Rethinking WineConf

Koticheck · Post by **Koticheck** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:07 pm

sure you are right

madewokherd · Post by **madewokherd** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:23 pm

Well, sure. Â I was replying to a suggestion that we tack
wineconf onto the side of, say, http://monospace.us/
by saying that I didn't think they'd be interested.
Do you think they would be?

Well, most of them are not very interested in Wine, but they're not
hostile to it either. So it's not impossible. No harm in asking the
organizers.

Pau Garcia i Quiles · Post by **Pau Garcia i Quiles** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:26 pm

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Jeremy White <[email protected]> wrote:

Thank you for all the replies. Here is what I've taken away so far:

1. Our intro text was overtly hostile to users. I've removed that.

2. Potential attendees want a clear agenda.

3. Coordinating with another event remains interesting.

So, exploring #3 a bit further - what if we asked for our own track
within FOSDEM 2013? (I presume that would be February 2013 in Brussels)
It would let us all get together, allow us to have a few sessions
targeted at non Wine developers, and could also save us some hassle.
And I like Belgian beer.

I cannot speak for the FOSDEM organization, but I seriously doubt you
will get a full track on the first year with no single talk about Wine
in the past.

Would we lose some of the joy of having our very own conference?

IMHO having WineConf as part of FOSDEM would dilute WineConf. FOSDEM
is just too big.

Having Wine-related talks at FOSDEM would be perfectly fine, though,
and I would even encourage you to ask for a keynote (you have to
submit the keynote proposal in October, IIRC).

Of course, given our (so far) non participation in FOSDEM 2012, we may
not be welcome... :-/

This should not be a problem at all. Wine fits perfectly in the
contents of the CrossDesktop DevRoom. I cannot say there will be a
CrossDesktop DevRoom next year but I'm 99% sure there will be.

Unfortunately for you, we have received confirmation from all the
speakers in the CrossDesktop DevRoom already. Would you be interested
in a slot in case we receive a last-minute cancellation?

--
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)

msmeissn · Post by **msmeissn** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 2:41 am

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 04:21:47PM -0600, Vincent Povirk wrote:

Well, sure. I was replying to a suggestion that we tack
wineconf onto the side of, say, http://monospace.us/
by saying that I didn't think they'd be interested.
Do you think they would be?
Well, most of them are not very interested in Wine, but they're not
hostile to it either. So it's not impossible. No harm in asking the
organizers.

one conference of two sets of groups that are not that interested in each others work
might share the organisation burden ... but its not that useful i guess
to attract more people to wineconf :/

Ciao, Marcus

Maarten Lankhorst · Post by **Maarten Lankhorst** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:29 pm

Hey,

Op 17-01-12 22:01, Dan Kegel schreef:

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Jeremy White<[email protected]> wrote:
So, exploring #3 a bit further - what if we asked for our own track
within FOSDEM 2013? (I presume that would be February 2013 in Brussels)
It would let us all get together, allow us to have a few sessions
targeted at non Wine developers, and could also save us some hassle.
And I like Belgian beer.
FOSDEM was the only conference mentioned by more than one person in my
little survey

I see Fosdem 2012 has a mono room:
http://weblog.savanne.be/470-mono-devel ... m-2012-cfp
I wonder if that would be a model to, um, emulate.
- Dan

Yeah there's some Xorg stuff going on as well. I'm visiting fosdem 2012
for that reason.
Would be interesting to know if any wine devs go this year. Might meet
up, and drink
something non-alcoholic together. I'm only there saturday though.

~Maarten