[FOSDEM] requirement to start a devroom

[Martin Braun]

On 07/06/2017 02:39 PM, Kristoff wrote:
>>> So I am still a bit puzzled on how to see this and how to do this the
>>> best. (hence my question here).
>> As the guy who's organized the SDR track for the last few years, I would
>> have appreciated if you had pinged me on this too.
> 
> To be clear, it wasn't me who linked the "ham-radio" with the SDR devroom.
> 
> I understand the confusion by certain people (after all, both have the
> name "radio" in it), but -as mentioned- my idea is about the ham-radio
> related software that is not SDR related: digital-voice, digital-modes,
> pskmail, mesh-network, radio-over-ip, remote station-control, ...

All but the latter are perfect candidates for an SDR devroom. And the
latter would still be totally fine in an SDR devroom.


> [...]
> The reason I queried about this was -as my original mail mentioned-
> simply to get an idea what would be the requirements to do this, this to
> determine if it would make sence to talk about this wil certain
> developers I know.
> 
> Let's start there.

As mentioned in my response to Daniel, let's take this discussion offline.
Just as an FYI, I start rounding up speakers about the same time I apply
for the devroom (i.e. before it's actually accepted) just so people can
pencil it into their calendars and we can make sure we really have a
good lineup. A good data point you could gather is a list of names and
topics that could turn into actual talks. If you could get 5+ people
committed to presenting ASAP, that would give a better understanding of
what you want in a devroom.

Cheers,
Martin