On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
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
FOSDEM's lightning talk isn't a format really targeted to big projects.
There are to very small / personal projects, idea, new softwares and general thoughts.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM/2013_-_DevRoom_-_Qgil
A lot better.
The FOSDEM is also populated by people (including CS or IT students) to get involved in a project (outreach effort). They go to dev rooms to assist to the talks who attract them (virtually only projects contributors attend only once devroom, other visitors go from one to another).
If someone else is thinking about submitting a MediaWiki related proposal please share your plans in the wiki page.
We have one full day of talks to give.
When you send the proposal, as we're very short for delays please already include the information asked by FOSDEM team: * Your name * The title of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be listed with ~250 from other projects) * A short abstract of one to two paragraphs * A short biography introducing yourself * Links to related websites/blogs etc.
Ideal duration: 1h