> Out of curiosity, the devroom wasn't approved? to expand a little on @dlesnoff correct assessment (and partly using some answers I did provide in nim telegram channel, I was planning to update this thread but forgot, thanks for the reminder! :)).
Yes, the devroom was not accepted. I think I can safely quote from their mail > I'm sorry to inform you that we declined your devroom proposal for this > edition of FOSDEM. > > We received far more proposals (88) than we can accommodate, so unfortunately > we had to leave out a number of good proposals, including from some teams who > had a well organized devroom in one of the previous (online and/or physical > editions). > > Note that this mail only informs you that we will skip this edition, and does > not mean we will not reconsider the room for next year. > > Fortunately, there are other ways to participate in FOSDEM too > > \- have a stand at FOSDEM [1]: apply before November 15 > > \- hold a talk in the main tracks or lightning talks track > > \- speak in one of the other devrooms. > > CfP for the main tracks/lightning talks and other devrooms will be opened > soon, keep an eye on the website. > > We did accept a "Declarative and Minimalistic Computing" devroom, you may > want to get in touch with the organisers. To be honest, I can understand their decision given the constraints. They had to leave something out and our track record (of some talks in past editions plus an online nim devroom that I would judge as well organized ;)) was good but it is possible they had to leave out devrooms with a better track record. They do indeed mention receiving 88 proposals and the [public list of accepted devrooms](https://fosdem.org/2023/news/2022-11-07-accepted-developer-rooms/) lists 53 of them, so they did have to reject 35 devrooms. From what I can tell most if not all the accepted devrooms are on topics which have a long tradition being at FOSDEM. Furthermore, we had many options (listed in the mail) to still have Nim featured in Fosdem (in particular the minimalistic etc devroom mentioned nim specifically in their [cfp](https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2022q4/003446.html)). > This was so sad :( I was looking forward for this year's FOSDEM with a Nim > devroom :( ah yeah, definitely shared the feeling of sadness and really wanted to make it happen. It is also a pity that there were no submissions from the community for the other options but the rejection for sure did not help (I was considering submitting a lightning talk but in the end could not be sure to commit and indeed I did not go). Now I take this as a challenge to make their decision more difficult for next year (while still preparing to submit something elsewhere just in case). :)
