On 10/21/12 11:06 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 16/10/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: >> I've asked the organizers to inform us about their decisions. I expect >> to receive news in the next days; I'll keep you informed when I do. > > I received the answer just a few minutes ago: organizers decided to give > OpenOffice its own devroom, which will be available all day Saturday (2 > Feb 2013). Now we will have to organize a call for talks and so on, but > this is not urgent. As agreed with the FOSDEM organizers, I'm reposting > their answer in public, see below.
ok, a little bit surprising but a clear signal. We should try to find out if other Apache projects will be there as well and if we can share a booth with them. Having a booth is a good opportunity to talk with people and to answer questions. Juergen > > Regards, > Andrea. > > --- > > Dear Andrea, > > Thank you for considering a merged devroom with LibreOffice. After some > internal discussion, we have come to the conclusion that perhaps the > best way to foster collaboration and cross-polination between AOO and LO > is not to force a merged devroom, but rather to give each projects its > own room on a different day. We hope both communities will use this > opportunity in the best way possible. > > It is hence our pleasure to inform you that your request for a devroom > at FOSDEM 2013 has been accepted. > > > We offer you the following: > - a room on Saturday > - with video projector and best effort wifi > - in building AW (76 seats) > > We must add that as in previous years, visitor interest will outnumber > room capacity for most devrooms. We can not offer you larger rooms -- > instead we will provide you with signalization to indicate that the room > is full. > > If you prefer to decline this offer, please inform us as soon as possible. > > > By accepting this offer, you accept to be responsible for this devroom. > This means to spread a call for papers in your community, compose a > schedule, and provide us with that information. It also includes on-site > responsibilities such as making sure the capacity limit is respected and > that the devroom is clean by the end of the day. > > > Next: call for talks > -------------------- > We invite you to send an open call for talks to relevant mailinglists. > Please include a copy to fos...@lists.fosdem.org > We will collect all the calls on our website. > > Regarding content and format, you are free to schedule your devroom as > you wish. > Do allow us to repeat the obvious: FOSDEM is a FOSS community event, by > and for the community, and the content and topics _must_ reflect that > (arguably, that is pretty obvious). > > > We offer you a name-devr...@fosdem.org mailman mailinglist, in case you > want to have a mailinglist 'on neutral grounds'. This can be especially > interesting for joint devrooms. > Contact us to take on this offer. > > > Deadlines > --------- > The hard deadline for sending us the full schedule is *2013-01-10*. > > For your own call for talks, we advise mid-december as deadline, with > notifications to the speakers around christmas. (The sooner, the more > time they have to book travel/accomodation). > > > > Lastly, we wish to clarify that there are no reimbursements of travel or > hotel costs for devroom organizers/speakers. > > > And, of course, if you have any questions, please do contact us at > devro...@fosdem.org > > > Looking forward to your participation, > On behalf of the FOSDEM devroom team, > Tias >
