Will there be an X at FOSDEM2007?

[Leon Shiman]

 Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:58:31 +0100 Luc Verhaegen wrote:
>
>The FOSDEM organisers are really getting up to steam now for the 
>upcoming event, and they are now filling in the roster for their 
>DevRooms or Developers Rooms. And they are wondering if we'd want one 
>again this year.
>
>For those who weren't there last year or any of the previous year:
>FOSDEM is one of the largest general Free and Open Source developers 
>meetings in Europe. It's always held at the end of february, at the 
>free university of brussels. The main aulas are used to hold talks that 
>interest the general public, but next to that a lot of aulas are being 
>used for project or topic specific developers rooms. It's always a huge 
>success, and the network, expanded and improved each year, is 
>traditionally overloaded :)
>
>This year, FOSDEM will take place on 24-25 February, saturday and sunday 
>again.
>
>In the turmoil of the upcoming board election, this is rather 
>unfortunate timing, as it is impossible to get a solid backing from 
>the board right now. But i do need to give Pascal Bleser (FOSDEM) an 
>answer about the DevRoom ASAP.
>
>Will we take a DevRoom this year or will some other free/open source 
>software project get it?
>

I'd suggest accepting the room now and assuming that there will be strong 
Board support - and then organize it well. 

I'd support it.

Leon