[distro-devroom] devroom area for Ubuntu and openSUSE

[Akashdeep Dhar]

Hey Richard and Douglas,

Sad to hear that OpenSUSE and Ubuntu did not receive a booth at FOSDEM 2023
but chuffed to note that we will be having you folks in the Distributions
Devroom this year. This also gives us the one of a kind opportunity (or has
it been done before?) to have maximum activity in devrooms by
incorporating booths alongside those and this should allow us to have more
participants in the devroom talks overall. A win-win for everyone involved
here!

>From what I can recall, we should be able to drag a couple of desks in
through the big doors once we are able to find those if we are conducting
it in the same (or a similar sized) hall like last year. The worst case
scenario would be that we would be using the first few audience desks for
laying out to the swags etc but preferably in the corners so as to make
sure that the viewing is not hindered for both the audiences as well as the
live streaming camera.

See you folks there in February! :)

Regards,
Akashdeep Dhar (he/him),

Red Hat Community Platform Engineering

t0xic0der at fedoraproject.org

akashdeep at redhat.com
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On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 1:00 AM Justin W. Flory (he/him) <jwf at redhat.com>
wrote:

> Hi Douglas! With Richard's permission, I am moving this thread to the
> distributions-devroom@ mailing list so all our devroom stakeholders can be
> on the same page. For any unaware readers, Ubuntu and openSUSE did not
> receive a booth at FOSDEM this year, and I offered to make space in our
> devroom for Ubuntu and openSUSE to "set up shop" with the usual swag and
> goodies they would bring to FOSDEM. I figure this might also be a draw for
> getting more people to the Devroom. 🙂
>
> I suspect most of this will be figured out on-site, once we know the day of
> the devroom, what room we are in, and what extra space we have available
> (e.g. any free tables). In 2023, we had a large table in the front of the
> room that we opened up for any swag people wanted to share with attendees.
> I suspect we could likely find a table to drag over to the side of the room
> for people to lay out their swag.
>
> As for beer, I am not sure if there are special rules or not for the
> classrooms that the FOSDEM organizers usually put us in, but I will forward
> this to the devroom-organizers@ mailing list and see if beer in the
> Devroom
> is on the table or not (see what I did there?).
>
> Looking forward to having our Ubuntu and openSUSE comrades-in-Linux
> together in February!
>
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 6:55 AM Douglas DeMaio <Douglas.DeMaio at suse.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Justin and Richard,
> > Philipp and I are in contact. Thank you for the offer of letting us have
> a
> > spot in the devroom. We'll plan on bringing some swag along and we're
> > synced. Please let us know if there is anything you need from us. As a
> side
> > note, should I or should I not bring some beer?
> > v/r
> > Doug
> >
>
>
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