Hi everyone, as I suggested some days ago I truly think we should participate next year in FOSDEM. For those who don’t know, FOSDEM is the biggest free software conference in Europe. A massive event with the most successful open source communities out there. Some communities even hold their core team meetings a day before or after.
My proposal
As we are also a proud and somewhat successful community, it’d be a great place to tell our story and engage more contributors. This time there is one more reason. We can go meet the brand new OFN Belgium people since the event is being held in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
So, my suggestion is to apply for a lighting talk.
Lighting talks are short — 15 minute long — talks on a wide variety of topics. Anyone who has something interesting to say about an open source or free software topic can apply. We particularly encourage topics that do not fit in any of the developer rooms.
the deadline is November the 24th. I can lead this but is there anyone else willing to help/join? I’ll share a proposal for an outline we can discuss on.
Let’s meet!
Besides, I think it’d be a great opportunity to meet again with the folks in Europe cc @MyriamBoure@Rachel@luisramos0@hugo@Matt-Yorkley. At Coopdevs we plan to book an apartment for coop members & some other dev friends and take the chance to strengthen our relationship with Coop IT Easy and others.
I applied already for the lighning talk. Let’s see what they say in the coming days. We have enough time to prepare the slides and the presentation itself.
Last week in Porto we spoke about having OFN stickers to help us grab attention and engage people. I hope everyone agrees. We could have a design and everyone order them online on demand for this kind of events. I’d have been awesome to have them when I did my talk on the Hacktoberfest meetup in Barcelona. A sticker on a dev’s computer can help spread the word a great deal!
I paste here the relevant parts of their response.
Your talk(s) are scheduled as follows:
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| title | room | day | time |
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| Open Food Network | H.2215 (Ferrer) | 2019-02-03 | 11:40:00 |
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I’ll be working on those slides I shared long ago these days. Any feedback or participation is more than welcome. You @Rachel and @luisramos0 said you wanted to help. Perhaps you can add notes in the slides with the ideas that you want to share.
it’s 15min. Please do share and I’m sure we can do a test run the day before in Brussels. My idea is to give a bit more weight to the tech stuff, how it impacts our communities and the challenges we face than to the vision itself, given the profile of the audience.
otherwise I will share my ideas in the doc
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