FOSDEM 2021 and Java DevRoom

Fri Oct 30 12:07:13 UTC 2020

Hi Mario,

I tend to agree, especially as I just did a talk for the AnsibleFest that
really was an underwhelming experience. We put a lot of work in it, had to
face many technical difficulties and the end result was disappointing.

IMHO, I think currently we are simply try to deliver a talk meant to be
done in front of the audience online instead. I think people hosting such
events need to rethink how to deliver content online. For now, it feels to
me that we have the worst of both worlds (all the work of doing a live
talk, none of the benefits online format could bring us).

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 3:52 PM Mario Torre <neugens.limasoftware at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> I have contrasting feelings here. I think if a real time communication
> setup is maintained where an exchange between public and presenters is
> possible then there may be some reason to do it, on the other hand it
> does feel like just adding a presentation on YouTube otherwise. From
> what I heard, the conference organisers are trying to implement a chat
> system but I don't really have many details. Sometimes I wonder if one
> shouldn't just use YouTube live event feature and have a rolling
> conference the whole year ;)
>
> Also, I'm not sure I have the strength to sit the whole weekend in
> front of a computer enabling such a conference with the kids around
> the house to be honest, but I'll be happy to help if there's
> willingness to do it and some other volunteers want to help organise
> it.
>
> Cheers,
> Mario
>
> Il giorno mar 27 ott 2020 alle ore 20:12 David Gilbert
> <dave at jfree.org> ha scritto:
> >
> > Hi Mario / All,
> >
> > I haven’t participated so much in FOSDEM the last few years, so discount
> my opinion appropriately…
> >
> > Perhaps this is an chance to make the best of a bad situation and use
> the virtual conference to try to bring in some people that wouldn’t
> otherwise have attended and/or presented.  My suggestions:  I would be
> interested to hear more from the people behind:
> >
> >         - https://openjfx.io
> >         - https://www.knime.com/
> >
> > There’s fantastic work being done in these projects.  I’m sure others
> know of great open source work being done on top of the Java platform.  We
> could reach out and ask these people to present.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > David
> >
> > > On 27 Oct 2020, at 17:34, Mario Torre <neugens.limasoftware at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I hope this email finds you well.
> > >
> > > As you probably know, the next edition of FOSDEM will be a fully
> > > online conference and the CFP is now open for the DevRoom to register
> > > and will close in just a couple of days.
> > >
> > > I've been thinking a lot about this, and I don't think the format
> > > suits us well. One of the most important aspects of the Java DevRoom
> > > is the face to face meetings and discussions that happen in the
> > > corridors and during the dinner, the content has a rather fair share
> > > of significance (otherwise we wouldn't do it!) of course, but the
> > > human contact the value of our DevRoom in particular (in a context as
> > > fantastic as FOSDEM) is what has made Java progress over the years,
> > > tied relationships and created new sources of discussion.
> > >
> > > There's of course also the aspect of helping the conference deliver
> > > great content, after all we have been part of FOSDEM for years, it
> > > wasn't just a place where to go for our own stuff detached from the
> > > rest, and for that I am grateful to the organisers.
> > >
> > > For this reason, rather than unilaterally decide about this and in the
> > > spirit of Open Source I would like some comments.
> > >
> > > For full transparency, I do think we should pass this round.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Mario
> > >
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