Re: [FOSDEM] Accepted devrooms

[Pirmin Braun]

not a devroom but a GNUstep related event:
https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM13/event/987
not yet approved

Am Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:17:41 +0200
schrieb Gerold Rupprecht <geroldr@bluewin.ch> :

> Hi Lars,
> 
> Thanks for your efforts.
> 
> Can you say anything about the selection criteria?
> 
> We have enjoyed FOSDEM presence since the beginning so I am interested
> to know why the organizers are giving preference to others. What can we
> do to make our project have greater value for FOSDEM?
> 
> These people are putting in a tremendous effort at organizing, finding
> sponsors, volonteers and I really appreciate their efforts. It has
> always been a highlight for me to meet other people interested in
> GNUstep each year at FOSDEM.
> 
> One thing that comes to mind is the often difficult access to our code
> within various distributions /OSs. The code which is available has often
> been in a frustrating state where getting the code up and running.
> 
> Are reviewers finding it difficult and time-consuming?
> 
> What are the FOSDEM organizers looking at?
> 
> We have even had the support of Richard Stallman for our project, so I
> am still convinced GNUstep has strategic value for Free Software.
> 
> What are the other projects doing that presents them as being a better
> investment for their time and resources than our project? 
> 
> Can we set a priority to fill in the gaps to again meet their
> standards? 
> 
> I have great admiration for the current and past contributors to GNUstep
> and the overall quality of work. We have had investments from Google
> summer of code for a number of contributions, so technically, I have no
> doubt as to the value of the produced code. 
> 
> The current efforts to creating debian packaging that is more current is
> a good move in the right direction (big thanks to all contributors).
> Would more automatic regression tests be of help to get better ratings?
> 
> Any thoughts and suggestions would be most welcome.
> 
> Would it be appropriate for us to graft ourselves onto the Testing and
> Automation group (Saturday) or the Configuration / Systems Management
> group (Sunday) this year? 
> 
> What is the interest to organize a meeting nearby to FOSDEM? 
> 
> I really want to see GNUstep at FOSDEM again.
> 
> All comments and suggestions welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gerold
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> On jeu, 2012-10-25 at 12:29 +0200, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
> > Sadly we are not among them :-(
> > 
> > 
> > Lars
> > 
> > Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:
> > 
> > > Von: fosdem-request@lists.fosdem.org
> > > 
> > > Datum: 25. Oktober 2012 12:00:01 MESZ
> > > 
> > > An: fosdem@lists.fosdem.org
> > > 
> > > Betreff: FOSDEM Digest, Vol 66, Issue 2
> > > 
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> > >   1. Accepted devrooms (Tias Guns)
> > > 
> > > Von: Tias Guns <tias@fosdem.org>
> > > 
> > > Datum: 24. Oktober 2012 21:27:48 MESZ
> > > 
> > > An: Fosdem Announce <fosdem@lists.fosdem.org>
> > > 
> > > Betreff: [FOSDEM] Accepted devrooms
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Devrooms are 'developer rooms' in which open source communities can
> > > organize their own schedule, made of presentations, brainstorming
> > > and hacking sessions. Our goal is to stimulate developer
> > > collaboration and cross-pollination between projects.
> > > 
> > > It is our pleasure and honor to announce that the following projects
> > > and topics have been granted a devroom at FOSDEM 2013:
> > > 
> > > Both Days
> > > ---------
> > > * Cross Distro
> > > * CrossDesktop
> > > * Embedded and Mobile
> > > * Free Java
> > > * Legal Issues
> > > * Mozilla
> > > 
> > > Saturday
> > > --------
> > > * Apache OpenOffice
> > > * Community development and Marketing
> > > * FOSS for scientists
> > > * Graph Processing
> > > * Jabber/XMPP
> > > * Microkernels / Component-based OSes
> > > * Mono
> > > * PHP and Friends
> > > * Testing and Automation
> > > * The Wine Project
> > > * Virtualization
> > > * X.org
> > > 
> > > Sunday
> > > ------
> > > * Ada
> > > * BSD
> > > * Cloud
> > > * Configuration/Systems Management
> > > * Cross Distro
> > > * LibreOffice
> > > * MySQL & Friends
> > > * NOSQL
> > > * Open Source Game Development
> > > * PostgreSQL
> > > * Python
> > > * Smalltalk
> > > * Telephony
> > > 
> > > 
> > > In the coming weeks, they will announce their call for talks on
> > > various mailinglists (including this one). We will collect them on
> > > our website as well.
> > > 
> > > We will also open our call for stands (a place in the hallway) and
> > > lightningtalks (15 minute talks) in the coming week.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On behalf of the FOSDEM program team,
> > > Tias
> > > 
> > > 
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