On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Martin Hammitzsch <martin.hammitz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Johan, > > I am bit lost in understanding the format of devrooms. First I was > thinking of a space where developers meet for pitching their ideas and > forming groups to get their hands dirty in 1-3 days of collaborative > ideas generation, of drafting concepts, and of programming. But then I > read something about talks and checked the schedule of FOSDEM 2014 - > it seems that a devroom is something similar to a session or track we > know from other conferences and thus contains lots of talks instead of > programming. However, at least the talks seem to be from programmers > for programmers. Nevertheless, I am a bit confused. > > I very much like the idea of a geospatial devroom. But I would be > happy to clarify first what format you and others have in mind - just > talks, unconference, hackdays, ..., a mix of it? Please let me know > what you have in mind. >
Martin, Thanks for your comments. I've been at FOSDEM so many years that I just assumed everyone would understand. Indeed, until now most devrooms were more or less like conference talks, but as you say from developer to developer. I think we should more or less keep to this type of schedule if we want to attract people from other projects to the room. If we just don't have something catchy on the schedule people from outside our projects may be unlikely to join. This being said I think we could definitely add one timeslot where everyone in the room can present quickly his ideas. Or timeslots where we can have a collaborative discussion eg "Let's build openaerialmap". I think it would be useful to have at least timeslots with a title and a description for the schedule to lure in other developers. Everything above is just my opinion and I should add that I little or no experience with going to any unconferences/... and I'm really open to any other suggestions and ideas. Johan _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk