[loki at fosdem.org: FOSDEM 2010: Distribution Miniconf]

Pascal Bleser loki at fosdem.org
Sun Nov 1 22:56:14 PST 2009


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On 10/30/2009 01:20 AM, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 01:38:04PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>>> If I'm not the only one feeling that way, I think we can try to make a
>>> more reasonable proposal to the FOSDEM organizer: having the devroom
>>> *and* the cross-distro meeting room. That can be coped with a simple
>>> room: if you want a devroom for your own, you should participate in the
>>> cross-distro room *as* *well* filling a number X of slots.
>>
>> Given the above, and given that this would involve one "shared" devroom
>> *plus* a single devroom for each and every distribution, I can't agree
>> that this is "a more reasonable proposal".
> 
> How about this: Two devrooms.
> 
> One devroom is shared by three of the four major distribution flavours
> (that is, centos/fedora, debian[0], opensuse and gentoo) in the
> following fashion: one track Saturday afternoon, one track Sunday
> morning (ouch), last track Sunday evening.

Why not Mandriva ? Or Ubuntu ? Or Exherbo ?
That pretty much goes back to the situation we want to fix in the first
place.

> The second devroom is used by the fourth distribution on Saturday
> afternoon, and is a cross-distribution devroom for Sunday.
> 
> Each flavour organizes their devroom track individually, and the Sunday
> cross-distribution devroom is organized by the distributions list or
> whoever.

Nice idea but.. no, it's cross-distribution on Saturday + Sunday ;)

cheers
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