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Arthur Richards

12 Aug 12 Aug

6:16 p.m.

New subject: Fwd: FOSDEM calls for devroom organizers and main track speakers

It would be awesome if we could put together a devroom at FOSDEM. 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. What do you all think? Arthur On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Siebrand Mazeland <s.mazeland(a)xs4all.nl> wrote:

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Forwarded from FOSDEM(a)lists.fosdem.org. Subscribe at https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/fosdem. Siebrand ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM calls for devroom organizers and main track speakers From: "Tias Guns" <tias(a)fosdem.org> Date: Sun, August 12, 2012 14:40 To: "Fosdem Announce" <fosdem(a)lists.fosdem.org> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- <<< help spread the word and make FOSDEM awesome >>> FOSDEM is a non-commercial event offering open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renowned for being highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ geeks from all over the world. FOSDEM will take place in Brussels, Belgium on the 2nd and 3rd of February 2013. We invite proposals for *devrooms* and *main track talks*: *Main Track Talks* The main tracks host high-quality seminars for a broad and technical audience. Every track is organized around a theme (security, kernel, collaboration, ...). They are held in the two biggest auditoria and last 50 minutes. Each of the talks is given by a speaker who gets their travel and accommodation costs reimbursed. To apply for a FOSDEM Main Track talk, visit https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_main_speakers.html To suggest a main track speaker that we should invite, mail program(a)fosdem.org *Devrooms* A devroom is a 'developer room' in which open source communities can organize their own schedule, made of presentations, brainstorming and hacking sessions. Our goal is to stimulate developer collaboration and cross-pollination between projects. Each year we receive more requests than we can host. To better achieve our goals, preference will be given to *proposals involving multiple, collaborating projects*. Projects with similar goals/domains that make separate requests will be asked to co-organize a devroom under their common theme. To propose organizing a devroom, visit https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_devrooms.html Note! Linux distributions should apply to the dedicated distribution mini-conference: https://fosdem.org/2013/distrominiconf.html *Key Dates* - 1 October: deadline for devroom proposals - mid October: devroom announcements - 1 November: deadline main track proposals - mid November: main track announcements - 2 and 3 February: FOSDEM 2013 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Tomasz Finc

7:51 p.m.

New subject: Fwd: FOSDEM calls for devroom organizers and main track speakers

Good news on this. I've been pitching this at the foundation ever since the last FOSDEM conference and Erik has green lit budget for it. We've been going back and forth with the organizers over the last couple of months to better understand what's possible. I imagine this will be similar to a dev room / presentation track like Mozilla does each year. I'll let Erik jump in with the details but rest assured I've been making sure this happens. Stay tuned for more info. --tomasz On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Arthur Richards <arichards(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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It would be awesome if we could put together a devroom at FOSDEM. 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. What do you all think? Arthur On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Siebrand Mazeland <s.mazeland(a)xs4all.nl> wrote:

Forwarded from FOSDEM(a)lists.fosdem.org. Subscribe at https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/fosdem. Siebrand ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM calls for devroom organizers and main track speakers From: "Tias Guns" <tias(a)fosdem.org> Date: Sun, August 12, 2012 14:40 To: "Fosdem Announce" <fosdem(a)lists.fosdem.org> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- <<< help spread the word and make FOSDEM awesome >>> FOSDEM is a non-commercial event offering open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renowned for being highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ geeks from all over the world. FOSDEM will take place in Brussels, Belgium on the 2nd and 3rd of February 2013. We invite proposals for *devrooms* and *main track talks*: *Main Track Talks* The main tracks host high-quality seminars for a broad and technical audience. Every track is organized around a theme (security, kernel, collaboration, ...). They are held in the two biggest auditoria and last 50 minutes. Each of the talks is given by a speaker who gets their travel and accommodation costs reimbursed. To apply for a FOSDEM Main Track talk, visit https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_main_speakers.html To suggest a main track speaker that we should invite, mail program(a)fosdem.org *Devrooms* A devroom is a 'developer room' in which open source communities can organize their own schedule, made of presentations, brainstorming and hacking sessions. Our goal is to stimulate developer collaboration and cross-pollination between projects. Each year we receive more requests than we can host. To better achieve our goals, preference will be given to *proposals involving multiple, collaborating projects*. Projects with similar goals/domains that make separate requests will be asked to co-organize a devroom under their common theme. To propose organizing a devroom, visit https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_devrooms.html Note! Linux distributions should apply to the dedicated distribution mini-conference: https://fosdem.org/2013/distrominiconf.html *Key Dates* - 1 October: deadline for devroom proposals - mid October: devroom announcements - 1 November: deadline main track proposals - mid November: main track announcements - 2 and 3 February: FOSDEM 2013 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Arthur Richards

8:01 p.m.

New subject: Fwd: FOSDEM calls for devroom organizers and main track speakers

\o/ huzzah! On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Tomasz Finc <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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Good news on this. I've been pitching this at the foundation ever since the last FOSDEM conference and Erik has green lit budget for it. We've been going back and forth with the organizers over the last couple of months to better understand what's possible. I imagine this will be similar to a dev room / presentation track like Mozilla does each year. I'll let Erik jump in with the details but rest assured I've been making sure this happens. Stay tuned for more info. --tomasz On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Arthur Richards <arichards(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

It would be awesome if we could put together a devroom at FOSDEM. 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. What do you all think? Arthur On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Siebrand Mazeland <s.mazeland(a)xs4all.nl> wrote:

Forwarded from FOSDEM(a)lists.fosdem.org. Subscribe at https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/fosdem. Siebrand ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM calls for devroom organizers and main track speakers From: "Tias Guns" <tias(a)fosdem.org> Date: Sun, August 12, 2012 14:40 To: "Fosdem Announce" <fosdem(a)lists.fosdem.org> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- <<< help spread the word and make FOSDEM awesome >>> FOSDEM is a non-commercial event offering open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renowned for being highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ geeks from all over the world. FOSDEM will take place in Brussels, Belgium on the 2nd and 3rd of February 2013. We invite proposals for *devrooms* and *main track talks*: *Main Track Talks* The main tracks host high-quality seminars for a broad and technical audience. Every track is organized around a theme (security, kernel, collaboration, ...). They are held in the two biggest auditoria and last 50 minutes. Each of the talks is given by a speaker who gets their travel and accommodation costs reimbursed. To apply for a FOSDEM Main Track talk, visit https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_main_speakers.html To suggest a main track speaker that we should invite, mail program(a)fosdem.org *Devrooms* A devroom is a 'developer room' in which open source communities can organize their own schedule, made of presentations, brainstorming and hacking sessions. Our goal is to stimulate developer collaboration and cross-pollination between projects. Each year we receive more requests than we can host. To better achieve our goals, preference will be given to *proposals involving multiple, collaborating projects*. Projects with similar goals/domains that make separate requests will be asked to co-organize a devroom under their common theme. To propose organizing a devroom, visit https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_devrooms.html Note! Linux distributions should apply to the dedicated distribution mini-conference: https://fosdem.org/2013/distrominiconf.html *Key Dates* - 1 October: deadline for devroom proposals - mid October: devroom announcements - 1 November: deadline main track proposals - mid November: main track announcements - 2 and 3 February: FOSDEM 2013 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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