Hi Duncan, Please contact the TPF and let them know how many hours a week you are able to commit to helping co-ordinate this sort of thing.
Leo On 26 Jan 2013, at 11:25, Duncan Garland <duncan.garl...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Isn't this something TPF should get behind? > > The Perl Community organises good conferences but they tend to be for quite > small audiences. I've been told that YAPC Tokyo is the biggest with roughly > 800 attendees and the next biggest ones are grouped around the 300 mark. > > Fosdem claims to attract 5000. > > We always talk about breaking out of the echo chamber, but never seem sure > about how to do it. Isn't this an important opportunity? > > Shouldn't TPF commit to sponsoring this today and then launch a drive to > find a commercial sponsor to reimburse TPF? > > (Perl still isn't listed on https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/ as having a > developer room.) > > Regards > > Duncan > > -----Original Message----- > From: london.pm-boun...@london.pm.org > [mailto:london.pm-boun...@london.pm.org] On Behalf Of Wendy G.A. van Dijk > Sent: 25 January 2013 20:41 > To: london.pm@london.pm.org > Subject: We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for Papers! > > Hello all, > We know it is late, but we still have to try to make this work. > Maybe to save the honour and pride of Perl! :-) Would you like to give a > presentation in Brussels, please send me and/or Claudio a proposal. > Today or tomorrow please. > Thanks! > Kind regards, > Wendy van Dijk > > ======== > > Dear Perl Mongers, > > I have to make this short and simple. > Therefore most of this email is copied from last year's Call for Speakers. > > What? Fosdem, Brussels, 2 & 3 february 2013 https://fosdem.org/2013/ > > Where? Free University Brussels, Campus Solbosh: > https://fosdem.org/2013/practical/transportation/ > > Why so late? > Because our dev-room request was denied at first. > They gave it to another programming language community. > Now another community could not fill their dev-room. > We are Perl, so we jumped in and we asked for this. > We got it. Now we have to fill it. > > So be quick and send in your presentation proposal. > > To: > Claudio Ramirez (nxadm, email: padre.claudio at apt-get.be) and Wendy van > Dijk (email: nl.pm at wendy.org). > > Thank you. Hope to meet you all in Brussels. > > > __________________________________________________ > > Copied and adapted from last year's Call for Speakers: > > > Please forward to your Perl contacts. > > __________________________________________________ > > > Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels (Belgium), FOSDEM is the > biggest free and non-commercial European event organized by and for the > community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers a place to > meet (see http://fosdem.org/2013/). > > Over the last years the Perl community had an increasing presence at FOSDEM. > Over the last two years we managed to have both a booth and a dev-room. We > collected an impressive positive return and wish to renew the experience. > > Our dev-room request for this upcoming edition (2013) was at first rejected, > in favor of another programming language community. > So we would only have a booth. But another open source community could not > fill their dev-room and we hastily requested it for the Perl-community. > Yesterday we got approval. > > The stand request is approved some time ago. The stand will be open > throughout the weekend. The dev-room event will take place Saturday, > February 2nd 2013 , between 11:00 and 19:00, in room AW.126. > The room itself has 75 seats, WIFI and a VGA projector. > > This environment, being a university classroom with raised seats, lends > itself perfectly for talks. This is a wonderful opportunity to present your > Perl project -big and small- or talk about subjects you care about. We are > looking for a variety of subjects on all levels: > starter and advanced, generic and specialized, core internals and CPAN. We > have 8 hours time, so we have the flexibility of using different time > formats: e.g. talks of 20 minutes, more classic talks of 40 minutes or > longer (although we learned from experience that longer talks should be > split into slices of 20 or 40 minutes). > > Please don't doubt to send a proposal (information about yourself, subject, > short description and time needed). If you have several subjects you are > enthusiastic to talk about please send alternative proposals. In the case > more than one talk is not selected, your proposal will help us when putting > the schedule together and even have backup talks in case someone cancels. > Also mention your time constraints (if any). > > Please send your talk proposal by e-mail to the address below as soon as you > read this. You will receive an answer within 2 days. > We will submit a definitive schedule on Sunday 2013-01-27 to the FOSDEM > organizers. > > Please forward / distribute this call as wide as possible (certainly to your > local mongers). > > Claudio Ramirez (nxadm, email: padre.claudio at apt-get.be) and Wendy van > Dijk (email: nl.pm at wendy.org). > > NB1: This is a community event without sponsoring. We don't have the means > to pay for your trip and time. If you want to sponsor part of the event, > please feel free to contact us. > > NB2: We'll also appreciate volunteers, booth and dev-room. Please tell us > your availabilities so we can also prepare a planning for this. > > >