[arch-general] Fosdem 2009

[Dieter Plaetinck]

Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> Fosdem is a pretty big FOSS-related conference in Brussels, Belgium 
> (Europe). ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSDEM, http://fosdem.org)
> They basically do/allow 4 things:
> - devrooms: foss projects can have rooms to 
> meet/discuss/hack/demonstrate/plan IRL with other devs.  Members of 
> the community can go in too, although even in the biggest rooms you 
> can get maximum 40 people or so IIRC.  (the Gentoo devrooms used to be 
> full 8-)
> - lightning talks: 15 minutes for someone involved in a (new) project 
> to present it to the community
> - "real" talks:  IIRC about 1hour.  usually for bigger known projects 
> like xorg etc.
> - stands: there is also the fair part, where projects can have stands 
> to show off their project, sell merchandise,..
>
>
>
> If any of these sounds interesting for Arch, you can still apply.
> See:
> http://fosdem.org/2009/call_for_devrooms_and_stands
> http://fosdem.org/2009/call_for_lightningtalks
> http://fosdem.org/2009/node/153
>
>
> Dieter
>
>
Oh, and I almost forgot:  Even if you don't do a talk/devroom/stand it's 
still a very good occasion to meet with various people and learn lots of 
cool stuff
And there is the beer event on friday :-)