Fosdem : Developers Room, Presence

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hi everyone,

This mail will mostly interest europeans Rubyists/Railists, but others
are welcome to read it, answer and participate too :slight_smile:

In next February the Sixth Fosdem (Free and OpenSource Developers'
European Meeting) will be held in Brussels, Belgium. Like each year
there is some special rooms for projects/communities (mozilla, drupal,
kde, gnome, python, openbsd, perl, linux, ...). A call for presence
has been made for next year :
http://www.fosdem.org/index/press/devrooms_call_for_presence_2006 to
allow projects and communities to book a room.

Ruby and Rails are becoming more and more popular in Europe so I think
it could be great to have a developer room to allow lot of Rubyist to
see irl and talk/work/hack/whatever.

If nobody is already planning something (I didn't see anything in the
archives I can manage the thing receive emails and do the
communication with the Fosdem's guys.
For a start a wiki with few pages could do the thing and allow
everyone to tell when they want to come and if they want to do
something.

So I got few questions :
- is there anyone already planning something for Ruby or/and Rails ?
- who could be interested in : doing talks, just coming to hack, etc ... ?
- who plans to go to the fosdem ?

As explained in the Fosdem Call for Presence we could book a room to
allow us to have a rendez vous point, a place to idle, talk, hack, etc
... but for that we need to have decided if :
- we want a room
- we want a room for half a day, a whole day, the two days ?
- how many we are going to be

So ? What do you think ?
Any help, and remarks are welcomed.

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Thom/ange
French F/OSS developer/administrator
http://ange.librium.org

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To make it easier I’ve setted up a wiki :
http://fosdem.librium.org

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On 11/16/05, Paul Robinson paul-RGsx++1NIdmySYScBAwQ8Q@public.gmane.org wrote:

On 16 Nov 2005, at 11:06, Thomas Riboulet wrote:

you can hang out where ever you want and with who you want. There is
lot of place to stay and hang out there.

Yeah, I was looking at hotels - the Novotel is one I think I’ve
stayed in before and does an excellent breakfast, IIRC… :slight_smile:

Generally it sounds like a pretty chilled out event. Sounds fun. I’ll
pack a water pistol just in case though…

The main idea behind the Developers’ Room is simply to give projects
and communities a rendez vous point and a ‘‘calm’’ place to work/hack.
Generally there is a black/white board where you can work with others,
plenty of tables and power sockets, etc …

I really like Fosdem because I think it’s a nice place to meet irl
other people, hang out a bit , work, get things moving, learning about
projects, etc …

Yeah, that sounds cool. If others are going, I say we try and get
ourselves a working room and we hack around a bit. If it’s just ‘me
and thee’, then I’m sure the bar will be able to hold our laptops.

I will try and get things booked in a couple of weeks, thereby
committing myself to going. :wink:

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