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Aug 13, 2012, 1:01 PM
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Re: Fwd: FOSDEM calls for devroom organizers and main track speakers
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\o/ huzzah!
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Tomasz Finc <tfinc [at] wikimedia> wrote:
> Good news on this. I've been pitching this at the foundation ever
> since the last FOSDEM conference and Erik has green lit budget for it.
> We've been going back and forth with the organizers over the last
> couple of months to better understand what's possible. I imagine this
> will be similar to a dev room / presentation track like Mozilla does
> each year.
>
> I'll let Erik jump in with the details but rest assured I've been
> making sure this happens.
>
> Stay tuned for more info.
>
> --tomasz
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Arthur Richards
> <arichards [at] wikimedia> wrote:
>> 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.mazeland [at] xs4all> wrote:
>>> Forwarded from FOSDEM [at] lists 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" <tias [at] fosdem>
>>> Date: Sun, August 12, 2012 14:40
>>> To: "Fosdem Announce" <fosdem [at] lists>
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> <<< 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
>>> program [at] fosdem
>>>
>>>
>>> *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
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
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