[ros-dev] FOSDEM booth/devroom sharing

[François Revol]

Replying to myself...

> (sent to AROS (please forward, I'm not on the dev list), ReactOS, 
> Syllable, CCed to Haiku)

Moved from ros-general to ros-dev as the former seems very quiet...

> 
> Hello,
> I'm a Haiku developer, <http://haiku-os.org>
> and I would like to propose sharing a devroom, eventually a booth at 
> FOSDEM with some other FOSS OS projects.

As I've been told by the orga,
other projects should also book the devroom officially:
http://fosdem.org/2009/call_for_devrooms_and_stands

Just add you are ok to share it.

The official deadline is tomorrow...

> 
> I sent to the mailing lists as I couldn't identify a specific 
> contact, 
> and I don't know how much centralized each project is.
> 
> Last year we had our own booth at FOSDEM (we it shared with an ERP 
> software),
> I really enjoyed the event, and would like to also get a devroom this 
> year.
> But I'm not sure we will have enough people to animate it all the 
> time 
> (currently 3 or 4), plus we'd still have a stand to look after.
> 
> http://www.haiku-os.org/blog/mmu_man/2008-02-25/hello_from_fosdem
> 
> I know we shared a booth at last LinuxWorld with ReactOS and I heard 
> it 
> was interesting:
> http://www.haiku-os.org/blog/umccullough/2008-08-06/day_1_at_linuxworld_2008_a_solid_start
> > http://www.haiku-os.org/blog/umccullough/2008-08-07/day_2_at_linuxworld_2008_more_of_the_same
> > 
> As the deadline for booth and devroom application approaches (it's 
> before 22 nov.), I was thinking about sharing a devroom that could be 
> called "alternative OSes", "grep -v GNU/Linux" or alike, with other 
> projects.
> This way we could all get a devroom with fewer people to man it.
> 
> As for our project, we could have talks and hacking sessions on many 
> subjects, from architecture and design to installation, and specific 
> things like the using the FreePascal port, porting applications, 
> using 
> replicants (like NetSurf).
> 
> We could also have common talks, about the platforms we support, our 
> design and goals.
> 
> And if needed we could probably also share a booth with another 
> project 
> I suppose, last year we shared with a totally different software.
> 
> I'll be mailing a booth and devroom request tomorrow precising it, 
> before it's too late.
> 
> François.
>