An update on this: Some people listed themselves at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM - thank you! This is useful and will become more useful as the event approaches. I have started drafting the proposals for a lighting talk and a DevRoom session. If any of these gets accepted I will fly to Brussels. You can help with the drafts. Just edit and comment in the discussion pages as usual. I will submit both proposals on Monday, not to get too close to the deadline (Friday 21). http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM/2013_-_Lightning_-_Qgil

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM/2013_-_DevRoom_-_Qgil

If someone else is thinking about submitting a MediaWiki related proposal please share your plans in the wiki page.

On 12/14/2012 03:52 PM, Sébastien Santoro wrote: At least for me it was not evident to see in which room would MediaWiki sessions fit better. I was lucky since mine is about community, outreach etc, but a pure technical session... https://fosdem.org/2013/news/2012-11-01-cfp/ Looking forward to meeting in you in Brussels!

Some people listed themselves at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM - thank you! This is useful and will become more useful as the event approaches.

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Quim Gil &lt;qgil(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: +1 welcome. My talk[1] is on Saturday after lunch, I plan to spend the most of Saturday in testing and automation devroom[2]. Bytenight Bye Bye Garage[3] on Saturday evening looks interesting. I have no plans for Sunday yet. > For starters, my jetlag and me will be at https://fosdem.org/2013/** > practical/beerevent/ <https://fosdem.org/2013/practical/beerevent/> on > Friday evening. +1. I should arrive to Brussels at 5:30pm. I will go to the hotel and then to the beer event. If anybody else arrives to Brussels around 5:30, we can go to the hotel together. My theory is that traveling in group increases chances of arriving to the destination. I guess we are all at the same hotel (NH Grand Place Arenberg). We can even go to the event together. Depending on how fast I get to the hotel I could go to the event around 7-8pm. Željko -- [1] https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/testing_mediawiki/ [2] https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/testing_and_automation/ [3] http://www.hackerspace.be/Bytenight_Bye_Bye_Garage _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Finne Boonen &lt;hennar(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: This is my first time at FOSDEM. Are you suggesting we should not go, or just to prepare? :)

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If you bring a good jacket, the street outside is fine for chats. And remember to add "with beer" in every sentence of this paragraph. :)

What about staying around on Saturday at 18h, after the sessions?

fwiw my session is on Sunday at 15:35 (Ferrer - Lightning sessions) and I will stay in Brussels on Sunday night, with free agenda so far.

from the FOSDEM ML: Should we grab one of these slots? Dear All, FOSDEM is nearing and it is promising to become awesome again. Like last year, we will provide two 'community meeting rooms' (formerly called BoF rooms). The concept is simple: any project/community can reserve a timeslot (15 minutes to an hour), during which they have the room just for them. It is meant for ad-hoc discussions, meet-ups or brainstorms. It is not a replacement for a devroom and it certainly is not meant for talks, so there will deliberately not be a projector. The rooms are cosy and small with around 30ish seats. Reservation can only be done on site and *during FOSDEM*. The reservation sheets are at the infodesk in the H building. The rooms are not far from that infodesk. Reservations are on a first-come, first-serve basis. See you soon, Tias

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Quim Gil &lt;qgil(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: Warm jacket and cold beer it is then. :) +1. I am also there on Sunday night, no plans so far. Željko _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

On 2-feb.-2013, at 13:12, Finne Boonen &lt;hennar(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

I grabbed community/BOF room 1 (h3227) tomorrow @ 12h for a meetup

I'm at Fosdem and would love to meet you all in person. Would it makes sense to meet outside the community dev room at 18:00 today Saturday? Julien _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

The FOSDEM video team had released this talk. You may visit the video URL here: http://video.fosdem.org/2013/lightningtalks/How_to_hack_on_Wikipedia.webm