Re: FOSDEM 2011, second CfT

Hi,

On Montag, 6. Dezember 2010, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> At the end of September, I called for talk submissions for the FOSDEM 2011
> distributions miniconf. Unfortunately, to date, the number of
> submissions (from Debian and other distributions alike) has been
> abysmally low. It would be a shame if the two rooms which the miniconf
> was assigned for two days would be mostly unused.

maybe I just see this as a proof of what I believe anyway...

but it seems to me that this can be explained by what I also think: the shared
dev rooms are not particularily attractive. Somehow they lack the community
feeling the Debian room had IME..

I'm also not sure if there are video volunteers from the DebConf/Debian video
team. Just doing video for the Debian talks is rather unpractical (and not
nice), while OTOH doing for a talk in which one has no interest at all is
also not top on the list, when there are 1000 other more interesting things
to do. What do other "video people" think (and plan)?

Of course, we Debian, could hack the dev rooms by submitting tons of Debian
talks, but... hm.

> Therefore, I'd like to reiterate my request for talks. Anything is
> welcome, as long as it involves distribution work.
>
> If I may make some suggestions for interesting talk proposals that would
> fit the miniconf well:
> - Our new kFreeBSD port

afaik Axel will volunteer for that one.

> - Something about the new v3 source formats
> - Piuparts, the PTS, buildd, popcon, the website and webwml, or anything
> about any other piece of infrastructure,

I'd certainly be happy to give a small talk about piuparts. I'd be really
interesting to hear something about the status of the new website, best with
an announcement about it being live ;-)

> - A round table about strategies for something which every distribution
> must do, such as releasing, squashing bugs, compiling software, or,
> heck, marketing,

I'd be interested in this...

> <plan type="evil">
> - last but not least, if all else fails, we can just flood the
> distributions miniconf with Debian-specific talks and hope that nobody
> notices if the "distributions" miniconf has turned into the Debian
> Devroom(s!), v2.
> </plan>

or that ;)

cheers,
        Holger

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