Call for papers - FOSDEM 2013

[Jeremy White]

Alright folks,

We need to put together a schedule for our room at FOSDEM.

So I would like to formally 'call for papers' for FOSDEM.  Please email
suggested topics to wineconf(a)winehq.org, where I'll collate them and
piece them into a schedule.

A 'paper' can be a talk you wish to give, or a topic you think we should
discuss.  As always, they should be relatively brief, and should
emphasize discussion and collaboration.

This year it probably makes sense to imagine a few talks aimed at
developers outside the Wine community.  After all, the hope is that a
few bored non Wine developers may wander by from time to time.  Perhaps
we can suck them in <grin>.

Cheers,

Jeremy

[Francois Gouget]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Jeremy White wrote:
[...]
> A 'paper' can be a talk you wish to give, or a topic you think we should
> discuss.  As always, they should be relatively brief, and should
> emphasize discussion and collaboration.

I think we will want to talk about the new WineTestBot and its future 
developments. But I'm not sure it should be a FOSDEM talk.

WineTestBot is after all Wine-specific. Also I feel like all I have 
about the really interesting subjects(*) is questions which does not 
really make for a good presentation.

But at the same time I'd be interested in ideas from others and the 
FOSDEM people may have faced some of these issues already, or at least 
set up sophisticated automated testing systems and know what works and 
what doesn't.


(*) A particularly interesting one to me is testing untrusted code on 
real hardware (with possible approaches being direct access to a 
graphics card from within a VM, or network booting (plus remote 
controlled power switch?), Grub tricks). Another may be testing on 
non-VM friendly OSes, specifically Mac OS X, though that may just be a 
matter of doing a more in-depth Google search to find a legal and 
libvirt-compatible solution.

-- 
Francois Gouget <fgouget(a)codeweavers.com>

[Jeremy White]

> WineTestBot is after all Wine-specific. Also I feel like all I have 
> about the really interesting subjects(*) is questions which does not 
> really make for a good presentation.
>
> But at the same time I'd be interested in ideas from others and the 
> FOSDEM people may have faced some of these issues already, or at least 
> set up sophisticated automated testing systems and know what works and 
> what doesn't.

It's okay for us to have talks that are Wine specific.  We get *our*
room for a day for *our* nefarious purposes.  I was just encouraging us
all to have an eye to possibly luring in a few others as well; we
shouldn't forego positive and useful conversations in the hope that
we'll engage others.

So could you please submit that formally to wineconf(a)winehq.org?

Cheers,

Jeremy

[Stefan Dösinger]

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Am 2012-11-01 19:59, schrieb Jeremy White:
> So I would like to formally 'call for papers' for FOSDEM.  Please
> email suggested topics to wineconf(a)winehq.org, where I'll collate
> them and piece them into a schedule.
> Will this be talk-only or do you also plan written conference
> proceedings? I suspect it'll be talk-only.

I propose a talk about the status of 3D rendering support for games on
Linux. I don't intend to make this highly Wine-specific, and instead
include the state of Mesa, fglrx, nvidia and OSX graphics drivers.
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[Jeremy White]

> > So I would like to formally 'call for papers' for FOSDEM.  Please
> > email suggested topics to wineconf(a)winehq.org, where I'll collate
> >                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> I propose a talk about the status of 3D rendering support for games on
> Linux. I don't intend to make this highly Wine-specific, and instead
> include the state of Mesa, fglrx, nvidia and OSX graphics drivers.

Favor - formally submit this to the Wineconf list?

Thanks,

Jeremy

[Julian Rüger]

It would be really cool if someone could manage to record some talks and
upload them to eg. youtube, for those who can't attend.
I would be especially interested in Stefan's proposed talk.

Thanks everyone and have a nice FOSDEM!

Best regards,
Julian

Am Freitag, den 02.11.2012, 14:26 +0100 schrieb Stefan Dösinger:
> Am 2012-11-01 19:59, schrieb Jeremy White:
> > So I would like to formally 'call for papers' for FOSDEM.  Please
> > email suggested topics to wineconf(a)winehq.org, where I'll collate
> > them and piece them into a schedule.
> > Will this be talk-only or do you also plan written conference
> > proceedings? I suspect it'll be talk-only.
>
> I propose a talk about the status of 3D rendering support for games on
> Linux. I don't intend to make this highly Wine-specific, and instead
> include the state of Mesa, fglrx, nvidia and OSX graphics drivers.

[Scott Ritchie]

Will FOSDEM manage this for us or do we need to send our own filmy person?

I nominate Jeremy to investigate, we really should have this filmed.

On 11/5/12 3:08 AM, Julian Rüger wrote:
> It would be really cool if someone could manage to record some talks and
> upload them to eg. youtube, for those who can't attend.
> I would be especially interested in Stefan's proposed talk.
>
> Thanks everyone and have a nice FOSDEM!
>
> Best regards,
> Julian
>
> Am Freitag, den 02.11.2012, 14:26 +0100 schrieb Stefan Dösinger:
> > Am 2012-11-01 19:59, schrieb Jeremy White:
> > > So I would like to formally 'call for papers' for FOSDEM.  Please
> > > email suggested topics to wineconf(a)winehq.org, where I'll collate
> > > them and piece them into a schedule.
> > > Will this be talk-only or do you also plan written conference
> > > proceedings? I suspect it'll be talk-only.
> >
> > I propose a talk about the status of 3D rendering support for games on
> > Linux. I don't intend to make this highly Wine-specific, and instead
> > include the state of Mesa, fglrx, nvidia and OSX graphics drivers.

[Jeremy White]

On 11/01/2012 01:59 PM, Jeremy White wrote:
> Alright folks,
>
> We need to put together a schedule for our room at FOSDEM.
>
> So I would like to formally 'call for papers' for FOSDEM.  Please email
> suggested topics to wineconf(a)winehq.org, where I'll collate them and
> piece them into a schedule.
>
> A 'paper' can be a talk you wish to give, or a topic you think we should
> discuss.  As always, they should be relatively brief, and should
> emphasize discussion and collaboration.
>
> This year it probably makes sense to imagine a few talks aimed at
> developers outside the Wine community.  After all, the hope is that a
> few bored non Wine developers may wander by from time to time.  Perhaps
> we can suck them in <grin>.

Reviewing what 'other' FOSDEM devroom guys have done, I see that I
failed to establish a deadline for the CFP.  So let me hereby
arbitrarily pick December 31, 2012.

Please get your proposals in no later than then; we'll then cull through
the suggestions and set the agenda.  I will likely add a section for
breakouts or general discussion as well.

Cheers,

Jeremy