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@xs4all.nl wrote:
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---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM calls for devroom organizers and main track speakers From: "Tias Guns" tias@fosdem.org Date: Sun, August 12, 2012 14:40 To: "Fosdem Announce" fosdem@lists.fosdem.org
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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@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
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