FOSDEM 2012

FOSDEM 2012 Announcement

FOSDEM 2012 will take place at at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, in Brussels on Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 February 2012.

This page is for organizing GNUstep's participation in the event. This includes the organization of a developer meeting the Friday before FOSDEM.

Organizer(s)

Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf (lars dot sonchocky dash helldorf at hamburg dot de)
is somebody else interested in lending me a hand?

Who will attend FOSDEM

One of the main reasons people attend the event is that you can meet, and talk directly to, other developers, whom you would otherwise meet only virtually (on mailing lists, emails, newsgroups, IRC etc.). We expect many lead developers and contributors to be present, so if you have never met them, you shouldn't miss this occasion!

The following is a list of people of GNUstep fame who have confirmed (or denied) that they will be able to join us at the GNUstep meeting at FOSDEM 2012:

Name	Friday 3. Feb	Saturday 4. Feb	Sunday 5. Feb	Monday 6. Feb	Special comments / topics	Hotel
Lars S.-Helldorf	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	event organizer	Argus
Nikolaus Schaller	No	Yes	Yes	No	QuantumSTEP + Openmoko / GTA04.org	Argus
Quentin Mathé					Étoilé
Niels Grewe					Étoilé
David Chisnall					Étoilé
Sebastian Reitenbach	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	OpenBSD packages	Hotel The Moon
Nicolas Roard				?	Étoilé
Nicola Pero				?	GNUstep
Fred Kiefer				?	GNUstep (GUI, Cairo)
Riccardo Mottola				?	GNUstep, GAP
Gerold Rupprecht				?	GNUstep
N.N.	t.b.d.	t.b.d.	t.b.d.	t.b.d.	t.b.d.

Dev-Room Presentations and Events

The room at out disposal will be AW1.126 (capacity is 72 seats (this is more than twice of what we had the years ago); in the building "AW"), -- on Saturday 2011-02-04 from (to be confirmed) 11:00 to 19:00

Call for participation

We are looking for people who want to give a talk, moderate a discussion, hold a hand ons (practice) / hacking session or organize a code sprint. Please send your proposals to GNUstep discussion list, the organizers mentioned above or - if you've got a wiki account - enter them right here. At first a title, a short summary, proposed duration and a preffered time slot would do, so we can start scheduling as soon as possible.

deadline for filing is t.b.d., deadline for the papers is t.b.d.

Note: The FOSDEM organizers strongly recommend a granularity of 15 minute blocks. So if a talk is just 15 (lightning talk), 30 or 45 minutes long - fine! But we should have 15 minutes breaks between the talks so that the visitors have enough time to find a seat and the presenters have enough time to get ready.

List of submitted talk/discussion/session proposals

Please submit through *GNUstep discussion list* until *2011-12-31*

Wishlist for talks/discussions/sessions

Enter talks/discussions/sessions here you would be interested in.

GNUstep Progresses and Roadmap
CoreBase and CoreGraphics/Opal in GNUstep

Schedule

Time Slot	Author	Title / Abstract	Kind	Slides
Saturday, Feb 04, 2011
11:00 - 11:30	GNUstep Developers	GNUstep Developer's Meeting Meet the GNUstep developers face to face, discuss current afairs of GNUstep, share news about the latest development and plans on GNUstep, improve collaboration between the several GNUstep related projects	meeting, discussion	-
xx:xx - xx:xx	t.b.d. who is holding the event	t.b.d. The Title of the Event t.b.d. some longer description here	t.b.d. what is it (talk, discussion, lecture, demo ...)	t.b.d. link to slides
contingency plan	GNUstep Developers	Frameworks lightning talks	talk	t.b.d.

Suggested Hotels

last year Sebastian Reitenbach and Nikolaus Schaller have booked here. Ask them on the mailing list on their Experience:

Louise Hotel

40, rue Veydt
1050 Bruxelles
http://www.louisehotel.com/
Sebastian Reitenbach says:
- book via: http://www.hotelreservierungen.de , which is cheaper than the offer on the hotel site. The reservation includes breakfast.
- free WiFi is available
- it costs only about half the price of the Argus hotel from last year.
- Its near avenue louise, only a foot walk away from the university campus.

NOTE Dec 2011: appears to have changed owner and is no longer listed in online booking portals

Argus Hotel Brussels (Belguim) (good experiences from past years)

6, Rue Capitaine Crespel
B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgique
Tel +32 2 514 07 70
Fax +32 2 514 12 22
reception@hotel-argus.be
Rate: 65/night - but you have to ask for the 'GNUstep/FOSDEM' discount
has free Internet ;-)

Normal prices are here:

http://www.hotel-argus.be/ukrates.htm

but there are discounts available:

http://www.hotel-argus.be/ukpromotions.htm

and we'll ask for even better discounts for a group booking (we need to know who's will be there for that!)

Some people booked that hotel in the last years: Nicolas, Marcus, Helge ,Lars.

Sun Hotel in Brussels (Belguim) (not recommended)

Rue du Berger, 38
1050 Brussels (near Porte de Namur)
Tel : +32(0)2 511 21 19
Fax : +32(0)2 512 32 71
sunhotel@skynet.be
www.hotels-belgium.com/brussel-al/sunhotel.htm

50 EUR/Single room with breakfast
22 rooms total
3km distance to University

has internet access, will make breakfast room available for developers after 11:00 am. Two electrical plugs for breakfast room, so need extension cord with additional plugs. Ask for first or second floor rooms close to reception for good wifi connections.

Hotel Sabina in Brussels (Belgium)

Rue du Nord 78
B-1000 Brussels
Tel: (32)2 218 26 37
Fax: (32)2 219 32 39

(very good rating by visitors) 63 EUR/Single with breakfast 8 single only + 16 double rooms 4,2km distance

Hotel Mozart in Bruxelles (Belgium)

Rue Marché aux Fromages 23
B-1000 Brussels
Tel +32 2 502 66 61
Fax +32 2 502 77 58
Email Hotel.mozart@skynet.be

http://www.hotels-belgium.com/brussel-center/mozart.htm

70 EUR/Single room NO breakfast WLAN

51 rooms total 4,2km distance

We are open to other suggestions. Please take into account distance to the University and access to public transportation.

A quick introduction to Brussels: http://wikitravel.org/en/Brussel

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