@amit.lzkpa one question -
You’ve put both days as preferred slot? Do you mean have the devroom on both days, or is it something else?
Edit:
I see on the devroom submission form it asks for a selection from 1) half a day, 2) full day, 3) both days.
I guess my question is - do we think we will get enough talk submissions for 2 full days?
@ei8fdb @belenbarrospena @victoria-bondarchuk
I’m ok with all.
@ei8fdb
Yes. I meant devroom for both days.
We could spread it out.
I thought the panel discussions from last year were very good.
How many talks did we get last year?
@amit.lzkpa We had 21 proposals, accepted 15 for one day. Please see more details about proposed and accepted talks here. (2019 tab)
Personally, I wouldn’t go for 2 days for two reasons:
However, if we ever get accepted for two days, it could be an interesting challenge. 
Count me in 
I think if you just need to describe your work for OSD, your previous involvement and volunteering job for FOSDEM, experiences with OSD community.
I think @victoria-bondarchuk is right. I don’t think we are ready for a 2-day devroom.
Those are quite few at FOSDEM, and they tend to be pretty big in scope (e.g. embedded). I think we should go for one day.
1 day sounds like the majority.
@ei8fdb what do you feel?
@victoria-bondarchuk @belenbarrospena @ei8fdb
For Submitter's affinity to the topic of the devroom I meant whoever has their contact listed as the primary one should fill it up.
I can fill in my details there if everyone thinks that’s ok.
I don’t know anything about core@opensourcedesign.net. It would be great if someone can verify that.
If the rest of the proposal looks okay to everyone would be great to submit it before the deadline, say 15th September?
I agree with @belenbarrospena and @victoria-bondarchuk about the number of days. In order to cover 2 days we’d need more volunteers and to receive more submissions.
@amit.lzkpa Our (ALL of us!) affinity to the topic is our interest in design in open source.
Yes we should get it submitted in the next day/2.
Hi @amit.lzkpa
Please, go for it and submit yourself as the main organiser! 
I think it’s more than ok: it’s great. We are very thankful that you have volunteered to organise this year and are willing to take the initiative.
About the proposal, I have a couple of comments:
Since it is not guaranteed we will have a booth / stand (we need to apply), maybe that paragraph should change to explain how we’ve had a stand for the past 2 years, which included the design clinic activity.
Because the 2 types of architects are together here, I got a bit confused while reading it and at the beginning I thougth it was a typo 
Maybe we could change it to something like “(building and information) architects”. Just a suggestion, really: I don’t think it’s a big deal.
As per the discussion above, this would be changed to “Full day”
As I said above, I would encourage @amit.lzkpa to become the primary contact with @victoria-bondarchuk or @ei8fdb as the secondary one. Please use your own personal email addresses! Although this is organised on behalf of the OSD community, it is individuals who take responsibility for it, and their own email addresses should go in the submission.
Should we add the website (opensourcedesign.net) and the Git repo (Open Source Design · GitHub) to this list?
And finally, about the “Submitter’s affinity to the topic of the devroom”, well @amit.lzkpa is a designer, a member of the community, attended the devroom last year, volunteered to organise the devroom this year and has the support of the community to do so (we can add the url of this thread as evidence of that). If that is not a stellar recommendation, what is!?
@victoria-bondarchuk @ei8fdb @belenbarrospena
Updated the proposal to reflect everything we discussed.
Links:
Wiki
just the changes
Also copying the updated proposal at the end.
Would be great if the secondary contact can fill in their details.
Hope we are able to submit it by September 15th evening.
Thank you all for the encouragement!
Open Source Design
Open Source Design is a community of designers and developers advocating more open, human-centered and participatory design processes within free and open source software. We understand “design” in a broad sense, and our community includes interaction designers, content experts, design researchers, architects, graphic designers, usability and user experience professionals, and of course software developers. What we all share is the conviction that engaging users in the process of developing software results in better software.
The goal with our devroom is to showcase design work done within free and open source projects, and strengthen the connections between designers involved in FOSS. We dedicate an hour to project pitches, so that projects looking for design contributions can introduce themselves and establish contact with designers eager to help. It will be an opportunity for developers and designers to ask questions and maybe seek advice on diverse aspects of design - from usability testing to typography - to an audience of designers who have a mix of skills and experience both in commercial and FOSS projects.
Examples of past talks
Open Source Design has been present at FOSDEM since 2015, when we organised our first devroom. Our main purpose is advocating human-centered design within FOSS. Our devrooms have been well attended, and we have seen strong demand for design contributions. The design clinic last year gave us the opportunity to engage more actively with projects, and created opportunities for stable and long-term collaborations between designers and FOSS projects.
Full day
Amit
Nambiar
A designer/developer who is a member of the community and attended the devroom last year.
TODO
TODO
TODO
A room which is accessible to those with motor skill impairments - a room which is accessible with both stairs and lift.
@ei8fdb is traveling, so he’s asked me to post the secondary contact details for him
First name: Bernard
Last name: Tyers
Email: bernard@ei8fdb.org
The proposal looks good to me. If nobody suggests any changes before the end of the day, I think we can assume it’s good to go
@belenbarrospena @ei8fdb @victoria-bondarchuk
It’s submitted!
The confirmation date is 30th September and I will post an update as soon as I hear anything from them.
In the meanwhile I’ll keep the hopes up and go through the checklist from last year.
@amit.lzkpa Awesome! Appreciate your work very much.
@amit.lzkpa Excellent! Thank you so much 
Thank you @belenbarrospena for posting those details.
@amit.lzkpa that all looks good. 
I’m looking forward to FOSDEM 2020. 
FOSDEM organisers have acknowledged our devroom application.
Should we also submit the Design Stand application too? Does anyone want to take that on as submitter?
Hey. Thanks @amit.lzkpa for handling the paper submission. It’s great to have more people involved in organizing. Thanks @belenbarrospena, @ei8fdb, victoria-bondarchuk for helping.
I had a look at the checklist and it looks like there is nothing pressing to be done till we hear back from about our proposal.
If it gets accepted the next important item in the checklist to get started with would be drafting the Call for Proposals for our devroom.
I was thinking of looking at last year’s CfP and stuff from the OSD devroom 2019 page and starting on a stub for this year.
Please let me know if you think I am missing something.
And thank you for all the wishes team!
@belenbarrospena @ei8fdb @victoria-bondarchuk @evalica
Also I was thinking of using github project boards to manage the tasks in the future.
How does that sound to everyone?
Does anyone have any other preference?
Is there stuff like that in the discourse app?
We use it at work and helps everyone get a quick status update on things.
About Project Boards
Guide to Project Boards
Hi @amit.lzkpa
You are right: next thing would be to prepare and issue the CfP, but I think you can wait until we hear from the FOSDEM organisers regarding the acceptance of the devroom. I believe that should happen tomorrow anyway.
About using GitHub for organising, we used to do that before, but we switched to the forum because it would make the process more accessible: not everybody is comfortable with GitHub. That was my understanding anyway: if I am wrong, please people correct me!
Well, we made it
https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2019-10-01-accepted-developer-rooms/
We better start working on that CfP!
Yes.
We made it!..(delayed long lingering claps)
I started putting together the CfP.
It’s not done yet, but wanted to put the document out there asap.
I will work on it over the weekend, but in the meanwhile feel free to make changes.