On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 Hmm, I would actually love to go, but I fear it will cost an arm and half my leg to get there. Maybe you should send this to the arch-events list?
