FOSDEM'15 - let us propose a D dev room!!!

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Tue Aug 19 05:55:34 PDT 2014


On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 06:18:19 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Being the largest European Open Source Conference, FOSDEM takes 
> place in Brussels and attracts with more than 400 lectures 
> every year over 5000 hackers - many core contributors of the 
> worlds leading open source projects. FOSDEM 2015 will take 
> place on Saturday 31 January and Sunday 1 February 2015.
>
> I had a talk about LDC in the LLVM dev room this year 
> (https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/ldccompiler/) 
> which was much fun.
>
> The call for participation is now announced! 
> (https://fosdem.org/2015/news/2014-07-01-call-for-participation/)
>
> I think we should propose a D dev room for FOSDEM'15. Besides 
> being a nice place to meet some D people, this would also give 
> us a lot of attention in the open source world. There is always 
> press about this event.
>
> What needs to be done? We have to submit a proposal for a dev 
> room until September 15. If the proposal is accepted then we 
> should have a call for papers, keynotes, lightning talks etc. 
> From these proposals the schedule has to be created. The 
> schedule should be published around January, I guess.
> From my understanding, the main team organizes the rooms, 
> beamers, video recording etc.
> In order to distribute the work a small team (3 persons?) will 
> be needed.
>
> What do you think? Anybody willing to help me to create the 
> proposal and the schedule and moderate the event?
>
> If the dev room proposal will be accepted I really like to see 
> Walter and Andrei as keynote speakers!!!
>
> Regards,
> Kai

Sounds very interesting, it is a good opportunity to effectively 
do small european DConf without bothering about many of 
organizational details. I will forward this to colleagues and 
report shortly.


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