Hi all 👋,
I know we are all eagerly awaiting for NimConf2022 (this Saturday!) schedule to be announced...
but in the meantime me and @PMunch are working towards next Nim event, a Nim Devroom at FOSDEM 2023!
The deadline for submitting a devroom is tomorrow (Tue Oct 18th), but since we did it also last year we have most of the material ready (see repo nim-fosdem). The nice thing about this year is that - being a physical event - it could be the first event in some time for Nim enthusiasts to meet in person🍻. If you want to ask us stuff, discussion about this event is in #fosdem channel on Discord/Matrix.
If we get the devroom accepted (we should know by October 31st), then we will need you to submit talks (we are targeting half a day of content), so start thinking about what you can present (deadline for presentation will likely be beginning of December) and make plans to be in Brussels. I know this will be of interest mostly to EU-based Nimsters (who wants to organize a similar events in other continents?), but I am pretty excited about the prospect!
So who would consider coming? Would you consider submitting a talk?
I am in for both!
The number of devroom was limited due to COVID restrictions.
We could have joined and give talks within the devroom "Minimalistic and emerging programming languages".
I didn't went there in the end.
Out of curiosity, the devroom wasn't approved?
to expand a little on @dlesnoff correct assessment (and partly using some answers I did provide in nim telegram channel, I was planning to update this thread but forgot, thanks for the reminder! :)).
Yes, the devroom was not accepted. I think I can safely quote from their mail
I'm sorry to inform you that we declined your devroom proposal for this edition of FOSDEM.
We received far more proposals (88) than we can accommodate, so unfortunately we had to leave out a number of good proposals, including from some teams who had a well organized devroom in one of the previous (online and/or physical editions).
Note that this mail only informs you that we will skip this edition, and does not mean we will not reconsider the room for next year.
Fortunately, there are other ways to participate in FOSDEM too
- have a stand at FOSDEM [1]: apply before November 15
- hold a talk in the main tracks or lightning talks track
- speak in one of the other devrooms.
CfP for the main tracks/lightning talks and other devrooms will be opened soon, keep an eye on the website.
We did accept a "Declarative and Minimalistic Computing" devroom, you may want to get in touch with the organisers.
To be honest, I can understand their decision given the constraints. They had to leave something out and our track record (of some talks in past editions plus an online nim devroom that I would judge as well organized ;)) was good but it is possible they had to leave out devrooms with a better track record. They do indeed mention receiving 88 proposals and the public list of accepted devrooms lists 53 of them, so they did have to reject 35 devrooms. From what I can tell most if not all the accepted devrooms are on topics which have a long tradition being at FOSDEM. Furthermore, we had many options (listed in the mail) to still have Nim featured in Fosdem (in particular the minimalistic etc devroom mentioned nim specifically in their cfp).
This was so sad :( I was looking forward for this year's FOSDEM with a Nim devroom :(
ah yeah, definitely shared the feeling of sadness and really wanted to make it happen. It is also a pity that there were no submissions from the community for the other options but the rejection for sure did not help (I was considering submitting a lightning talk but in the end could not be sure to commit and indeed I did not go). Now I take this as a challenge to make their decision more difficult for next year (while still preparing to submit something elsewhere just in case). :)
btw, for those who went, how was it? interesting talks to watch when the video will be available (or are they already)?
I was able to (sort of) watch a couple of interesting talks:
btw, for those who went, how was it?
I was only there at the FreeCAD day at Friday before FOSDEM and to be honest, I think that I made the right choice. The quality wasn't that well. There were no subjects that I am interested in. I don't know why. Maybe indeed it is Rust. But there were no "new languages", no Web3, no Nim, today it's about "energy". Let's hope that tomorrow they get back to their senses.