We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for Papers!

[Leo Lapworth]

Hi Duncan,

Please contact the TPF and let them know how many hours a week you are
able to commit to helping co-ordinate this sort of thing.

Leo



On 26 Jan 2013, at 11:25, Duncan Garland <duncan.garland at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Isn't this something TPF should get behind?
>
> The Perl Community organises good conferences but they tend to be for quite
> small audiences. I've been told that YAPC Tokyo is the biggest with roughly
> 800 attendees and the next biggest ones are grouped around the 300 mark.
>
> Fosdem claims to attract 5000.
>
> We always talk about breaking out of the echo chamber, but never seem sure
> about how to do it. Isn't this an important opportunity?
>
> Shouldn't TPF commit to sponsoring this today and then launch a drive to
> find a commercial sponsor to reimburse TPF?
>
> (Perl still isn't listed on https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/ as having a
> developer room.)
>
> Regards
>
> Duncan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: london.pm-bounces at london.pm.org
> [mailto:london.pm-bounces at london.pm.org] On Behalf Of Wendy G.A. van Dijk
> Sent: 25 January 2013 20:41
> To: london.pm at london.pm.org
> Subject: We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for Papers!
>
> Hello all,
> We know it is late, but we still have to try to make this work.
> Maybe to save the honour and pride of Perl!  :-) Would you like to give a
> presentation in Brussels, please send me and/or Claudio a proposal.
> Today or tomorrow please.
> Thanks!
> Kind regards,
> Wendy van Dijk
>
> ========
>
> Dear Perl Mongers,
>
> I have to make this short and simple.
> Therefore most of this email is copied from last year's Call for Speakers.
>
> What?  Fosdem, Brussels, 2 & 3 february 2013 https://fosdem.org/2013/
>
> Where? Free University Brussels, Campus Solbosh:
> https://fosdem.org/2013/practical/transportation/
>
> Why so late?
> Because our dev-room request was denied at first.
> They gave it to another programming language community.
> Now another community could not fill their dev-room.
> We are Perl, so we jumped in and we asked for this.
> We got it.  Now we have to fill it.
>
> So be quick and send in your presentation proposal.
>
> To:
> Claudio Ramirez (nxadm, email: padre.claudio at apt-get.be) and Wendy van
> Dijk (email: nl.pm at wendy.org).
>
> Thank you.  Hope to meet you all in Brussels.
>
>
> __________________________________________________
>
> Copied and adapted from last year's Call for Speakers:
>
>
> Please forward to your Perl contacts.
>
> __________________________________________________
>
>
> Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels (Belgium), FOSDEM is the
> biggest free and non-commercial European event organized by and for the
> community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers a place to
> meet (see http://fosdem.org/2013/).
>
> Over the last years the Perl community had an increasing presence at FOSDEM.
> Over the last two years we managed to have both a booth and a dev-room. We
> collected an impressive positive return and wish to renew the experience.
>
> Our dev-room request for this upcoming edition (2013) was at first rejected,
> in favor of another programming language community.
> So we would only have a booth.  But another open source community could not
> fill their dev-room and we hastily requested it for the Perl-community.
> Yesterday we got approval.
>
> The stand request is approved some time ago.  The stand will be open
> throughout the weekend. The dev-room event will take place Saturday,
> February 2nd 2013 , between 11:00 and 19:00, in room AW.126.
> The room itself has 75 seats, WIFI and a VGA projector.
>
> This environment, being a university classroom with raised seats, lends
> itself perfectly for talks. This is a wonderful opportunity to present your
> Perl project -big and small- or talk about subjects you care about. We are
> looking for a variety of subjects on all levels:
> starter and advanced, generic and specialized, core internals and CPAN. We
> have 8 hours time, so we have the flexibility of using different time
> formats: e.g. talks of 20 minutes, more classic talks of 40 minutes or
> longer (although we learned from experience that longer talks should be
> split into slices of 20 or 40 minutes).
>
> Please don't doubt to send a proposal (information about yourself, subject,
> short description and time needed). If you have several subjects you are
> enthusiastic to talk about please send alternative proposals. In the case
> more than one talk is not selected, your proposal will help us when putting
> the schedule together and even have backup talks in case someone cancels.
> Also mention your time constraints (if any).
>
> Please send your talk proposal by e-mail to the address below as soon as you
> read this.  You will receive an answer within 2 days.
> We will submit a definitive schedule on Sunday 2013-01-27 to the FOSDEM
> organizers.
>
> Please forward / distribute this call as wide as possible (certainly to your
> local mongers).
>
> Claudio Ramirez (nxadm, email: padre.claudio at apt-get.be) and Wendy van
> Dijk (email: nl.pm at wendy.org).
>
> NB1: This is a community event without sponsoring. We don't have the means
> to pay for your trip and time. If you want to sponsor part of the event,
> please feel free to contact us.
>
> NB2: We'll also appreciate volunteers, booth and dev-room. Please tell us
> your availabilities so we can also prepare a planning for this.
>
>
>