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Re: [Ghm-discuss] FOSDEM organisation
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Jose E. Marchesi |
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Re: [Ghm-discuss] FOSDEM organisation |
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Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:17:29 +0200 |
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Hi Alex.
OK, just checked the FOSDEM site and it seems the deadline for Devroom
proposals is 15 September… So first of all, apologies for not getting my
act together sooner. That being out of the way, do we have a template
(maybe last year's?) that I could heavily lean on to submit for this
year?
I'm mostly angling for a response from you José, as if I remember
correctly you coordinated last year's GNU devroom?
I coordinated the devroom two years ago. This is what I sent as the
proposal:
- Devroom name.
GNU.
- Devroom description:
The GNU Project is a community of maintainers, developers, translators,
webmasters and document writers whose first task is the development of
the GNU Operating System. The GNU Project maintains and develop more
than 370 programs and libraries covering a broad set of applications,
from system libraries and compilers to video games and desktop
environments.
We envision two primary goals in having a development room at FOSDEM.
While the primary motivation for most of the people working in the GNU
Project is philosophical (i.e. the ethical considerations that drive the
Free Software movement) technical excellence is an important requirement
in the maintenance of an operating system composed by hundreds of
different packages. GNU programs shall feature a high degree of
cohesion in order to work properly. The GNU Coding Standards and the
GNU Maintainers Guide define some practices and guidelines that
maintainers and developers should follow to achieve the needed level of
integrity. Many of those guidelines are implemented in the GNU
infrastructure packages. Packages like the autotools, gnulib or Guile
fall in that category. The first goal of the GNU devroom is to promote
discussion on the advancement of both the guidelines and the packages
implementing them. Maintainers of some of the infrastructure packages
are expected to attend the event and to organize activities in the
devroom.
The second goal is to strength the community of maintainers and
developers. Recent experiences in the organization of GNU Hackers
Meeting (see the Related URLs for more information on the GHMs) proved
that it is extremely useful and productive to get the hackers to meet in
person. Additionally, we aim to find hackers interested in joining us
in the development of GNU. They will be able to talk with experienced
GNU maintainers and developers and get a good picture on how we work and
organize.
- Related URLs
GNU Project: http://www.gnu.org
Last GNU Hacker Meeting: http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2010/denhaag/
- Responsible for the devroom
+ Name: Jose E. Marchesi
+ Email: jemarch at gnu.org
- Preferred day.
No preference, but see the Comments/remarks.
- Comments/remarks.
Some major GNU projects may have dedicated devrooms. It would be
interesting to schedule the GNU devroom in a way they don't collide.
That would allow the maintainers and developers of these projects to
contribute in the GNU devroom.
- [Ghm-discuss] FOSDEM organisation, Alex Sassmannshausen, 2013/09/11
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] FOSDEM organisation,
Jose E. Marchesi <=
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] FOSDEM organisation, Luca Saiu, 2013/09/12
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] FOSDEM organisation, alex sassmannshausen, 2013/09/12
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] FOSDEM organisation, Alex Sassmannshausen, 2013/09/14
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] FOSDEM organisation, Luca Saiu, 2013/09/14
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] FOSDEM organisation, Luca Saiu, 2013/09/14
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] FOSDEM organisation, Ludovic Courtès, 2013/09/14
- Re: [Ghm-discuss] FOSDEM organisation, Alex Sassmannshausen, 2013/09/14