Hi David, I have contrasting feelings here. I think if a real time communication setup is maintained where an exchange between public and presenters is possible then there may be some reason to do it, on the other hand it does feel like just adding a presentation on YouTube otherwise. From what I heard, the conference organisers are trying to implement a chat system but I don't really have many details. Sometimes I wonder if one shouldn't just use YouTube live event feature and have a rolling conference the whole year ;) Also, I'm not sure I have the strength to sit the whole weekend in front of a computer enabling such a conference with the kids around the house to be honest, but I'll be happy to help if there's willingness to do it and some other volunteers want to help organise it. Cheers, Mario Il giorno mar 27 ott 2020 alle ore 20:12 David Gilbert <dave@jfree.org> ha scritto:
Hi Mario / All,
I haven’t participated so much in FOSDEM the last few years, so discount my opinion appropriately…
Perhaps this is an chance to make the best of a bad situation and use the virtual conference to try to bring in some people that wouldn’t otherwise have attended and/or presented. My suggestions: I would be interested to hear more from the people behind:
- https://openjfx.io - https://www.knime.com/
There’s fantastic work being done in these projects. I’m sure others know of great open source work being done on top of the Java platform. We could reach out and ask these people to present.
Best regards,
David
On 27 Oct 2020, at 17:34, Mario Torre <neugens.limasoftware@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I hope this email finds you well.
As you probably know, the next edition of FOSDEM will be a fully online conference and the CFP is now open for the DevRoom to register and will close in just a couple of days.
I've been thinking a lot about this, and I don't think the format suits us well. One of the most important aspects of the Java DevRoom is the face to face meetings and discussions that happen in the corridors and during the dinner, the content has a rather fair share of significance (otherwise we wouldn't do it!) of course, but the human contact the value of our DevRoom in particular (in a context as fantastic as FOSDEM) is what has made Java progress over the years, tied relationships and created new sources of discussion.
There's of course also the aspect of helping the conference deliver great content, after all we have been part of FOSDEM for years, it wasn't just a place where to go for our own stuff detached from the rest, and for that I am grateful to the organisers.
For this reason, rather than unilaterally decide about this and in the spirit of Open Source I would like some comments.
For full transparency, I do think we should pass this round.
Cheers, Mario
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