[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting Roadmap Sprint 2023 on the Opportunity Open Source in the IIT Mandi in India

[Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>]

Hi,

with the DebConf being in India, and so me having already one reason to 
travel to India, Aveek and me have decided to meet most of our current 
and former contributors in-person and motivate the students, professors, 
researchers to join the community of developers, designers, doc writers, 
... in a 2-1/2-day conference, the "Opportunity Open Source". As most of 
our contributors are studying in the Indian Institute of Technology 
(IIT) Mandi, in the north of India, not far from Delhi, we have selected 
this place to run the conference.

There we will talk with them about their GSoC experience on a panel, 
have a GSoC Q&A session, and the contributors presenting their work. By 
a Call for Proposals we hope to get a wide range of more contributions.

And for attendees getting some real-life experience and for us getting 
audience contributing to our discussions we are running this year's 
OpenPrinting Roadmap Sprint on the conference and attendees can 
participate in the discussion and planning of the next 12 months in 
printing and scanning.

We will also live-stream and record everything and allow remote 
participation.

This way we also overcome the fact that Linux Plumbers clashes with the 
PWG meeting in November and that we did not get any audience on the 
previous Plumbers.

The conference will start with our OpenPrinting Roadmap Sprint 2023 on

     Friday, September 8, 4pm - 8pm IST (UTC+5:30, 10:30am - 2:30pm UTC)

and continue with the main conference sessions on Saturday and Sunday, 
most probably 9am-6pm IST (exact time determined by amount of sessions 
scheduled).

The Roadmap Sprint will serve the same purpose as our micro-conferences 
in the previous years. We will discuss and plan on all the areas of work 
at OpenPrinting. So principally the sessions should be again a short 
talk with following discussion, but as we are not at Plumbers, rules are 
not that strict and so if you want to give a regular talk this is no 
problem for one or another session (Ira).

The conference web site is here:

     https://events.canonical.com/e/mandi2023

To plan the Roadmap Sprint, please write up what you want to talk 
about/discuss and submit it to the Call for Abstracts, and choose 
"OpenPrinting Roadmap Sprint" as the track.

As contribution type choose "BoF" when it is mostly discussion, as we 
had on Plumbers and one of the talk formats if you want to give a talk. 
The times are mostly a hint, we will adjust the times when scheduling 
the Sprint, to get the best from the 4 hours.

The scheduling we will discuss here on the list and also in our monthly 
video meetings.

Remote speaking is encouraged and allowed. We will also stream and 
record the Sprint (and also the other conference days). Aveek, me, and 
our GSoC contributors/mentors will be in-person in the room.

All the other tracks in the Call for Abstracts are for Saturday and 
Sunday, you can also submit there if you want to present to a wider 
audience and/or something not fitting into the Roadmap Sprint and you 
are attending in-person or willing to remote-speak on a weekend day.

So let us have a great Roadmap Sprint ...

    Till