Dates for FOSDEM 2013: 2 & 3 February
All, we have recently agreed with our venue that FOSDEM 2013 will take place on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 February 2013. It is safe to assume that there will also be a beer event as usual, on Friday 1 February 2013. Looking forward to seeing everyone there. - Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Ministry of Information
Hi Philip, Thanks a lot for that! How do we apply for a track? And how do we sponsor? The Wikimedia foundation would like to get involved in either or both these ways and I'm leading the project. I had a look at the site for sponsoring and I only saw the list of the current sponsors. Cheers, Steph On 7 August 2012 16:44, Philip Paeps <philip@fosdem.org> wrote:
All, we have recently agreed with our venue that FOSDEM 2013 will take place on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 February 2013. It is safe to assume that there will also be a beer event as usual, on Friday 1 February 2013.
Looking forward to seeing everyone there.
- Philip
-- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Ministry of Information
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On 2012-08-07 16:48:38 (+0100), Steph Thommen <sthommen@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thanks a lot for that! How do we apply for a track?
We're working on the call for tracks and devrooms. That should go out Real Soon Now[tm] that we know the dates. It'll be posted here and presumably also on the website.
And how do we sponsor?
Send an email to <sponsors@fosdem.org> so I remember to send you all the information about sponsoring when I finish updating it for the next edition (likely in the next couple of weeks). - Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Ministry of Information
Amazing TY! On 7 August 2012 16:52, Philip Paeps <philip@fosdem.org> wrote:
On 2012-08-07 16:48:38 (+0100), Steph Thommen <sthommen@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thanks a lot for that! How do we apply for a track?
We're working on the call for tracks and devrooms. That should go out Real Soon Now[tm] that we know the dates. It'll be posted here and presumably also on the website.
And how do we sponsor?
Send an email to <sponsors@fosdem.org> so I remember to send you all the information about sponsoring when I finish updating it for the next edition (likely in the next couple of weeks).
- Philip
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-- Steph Thommen Recruitment Manager Wikimedia Foundation
On 08/07/2012 10:44 AM, Philip Paeps wrote:
All, we have recently agreed with our venue that FOSDEM 2013 will take place on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 February 2013. It is safe to assume that there will also be a beer event as usual, on Friday 1 February 2013.
Looking forward to seeing everyone there.
There is a small community of people would are hoping to attend both Linux Conf Australia (LCA) [0] and FOSDEM next year. I fully appreciate how complex it is to select dates and organize FOSDEM (thank you for such an awesome conference)! Are the dates with ULB "written in stone"? Respectfully, --Tom [0] https://lca2013.linux.org.au/
On 2012-08-13 10:32:43 (-0500), Tom Marble <tmarble@info9.net> wrote:
On 08/07/2012 10:44 AM, Philip Paeps wrote:
All, we have recently agreed with our venue that FOSDEM 2013 will take place on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 February 2013. It is safe to assume that there will also be a beer event as usual, on Friday 1 February 2013.
Looking forward to seeing everyone there.
There is a small community of people would are hoping to attend both Linux Conf Australia (LCA) [0] and FOSDEM next year.
That is unfortunate.
I fully appreciate how complex it is to select dates and organize FOSDEM (thank you for such an awesome conference)!
Are the dates with ULB "written in stone"?
Yes. They're carved in concrete. We are completely dependent on our venue for dates. The first weekend of February is the only one that does not in some way conflict with their academic calendar. Unfortunately, it's pretty much impossible to organize anything anywhere without conflicting in some way with something else. - Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Ministry of Information
If it's of any help to the discussion, the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 10X) was held the weekend after LCA this year (LCA, it should be noted, is a weeklong event, and SCALE started on the Friday when LCA was wrapping up). Many -- me included -- were concerned that having more than one Linux event in the world at one time might dilute attendance and participation for both events. I can't speak for LCA, but SCALE set an attendance record in 2012 despite its being scheduled so close to LCA. What we found is this: Linux and FOSS are big enough to have more than one event on one continent at one time. SCALE did not suffer from a lack of exhibitors, speakers or presentations because of LCA, and the only ones seemingly annoyed by the schedule change were those in the tech press who had to choose to go to one or the other event :-) Incidentally, we are back to our old schedule -- SCALE will be on the third weekend of February in 2013, to coincide with a US holiday on Monday after the weekend. I hope this helps. Larry Cafiero / Publicity chairperson / Southern California Linux Expo On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Philip Paeps <philip@fosdem.org> wrote:
On 2012-08-13 10:32:43 (-0500), Tom Marble <tmarble@info9.net> wrote:
On 08/07/2012 10:44 AM, Philip Paeps wrote:
All, we have recently agreed with our venue that FOSDEM 2013 will take place on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 February 2013. It is safe to assume that there will also be a beer event as usual, on Friday 1 February 2013.
Looking forward to seeing everyone there.
There is a small community of people would are hoping to attend both Linux Conf Australia (LCA) [0] and FOSDEM next year.
That is unfortunate.
I fully appreciate how complex it is to select dates and organize FOSDEM (thank you for such an awesome conference)!
Are the dates with ULB "written in stone"?
Yes. They're carved in concrete. We are completely dependent on our venue for dates. The first weekend of February is the only one that does not in some way conflict with their academic calendar.
Unfortunately, it's pretty much impossible to organize anything anywhere without conflicting in some way with something else.
- Philip
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I'm happy to hear that *all three* conferences aren't scheduled concurrently. :) Deb On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Larry Cafiero <larry.cafiero@gmail.com> wrote:
If it's of any help to the discussion, the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 10X) was held the weekend after LCA this year (LCA, it should be noted, is a weeklong event, and SCALE started on the Friday when LCA was wrapping up).
Many -- me included -- were concerned that having more than one Linux event in the world at one time might dilute attendance and participation for both events. I can't speak for LCA, but SCALE set an attendance record in 2012 despite its being scheduled so close to LCA.
What we found is this: Linux and FOSS are big enough to have more than one event on one continent at one time. SCALE did not suffer from a lack of exhibitors, speakers or presentations because of LCA, and the only ones seemingly annoyed by the schedule change were those in the tech press who had to choose to go to one or the other event :-)
Incidentally, we are back to our old schedule -- SCALE will be on the third weekend of February in 2013, to coincide with a US holiday on Monday after the weekend.
I hope this helps.
Larry Cafiero / Publicity chairperson / Southern California Linux Expo
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Philip Paeps <philip@fosdem.org> wrote:
On 2012-08-13 10:32:43 (-0500), Tom Marble <tmarble@info9.net> wrote:
On 08/07/2012 10:44 AM, Philip Paeps wrote:
All, we have recently agreed with our venue that FOSDEM 2013 will take place on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 February 2013. It is safe to assume that there will also be a beer event as usual, on Friday 1 February 2013.
Looking forward to seeing everyone there.
There is a small community of people would are hoping to attend both Linux Conf Australia (LCA) [0] and FOSDEM next year.
That is unfortunate.
I fully appreciate how complex it is to select dates and organize FOSDEM (thank you for such an awesome conference)!
Are the dates with ULB "written in stone"?
Yes. They're carved in concrete. We are completely dependent on our venue for dates. The first weekend of February is the only one that does not in some way conflict with their academic calendar.
Unfortunately, it's pretty much impossible to organize anything anywhere without conflicting in some way with something else.
- Philip
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On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 01:30:43PM -0400, Deb Nicholson wrote:
I'm happy to hear that *all three* conferences aren't scheduled concurrently. :)
Yes, different timezones have their benefit ;-) Groeten Geert Stappers --
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Hi, On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:29:00PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 01:30:43PM -0400, Deb Nicholson wrote:
I'm happy to hear that *all three* conferences aren't scheduled concurrently. :)
Yes, different timezones have their benefit ;-)
So we'll have video coverage of LCA all the night through? ;-) Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News | abe@deuxchevaux.org (Mail) X See http://www.asciiribbon.org/ | abe@noone.org (Mail+Jabber) / \ I love long mails: http://email.is-not-s.ms/ | http://noone.org/abe/ (Web)
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 09:14:32AM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:29:00PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 01:30:43PM -0400, Deb Nicholson wrote:
I'm happy to hear that *all three* conferences aren't scheduled concurrently. :)
Yes, different timezones have their benefit ;-)
So we'll have video coverage of LCA all the night through? ;-)
And vice versa ;-) (well, I can't speak for the LCA coverage) -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a
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