I have been organising the fosdem devroom for Xorg for many years now, but i am kind of tired of begging and scraping together talks to fill out a rather well-visited devroom. I feel it is better to only spend sunday on Xorg and would like to organise a coreboot devroom on saturday instead. It will be just as much, or even less organisational labour for me, and this way the coreboot can have saturday afternoon for a cool devroom on the coolest open source conference around.
Saturday means that we have 5 talk slots, and i would like to see at least a few general talks, one general about coreboot, one about flashrom (i think carldaniel has already "volunteered" for that one) and one about SerialICE. And then we have 2 more slots where we can take another topic further in depth.
When i say general here, you don't have to worry about staying shallow, the average fosdem visitor is a very experienced user and often a developer and is not afraid of technical stuff. General talks about the 3 main topics mean: start off general, then dive into the nitty-gritty, but the situation of coreboot, and the two sideprojects, is that people are not that well informed about these projects (it is not something that everyone has been exposed to in daily free software use).
Now, why should we do this? Because we really reach a cool audience here who will be contributing to the projects later on. It's also a nice place to meet up with current contributors. And when the coreboot devroom is not on, you can of course go and visit the massive selection of other talks and other projects represented at FOSDEM. And when the event is over, you get some known people together and go and eat well in brussels.
Fosdem website is here: http://www.fosdem.org you can still check the shedules for the previous years.
For those who are interested in coming; you are responsible for your own expenses, but FOSDEM is an amazingly good value event. No other conference i have visited has given me more knowledge, contacts, or motivation than FOSDEM.
I currently do not need to know who will be holding which talk, i just need to know that there is enough interest in this, so i can write up my proposal (due sunday). If we can get a few of the core european developers to come to brussels that weekend, then some can be blackmailed into holding talks (:)), and then the whole thing will be a success.
Get me some shouts asap, because if i don't get any, i'll just do the usual Xorg thing, but without begging this year.
Luc Verhaegen.
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 07:49:19PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
I have been organising the fosdem devroom for Xorg for many years now, but i am kind of tired of begging and scraping together talks to fill out a rather well-visited devroom. I feel it is better to only spend sunday on Xorg and would like to organise a coreboot devroom on saturday instead. It will be just as much, or even less organisational labour for me, and this way the coreboot can have saturday afternoon for a cool devroom on the coolest open source conference around.
Saturday means that we have 5 talk slots, and i would like to see at least a few general talks, one general about coreboot, one about flashrom (i think carldaniel has already "volunteered" for that one) and one about SerialICE. And then we have 2 more slots where we can take another topic further in depth.
When i say general here, you don't have to worry about staying shallow, the average fosdem visitor is a very experienced user and often a developer and is not afraid of technical stuff. General talks about the 3 main topics mean: start off general, then dive into the nitty-gritty, but the situation of coreboot, and the two sideprojects, is that people are not that well informed about these projects (it is not something that everyone has been exposed to in daily free software use).
Now, why should we do this? Because we really reach a cool audience here who will be contributing to the projects later on. It's also a nice place to meet up with current contributors. And when the coreboot devroom is not on, you can of course go and visit the massive selection of other talks and other projects represented at FOSDEM. And when the event is over, you get some known people together and go and eat well in brussels.
Fosdem website is here: http://www.fosdem.org you can still check the shedules for the previous years.
For those who are interested in coming; you are responsible for your own expenses, but FOSDEM is an amazingly good value event. No other conference i have visited has given me more knowledge, contacts, or motivation than FOSDEM.
I currently do not need to know who will be holding which talk, i just need to know that there is enough interest in this, so i can write up my proposal (due sunday). If we can get a few of the core european developers to come to brussels that weekend, then some can be blackmailed into holding talks (:)), and then the whole thing will be a success.
Get me some shouts asap, because if i don't get any, i'll just do the usual Xorg thing, but without begging this year.
Luc Verhaegen.
Seems Peter Stuge didn't need much blackmailing already :)
Come on people, we can get this thing rolling.
Luc Verhaegen.
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger, Peter Stuge, Rudolf Marek are all going to be there, and that means that there is enough response from some prominent developers for me to go ahead and request a devroom.
When i get it, and there is a very good chance for that, you'll hear some more noise surrounding this in the coming weeks :)
Luc Verhaegen.
On 22.11.2009 12:56, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger, Peter Stuge, Rudolf Marek are all going to be there, and that means that there is enough response from some prominent developers for me to go ahead and request a devroom.
It would be great if the devroom was on Saturday.
Regards, Carl-Daniel
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 01:13:21PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
On 22.11.2009 12:56, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger, Peter Stuge, Rudolf Marek are all going to be there, and that means that there is enough response from some prominent developers for me to go ahead and request a devroom.
It would be great if the devroom was on Saturday.
Regards, Carl-Daniel
Yeah, that is the plan, and either i get the whole thing denied (unlikely) or we will have coreboot on saturday and X.org on sunday.
The real big question mark for me is whether i get this as two different places, in which case, i have a lot more work, or i get the easy way out and can just keep my stuff (powercables/plugs, posters) in one room.
So you do not have to worry there, either we get the devroom, or we don't, either way you can have sunday morning off :)
Luc Verhaegen.
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