Hi, I hope there are already several people registered but I don't know as I am not an administrator of this list.
Let me tell you about the current status On FOSDEM there are 4 options for representation 1) Stands 2) Main track talks 3) Lightning talks 4) Talks in dev-rooms 1) Our Perl stand request was accepted, mail added below. We will need to prepare things to show at the table and things to give away. For the former we will need people who can be at the table during FOSDEM and can show various projects. For the latter we will need to prepare things with the long term in our mind. I hope TPF will decide to provide a budget for this. Ideas that came up so far were - wooden round tuits - collectible cards (similar to what Oslo.pm had) but with CPAN modules on the cards and not people (or maybe even the pictures of the authors?) - Live Linux CD and Strawberry Perl with lots of preinstalled projects 2) Main track - I don't know any Perl related talk that was accepted there 3) Ligtning talks - these are 15 minute long talks The dead-line for talk submission is 20 December. Please encourage people to submit talks http://www.fosdem.org/2010/call_for_lightningtalks 4) The list of Dev-rooms is here: http://www.fosdem.org/2010/list-devrooms-their-call-talks I think we should encourage Perl developers to submit talk proposals to the relevant dev-rooms. OSCMS I have sent mail to the Bricolage mailing list and a few WebGUI developers in the hope they will participate in the OSCMS room. Mozilla Sent a message to the Bugzilla team asking if they participate. They might go with the Mozilla room though I am not sure if that's the best place for them. OpenOffice.org and ODF Sent a mail to Jean-Marie Gouarné author of OpenOffice::OODoc in the hope that the can participate. MySQL PostgreSQL I am sure there are some perl programmers who know a bit about databases and how they can be used from Perl or how can databases tested. etc. Crossdistro http://www.fosdem.org/2010/distrominiconf There are going to be a number of interesting things there. I'd be happy if we could have a discussion there on how to better package perl and CPAN modules on the various distros. How can CPAN authors interact better with downstream distributions? There could be talks on testing as well. There are several other dev-rooms. Which ones are relevant to Perl? Who could participate on those and give a talk? Below is the mail about the Perl stand. regards Gabor ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Elise Huard <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 2:09 PM Subject: [FOSDEM] Perl stand acceptance To: [email protected] Cc: devrooms <[email protected]> Hello Gabor, Your request for a stand of Perl at FOSDEM 2010 has been accepted, and we will put the following at your disposal: - on Saturday from 10:00 to 18:00 and Sunday from 10:00 to 17:00, - 1 table(s) of 2 meter width and 1 meter depth, 2 seats per table, - most probably in the AW building, - best-effort wireless interenet and one(!) type C/E power plug. If you want to decline this offer, please tell us as soon as possible. We provide only one power plug per stand, but you can hook up several multi-socket power chords. Because we can not provide those for every stand, we must ask you to bring your own multi-socket power chords. To make the stands look more professional, we would also like to ask you to bring a table cloth that covers the table and the front of it. The front side is a very good place to put your logo and name in large on, this will increase your visibility. We will stick A4 sheets with your project name on the tables, so you'll know where to install stuff. The best time to build up your stands in the H building is around 09:00. From 09:30-10:00 the people start to rush in, heading for the opening talks. In the AW building, things are typically more quiet until the opening talks are finished, which is around 12:00. With kind regards, The FOSDEM stand organizers.
