Hi All, On 12/06/18 at 08:35pm, David Runge wrote:
Fellow Archers!
Some of us (in #archlinux-conf) are thinking of organizing an event for our community: A new Arch Conf!
Yay!
We would like to do a conference (earliest in the 2nd half of 2019), that concentrates on our internal community: The developers, trusted users and support staff. Most of us have never met in real life, which would in itself be quite nice to change. However, we also have many issues and challenges to tackle in Arch Linux. Doing a dedicated conference (in the scope of two days) again [1] seems to be a good starting point!
I'm all for organizing a conf. One of the steps we should take as follow up is probably gather how many people would be interested. Since it probably does not make a lot of sense to gather a list of interested TU's/Dev's/Support Staff as well as required travel funds.
As many of us live somewhere in central Europe, countries such as Germany have been taken into consideration. We looked at some free and paid locations in Berlin and Hamburg and Delft (The Netherlands), but nothing is decided yet.
We are currently trying to figure out options for sponsorship, as we would also like to be able to (help) fly in developers from further away (without compromising). For this we would like to get more input from you.
I really want to see a lot of attendees from our team, which would mean getting a lot of travel funds. Since some of us are further away from Europe :) This wouldn't be doable without getting sponsors, does anyone have an idea on getting sponsors, handling donations? I believe debconf set's up a separate SPI account for it.
We were thinking of involvement for topics e.g. from the DevOps and security teams, but also more broad subjects, such as package repositories, bug tracker, wiki, etc.
This would be a real opportunity to tackle some interesting issues, such as our Git migration, bug tracker migration and sharing information.
An Arch Conf will of course not only require involvement in the form of presentations and workshops, but volunteers to help prepare and handle a potential location and the event itself. Also, there should be video streaming (e.g. the VOC [2] offers free services for free software conferences) for those that can't be there.
We would like to get some input from all of you regarding time, space and scope :)
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20130313105945/http://www.archlinux.ca/archcon20... [2] https://c3voc.de/
-- Jelle van der Waa