Replying to myself...
> (sent to AROS (please forward, I'm not on the dev list), ReactOS,
> Syllable, CCed to Haiku)
Moved from ros-general to ros-dev as the former seems very quiet...
>
> Hello,
> I'm a Haiku developer, <http://haiku-os.org>
> and I would like to propose sharing a devroom, eventually a booth at
> FOSDEM with some other FOSS OS projects.
As I've been told by the orga,
other projects should also book the devroom officially:
http://fosdem.org/2009/call_for_devrooms_and_stands
Just add you are ok to share it.
The official deadline is tomorrow...
>
> I sent to the mailing lists as I couldn't identify a specific
> contact,
> and I don't know how much centralized each project is.
>
> Last year we had our own booth at FOSDEM (we it shared with an ERP
> software),
> I really enjoyed the event, and would like to also get a devroom this
> year.
> But I'm not sure we will have enough people to animate it all the
> time
> (currently 3 or 4), plus we'd still have a stand to look after.
>
> http://www.haiku-os.org/blog/mmu_man/2008-02-25/hello_from_fosdem
>
> I know we shared a booth at last LinuxWorld with ReactOS and I heard
> it
> was interesting:
> http://www.haiku-os.org/blog/umccullough/2008-08-06/day_1_at_linuxworld_2008_a_solid_start
> > http://www.haiku-os.org/blog/umccullough/2008-08-07/day_2_at_linuxworld_2008_more_of_the_same
> >
> As the deadline for booth and devroom application approaches (it's
> before 22 nov.), I was thinking about sharing a devroom that could be
> called "alternative OSes", "grep -v GNU/Linux" or alike, with other
> projects.
> This way we could all get a devroom with fewer people to man it.
>
> As for our project, we could have talks and hacking sessions on many
> subjects, from architecture and design to installation, and specific
> things like the using the FreePascal port, porting applications,
> using
> replicants (like NetSurf).
>
> We could also have common talks, about the platforms we support, our
> design and goals.
>
> And if needed we could probably also share a booth with another
> project
> I suppose, last year we shared with a totally different software.
>
> I'll be mailing a booth and devroom request tomorrow precising it,
> before it's too late.
>
> François.
>
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