Wed, 14 Jan 2009
FOSDEM Devroom schedule
I just mailed the schedule for the FOSDEM '09 Debian Devroom to the -events-eu mailinglist.
Also note that Bdale Garbee will be doing a Debian keynote talk on saturday morning.
Sun, 11 Jan 2009
FOSDEM 2009: Debian talk schedule almost ready
Lessons learned: using the phrase third, final, and slightly desperate is an excellent way to motivate people into reacting to your Call for Talks. I've even had to reject some people now, unfortunately.
Maybe next year, I'll use that phrase in my first call for talks.
Then again, maybe not.
Anyway, of course that does mean that there are no slots available anymore. If you wanted to hold a talk in the Debian devroom, you've had plenty of opportunity and will now have to wait until next year.
There are still some minor loose ends that need to be filled in (of course there are always people who will wait until the very last moment to send mails they need to send... including me), but once that's done, I'll announce the schedule on the -events-eu mailinglist, and probably here too. And if you're worried that the word 'desperate' perhaps got us some boring talks in the end, don't be; the talks that are on the schedule are, I hope, all very interesting. Watch this space!
So, things left to do, in no particular order:
- Do a schedule for talk announcers. There's enough volunteers now, I only need to assign slots.
- Come up with something cool for the booth. There's going to be T-shirts, as always, but more things are always welcome.
- Booth volunteers. Since I haven't been at the booth much during these past few FOSDEMs, and since two years ago it turned out that my 'great idea' about organising that wasn't such a great idea after all, I did the right thing and decided to delegate organising the volunteers to someone else. That someone else is Nattie; so if you want to help out at the booth, be sure to contact her.
That's it for now, I guess. Back to your regularly-scheduled flamewar.
Fri, 03 Nov 2006
FOSDEM Call For Talks for the Debian Devroom
I just (well, over an hour ago by now) sent out the Call for Talks for the Debian Devroom at the upcoming FOSDEM. If you're interested in giving a talk there, now would be a good time to let me know.
Sun, 29 Oct 2006
Sharing a Developer's room with Ubuntu at the next FOSDEM?
I've been asked whether the Debian project would agree to sharing a Devroom with the Ubuntu folks at the next FOSDEM in Brussels.
If you have an opinion on that, please reply to the mail I just sent to the debian-events-eu mailinglist about that subject.
Fri, 13 Oct 2006
FOSDEM 2007
So it's autumn again, which means that the organization of FOSDEM is going to start its work again. I haven't been doing much in the central organization; however, I have been organizing the Debian presence there since 2004.
This year, organizing FOSDEM will have an extra interesting
edge, since they had a rather dramatic disc failure on their webserver
and no backups, meaning, they'll have to build a new website. Apparently
they chose to use Drupal (a project which occasionally was started by
fellow Antwerp developer Dries
Buytaert) rather than reinstalling their homebrewn CMS again.
Anyway. A few weeks back I sent an SMS to the guy who did the Devrooms on FOSDEM side last year, asking whether I could get one for Debian this year, seen how their site was down and that they might've lost my contact information. Yesterday, I received a reply that he wanted an email instead. Fair enough, so I did that immediately. Haven't received a reply or an acknowledgement yet, though; that may not have been unexpected.
In any case, I updated the website, which should be enough for now. Let's see what happens.
Some mail is welcome in /dev/null. Real mail, however, is welcome at my email address
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