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Social plans at FOSDEM
by Jeremy White Jan. 20, 2014

Jan. 20, 2014

Folks, I've been thinking about FOSDEM. Bradley has kindly offered to organize a dinner on Sunday night, just like we had last year. That sounded great, so I asked him to go ahead. On Friday, we traditionally gather in the hotel bar, with the jet lagged folks dropping out early, and others going off to have fun. I don't recall what we did for Saturday dinner last year. I know we did the FOSDEM beer thing, with mixed results, but I think that was after dinner. For dinner, I seem to recall that we split up into ad hoc groups and roamed around town. That seems like a fun idea. But it does get awkward to coordinate. Would it make sense to instead see if the hotel will let us use their dining space and have food ordered in? Does anyone have a strong memory / preference? And do we want to do some pre planning and pick a Saturday night watering hole ahead of time? My instincts suggest that avoiding the FOSDEM beer thing would be a good idea... Anyone care to volunteer? Cheers, Jeremy

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Favor: help me fill two holes
by Jeremy White Jan. 13, 2014

Jan. 13, 2014

Folks, I think I'm down to having two 30 minute holes. The schedule should now be starting to be visible here: https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/track/wine/ Pipelight and a 'user focused topic' are going to go in until 11:30. I've got mingw-64 going in from 3:30 until 4:10 or so. That leaves me a 30 minute gap in the morning, and a 40-50 minute gap in the afternoon. Vincent was willing to be made to do a Mono talk again, but I think it'd be a mistake to make that more than a few minute cry for help. So, anyone have an itch? I was thinking of doing a brief make test / winetestbot review for 30 minutes. Anyone willing to lead that? Michael, you've got to be able to do something funny and fun about being a janitor, right? Austin, anyone, want to talk about bugs or appdb? Cheers, Jeremy

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FOSDEM talk on tangential topic in wine devroom
by Adrien Nader Jan. 7, 2014

Jan. 7, 2014

Hi, I'm the main guy behind http://win-builds.org which is a project to bring package management and packages _for_ Windows (through cross-compilation) and _on_ Windows (directly). The ultimate goal is to put an end to the compilation and building mess of free software when it comes to Windows; should give enough work for a few more years. I'd like to do a presentation about this project and mingw-w64 at FOSDEM 2014. I know proposals go through pentabarf but I think I need, at least for politeness, to ask here first. The topic is not Wine and I'm not really involved in the Wine community either; the target audience is also probably not so much the Wine community but more general. That said, I still believe a presentation in the wine devroom is appropriate. I was pondering going for a maintrack talk at first but it didn't feel completely right (scale, slight topic mismatch and not really a format I would feel comfortable with). That made me look for a devroom instead. Last year, a windows-only topic in the LibreOffice devroom attracted quite a lot of people who didn't attend the other talks. This makes me believe there can be an audience from outside the wine community for such talks: getting your free software running on Windows or getting others' free software to run on your Windows. PS: I'm on #winehackers as "adrien" so you can ask me questions there if you want. PPS: apologies if you get two messages since I'm re-sending using the right email address (the other one wasn't registered and the list is subscriber-only). Regards, Adrien Nader http://win-builds.org

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Call for help with video recording
by Jeremy White Jan. 4, 2014

Jan. 4, 2014

Folks, The FOSDEM folks want to record every single talk in every single room. They have got all the equipment set up, but they have requested two volunteers from each dev room to help monitor the equipment. If you'd be willing to help monitor their AV equipment (which means being in the room most of the day), please email me and I'll put you in touch with the right party at FOSDEM. Thanks, Jeremy

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