Hi Julien, On Sat, 11 Dec 2021 at 02:37, Julien Lepiller <jul...@lepiller.eu> wrote:
> I think it's time to start organising the Guix Days, traditionally held > around Fosdem. Nice initiative! Count on me for helping. :-) > As for how it'll be organised. I propose to do something similar to > what we need in November 2020. I'd love to get some talks from people > outside the usual maintainers and commiters, to have an overview of the > diversity of people and usage around Guix. I agree. > Last year, we asked speakers to prepare a video in advance, and they > would only have an extended Q&A/discussion session. I think this year > we should have the same process, but ask for a short (3-5 minutes) talk > at the start of the session to refresh our minds on the main points of > the presentation before discussions start. In your views, the presentation is 3-5 minutes exposing the topic then live discussion/Q&A. Or 3-5 minutes video then 10-20 minutes of live presentation and then live Q&A? (The post provides a better explanation but I am not sure to fully get what you have in mind.) > The Guix Days have never been a "real" conference, and always had a lot > of room for discussions that start on the spot. I'd like to emulate > this by keeping a lot of time out of the talk sessions to discuss > whatever comes up naturally during our discussions. A LibreAdventure [1 ]instance could help here. 1: <https://vcs.fsf.org/?p=libreadventure.git;a=summary> > title: Announcing the second online Guix Days Conference > date: 2021-12-10 00:00 > author: Guix Hackers > slug: online-guix-days-2022-announce-1 > tags: Conference, Community > --- [...] > ##### Until January 21: talks proposal > > Propose your talks by sending them to `guix-d...@gnu.org`. Feel free to drop This alias received a lot of spam, IIRC. Do we use the same than past year? Or do we use guix-days2...@gnu.org? And then drop it a couple of weeks after the event. > in `#guix` on irc.freenode.net to discuss what you would like to talk about > before submitting. :) > > You can choose one of the following formats: > > - Standard talk. 15-45 minutes pre-recorded presentation and a 5 minutes > lightning talk. > The 5-minute presentation will be live, to refresh our minds, followed by > a 30 minutes live Q&A. > - BoF (birds of a feather, for a session with a small group who wants to talk > about a specific topic) with no presentation. You may prepare something > live > to spark conversations. Although BoF is often used, last year, some people raised it is not so common. Naming is hard. ;-) I am fine with this name, just to be sure it is fine. > - Lightning talk with a 5 minutes live presentation > > In addition to the format you would like to choose, please describe your > session > with 10 lines or more (for lightning talks, at least 1 sentence). > > Once you have sent your proposal, you will be notified in the coming days > whether your talk be part of the Guix Day. Submit earlier to get more time to > prepare your session! > > Even for live presentation, please prepare a back-up pre-recorded talk, so > we can play it if you cannot attend or have a technical problem during the > Guix days. The deadline for short presentations (5 minutes) is February 4. > > We welcome all kinds of topics from the community, especially your own > experience > with Guix, your cool projects that involve Guix in some way, infrastructure > around > guix (translations, continuous integration, ...), and any subject you feel ^ Guix > should be discussed during the conference. > > Have a look at the topics from [the last > conference](/blog/2020/online-guix-day-announce-1/) > for ideas, but don't hesitate to innovate in your proposals! > > ##### January 21 (or before) - 28: prepare your talk > > The aim of the pre-recorded talks is to demonstrate new features, what you are > hacking on, introduce the subject for easing the live question and answer > sessions or BoFs. These pre-recorded talks should be **15-45 minutes > long**. Feel free to ask if you need help with the recording. > > You are free to choose whichever storage platform you want (e.g., your own > website, a PeerTube instance, a Nextcloud instance, etc.), but we will need to > have access to the original file so we can publish it later on > [audio-video.gnu.org](https://audio-video.gnu.org). Your video must be > released under a license that at least allows anyone to copy and share it, for > any purpose. Ahah! Maybe one day, the ones of last year will be there first. ;-) > You will have to release the video publicly before January 28, so everyone > has a chance to see it before the conference. If you are not able to do so > (for instance your server cannot handle a huge load), you can alternatively > send us a private link to the video and we will upload it on > [audio-video.gnu.org](https://audio-video.gnu.org). If you decide to do so, > you will need to have the video ready by January 26. No, it is not possible to upload to auido-video.gnu.org. Instead, let create something as videos.guix.gnu.org pointing to one of Bordeaux or Berlin machine and put all the videos we have around. Cheers, simon