What other conferences do Wine people attend?

[Dan Kegel]

In the wineconf thread, the question came up:
What other conferences people do wine developers/users attend, if any?

If you send me the names of the conference(s) you attended in the last
two years,
I'll summarize for the list.

[Lei Zhang]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Dan Kegel  wrote:
> In the wineconf thread, the question came up:
> What other conferences people do wine developers/users attend, if any?
>
> If you send me the names of the conference(s) you attended in the last
> two years,
> I'll summarize for the list.

I've seen DanK at SCALE on numerous occasions. Did I mention it's a
nice 70F / 21C in LA today?

[Lucas Zawacki]

Every year I attend to FISL here in my home town of Porto Alegre
(Brazil), it's one of the biggest events in Latin America but I reckon
most of wine devs are far north.

I didn't want to hijack the other thread, so I'll just throw an idea
here. It's been some time now that I've wanted to organize a local
meeting of wine users (and potential users) to have some kind of
install fest, bug hunting and talks about wine and maybe FOSS in
general to go along with it. I hope that we can end the event with
people happier with their non-Windows OSes and more educated about
things like wine, appdb, bug reporting and such.

What do you think? Has anybody tried something similar? Any advice?

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

Hi,

Akademy (KDE)
Desktop Summit (KDE + Gnome, although we have tried to get XFCE,
Enlightenment, etc on)
FOSDEM (a bit of everything, huge)
DebConf (Debian)
Libre Software World Conference (a bit of everything, big)

Collocating may be a good idea. Collocating in one of the biggest may
not necessarily be a good idea. For instance, FOSDEM is so big if you
organize WineConf in Brussels, how would you manage 200 people
suddenly showing at WineConf's room (which can probably only admit
50-60 people because the usual audience is 35 people) ?

Akademy has accepted other conferences in the past, such as a the Text
Layout Summit in 2007. TLS was very small (about 20 people), and
collocating into Akademy had direct results in KOffice: we realized we
needed to improve typography a lot. It took a few years, but currently
we do have great fonts in our office suite (now called Calligra).

(This makes me remember in the KDE 1.x we had something callled
Aktivate which used wine to be able to use ActiveX controls with KDE
applications; I'm getting old)

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Dan Kegel  wrote:
> In the wineconf thread, the question came up:
> What other conferences people do wine developers/users attend, if any?
>
> If you send me the names of the conference(s) you attended in the last
> two years,
> I'll summarize for the list.

[Marcus Meissner]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 02:55:33PM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
> In the wineconf thread, the question came up:
> What other conferences people do wine developers/users attend, if any?
>
> If you send me the names of the conference(s) you attended in the last
> two years,
> I'll summarize for the list.

not much I go voluntary to.

LinuxTag Berlin
FOSDEM Brussels perhaps

was at LinuxCon prague by chance only this year.

Ciao, Marcus