Am Dienstag 09 Februar 2010 02:24:32 schrieb Michael 'Mickey' Lauer: > Dear guys, > > I just returned from FOSDEM (*) where we had a mini Openmoko devroom. > Seeing all the interested people and experiencing the scent of imminent > breakthroughs wrt. supporting foreign platforms got me really motivated > to kick off this year's FSOSHRCON. I consider last year being a good > start, but am 100% sure we can do even better this year. > > Before we go into the detail planning, we have to talk about the rough > plans. Here are my proposals, please comment. thanks for kickstarting it :-)
> > =Timeframe= > > I'd like us to meet in summer, i.e. somewhere during the May - August > timeframe. We have to try to avoid school holidays and summer vacations > (especially for those of us who have kids) though. Being one of those with kids... it doesn't matter. I will organize family vacation before/after it :) > > =Duration= > > I'm afraid it needs to be a weekend, but we should aim to have two fully > productive days (think about losing at least one day for arrival and > setup plus cleaning up and departure), so it'd be best if we could > either add a friday or a monday to the bouquet. > > =Location= > > This largely depends on the scope of this conference. I found last > year's meeting @ LinuxHotel very pleasant and supercheap. The > requirements are a big room where we can sit on a round or squared table > with video and networking equipment. I really enjoyed LinuxHotel +1 > > =Program= > > Last year we had a strong focus on getting to know each other and giving > presentations. While that's all good, I'd like to attempt something more > focused this year. I would love to come there with some concrete goals, > such as: > > *) Porting SHR to fsogsmd. > *) Porting FSO & SHR to the HTC Dream. > *) Porting FSO & SHR to the Palm Pre. > *) Unbreaking libfso-glib for C users. very much appreciated :D > *) Porting SHR-Settings to Vala. > etc. etc. > > I do think that we can allow for a small amount of presentations, but a > really limited one. This year we should strive for a more workshop & > code sprint oriented spirit. getting things done :-) big +1 > > =Sponsoring= > > Travel costs are always high. We should try to find some sponsors for > this event. > > That's all that comes to my mind now. I'd love to see all of you in a > productive environment again, so let's try hard to make this happen. > > Cheers, > -- Klaus 'mrmoku' Kurzmann _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
