Hi Roan and Henna, and others,
There has been some discussion about this in the past few months with some German developers, and with Tim and Brion. Initially the German developers had something planned during CCC late December, but this was cancelled for reasons unknown to me. Daniel has been pushing me to give more clarity on the FOSDEM 2009 idea a few weeks ago, but I was not able to give more clarity because the FOSDEM organisation had not been able to announce a date up to a little more than hour ago.
As you can see by the dev room request I just CC-ed to this list, we have already made the request for a dev room. I have high hopes that we will be able to present our wonderful project to the thousands of open source developers, and enthousiasts that will be in Brussels that weekend. I dream of Brion or Tim, or some other MediaWiki hero giving a presentation on some insanely complicated part of MediaWiki in one of the main rooms :).
Given the number of developers that we have in Europe, quite close to Brussels, I think the goal of 12-15 developers isn't insane (Semantic MediaWiki, Collection, API, OmegaWiki, Translate, possibly one or more of the Wikimedia employed developers, and whatever I didn't mention but is there). As MediaWiki is quite a hot application, I think we cannot only inform and improve amongst ourselves, and push MediaWiki further, but also inform others, and maybe 'score' some new developers (even though PHP sucks, as you can read in at least a handful of places in the MediaWiki source).
For now we have to wait until our request gets accepted or denied (before 30 November). Meanwhile I very much support ideas for tech talks in case we *do* get the dev room, and I would like to know if any other people are interested in joining the 'staff' for the dev room. We may have to organise a few things, which may or may not cost some time.
Cheers! Siebrand
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Namens Roan Kattouw Verzonden: donderdag 6 november 2008 0:13 Aan: Wikimedia developers Onderwerp: Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM 2009: Call for devrooms, stands and lightning talks
Finne Boonen schreef:
Anybody interested in trying to get a devroom? I'm willing to help organise, would just like to have an idea if people are interested first :)
Finne/henna
I'd be interested, provided other devs are as well and actually show up :) . I'd need to know the latter in advance, as I wouldn't want to waste two 5h40m train trips, much less the money involved.
Also, I assume you're talking about a devroom for just one day here?
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)