Brothers, the FOSDEM Team wants to try something new (i like that!) for the upcoming instance. Let me just quote the relevant parts of the announcement mail from Pascal:
The next edition is 6+7 February 2010, and it's also our 10th edition. As such, we've been reflecting on the evolution of the event (in the sense that our mission and what it has become is rather a platform for FOSS projects, much more than just a conference, or at least that's what we'd like FOSDEM to become), and we are introducing a change regarding Developer Rooms for distribution projects.
We would like to push the envelope of our mission even further by organizing something along the lines of a "distribution summit" during FOSDEM 2010 (incidentally, I had that idea long before I heard of the "distrosummit" that will be held at linuxconf.au, a few weeks before FOSDEM but hey, it's far away, and FOSDEM is the European event of the year ;D).
The idea is that rather than having several distributions with their own respective and individual Developer Room, we will host mixed conference rooms where talks and sessions will be organized _by topic_, with contributors from all distributions attending and participating. [...] To dive into a little more detail: * 3 (large) rooms will be allocated for that "distro summit" * sessions will be scheduled by topic (see below) * every project is welcome to join in :)
Topics are something I need your feedback and ideas on: whatever you think is appropriate as a topic that is recurring issue for distributions (governance, feature tracking, trust mechanisms, ambassadors, ...), or something where you would like to present your solutions for specific tasks to other distributions (e.g. package building, translations, bug tracking, community infrastructure, ...), especially if you're interested in feedback, ideas and collaboration from and with other projects... we'd love to hear about it :) [...] The most practical option will be to subscribe to a mailing-list: http://lists.fosdem.org/mailman/listinfo/dist2010 And we will be able to discuss details, ideas, as well as the schedule there.
So far only very little discussion has happened around this topic. Mostly people expressed that they liked or disliked it. Which is not really the point i think. Its the FOSDEM's team event. They do all the hard work and should be the driving force behind how it's organized. If they want to try something new we should help them succeed. Thats why i would like to brainstorm a bit about tracks with you and then we can bring them over to the dist2010 list. Let me start: 1. Build Systems I would like to see a build system track. Where different distributions can introduce theirs and the concepts behind it. Including, but not limited to, how contributions, maintenance, branching, image building etc are handled. I think this is a great topic for distros to stimulate each other. I think all of us could do something here for the OBS. From conceptual talks down to hands one hacking stuff. I could do a talk about the collaboration features of the OBS and/or one about our distribution setup in it. 2. Upstream I would also like to have an Upstream track where the whole distro<>upstream relation is discussed. Including release cycles, contributions, alteration etc. Possible contributions from us would be vuntz/will/lubos talking about how we handle the desktops or we could get one of the kernel guys to talk about that. Brainstorm please! :) Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help@opensuse.org