[maemo-community] Fwd: [loki at fosdem.org: FOSDEM 2010: Distribution Miniconf]

[From: Randall Arnold]

That would be great, Carsten-- the community is well-represented by your
efforts and you are a natural presenter.

Randall (Randy) Arnold
maemo.org community council
http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com/




> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Carsten Valdemar Munk" <cvm at cs.au.dk>
> To: "List for community development" <maemo-community at maemo.org>
> Subject: Re: Fwd: [loki at fosdem.org: FOSDEM 2010: Distribution Miniconf]
> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:58:18 +0200
>
>
> From Mer/my side, I'm thinking to propose a lightning talk (15m) and
> can probably help manning a stand.
>
> /Carsten
>
> Quoting Quim Gil <quim.gil at nokia.com>:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > ext Jeremiah Foster wrote:
> >> The following message has been popping up on the debian lists I
> >> follow. I wonder if we, i.e. Maemo, are interested in taking part in
> >> the distro rooms this year at FOSDEM? I know I will be there, it
might
> >> be cool if we did something. I know lbt wants to discuss openSUSE's
> >> build system - it looks like a good opportunity to do so with
openSUSE
> >> themselves. Perhaps Mer wants to participate too?
> >
> > Thanks for the heads up. Yes, it's time to think what to do in FOSDEM
2010
> >
> > What is the kind of participation we want to have? Think big (but
with
> > your feet on the floor). There is always time to cut down.
> >
> > http://wiki.maemo.org/FOSDEM_2010
> > http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=356121
> >
> > --
> > Quim Gil
> > open source advocate
> > Maemo Devices @ Nokia
> >
> >>
> >> More details in the body of the email.
> >>
> >> Jeremiah
> >>
> >>> Hi all
> >>>
> >>> If you wonder why you receive this email, it's either because
you've
> >>> been a contact for your respective distribution at FOSDEM in the
past,
> >>> or because I'm looking for contacts with distribution projects
where
> >>> we
> >>> didn't have any in the past ;)
> >>>
> >>> If this email is best sent to another person, please forward it
> >>> accordingly.
> >>>
> >>> You probably all heard of FOSDEM before. If not, FOSDEM ==
> >>> http://fosdem.org ;)
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> The reasoning behind it is manifold:
> >>>
> >>> * most distributions have their own events nowadays (FUDcon,
debconf,
> >>> openSUSE conf, EuroBSDCon, etc...), which are already used for
topics
> >>> and matters that are specific to each of them
> >>>
> >>> * FOSDEM is an almost unique occasion to meet and exchange with
> >>> contributors of many major FOSS projects, given the large amount of
> >>> visitors (~5000) and projects present during the weekend — we
believe
> >>> that not taking profit of that constellation is a bad use of the
tool
> >>> that is FOSDEM :)
> >>>
> >>> * the number of distributions requesting Developer Rooms at FOSDEM
is
> >>> very likely to rise in the future, given that Gentoo didn't send a
> >>> request in time last edition and that Ubuntu didn't ask until now
(but
> >>> I'm assuming that it is likely to happen at some point in time ;)),
as
> >>> well as Mandriva having unfortunately been turned down by us due to
> >>> lack
> >>> of space (and there's really no reason to accept the usual suspects
> >>> and
> >>> having to say no to Mandriva, or almost any other distribution
project
> >>> for that matter)
> >>>
> >>> 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 :)
> >>>
> >>> Note that stands are not affected in any way and will be handled as
> >>> previous editions (i.e. send us a request:
> >>> http://fosdem.org/2010/call_for_stands)
> >>>
> >>> 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 :)
> >>>
> >>> Given that, when I'm switching caps, I'm myself deeply involved
into a
> >>> distribution project (openSUSE), I do have a few proposals in terms
of
> >>> topics — and please don't shoot if most examples I'm giving are
> >>> related
> >>> to openSUSE, it's just because it happens to be the distribution
> >>> project
> >>> I know best:
> >>>
> >>> * Packaging:
> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>> - present different toolsets for handling the burden of packaging a
> >>> distribution as well as additional repositories (e.g. openSUSE
Build
> >>> Service)
> >>> - have a few packaging subsystem sessions, where the current state
of
> >>> RPM/yum/zypp/..., dpkg/apt, emerge, ports, etc... are presented, as
> >>> well
> >>> as their respective roadmaps for the future
> >>> - evolve/adapt repository metadata formats ?
> >>>
> >>> * Localization:
> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>> - how to handle collaborative translations ? (e.g. transifex)
> >>> - localization of distribution documentation, project wikis, etc...
> >>> - how to coordinate with upstream ?
> >>>
> >>> * Community Infrastructure:
> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>> - FedoraCommunity, opensourced LaunchPad, Bugzilla extensions,
etc...
> >>>
> >>> * Test and QA
> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>>
> >>> * Governance:
> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>> - boards, elections, technical control of the distribution, ...
> >>> - ambassador programs, LoCo teams, etc...
> >>> - legal issues
> >>>
> >>> * Working with upstream:
> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>> - have a few sessions with major upstream projects present at
FOSDEM
> >>> (Mozilla, GNOME, KDE, ...) on how to improve/optimize collaboration
> >>> between downstream (distributions) and upstream (developers), e.g.
for
> >>> patches
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Unless somebody has some time to spare and steps up, which would be
> >>> more
> >>> than welcome, we will take care of handling the coordination of the
> >>> session proposals, as well as the schedule.
> >>>
> >>> If you're interested in participating, please contact us ASAP at
> >>> devrooms at fosdem.org
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> If you do want to participate, please echo the event to your
> >>> respective
> >>> contributor community, and poke them to subscribe to the above
> >>> mentioned
> >>> list and make proposals or inquiries there.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for reading so far, and hopefully we'll see you in Brussels
for
> >>> FOSDEM 2010 :)
> >>>
> >>> cheers
> >>> --
> >>> -o) Pascal Bleser <loki at fosdem.org> http://www.fosdem.org
> >>> /\\ FOSDEM 2010 :: 6 + 7 February 2010 in Brussels
> >>> _\_v Free and Opensource Software Developers European Meeting
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