Hi all,
I just wanted to give a little status update on FOSDEM.
The booth has been ordered, and although the booth will only be confirmed next month, I'm pretty sure we will get 2 tables again :-)
Who all is planning to go? I'll try to make a wiki page asap (tonight..)
cheers, Bert
Can I go? Or do I need to speak Dutch or sumthin'? Or I suppose I should be near the same part of the globe?
Meant with sense of humour,
Fellow Ambadassador Mark Terranova ALL Hail the Beefy Miracle! 2011/11/18 Bert Desmet bert@devnox.be
Hi all,
I just wanted to give a little status update on FOSDEM.
The booth has been ordered, and although the booth will only be confirmed next month, I'm pretty sure we will get 2 tables again :-)
Who all is planning to go? I'll try to make a wiki page asap (tonight..)
cheers, Bert
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Hi, I would like to attend. what is the procedure to follow. i believe there is something i can learn to bring back to africa and start a drive here.
thanks, frankie
2011/11/18 Mark Terranova Markdude@fedoraproject.org
Can I go? Or do I need to speak Dutch or sumthin'? Or I suppose I should be near the same part of the globe?
Meant with sense of humour,
Fellow Ambadassador Mark Terranova ALL Hail the Beefy Miracle! 2011/11/18 Bert Desmet bert@devnox.be
Hi all,
I just wanted to give a little status update on FOSDEM.
The booth has been ordered, and although the booth will only be confirmed next month, I'm pretty sure we will get 2 tables again :-)
Who all is planning to go? I'll try to make a wiki page asap (tonight..)
cheers, Bert
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Hi Bert,
I will be also there and I also just booked my room as always in the Renaissance Brussels Hotel, Rue du Parnasse 19 · Brussels [1]. The double room is included breakfast and parking EUR 79,-/night. Hope to see you all soon again!
All the best
Gerold
[1]http://www.marriott.de/hotels/travel/brubr-renaissance-brussels-hotel
Am Freitag, den 18.11.2011, 15:36 +0100 schrieb Bert Desmet:
Hi all,
I just wanted to give a little status update on FOSDEM.
The booth has been ordered, and although the booth will only be confirmed next month, I'm pretty sure we will get 2 tables again :-)
Who all is planning to go? I'll try to make a wiki page asap (tonight..)
cheers, Bert -- ambassadors mailing list ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors
Hi,
This is Ilyes Gouta, from Tunisia. I intend to join too, this would make it the third time in a row attending FOSDEM if things go OK!!! Hope it works out. I'll be attending the X.org dev room for most of the time, but I'd find some for the booth too. Exciting times ahead :)
-Ilyes On Nov 19, 2011 8:30 PM, "Gerold Kassube" gerold@lugd.org wrote:
Hi Bert,
I will be also there and I also just booked my room as always in the Renaissance Brussels Hotel, Rue du Parnasse 19 · Brussels [1]. The double room is included breakfast and parking EUR 79,-/night. Hope to see you all soon again!
All the best
Gerold
[1]http://www.marriott.de/hotels/travel/brubr-renaissance-brussels-hotel
Am Freitag, den 18.11.2011, 15:36 +0100 schrieb Bert Desmet:
Hi all,
I just wanted to give a little status update on FOSDEM.
The booth has been ordered, and although the booth will only be confirmed next month, I'm pretty sure we will get 2 tables again :-)
Who all is planning to go? I'll try to make a wiki page asap (tonight..)
cheers, Bert -- ambassadors mailing list ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors
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Hi Bert, I Hope to be there . I'll be proud working to a booth and presenting paper to Java dev. room.
Thanks
Constantin Drabo - Fedora Ambassador (Burkina Faso)
2011/11/19, Ilyes Gouta ilyes.gouta@gmail.com:
Hi,
This is Ilyes Gouta, from Tunisia. I intend to join too, this would make it the third time in a row attending FOSDEM if things go OK!!! Hope it works out. I'll be attending the X.org dev room for most of the time, but I'd find some for the booth too. Exciting times ahead :)
-Ilyes On Nov 19, 2011 8:30 PM, "Gerold Kassube" gerold@lugd.org wrote:
Hi Bert,
I will be also there and I also just booked my room as always in the Renaissance Brussels Hotel, Rue du Parnasse 19 · Brussels [1]. The double room is included breakfast and parking EUR 79,-/night. Hope to see you all soon again!
All the best
Gerold
[1]http://www.marriott.de/hotels/travel/brubr-renaissance-brussels-hotel
Am Freitag, den 18.11.2011, 15:36 +0100 schrieb Bert Desmet:
Hi all,
I just wanted to give a little status update on FOSDEM.
The booth has been ordered, and although the booth will only be confirmed next month, I'm pretty sure we will get 2 tables again :-)
Who all is planning to go? I'll try to make a wiki page asap (tonight..)
cheers, Bert -- ambassadors mailing list ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors
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Hi there,
some words about FOSDEM for those of you planning to go to Brussels, from somebody, who has been attending the event several times:
* FOSDEM stands for "Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting" and it's really a developer's meeting. It's the most geekish event I know and the talks target a very advanced audience. * Nobody comes for FOSDEM for the exhibition but just for the talks. The stands are located on a narrow hallway. It is overcrowded and the air is really bad. * Given that it's a developer meeting and nobody really cares about the exhibition anyway, I'm not sure if it makes sense to have a booth. I doubt we will be able to recruit new contributors because whoever is there already uses Linux for a while and most have settled with their favorite distribution ages ago. Nevertheless I think Fedora should be there and have a booth, just because other projects like Debian and OpenSUSE have one, too. But I suggest to not put too much effort into it for the reasons I just outlined. * The food at FOSDEM is awful but it helps to survive.
So much for the negative side. On the positive side we have:
* FOSDEM is a place to meet other developers. All the rockstars of FOSS are there. * The social event is called "Beer event" and it takes place at a pub called "Delirium". These names say it all. * FOSDEM is the only event I know where people drink beer during lectures. * FOSDEM is fun. It is badly organized, loud, overcrowded and you have a hangover. Yet though - or for this very reasons - it's quite a lot of fun!
Last but not least: There was an unwritten rule, at least for the EMEA or European ambassadors: If you go to FOSDEM, it's your own decision but not an official Fedora event. You will have to pay for yourself and not receive funding. This rule has changed recently, I know we sponsored some people and IIRC I have been sponsored my hotel room once (in four years, everything else was paid from my own pocket).
If we are to sponsor contributors, I'd prefer people with a strong technical background. This doesn't mean we'll not sponsor any ambassadors, but IHMO it should be ambassadors who are involved in other groups of Fedora, too and/or have clear agenda of things they want to do or achieve at FOSDEM.
If you think you meet these criteria and you should be at FOSDEM, please follow the usual process for funding. For details refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sponsoring_event_attendees
Regards, Christoph
For whatever it's worth, I'd like to support what Christoph said.
FOSDEM is always the best event of the year -- and of the 4 Fedora foundations, it is always the one that makes me think of Friends and Features, because it's a great time for many of the contributors to spend together, and it always has an excellent technical focus.
Some of the Fedora traditions worth remembering:
* Eating at the Drug Opera (http://www.drugopera.be/index.php?lang=en)
* Watching the Super Bowl at Fat Boys (http://www.fatboys-be.com/). I know this was something I organized the last few years, but someone else could easily do it. Just remember to make the reservation in advance, and to get enough seats! They get angry if you bring more people than your reservation.
I won't be able to attend FOSDEM in 2012, but I will be thinking about all my Fedora friends in EMEA.
--Max
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011, Christoph Wickert wrote:
Hi there,
some words about FOSDEM for those of you planning to go to Brussels, from somebody, who has been attending the event several times:
* FOSDEM stands for "Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting" and it's really a developer's meeting. It's the most geekish event I know and the talks target a very advanced audience. * Nobody comes for FOSDEM for the exhibition but just for the talks. The stands are located on a narrow hallway. It is overcrowded and the air is really bad. * Given that it's a developer meeting and nobody really cares about the exhibition anyway, I'm not sure if it makes sense to have a booth. I doubt we will be able to recruit new contributors because whoever is there already uses Linux for a while and most have settled with their favorite distribution ages ago. Nevertheless I think Fedora should be there and have a booth, just because other projects like Debian and OpenSUSE have one, too. But I suggest to not put too much effort into it for the reasons I just outlined. * The food at FOSDEM is awful but it helps to survive.
So much for the negative side. On the positive side we have:
* FOSDEM is a place to meet other developers. All the rockstars of FOSS are there. * The social event is called "Beer event" and it takes place at a pub called "Delirium". These names say it all. * FOSDEM is the only event I know where people drink beer during lectures. * FOSDEM is fun. It is badly organized, loud, overcrowded and you have a hangover. Yet though - or for this very reasons - it's quite a lot of fun!
