[Valgrind-users] Valgrind @ FOSDEM talk slides

[Mark W. <mj...@re...>]

Hi all,

Thanks for all you who came to Valgrind devroom at FOSDEM. I think the
interest in the talks surprised us all. We had to turn away some people
at some talks because the room was just full.

For those who missed it most slides are attached to the talk pages
listed at: https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/track/valgrind/ (only the
SimuVEX one is still missing).

We also did try to record videos of the talks, but that wasn't a great
success. We were missing a firewire cable at the start, so couldn't
record anything. Then when we did get that cable the audio was really
bad/silent. Sorry about that. The FOSDEM video staff is trying to rescue
what is possible. If they are able to, the videos will turn up at:
http://video.fosdem.org/2014/ (we were in K4201 on Sunday - which
currently doesn't have any videos yet).

Lesson learned for next time:

- If we are doing video recordings we really need to find someone that
  is dedicated to doing that instead of having someone do it on the
  side. The FOSDEM staff offered a little training beforehand, but
  nobody had time to attend that training.

- We had a relaxed schedule with some extra "free" time so people
  could get some lunch and drinks in between. But that did mean some
  talks had not enough time allocated for them (25 minutes really isn't
  that much). And we did run out of time during the last BoF session. We
  should allocate a bit more time per talk if possible (or at least warn
  that 25 minutes is too short for both a talk and a demo), and instead
  of a BoF with lots of small issues we should push for some lightning
  talks (mini BoFs) in between the larger talks. Maybe combined with a
  BoF at the end to use some more time for lightning subjects that could
  use some more discussion.

- We really should organize some social get together before/after the
  technical talks. Just pick a pub for drinks or a restaurant for dinner
  to meet up.

Thanks,

Mark