It would be awesome if we could put together a devroom at FOSDEM. Over the last couple of years, FOSDEM has become my favorite conference. The ethos of the conference is fantastic - totally grassroots, transparent, and open. It draws an unbelievable crowd. The technical breadth and depth of the talks is generally impressive. And the Wikimedia/Mediawiki-related talks pack the rooms - at least they did the last couple of years. We should have a much bigger presence at this event - from my perspective, it seems like it is a fantastic learning, community building, and recruiting opportunity - perhaps even more so than most of the other conferences at which we have a presence.
If folks think this would be something cool to do, it might also be worth teaming with some other similarly-minded orgs with some overlap - like Mozilla, Creative Commons, OLPC, CiviCRM, etc. From the invitation for proposals, it sounds like this would increase our odds at securing a devroom, it would certainly help us further cross-pollinate, and ultimately strengthen the broader open source community. What do you all think? Arthur On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Siebrand Mazeland <s.mazel...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > Forwarded from fos...@lists.fosdem.org. Subscribe at > https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/fosdem. > > Siebrand > > > ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- > Subject: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM calls for devroom organizers and main track speakers > From: "Tias Guns" <t...@fosdem.org> > Date: Sun, August 12, 2012 14:40 > To: "Fosdem Announce" <fos...@lists.fosdem.org> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > <<< help spread the word and make FOSDEM awesome >>> > > > FOSDEM is a non-commercial event offering open source communities a > place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renowned for being > highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ geeks from all over > the world. FOSDEM will take place in Brussels, Belgium on the 2nd and > 3rd of February 2013. > > We invite proposals for *devrooms* and *main track talks*: > > > *Main Track Talks* > The main tracks host high-quality seminars for a broad and technical > audience. Every track is organized around a theme (security, kernel, > collaboration, ...). They are held in the two biggest auditoria and last > 50 minutes. Each of the talks is given by a speaker who gets their > travel and accommodation costs reimbursed. > > To apply for a FOSDEM Main Track talk, visit > https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_main_speakers.html > > To suggest a main track speaker that we should invite, mail > prog...@fosdem.org > > > *Devrooms* > A devroom is a 'developer room' in which open source communities can > organize their own schedule, made of presentations, brainstorming and > hacking sessions. Our goal is to stimulate developer collaboration and > cross-pollination between projects. > > Each year we receive more requests than we can host. To better achieve > our goals, preference will be given to *proposals involving multiple, > collaborating projects*. Projects with similar goals/domains that make > separate requests will be asked to co-organize a devroom under their > common theme. > > To propose organizing a devroom, visit > https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_devrooms.html > > Note! Linux distributions should apply to the dedicated distribution > mini-conference: > https://fosdem.org/2013/distrominiconf.html > > > *Key Dates* > - 1 October: deadline for devroom proposals > - mid October: devroom announcements > - 1 November: deadline main track proposals > - mid November: main track announcements > - 2 and 3 February: FOSDEM 2013 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Arthur Richards Software Engineer, Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
