FOSDEM 2022 will happen remotely on the first weekend of February (5-6).
Tomorrow (Nov 15) ends the deadline for submitting a Nim devroom. In the past we have been welcome in the minimalistic room (likely also this year, see irc logs), but this year, having successfully organized Nim Conf, we could try to submit our own Devroom. Deadline is very close and feedback in IRC/Discord has been very scarce, but maybe it is still worth a try (I should have opened this thread a few days ago, but better late than sorry...).
What do we need to make such a submission?
According to devroom submission page we need:
Who is in?
I would be available to be a volunteer, I could make a talk proposal and I could be a secondary contact (I think primary should be a more recognizable name in Nim community).
I can help out, I've already helped out the Minimalistic room organise theirs for a while. It actually started when we where discussing with other languages a couple years ago to create a "Small languages" room. We where invited to join them and that year it was called the "Minimalistic, Experimental and Emerging Languages" room and had a decent amount of Nim talks. As for how big of a commitment it is, it's not that much. We'll need moderators for the question round, and someone to review and pick the talks (this is a team effort, so everyone typically helps out with that). Then of course it is the matter of finding potential speakers and follow up with them so that we have enough talks.
I'm happy to help in any capacity, whether it'd be primary/secondary, a volunteer, and of course I'd be prepared to hold a talk either way :)
I'm in. Happy to be primary contact too if nobody else is interested.
So I suppose we need 2 more volunteers and we can submit. Bet you Federico will be interested as well, will ping him.
I suppose we need 2 more volunteers and we can submit.
I think having 5 volunteers will be needed later on and we can already work on the submission. In the submission we can additional pentabarf ids (could be those of volunteers).
I created this repo to work on submission proposal, invited @dom96, @Pmunch and will invite to collaborate others of this thread who want to volunteer:
https://github.com/pietroppeter/fosdem2022
@federico was suggesting to create a Matrix room for Fosdem, I think it is a good idea, we should make it available also on Discord.
Since FOSDEM uses Matrix, I have created a Matrix account. I also created a pentabarf account (specific for FOSDEM).
Regarding Primary and Secondary contact, given their availabilities I would propose to have @dom96 as primary and @PMunch as secondary.