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My ideas about FOSDEM
A week after FOSDEM 2008 I have read many blogposts and the comments on the feedback form. It's really interesting to see what people think about the event; and this edition specifically.
Next saturday the staff will have the post-FOSDEM aka post mortem meeting.
We'll spend some time together and look back what went good and what went less good. We'll also look forward to the next edition(s) on how concretely solving those issues.
This meeting also means the official closing of FOSDEM 2008 for us. Or in normal language: "full rest".
I do have a few things I'm planning to work personally on:
- Main track speakers
- Location
- Internal coordination and communication
- Network
- FOSDEM 2010 - 10th Bday
Main track speakers
Finding the right speakers for the main tracks is not easy. First of all they must be technical, but not too much as they should attract a larger crowd. There is definitely some more work to be done for next year.
Internal coordination and communication
There are a few internal things that went wrong this year or could go better. I think we are certainly heading the right way with our ever growing documentation. By documenting many things organizing FOSDEM becomes easier for the boring part. This means we can spend more time on the fun part and on bigger improvements.
What I also didn't like was that the main tracks, the devrooms and the lightning talks were totally not aligned in their ending-time-schedule. I don't want to see this again next year :-)
Network
The network worked more or less fine this year. Great job Gerry & the Greenpeace guys!
But the hardware we are using as routers (Linksys WRT54GL) starts having issues with the amount of simultaneous connections it can handle. I think we need to invest into some more robust networking stuff and start using more directional antenna's for the WiFi. Do I hear money money money? :'(
Gerry, if you need some help with that don't hesitate to ping me.
10th edition of (F)OSDEM.
In two years (F)OSDEM will be at its tenth edition. In my eyes this is certainly a good reason to do something special.
I have a dream !
I have a dream on Friday evening with a lot of (almost) free beer.
I have a dream of another (almost) free beer party on Saturday
I have a dream of free food and drinks during the day.
I have a dream of free entrance for FOSDEM...hmm...this is already the case. Nothing new here.
I have a dream of many many well known speakers coming and giving lectures.
I also have a dream of those developers walking around discussing FLOSS things with the visitors.
I have a dream with many volunteers ;-)
In this beautifull dream, where sponsors give us even more money to help us pay for all these free things.
Do you think this is only a dream? Do you think this is feasible?
This is certainly not something we should prepare one year in advance, but we should start very very soon...
