2020/02 FOSDEM

[bzz]

URL: https://fosdem.org/2020

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Dates: 2020/02/01-02

Expenses covered: no

Topic: OSS

Call for Participation:

DevRoom proposals

• 20 September
  deadline for developer room proposals
• 30 September
  accepted developer rooms announced

https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2019-08-13-call-for-participation/

Notes:

• In 2017 we organized beer payback event
• In 2018 we stepped up organizing "Source Code Analysis" 1/2 day devroom + speakers dinner/beer payback event
• In 2019 we stepped us organizing "Go" and ML on Code full day devrooms + speakers dinner/beer payback event.

For 2020, we discussed a possible preliminary plan of:

• Getting involved in organizing Go devroom
• Stepping up and organizing a general "Machine Learning" full day devroom
• Possibly stepping up and organizing a "Source Code Analysis" (half day?) devroom
• Hosting a co-located "ML on Code" (half day?) workshop before/after the FOSDEM
  Co-organize it with other key players in "ML on Code" field e.g JetBrains/MS using materials from DevFest workshop
• Speakers dinner + beer payback event

Action Items

• Determine who wants to be involved and meet in Aug
  Put ❤️ reaction to this issue if you want to be involved in organizing any of the above.
• Draft and share all dev room proposals Aug-early Sep
  • Machine Learning
  • Source Code Analysis
• Submit the proposal before deadline
  • Machine Learning
  • Source Code Analysis
• Create separate issues for ever devroom/initiative Aug-Sep

[bzz]

I'm looking to start drafting an general "ML DevRoom" proposal and will post it here.
One of the speakers from https://www.sourcesense.com reached out, who seems to interested in collaborating/helping with this one this year.

[bzz]

Hey, @creachadair @dmitryvinn @vcoisne @gomesfernanda @m09 @vmarkovtsev @mcuadros as soon as we have the deadline announced, do you want to have a quick kick-off call next week, so we can share the expectations?

[vmarkovtsev]

Yes! A few thoughts about the plans:

Getting involved in organizing Go devroom

I guess that we should ask @campoy about his involvement this year.

Stepping up and organizing a general "Machine Learning" full day devroom

I am mentally prepared for this.

MLonCode workshop

I feel that having a full ML room and a workshop /and Go perhaps/ maybe too much for us...

Extras:

• We should order many, many more nice t-shirts!
• We should already start collecting the list of ML companies which produce open-source.

[mcuadros]

I vote for bringing the original idea of the LA room.

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[campoy]

I'm planning on organizing the Go devroom, yes.
I already sent a proposal.

[creachadair]

I'm happy to help support a Go devroom if that is desired/useful.

I'm also glad to work on a Source Code Analysis room, though I think probably we should limit that to at most 1/2 day. I agree also with @vmarkovtsev that we should not commit to more than we can handle.

[bzz]

All that make sense to me.
I've taken the liberty of sending a Calendar invitation for a kick-off meeting for this Thu 5th 16:30 GMT+2.