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

[Greg McCarroll]

Before this blows up, can i just say that Leo is a good guy and your work speaks for itself Duncan, and sometimes we can all fire off a quick email a little too rashly as we get used to trolls and other internet mailing list beasties.

G.

p.s. now who wants to buy me first class eurostar tickets to brussels ;-).

On 26 Jan 2013, at 14:17, Duncan Garland wrote:

> And I put a lot of effort at very short notice into an article for this
> year's Catalyst Advent Calendar.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: london.pm-bounces at london.pm.org
> [mailto:london.pm-bounces at london.pm.org] On Behalf Of Leo Lapworth
> Sent: 26 January 2013 12:06
> To: London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers
> Subject: Re: We get a dev-room at Fosdem after all. Emergency Call for
> Papers!
> 
> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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