Re: FOSDEM 2010 devroom list is available

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Hi folks,

I am still waiting for an official acceptance or (more likely it  
seems) rejection mail from FOSDEM. I already pinged the person in  
charge for the devrooms on that but got no reply as of now.

Now Nikolaus has already let the unpleasant news out of the bag:

Am 01.12.2009 um 14:56 schrieb hns@computer.org:

> http://www.fosdem.org/2010/list-devrooms-their-call-talks
>
> but where is GNUstep?
>
> Nikolaus

So I guess there's no devroom at FOSDEM 2010 for us. Sorry folks,  
projects like Jabber/XMPP and NoSQL seem to be more important than  
us. Why there's Crossdesktop (a collaboration across, but not limited  
to, KDE, GNOME and XFCE) and still a single room for each KDE and  
GNOME I also don't know.


What can we do now?

- we can have some sort of unofficial meeting, e.g. just meeting each  
other (and maybe have a dinner together) without having a devroom.
- people who want to give a talk could still sign up for lightning  
talks: http://www.fosdem.org/2010/call_for_lightningtalks - everybody  
has to do that individually.
- we could try to join other projects' devroom efforts, I guess for  
instance Nikolaus could try to come to an agreement with the Embedded/ 
Mobile devroom folks, whereas Étoilé maybe would fit in the  
Crossdesktop room. GNUstep could make friends with the folks of the  
Mono Developer Room (just kidding ;-))

I am somewhat sad and disappointed about this outcome, but whatever,  
the world goes on and we can try again next year. Maybe we see this  
as a chance to get our act together a little bit better (/me looks at  
our website for instance).

So now that I have time (and finally bought a big external hard disk)  
I can finish editing the videos from last year and upload those on  
vimeo or the like later.


see you,

        Lars