To quote myself from Twitter: "@jenkinsci count me in! #fosdem" :)
I remember that the devrooms at FOSDEM normally had 1-2 guys who kept an eye on the schedule and held the doors shut. That's about it. On Monday, August 6, 2012 9:07:41 PM UTC+2, Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote: > > Between this thread and the reaction in Twitter, it sounds like > there's enough interest to do this. > > In FOSDEM 2012 we seemed to have enough people coming in and out. If > we have the equivalent level of participation, we should have no > problem staffing the table. I don't know what involves in staffing the > devroom, but JUCs normally just have one person in a room. > > I think we can count on myself, Nicolas, and Tyler to come. And I > believe at least one guy is coming from Tokyo. > > I wonder if FredG, domi, and orrc are planning to come this year, as > well as anyone else willing to help staff the table and other > organization work? > > 2012/8/4 R. Tyler Croy <[email protected]>: > > > > On Fri, 03 Aug 2012, Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote: > > > >> > >> It's great to learn that there are people here who have experience > >> in organizing devrooms! > >> > >> Are you willing to do a talk? I'm mainly worried about having enough > >> talks lined up, as opposed to filling the room with audience. > > > > > > I don't think we should be too worried about filling the time with > talks, I > > think we can fill the schedule with more than just regular talks. > > > > Some ideas: > > > > * In-real-life office hours: Hands on developing a Jenkins plugin with > KK > > * Paper cuts hackathon: Spend an hour collectively hacking on fixing a > > pre-determined list of minor bugs that can make big improvements > > * Group discussions: possible topics include: > > - Further UI improvements > > - Killing old backwards compatibility/refactoring core > > - Improving plugin discoverability/quality, etc > > > > I can think of plenty more ideas, but you get the gist. The nice thing > IMO > > about a dev room is that you don't have to run it like a mini conference > the > > whole time, we have some flexibility AFAIK to "make it our own." > > > > > > We should also be able to reach out to all the prospective JUC Antwerp > > attendees and encourage them to join. > > > > My main concerns would actually be staffing a table and the dev room > with > > people :) > > > > > > > > Cheers > > - R. Tyler Croy > > -------------------------------------- > > Code: http://github.com/rtyler > > Chatter: http://twitter.com/agentdero > > [email protected] > > > > -- > Kohsuke Kawaguchi >
