[Microkernel-devroom] FYI: Fwd: Re: Questions regarding the Multiserver, microkernel operating systems devroom
Resending response from FOSDEM's Pascal Bleser, contains interesting points about the presence of public. Btw, there will be 85 seats in our room. Jakub ----
Second, on our devroom's mailing list, we have been debating the role of the public that visits our devroom, but can't figure out how much the public should be involved in the devroom. Is it common for the already established devrooms to focus their programs rather on the interaction with the public or the devrooms remain strictly developer-oriented?
Depends, and that is interely up to you. We provide projects with the infrastructure, and you do (pretty much) what you want with it. FOSDEM has a huge number of visitors (6000 is a safe estimate), with 90% of them at least being active contributors in open source projects. So you can be sure that the people who will end up landing in your devroom will be highly interested in either hearing more about what you do, get deeply technical information about it, propose some interaction with another project, or just genuinly contribute to what you do. Given the amount of crowd at FOSDEM, you can be sure that the room will be full. You could also plan a mix of both things, have sessions that are more "internal" but also have a few talks that are more "introductory". The complete schedule of your devroom will be on the site and in the booklet which we distribute freely to all visitors.
Hi Jakub, wow! That is a much larger scale than I expected. :-) I like the announcement you sent out today to various mailing lists. It would be great to get even more projects involved. We will certainly spread the word as well. To know having such a crowd present makes me think that your original proposal for a public Q&A session would actually make sense (in contrary to what I stated before). Given the fact that a pretty large public will be present at the room, what do you think about the idea to use a corner of the room for hands-on / demo stuff? If agreed, we could bring along a second projector especially for making the live demos more visible and (somehow) entertaining to the public - just an idea. Cheers Norman On 11/22/2011 09:50 PM, Jakub Jermar wrote:
Resending response from FOSDEM's Pascal Bleser, contains interesting points about the presence of public. Btw, there will be 85 seats in our room.
Jakub
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Second, on our devroom's mailing list, we have been debating the role of the public that visits our devroom, but can't figure out how much the public should be involved in the devroom. Is it common for the already established devrooms to focus their programs rather on the interaction with the public or the devrooms remain strictly developer-oriented?
Depends, and that is interely up to you.
We provide projects with the infrastructure, and you do (pretty much) what you want with it.
FOSDEM has a huge number of visitors (6000 is a safe estimate), with 90% of them at least being active contributors in open source projects. So you can be sure that the people who will end up landing in your devroom will be highly interested in either hearing more about what you do, get deeply technical information about it, propose some interaction with another project, or just genuinly contribute to what you do.
Given the amount of crowd at FOSDEM, you can be sure that the room will be full.
You could also plan a mix of both things, have sessions that are more "internal" but also have a few talks that are more "introductory".
The complete schedule of your devroom will be on the site and in the booklet which we distribute freely to all visitors. _______________________________________________ Microkernel-devroom mailing list Microkernel-devroom@lists.fosdem.org https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/microkernel-devroom
On 23.11.2011 11:34, Norman Feske wrote:
Given the fact that a pretty large public will be present at the room, what do you think about the idea to use a corner of the room for hands-on / demo stuff? If agreed, we could bring along a second projector especially for making the live demos more visible and (somehow) entertaining to the public - just an idea.
I have some mixed feelings about this. On one hand, this could be really interesting for the public. I can imagine each project having a chance to demo something using a small table and perhaps a small drawing board somewhere in the corner. On the other hand, I can foresee some problems related to this: - you'd need to bring more people from each project to man their part of the corner - the people taking care of the corner per project would be unable to pay attention to whatever goes on elsewhere in the devroom, which would be kind of contraproductive given the intended goals of the devroom - the activity in the corner could be potentially disturbing to the main activity taking place in the devroom Note that there is a possibility to apply for a stand, which, I believe, is more suitable for this kind of activity. Jakub
Hi Jakub,
On the other hand, I can foresee some problems related to this: - you'd need to bring more people from each project to man their part of the corner - the people taking care of the corner per project would be unable to pay attention to whatever goes on elsewhere in the devroom, which would be kind of contraproductive given the intended goals of the devroom - the activity in the corner could be potentially disturbing to the main activity taking place in the devroom
I see your concerns. It was not my intention to over-formalize the demo-corner idea, just to have something tangible for people who come by and check out the room. Maybe we could simply adopt ourself to the situation once we are there. It certainly won't hurt to have something prepared to demonstrate. We can decide about the best way to present it (or not to present it) on site then.
Note that there is a possibility to apply for a stand, which, I believe, is more suitable for this kind of activity.
I agree that we should not turn the dev room into an exhibition. :-) The role of the public in the room (and whether and how to specifically address it or not) is still not clear, or is it? Cheers Norman
Hi Norman, On 11/30/2011 09:34 PM, Norman Feske wrote:
The role of the public in the room (and whether and how to specifically address it or not) is still not clear, or is it?
I watched some FOSDEM videos on YouTube and got the impression that the prevailing, if not the only, form of the recorded content at FOSDEM is a "talk". This is understandable given the nature of the rooms at the university, which in our case is a medium-size lecture room. So I assume that during the talks the public will be intermixed with and indistinguishable from the other m9l/m9r developers. This bears some further questions, for example how to arrange the room for the panel discussion and the coding session part of the program, and what to do with the public then. The coding session could be a good opportunity to do some of the demos for the public, btw. Jakub
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