On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Arthur Richards <aricha...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > It would be awesome if we could put together a devroom at FOSDEM.
Agreed. If is going to do it I'd love to be involved. I've helped with the cross-desktop dev rooms in previous years. > Over the last couple of years, FOSDEM has become my favorite > conference. The ethos of the conference is fantastic - totally > grassroots, transparent, and open. It draws an unbelievable crowd. The > technical breadth and depth of the talks is generally impressive. And > the Wikimedia/Mediawiki-related talks pack the rooms - at least they > did the last couple of years. We should have a much bigger presence at > this event - from my perspective, it seems like it is a fantastic > learning, community building, and recruiting opportunity - perhaps > even more so than most of the other conferences at which we have a > presence. > > If folks think this would be something cool to do, it might also be > worth teaming with some other similarly-minded orgs with some overlap > - like Mozilla, Creative Commons, OLPC, CiviCRM, etc. From the > invitation for proposals, it sounds like this would increase our odds > at securing a devroom, it would certainly help us further > cross-pollinate, and ultimately strengthen the broader open source > community. Mozilla had their own room in previous years. In general teaming up with other like-minded projects does increase the chances. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
