On 2009-10-26, Siebrand Mazeland wrote: > Forwarding a post with a call for developer rooms at FOSDEM 2010 (2010-02-06 > to 2009-02-07). Last year we made a request for a dev room and it was denied. > > A question and a proposal, in case the question is to be answered with 'yes': > > Q: Would we like MediaWiki to be present at FOSDEM 2010?
There are many European developers, and the success of the Berlin meetup suggests doing something at FOSDEM would be worthwhile. > P: I would like to try and make a proposal with other CMS projects (like > Joomla, Drupal, Typo3, Wordpress, etc.) for a dev room. Reason for not > applying for a "MediaWiki dev room' is that I expect that this will not be > honored because it has too tight a scope. I spoke to one of the people of the > program committee last year, and I was advised to find a broader scope. > Alternatively we could request a dev room with other wiki engines (tikiwiki, > docuwiki, etc.). Personally I have no preference on which projects we would > cooperate with, just as long as we will make a proposal that will get us the > best chance to have a presence at FOSDEM 2010. Open to suggestions... I spent a bit of time discussing this with you and a few of the FOSDEM staff a while ago and this seems like the best way to do it. > Additionally, I would like a reply from people interested in coordination of > the talks in this event. In case we would get a dev room together with the > other CMS/wiki projects, I would expect that we would have slots for ~4 talks > on MediaWiki, and possibly one or two talks in cooperation with the other > projects on common problems/solutions/whatever. I will be coming to FOSDEM '10 and am interested in helping to coordinate talks. -- Robert Leverington http://rhl.me.uk/
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