks from all over > > the world. FOSDEM will take place in Brussels, Belgium on the 2nd and > > 3rd of February 2013. > > > > We invite proposals for *devrooms* and *main track talks*: > > > > > > *Main Track Talks* > > The main tracks host high-quality seminars for a broad and technical > > audience. Every track is organized around a theme (security, kernel, > > collaboration, ...). They are held in the two biggest auditoria and last > > 50 minutes. Each of the talks is given by a speaker who gets their > > travel and accommodation costs reimbursed. > > > > To apply for a FOSDEM Main Track talk, visit > > https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_main_speakers.html > > > > To suggest a main track speaker that we should invite, mail > > [email protected] > > > > > > *Devrooms* > > A devroom is a 'developer room' in which open source communities can > > organize their own schedule, made of presentations, brainstorming and > > hacking sessions. Our goal is to stimulate developer collaboration and > > cross-pollination between projects. > > > > Each year we receive more requests than we can host. To better achieve > > our goals, preference will be given to *proposals involving multiple, > > collaborating projects*. Projects with similar goals/domains that make > > separate requests will be asked to co-organize a devroom under their > > common theme. > > > > To propose organizing a devroom, visit > > https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_devrooms.html > > > > Note! Linux distributions should apply to the dedicated distribution > > mini-conference: > > https://fosdem.org/2013/distrominiconf.html > > > > > > *Key Dates* > > - 1 October: deadline for devroom proposals > > - mid October: devroom announcements > > - 1 November: deadline main track proposals > > - mid November: main track announcements > > - 2 and 3 February: FOSDEM 2013 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > -- > Arthur Richards > Software Engineer, Mobile > [[User:Awjrichards]] > IRC: awjr > +1-415-839-6885 x6687 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > -- > Katie Filbert > Board member, Wikimedia District of Columbia > http://wikimediadc.org > [email protected] > @filbertkm / @wikimediadc > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > >
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