Hi everyone, I have received confirmation from the FOSDEM organisers that we will once again have a devroom at FOSDEM. I have no idea about the roomsize yet, but given the impressive showings in the last events, i'm sure we will be one of the bigger DevRooms again. I also have no idea yet how many breathing holes the room will have this year, but i'm sure that the ventilation system will be given extra attention this year :)
In any case, we are go for FOSDEM! * General information: ---------------------- Date: 7th and 8th of February 2009. http://www.fosdem.org/ http://wiki.x.org/wiki/fosdem2009 (then stuff which most of us will know already ...) FOSDEM is the single most significant European Free Software event, drawing in developers from all over the world but especially from europe. Attendance numbers are never known exactly, but i think the guesstimate last year was 5000. FOSDEM always takes place on some weekend in february, on the weekend 7th and 8th this year, at a campus of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium, Europe. Brussels is a nice and central location that is easy to reach by car, train and plane, and Brussels offers excellent accomodation and is both a touristic and gastronomical hotspot. FOSDEM itself is easy to reach from the center of Brussels by public transportation; just follow the stream of geeks, or check out the travel information on the fosdem site. Xorg will have a DevRoom there for the 4th year running, and we are one of the biggest and one of the most densely populated (and hottest) DevRooms there. Even though there is a large contingent of X developers present there, this room is open to everyone. Attendance is free for everybody, you just have to take care of transportation and accomodation :) * Call for DevRoom Speakers: ---------------------------- We have _at_ _most_ 13 talks slots. I have no idea what the deadline for the schedule for the brochure is yet, but the sooner i have a full schedule, the better. I know that many things can still change in 2 months, but attendance is noticably higher when the talk is listed in the brochure. What is provided in the devroom for you: * electricity. * wired network at the speakers table and hopefully working wireless (which tends to be very solid these last few years). * projector and a VGA cable. * a highly interested and very friendly crowd. * your name, talk title, and brief explanation printed in the FOSDEM brochure. * your talk kindly recorded by Michael Larabel and posted on phoronix.com. What is expected of you: * a talk. * which can be very in-depth and very technical. * about a subject related to X.org. * which is less than an hour, preferably around 45 minutes, but if you only want to talk for 15 then that's ok as well. * and a title and a brief explanation about the talk, fast, so that it can be put up on the wiki and that the FOSDEM people can include it in their brochure :) If you have any special requirements; maybe you would like your talk at a certain time due to jetlag, maybe you need some extra equipment (like a PC or a TFT), please tell me this as well so that this can be taken care of. So, everybody, please mark the weekend of the 7th and 8th of February in your calendars, and start looking into travel options while they are still cheap :) Thanks, and hope to hear from you soon. Luc Verhaegen. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg