Fwd: [FOSDEM] News : Call For Developer Rooms

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

The FOSDEM call for developer rooms is out. As the conditions for  
requests state there's a preference for requests with a general  
topic, e.g. from projects with similar goals/domains. So I guess a  
joint application of GNUstep, Étoilé and OpenGroupware.org (Helge, is  
this o.k.?) like last year would be the best. Maybe we can find some  
other projects with some relation to GNUstep to join in. Any ideas?  
Window Maker comes to my mind here. Is somebody in contact with those  
guys? Who else could join in?

I think this is also an occasion to talk about reasons why  
*especially we* would need a dev-room (For instance: "we deliver  
cross platform developer tools so a developers conference is the best  
place to make those known"). I will submit the best reasons with our  
application for the room.

Please discuss.

When we reach some agrement I am ready to submit our proposal. That  
has to happen before 2009-11-22.


Thanks,

        Lars

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> 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@fosdem.org [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
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> 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@fosdem.org
>
>
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