Re: [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_200…
> >  
> > http://www.haiku-os.org/blog/umccullough/2008-08-07/day_2_at_linuxworld_200…
> >   
>  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.
>