[Brug-talk] good news: FOSDEM dev room for Ruby and Rails appointed

[Peter Vandenabeele]

Hi,

I just got this mail from loki:

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Hey Peter.

If a 48 seats room (during the whole weekend (*), with video projector
and wifi (internet)) is enough, then you have a devroom for RoR ;)

Please let me know ASAP whether that room will be big enough (but I'm
afraid we don't have a bigger one to offer :\)
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I have acknowledged that we will take the room, since this is a golden
opportunity to do a first real event, with very light overhead. The date is
23-24 february 2008. So, unless others prefer to take over the work (you
are welcome ;-) , I am prepared to act as "secretary" (that is doing
the organisational stuff, and leaving the "content" decisions to the program
committee).

May I ask if people are interested to join the PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

That is a set of 3 to 5 technical specialists that will:
* decide on the Call for Papers (essentially the technical scope)
* evaluate the proposals
* define a sensible schedule

(this really is NOT a lot of work ... do not hesitate to put up your name,
it is only a few hours of work, spread out over the comming 3 months, and
you get some visibility on the invitation :-). Best to have max. 1 person per
company)

Next to presenting papers, we could also have "co-development sessions",
"discussion sessions", "bug-squashing party", ... (and maybe dinner on
Saturday night :-)

Having someone from a serious "case study" with Ruby (on Rails) would
be nice too.

Clearly, next to sending out the open Call for Papers, we can invite a few
people as well.

The Call for Papers could look like this (all improvements welcome):

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First Ruby and Rails devroom at Fosdem (Brussels, 23-24 Feb 2008)
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The Belgian Ruby User Group (http://www.____) organizes the first Ruby and Rails
devroom at fosdem 2008. We are calling on presenters to propose an
abstract for a
presentation in the Ruby and Rails devroom. Relevant topics can be:

[programme committee to decide on this]:

* Ruby
  * new developments
  * ...
* Rails
  * new developments
  * ...
* JRuby
* ....

Please send your abstract to abstracts at ... before 21 December 2007. It will be
reviewed by the programme committee and you will receive a decision if your
presentation is accepted by 14 January 2008.

The program committee that will evaluate the proposals is comprised of:
* NN1
* NN2
* NN3
[* NN4]
[* NN5]

Entrance to the fosdem conference and dev rooms is entirely free.
Sorry, we cannot
give any travel grants to foreign visitors (local hospitality with one
of the organisers is
possible to save hotel costs).Last years, approx. 2,000 people visited
the fosdem
conference.

For all further information, check this page: http://www. .....

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I hope all of us can put a little effort into this, and make it a
first "real" event for
the BRUG.

Thanks !

Peter