Last but not least: There was an unwritten rule, at least for the EMEA or European ambassadors: If you go to FOSDEM, it's your own decision but not an official Fedora event. You will have to pay for yourself and not receive funding. This rule has changed recently, I know we sponsored some people and IIRC I have been sponsored my hotel room once (in four years, everything else was paid from my own pocket).
If we are to sponsor contributors, I'd prefer people with a strong technical background. This doesn't mean we'll not sponsor any ambassadors, but IHMO it should be ambassadors who are involved in other groups of Fedora, too and/or have clear agenda of things they want to do or achieve at FOSDEM.
If you think you meet these criteria and you should be at FOSDEM, please follow the usual process for funding. For details refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sponsoring_event_attendees
Regards, Christoph
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Hi max and others,
it's a pity that you won't be there. we will all miss you!
Anyway, in a big month probably the biggest open source event in Europe will start again!
And as always, Fedora people will visit fosdem with great quantities. So I’m putting a lot of effort in making this the best Fosdem for Fedora people ever. I hear you thinking, how can this event become even better? Well, I try to provide activities for Fedora people every evening.
An overview:
- friday: Fad, dinner, beer event - Saturday evening: Tour through Brussels - Sunday evening: Super Bowl game @ fatboys (sadly, only 10 people can join)
If you are planning to come, be sure to check the Fedora wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fosdem_2012 , and the Fosdem website: http://www.fosdem.org
cheers,
Bert
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Max Spevack mspevack@fedoraproject.orgwrote:
For whatever it's worth, I'd like to support what Christoph said.
FOSDEM is always the best event of the year -- and of the 4 Fedora foundations, it is always the one that makes me think of Friends and Features, because it's a great time for many of the contributors to spend together, and it always has an excellent technical focus.
Some of the Fedora traditions worth remembering:
Eating at the Drug Opera (http://www.drugopera.be/index.php?lang=en)
Watching the Super Bowl at Fat Boys (http://www.fatboys-be.com/). I
know this was something I organized the last few years, but someone else could easily do it. Just remember to make the reservation in advance, and to get enough seats! They get angry if you bring more people than your reservation.
I won't be able to attend FOSDEM in 2012, but I will be thinking about all my Fedora friends in EMEA.
--Max
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011, Christoph Wickert wrote:
Hi there,
some words about FOSDEM for those of you planning to go to Brussels, from somebody, who has been attending the event several times:
* FOSDEM stands for "Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting" and it's really a developer's meeting. It's the most geekish event I know and the talks target a very advanced audience. * Nobody comes for FOSDEM for the exhibition but just for the talks. The stands are located on a narrow hallway. It is overcrowded and the air is really bad. * Given that it's a developer meeting and nobody really cares about the exhibition anyway, I'm not sure if it makes sense to have a booth. I doubt we will be able to recruit new contributors because whoever is there already uses Linux for a while and most have settled with their favorite distribution ages ago. Nevertheless I think Fedora should be there and have a booth, just because other projects like Debian and OpenSUSE have one, too. But I suggest to not put too much effort into it for the reasons I just outlined. * The food at FOSDEM is awful but it helps to survive.
So much for the negative side. On the positive side we have:
* FOSDEM is a place to meet other developers. All the rockstars of FOSS are there. * The social event is called "Beer event" and it takes place at a pub called "Delirium". These names say it all. * FOSDEM is the only event I know where people drink beer during lectures. * FOSDEM is fun. It is badly organized, loud, overcrowded and you have a hangover. Yet though - or for this very reasons - it's quite a lot of fun!
Last but not least: There was an unwritten rule, at least for the EMEA or European ambassadors: If you go to FOSDEM, it's your own decision but not an official Fedora event. You will have to pay for yourself and not receive funding. This rule has changed recently, I know we sponsored some people and IIRC I have been sponsored my hotel room once (in four years, everything else was paid from my own pocket).
If we are to sponsor contributors, I'd prefer people with a strong technical background. This doesn't mean we'll not sponsor any ambassadors, but IHMO it should be ambassadors who are involved in other groups of Fedora, too and/or have clear agenda of things they want to do or achieve at FOSDEM.
If you think you meet these criteria and you should be at FOSDEM, please follow the usual process for funding. For details refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sponsoring_event_attendees
Regards, Christoph
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