[Mageia-discuss] FOSDEM, quick reminder

Fri Nov 26 13:40:10 CET 2010

Hi,
+
+so for people who plan to go to FOSDEM for the first assembly, do not
+forget to take your train or plane ticket in advance as this is cheaper.
+
+Since I often forget to do it, and since fosdem is in 70 days ( ie
+beginning of the month, not the end as it was before ), it is sooner
+than we may believe.
+
+And for people who take the car, I can only encourage you to try to
+share it with others free software fellows. You can get quite good
+result by seeking in your lug for that.
+
+Do not also forget the deadline for lighting talk
+( http://fosdem.org/2011/call_for_lightningtalks ). But try to not all
+submit a lighting talk at the same time on the same subject.
+Personally, I didn't submit anything, and I do not know if someone did.
+
+Apart from that, there is not planned yet. So we should try to organize
+ourself. I suppose that opening a wiki page would be a good idea, so I
+have created http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=events:fosdem2011
+
+( I think Anne asked for a stand, no answer yet, deadline is 06/12 ).
+
+Usually also FOSDEM is a occasion to get together for the evening, but
+the more we are the more complex it get. So this requires that people
+register
+
+And while we are on it, I think we could also try to have some best
+practice for the planning, like :
+
+- having someone in charge of coordination ( this greatly helped at
+AUFML ). Coordination if we have a stand, or if we don't. So any
+volunteer ?
+
+- having a checklist ( network, power cord, etc ), if possible
+translated and kept up to date. AUFML also has one, I am sure that every
+others groups have it, so we could consolidate them. 
+
+- having some kind of map linked to our ldap would help in the future to
+find who could be interested. but that's a rather complex task to carry.
+( after all, if we can place mirror on the map, we can do it for other
+people too ).
+
+Of course, even if there is no coordination, this will likely work,
+provided there is enough people present ( as Wolfgang discovered last
+year ).
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+