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Hotel for FOSDEM
by Jeremy White 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

Hi Folks, The nature of FOSDEM means that people can stay wherever they like. And the FOSDEM page itself lists a bunch of places, including a bunch of inexpensive options. However, I thought it would be useful to pick a 'default' hotel; that's where I and all the CodeWeavers folks will be staying, so other people from Wine might want to stay there as well. We have chosen the Best Western Hotel Royal Centre: http://www.royalcentre.be/ It's fairly close to the Grand Place, which Wolfram suggested. It is a fair way from FOSDEM itself. But I gather that most hotels are, so we're not unique in that regard. Google transit suggests it's faster on the public transit (30 minutes) than the hotel Mozilla used last year, so it doesn't seem worse than most. We were quoted a rate of 89 Euros per night, and we were told that rate would be offered to anyone else that called. Of course, we're fairly naive, so maybe you can get an even better deal...<grin> You may need to call or email them; when I tried their online system yesterday, it wasn't working. One key feature of this hotel was a bar, which means people have a place to connect. So that's where I'll be on Friday, testing Alexandre's claim that Belgian beers are the best... <grin> Cheers, Jeremy

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Could I get a volunteer to help me with name tags?
by Jeremy White 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

I'm wondering if someone would be willing to help out with name tags for FOSDEM. The Wine project can pay the costs. I'm thinking of just buying cheap name tag holders, and pre-printing (with a nice logo, of course) name tags for people we know will be there. And then having blank ones (with the nice logo, of course) for guests to our devroom. Any takers? Cheers, Jeremy

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Social plans at FOSDEM
by Jeremy White 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

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 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

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 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

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 04 Jan '14

04 Jan '14

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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T-Shirts
by Jeremy White 19 Dec '13

19 Dec '13

So the FOSDEM guys suggest that a fun way to show support for FOSDEM would be for us, the Wine project, to make Wine/FOSDEM T-shirts. Anyone interested? I think the WPF could probably sponsor some portion of the cost (and, at the very least, protect any volunteer from potential monetary loss). Cheers, Jeremy

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FOSDEM talk on tangential topic in wine devroom
by Adrien Nader 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

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FOSDEM 2014
by André Hentschel 29 Oct '13

29 Oct '13

Hi, FOSDEM 2014 will be on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 February. Did we already agreed on attending again? If not, i think we should start thinking about it. Opinions?

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FOSDEM '14 Call for Papers
by Jeremy White 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

Folks, There will a Wine devroom at FOSDEM '14 on Sunday, February 2, 2014. Last year we had a great time, and I think it was valuable for us to connect with the broader Free software community. I'd like to now invite you to submit proposals for talks. I'd really like to encourage everyone to think of something fun to share with the 5,000 geeks that will be swarming Brussels. If you have an topic you'd like to discuss, or an idea you want to present, please submit it to: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission You will create an account (if you don't have one from a previous year), and select the "Wine devroom" as the track. Please either submit for lengths of 30 or 60 minutes. The deadline for submissions is December 1st. I think it would be great if we branched out a bit, and submitting a crazy off the wall proposal will just burn churn a few electrons. So submit it! For further discussion, please follow up to wineconf(a)winehq.org. Cheers, Jeremy

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