[OSM-dev] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: FOSDEM calls for devroom organizers and main track speakers

Mon Aug 13 11:15:30 BST 2012

I'm adding talk-be to this discussion.

I'm living 30km from Brussels, so I can easily come to help with a stand or
a dev room. Last year I helped out at the Openstreetmap stand and there was
definitely an interest in the project.

Do you see a stand in a dev room as some sort of mapping party or an actual
effort to create/discuss code of editors/renderers/PostGIS and the like?

Polyglot

2012/8/13 Katie Filbert <filbertk at gmail.com>

> Would OSM folks be interested in being part of a devroom at FOSDEM?  It
> could make sense to partner with the Wikimedia folks?
>
> Who typically handles stuff like this?  I've not been to FOSDEM yet but
> probably will go this year.
>
> Cheers,
> Katie
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Arthur Richards <arichards at wikimedia.org>
> Date: Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 8:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: FOSDEM calls for devroom organizers and
> main track speakers
> To: Siebrand <Mazeland at xs4all.nl>, Wikimedia developers <
> wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Cc: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>
>
> 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.nl>
> wrote:
> > Forwarded from FOSDEM at lists.fosdem.org. 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.org>
> > Date:    Sun, August 12, 2012 14:40
> > To:      "Fosdem Announce" <fosdem at lists.fosdem.org>
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > <<< 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.org
> >
> >
> > *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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