Stand at FOSDEM

Stand at FOSDEM

[Philip Balister]

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It looks like FOSDEM is Feb 7-8 this year.

Do we want to do a stand again this year? Who would be interested in 
working on the stand?

Philip

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Re: Stand at FOSDEM

[Alessandro GARDICH]

Philip Balister wrote:
> It looks like FOSDEM is Feb 7-8 this year.
>
> Do we want to do a stand again this year? Who would be interested in 
> working on the stand?
>
> Philip
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mhhh really early this year ...
my intention is to attend at fosdem this year too
and if we have a stand I can help on it.



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Re: Stand at FOSDEM

[Phil Blundell]

On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 19:20 -0700, Philip Balister wrote:
> It looks like FOSDEM is Feb 7-8 this year.
> 
> Do we want to do a stand again this year? Who would be interested in 
> working on the stand?

Not that I want to pour cold water on any such plan, but personally I'm
not terribly convinced that a stand is very good value in terms of
benefits that it brings compared to the time taken to man it.  FOSDEM
represents one of the fairly rare occasions when you have a significant
number of developers all in one place and, face-to-face time being such
a scarce resource, I can't help thinking that there are probably better
things to do with it.

p.

Re: Stand at FOSDEM

[Philip Balister]

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Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 19:20 -0700, Philip Balister wrote:
>> It looks like FOSDEM is Feb 7-8 this year.
>>
>> Do we want to do a stand again this year? Who would be interested in 
>> working on the stand?
> 
> Not that I want to pour cold water on any such plan, but personally I'm
> not terribly convinced that a stand is very good value in terms of
> benefits that it brings compared to the time taken to man it.  FOSDEM
> represents one of the fairly rare occasions when you have a significant
> number of developers all in one place and, face-to-face time being such
> a scarce resource, I can't help thinking that there are probably better
> things to do with it.

So you are suggesting we request a devroom for some grooup hacking? Last 
year the stand was a mini devroom :)

Philip

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Re: Stand at FOSDEM

[Phil Blundell]

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 07:16 -0700, Philip Balister wrote:
> So you are suggesting we request a devroom for some grooup hacking? Last 
> year the stand was a mini devroom :)

Not necessarily for hacking as such, but yes: I think a devroom (either
dedicated, or as some kind of splinter faction of the embedded track)
would probably be more productive than a stand.

Alternatively we could set up an unofficial OE track in, say, the Cafe
de l'Université. :-)  Of course, downside there is no internet access.

p.

Re: Stand at FOSDEM

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

As much as I love getting in touch with "visitors", I have to share Phil's 
concerns.

I'm afraid though that we are too unimportant to qualify for a developer room. 
This and we would need to have a more formal program (presentations et. al.) 
than just a hackathon.

> Alternatively we could set up an unofficial OE track in, say, the Cafe
> de l'Université. :-)

This is a very good idea! Leffe...

:M:

Re: Stand at FOSDEM

[Philippe De Swert]

Hi peeps,

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 16:03 +0000, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 07:16 -0700, Philip Balister wrote:
> > So you are suggesting we request a devroom for some grooup hacking? Last 
> > year the stand was a mini devroom :)
> 
> Not necessarily for hacking as such, but yes: I think a devroom (either
> dedicated, or as some kind of splinter faction of the embedded track)
> would probably be more productive than a stand.

Depending on the quality and amount of presentations in the embedded
devroom, I could always try to make some room on Sunday morning for OE.
Of course I am not the only one to decide on this, so I cannot make any
promises. But given a decent proposal this could be considered.

> Alternatively we could set up an unofficial OE track in, say, the Cafe
> de l'Université. :-)  Of course, downside there is no internet access.

It should be possible to track down a pub/bar/brasserie with Wifi in
Brussels.

Cheers,

Philippe