The FOSDEM call for developer rooms is out. As the conditions for
requests state there's a preference for requests with a general
topic, e.g. from projects with similar goals/domains. So I guess a
joint application of GNUstep, Étoilé and OpenGroupware.org (Helge, is
this o.k.?) like last year would be the best. Maybe we can find some
other projects with some relation to GNUstep to join in. Any ideas?
Window Maker comes to my mind here. Is somebody in contact with those
guys? Who else could join in?
I think this is also an occasion to talk about reasons why
*especially we* would need a dev-room (For instance: "we deliver
cross platform developer tools so a developers conference is the best
place to make those known"). I will submit the best reasons with our
application for the room.
Please discuss.
When we reach some agrement I am ready to submit our proposal. That
has to happen before 2009-11-22.
Thanks,
Lars
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:27:48 +0100 (CET)
From: [email protected]
Subject: [FOSDEM] News : Call For Developer Rooms
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A *devroom* is a room in which projects can organize their own
schedule made
of presentations, brainstorming and hacking sessions. Our goal is to
stimulate developer collaboration and cross-pollination between
projects, and
as such we strongly favor projects with similar goals and domains
to host a
devroom together.
*Distribution projects:* As every year we only have a limited
number of
rooms, yet every year more and more individual distributions request a
Developer Room at FOSDEM. We do not want to have to choose between
them, but
instead push our mission of a collaboration platform and cross-
pollination
even further. We will host mixed distribution rooms where talks and
sessions
will be organized *by topic*. Contributors from all distributions
are welcome
to join in order to participate, attend, propose topics and
sessions. To do
so, please subscribe to the distro mailinglist [1].
.... What we offer:
* a room on Saturday and/or Sunday,
* a video projector (with VGA cable)
* power (C/E plugs)
* wired (RJ-45) network with Internet access at the speaker's desk,
* best-effort shared wireless Internet access (a and b),
* publication of the schedule on the FOSDEM website, including
speaker bios
and talk abstracts.
.... Conditions for requests:
* preference for requests with a general topic, eg. from projects
with
similar goals/domains,
* be involved in Free or Opensource Software (the projects
produce and
release software under an opensource license or otherwise
contributes to
opensource activities and communities),
* send us a devroom request before 2009-11-22 as described below,
Distribution talks are organized collectively on the distro
mailinglist [2].
Others can request a devroom by submitting the form below. For further
questions, contact [email protected] [3].
The number of available rooms is limited so the FOSDEM organization
will
select the proposals that can get a devroom.
*Key Dates:*
2009-11-22: Deadline for devroom requests
2009-11-29: Acceptance notification of devrooms
2010-02-06 to 2009-02-07: FOSDEM 2010
-------- DEVROOM REQUEST FORM
------------------------------------------------
For more information, or to fill in the form check out:
http://www.fosdem.org/2010/call-developer-rooms
[1] http://lists.fosdem.org/mailman/listinfo/dist2010
[2] http://lists.fosdem.org/mailman/listinfo/dist2010
[3] mailto:[email protected]
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