On 2009-10-26, Siebrand Mazeland wrote:
Forwarding a post with a call for developer rooms at
FOSDEM 2010 (2010-02-06
to 2009-02-07). Last year we made a request for a dev room and it was denied.
A question and a proposal, in case the question is to be answered with 'yes':
Q: Would we like MediaWiki to be present at FOSDEM 2010?
There are many European developers, and the success of the Berlin meetup
suggests doing something at FOSDEM would be worthwhile.
P: I would like to try and make a proposal with other
CMS projects (like
Joomla, Drupal, Typo3, Wordpress, etc.) for a dev room. Reason for not
applying for a "MediaWiki dev room' is that I expect that this will not be
honored because it has too tight a scope. I spoke to one of the people of the
program committee last year, and I was advised to find a broader scope.
Alternatively we could request a dev room with other wiki engines (tikiwiki,
docuwiki, etc.). Personally I have no preference on which projects we would
cooperate with, just as long as we will make a proposal that will get us the
best chance to have a presence at FOSDEM 2010. Open to suggestions...
I spent a bit of time discussing this with you and a few of the FOSDEM
staff a while ago and this seems like the best way to do it.
Additionally, I would like a reply from people
interested in coordination of
the talks in this event. In case we would get a dev room together with the
other CMS/wiki projects, I would expect that we would have slots for ~4 talks
on MediaWiki, and possibly one or two talks in cooperation with the other
projects on common problems/solutions/whatever.
I will be coming to FOSDEM '10 and am interested in helping to
coordinate talks.
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Robert Leverington
http://rhl.me.uk/