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 :-)
