[FOSDEM] virtual presence "stands" on FOSDEM

[Kristoff]

Alasdair,

Thanks for taking this up.



Although I surely do not say I talk for all the standholders here, but 
from my point of view, I think the best here is the keep-it-simple approach.
I see discussions about chat-forums and 3D spaces, but I do not really 
that much additional value in that.

If a stand wants to create content for their virtual stand (a video, an 
online chat-session / demo via jitsi/BBB/..., a chat-forum via 
<whatever-platform>), that they can do this by themselves using whatever 
tools and services that exist out there.

I do not think that we need to things to complicated and I surely do not 
want to burden FOSDEM to much for this.


As I see it, our main issue this year is to attract visitors to whatever 
online event we organise.


So, this means

- a presence on the FOSDEM website. (either on the site itself, or just 
a link to a website on our servers)

A link from one or multiple related devrooms to us would surely also 
help, but I guess we can just ask that to the maintainers of devrooms)


- a presence on the FOSDEM-agenda:
"Saturday, from 2 PM to 2:30 PM, demo and Q&A on <some-subject> at 
info-stand <whatever>, see link here".


This would allow us to attract both 'targetted' visitors and more 
random-people 'walking by', so If this would be possible, this would be 
more then sufficient for us.


 From our side.
We will look into preparing a number of videos to put on some 
video-platform, and do some presentations and demos on jitsi; but we can 
all organise that by ourself so we do not need to bother the FOSDEM 
volunteers with that.


Thanks!


Kr. Bonne.



On 5/12/2020 2:27 a.m., Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 09:18:35PM +0100, Kristoff wrote:
>> We hosted the infostand on Amateur-Radio on FOSDEM for some years now.
>> Off course, as FOSDEM 2021 will be held online, there are no real
>> 'physical' stands next year, ... but has something been foreseen to
>> allow standholders to be virtually present at fosdem 2021 (i.e. on the
>> official FOSDEM website)?
>   
> Yes, there will be a stands section of the website.
> There'll be a CFP for this (probably) in the next week.  The hope is
> we'll have a combination of static content and interactive content
> (sharing the facilities being created for the devrooms, assuming
> we manage to scale them up sufficiently).
>
> As with my previous message, if people can offer the time and skills
> to help to develop and integrate facilities for the stands, please get
> in touch on info at fosdem.org indicating what you could offer.
>
> Alasdair
>