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Oct 26, 2009, 2:05 AM
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FW: [FOSDEM] News : Call For Developer Rooms
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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?
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...
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.
As stated below, if we want to have a chance at getting a dev room, we need to
submit a proposal before 2009-11-22. IMO this means that we have to reach
consensus on our course of action within a week, so we can get into contact
with the other projects we would like to participate with for our request.
Reply clearly, reply quickly.
Cheers!
Siebrand
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Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 1:28 AM
To: fosdem [at] lists
Subject: [FOSDEM] News : Call For Developer Rooms
A *devroom* is a room in which projects can organize their own schedule made
of presentations, brainstorming and hacking sessions. Our goal is to
stimulate developer collaboration and cross-pollination between projects, and
as such we strongly favor projects with similar goals and domains to host a
devroom together.
*Distribution projects:* As every year we only have a limited number of
rooms, yet every year more and more individual distributions request a
Developer Room at FOSDEM. We do not want to have to choose between them, but
instead push our mission of a collaboration platform and cross-pollination
even further. We will host mixed distribution rooms where talks and sessions
will be organized *by topic*. Contributors from all distributions are welcome
to join in order to participate, attend, propose topics and sessions. To do
so, please subscribe to the distro mailinglist [1].
.... What we offer:
* a room on Saturday and/or Sunday,
* a video projector (with VGA cable)
* power (C/E plugs)
* wired (RJ-45) network with Internet access at the speaker's desk,
* best-effort shared wireless Internet access (a and b),
* publication of the schedule on the FOSDEM website, including speaker bios
and talk abstracts.
.... Conditions for requests:
* preference for requests with a general topic, eg. from projects with
similar goals/domains,
* be involved in Free or Opensource Software (the projects produce and
release software under an opensource license or otherwise contributes to
opensource activities and communities),
* send us a devroom request before 2009-11-22 as described below,
Distribution talks are organized collectively on the distro mailinglist [2].
Others can request a devroom by submitting the form below. For further
questions, contact devrooms [at] fosdem [3].
The number of available rooms is limited so the FOSDEM organization will
select the proposals that can get a devroom.
*Key Dates:*
2009-11-22: Deadline for devroom requests
2009-11-29: Acceptance notification of devrooms
2010-02-06 to 2009-02-07: FOSDEM 2010
-------- DEVROOM REQUEST FORM
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For more information, or to fill in the form check out:
http://www.fosdem.org/2010/call-developer-rooms
[1] http://lists.fosdem.org/mailman/listinfo/dist2010
[2] http://lists.fosdem.org/mailman/listinfo/dist2010
[3] mailto:devrooms [at] fosdem
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