Re: [FOSDEM] Accepted devrooms

[Gerold Rupprecht]

Hi Lars,

Thanks for your efforts.

Can you say anything about the selection criteria?

We have enjoyed FOSDEM presence since the beginning so I am interested
to know why the organizers are giving preference to others. What can we
do to make our project have greater value for FOSDEM?

These people are putting in a tremendous effort at organizing, finding
sponsors, volonteers and I really appreciate their efforts. It has
always been a highlight for me to meet other people interested in
GNUstep each year at FOSDEM.

One thing that comes to mind is the often difficult access to our code
within various distributions /OSs. The code which is available has often
been in a frustrating state where getting the code up and running.

Are reviewers finding it difficult and time-consuming?

What are the FOSDEM organizers looking at?

We have even had the support of Richard Stallman for our project, so I
am still convinced GNUstep has strategic value for Free Software.

What are the other projects doing that presents them as being a better
investment for their time and resources than our project? 

Can we set a priority to fill in the gaps to again meet their
standards? 

I have great admiration for the current and past contributors to GNUstep
and the overall quality of work. We have had investments from Google
summer of code for a number of contributions, so technically, I have no
doubt as to the value of the produced code. 

The current efforts to creating debian packaging that is more current is
a good move in the right direction (big thanks to all contributors).
Would more automatic regression tests be of help to get better ratings?

Any thoughts and suggestions would be most welcome.

Would it be appropriate for us to graft ourselves onto the Testing and
Automation group (Saturday) or the Configuration / Systems Management
group (Sunday) this year? 

What is the interest to organize a meeting nearby to FOSDEM? 

I really want to see GNUstep at FOSDEM again.

All comments and suggestions welcome.

Thanks,

Gerold
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On jeu, 2012-10-25 at 12:29 +0200, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
> Sadly we are not among them :-(
> 
> 
> Lars
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> > Datum: 25. Oktober 2012 12:00:01 MESZ
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> >   1. Accepted devrooms (Tias Guns)
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> > Von: Tias Guns <tias@fosdem.org>
> > 
> > Datum: 24. Oktober 2012 21:27:48 MESZ
> > 
> > An: Fosdem Announce <fosdem@lists.fosdem.org>
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> > Betreff: [FOSDEM] Accepted devrooms
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Devrooms are 'developer rooms' in which open source communities can
> > organize their own schedule, made of presentations, brainstorming
> > and hacking sessions. Our goal is to stimulate developer
> > collaboration and cross-pollination between projects.
> > 
> > It is our pleasure and honor to announce that the following projects
> > and topics have been granted a devroom at FOSDEM 2013:
> > 
> > Both Days
> > ---------
> > * Cross Distro
> > * CrossDesktop
> > * Embedded and Mobile
> > * Free Java
> > * Legal Issues
> > * Mozilla
> > 
> > Saturday
> > --------
> > * Apache OpenOffice
> > * Community development and Marketing
> > * FOSS for scientists
> > * Graph Processing
> > * Jabber/XMPP
> > * Microkernels / Component-based OSes
> > * Mono
> > * PHP and Friends
> > * Testing and Automation
> > * The Wine Project
> > * Virtualization
> > * X.org
> > 
> > Sunday
> > ------
> > * Ada
> > * BSD
> > * Cloud
> > * Configuration/Systems Management
> > * Cross Distro
> > * LibreOffice
> > * MySQL & Friends
> > * NOSQL
> > * Open Source Game Development
> > * PostgreSQL
> > * Python
> > * Smalltalk
> > * Telephony
> > 
> > 
> > In the coming weeks, they will announce their call for talks on
> > various mailinglists (including this one). We will collect them on
> > our website as well.
> > 
> > We will also open our call for stands (a place in the hallway) and
> > lightningtalks (15 minute talks) in the coming week.
> > 
> > 
> > On behalf of the FOSDEM program team,
> > Tias
> > 
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