[okfn-discuss] OKF at FOSDEM 2014?

Thu Oct 3 10:18:02 UTC 2013

The list of FOSDEM 2014 devrooms has been announced:

No Free Software in Science this year, so a lighting talk is probably most
viable in addition to anybody having submitted a main talk.

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Greetings,
Emanuil

On 27 September 2013 16:14, Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpaert at okfn.org>wrote:

> As part of Open Knowledge Foundation Belgium, I have been going to FOSDEM
> for the last 4 years, and it hasn't succeeded in ever letting me down. It
> would be great to have some OKF labs people there!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Pieter
>
>
> On 09/27/2013 09:37 AM, Karsten Gerloff wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 07:00:19PM -0300, Everton Zanella Alvarenga wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I didn't know about this event before. Is someone from OKF going to
>>> participate? Since OKF has lots of people in Europe, maybe it is worth
>>> a visit.
>>>
>>> If someone can share your opinion about this event, that would
>>> be great.
>>>
>> FOSDEM is Europe's biggest meeting of Free Software developers. It
>> has a relatively narrow focus on Free Software development, so it
>> tends to be a very technical conference, with a couple of more
>> political keynotes at most.
>>
>> If OKF goes there, I'd suggest that you focus on presenting the
>> tools you're building. If you have a talk in the main track,
>> explain a couple of cool projects, and show people how they can
>> get involved.
>>
>> Perhaps you might be able to get a dev room, ie. a room to
>> yourself for half a day or so. Then you can do more specialised
>> talks there, or just use the conference as meeting place where
>> OKFers can come together to hack.
>>
>> You might also want to apply for a booth, if you manage to have it
>> staffed continously on both days. This would give people there the
>> opportunity to get to know OKF, and decide whether they want to be
>> involved.
>>
>> FOSDEM is perhaps the best place for networking within the Free
>> Software community. Many groups use Thursday and Friday ahead of
>> the conference for their own meetings, since everyone is in town
>> for FOSDEM anyway.
>>
>>
>> In short, the conference is really valuable, if your interests
>> fall within its focus. They always have a lot of talk submissions,
>> and competition for the limited booth places and dev rooms is
>> strong.
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Karsten
>>
>>
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