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

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 02/11/09 at 07:56 +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote:
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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.

At some point, you will have to draw a line between very popular distros
that are are able to fill a devroom and still have people waiting on the
outside (like it was the case for the Debian devroom last year), and
distros that I need to google for to know what they do.

How do you plan to deal with the huge attendance expected in the
cross-distro devroom, given that Debian's devroom was already too small
last year? Do you have numbers about attendance in the distro devrooms
last year?

With my Debian hat on, I think that it would be valuable to share a
devroom between Debian, Ubuntu, Maemo and other Debian-based distros.
But there's probably not that much to gain with sharing a devroom with
Centos, Fedora, OpenSUSE and Gentoo.
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