[distro-devroom] Info about submitted talk for FOSDEM 2025

[benny Vasquez]

Hi all!

This hasn't gone how we'd like to have it go, and I thank you for
the extended grace here. Shaun and I will be finalizing everything tomorrow
afternoon (eastern US time) and will send out the final notifications to
everyone.


benny Vasquez

Chair, Board of Directors @AlmaLinux OS Foundation

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On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 11:53 AM Oren Klopfer <oren at taumoda.com> wrote:

> Hi again organizers,
>
> Im once again asking about the status of our talk, as we have not received
> an acceptance nor denial in either direction, and it appears other
> submitters have not either. We are inching closer to FOSDEM and running out
> of time to solidify our travel plans. Please, an answer which way it is
> going to go is vital.
>
> Hope to hear back soon,
> Oren Klopfer
>
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 2:17 PM Marina Latini <marina.latini at suse.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Benny, hi all,
> > first of all, let me say thanks for all the precious work you are
> > doing behind the scenes for making this FOSDEM possible, it always
> > feels so good to meet so many skilled people and learn from all of
> > you!
> >
> > I'm writing because, after about 10 years attending FOSDEM as a user,
> > I finally made the step to submit a proposal to the devroom you are
> > coordinating.
> >
> > I can imagine that you received a ton of proposals for the
> > Distributions DevRoom, and I was only wondering if I should just be
> > patient and wait a bit longer for your feedback because you are still
> > in the process of ranking and selecting the best options for your
> > DevRoom, or if the reject of my proposal got lost in the process.
> >
> > My proposal was the one about Uyuni, an open source tool that can be
> > used for managing and configuring several GNU/Linux distributions.
> > Given that this is the first Uyuni talk at FOSDEM, I preferred to
> > introduce Uyuni and how it can be used by someone focused on
> > distributions that is also looking for a tool that can manage all of
> > them.
> > I didn't specify in the abstract what it is required for enabling a
> > new distribution because I think that some initial knowledge on what
> > the tool is and what someone can do with it should be a prerequisite
> > for going into more technical view, but I can understand if you prefer
> > to give the stage to a different proposal.
> >
> >
> https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/talk/review/T7YCDCQFLXL8Y9BKPPVBMCZTGK3WBNHA
> >
> > Do you already know when you will communicate the decision about the
> > submitted proposals?
> > From https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2024q4/003551.html it
> > looks like that the speakers were supposed to get some info on 6
> > December.
> > Of course, if you have any questions about my proposal, please, let me
> > know.
> >
> > Thanks again for all your work and see you in any case at FOSDEM!
> >
> > Happy hacking and have a lot of fun,
> > Marina
> >
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> > Marina Latini
> > Release Engineer
> >
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