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
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FOSDEM is probably the most developer-oriented Free and Opensource conference, taking place in Brussels, Belgium on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 February 2009. Apart from having many invited speakers, the conference offers developer rooms, stands and lightning talks to projects from the Free and Opensource community. We hereby welcome proposals from projects to participate in organizing a devroom, manning a stand or holding a lightning talk.
As every year, we have only a limited number of rooms, space for stands and lightning talk slots. Since we always receive more requests than we can host, a committee within the FOSDEM organizing team will review all proposals. Selection will be based on possible impact, our experience of previous editions and diversity in the offerings.
*** Devrooms We offer large projects a devroom during the conference. A devroom is a room in which projects can organize their own schedule made of presentations, brainstorming and hacking sessions. Our goal is to stimulate developer collaboration and cross-pollination between projects, and as such we strongly favor projects with similar goals and domains to host a devroom together.
See http://fosdem.org/2009/call_for_devrooms_and_stands
*** Stands We offer stands to projects that want to present themselves to the visitors in a more personal fashion. Stands can be used to share information, demo software, sell merchandizing or give away goodies.
See http://fosdem.org/2009/call_for_devrooms_and_stands
*** Lightning talks We offer lightning talks to all other projects that want to present themselves. A lightning talk is a short talk in which a project can introduce itself, talk about recent developments, or share exciting new directions.
See http://fosdem.org/2009/call_for_lightningtalks
FOSDEM 2009 will be the 9th edition of the event, which has been steadily growing every year in importance and in the number of visitors. Our goal is to provide a platform to Free and Opensource projects to meet, discuss, present their current and future developments, both to their own developer and user community as to other projects that are present. Given the large amount of active contributors from many different projects present during the conference, it is an exceptionally well suited occasion to share goals and ideas with people from other communities, which is something we strongly encourage and do our best to support. Of course, the event only lives through the projects that take part in it, and through the many FOSS contributors who attend. We merely do our best to provide the best possible service to the FOSS community at large.
*** Key dates: * 2008-11-22: Deadline for devroom & stand requests * 2008-11-30: Devroom & stand acceptance notification * 2008-12-26: Deadline for lightning talk requests * 2008-12-29: Lightning talk acceptance notification * 2009-01-09: Deadline for final devroom & lightning talk schedules * 2009-02-07 to 2009-02-08: FOSDEM 2009
For more information, visit http://fosdem.org/
Feel free to forward, kind regards, The FOSDEM Team
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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)
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)
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Siebrand Mazeland wrote:
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.
Yay, a date now! That's good news! :D
Ok -- February 7-8, 2009... good news is this doesn't conflict with RecentChangesCamp in Portland, which I was also planning to attend if possible. Yay! (Now I have to double-check if my travel budget allows them both, of course...)
Definitely count me in on FOSDEM -- I'll go over the CfP and put in a talk or something... and it would be awesome to get the dev room, I'm trying to get us to organize more regular hacking events going both "at home base" in San Francisco and at conferences like FOSDEM and Wikimania...
(If I have to choose between FOSDEM and RCC this year I'm taking FOSDEM, since we've got a more solid group of MediaWiki-specific folks to connect with in Europe.)
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.
Woohoo!
- -- brion
Brion Vibber schrieb:
Siebrand Mazeland wrote:
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.
Excellent. February 7./8. sounds good, and WMDE willing, I'll be there. If WMDE decides to support this officially, I may even be able to spend some time helping with the organization.
I'M trying to decide if I should start spreading the news now, in order to reach as many people as possible, or if it's better to wait until we know we have been accepted. What do you think?
-- daniel
Well, an announment of plans cannot hurt, just as long as you make clear that the facilities have not yet been assigned to us...
I also think it is important to stress that this will not be a "Wikipedia party", but hacking event with highly technical presentations. Partly to scare off the ones that are not looking for this, partly to attract those actually looking for it :)
Cheers! Siebrand
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Namens Daniel Kinzler Verzonden: donderdag 6 november 2008 9:58 Aan: Wikimedia developers CC: Sebastian Moleski; henriette.fiebig@wikimedia.de Onderwerp: Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM 2009: Call for devrooms, stands and lightning talks
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Excellent. February 7./8. sounds good, and WMDE willing, I'll be there. If WMDE decides to support this officially, I may even be able to spend some time helping with the organization.
I'M trying to decide if I should start spreading the news now, in order to reach as many people as possible, or if it's better to wait until we know we have been accepted. What do you think?
-- daniel
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