Re: FOSDEM 2007 -- sharing a Devroom?

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:26:14PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >The FOSDEM organizers have asked me whether we'd be okay with sharing a
> >Developer's room together with the people from Ubuntu.
> >
> >For me personally, that's okay; for the last two years we did have a
> >full schedule, but only barely so -- I've only had to refuse a very
> >small number of people (one person two years ago, and I'm not even sure
> >whether I had to refuse talks last year). And contrary to the
> >Debian/Java devroom experiment we had three years ago, at least Ubuntu
> >is related to Debian in some ways.
> >
> >Of course, if I'm alone with this opinion, then I'll communicate that
> >back to the FOSDEM people -- but it should be noted that due to the fact
> >that FOSDEM keeps growing in number of visitors (but not in time or in
> >number of rooms they get), it's probably a good idea to allow this type
> >of sharing from our side, so that more projects can in fact get a
> >devroom.
> >
> >Opinions?
>
> It sounds reasonable-ish, but rather than just Debian and Ubuntu I'd
> rather see a devroom specifically for Debian and *all* Debian-derived
> distros. If Ubuntu happen to be the only other group who turn up, then
> fine. But at least up-front let's make it more inclusive if we
> can. How does that sound?

Yeah, that's fairly reasonable. I'll communicate it that way.

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