Prep what we want to offer on the stand (if we are accepted)
Begin to do outreach to potential speakers
Prep the events post for speakers to submit via pretalx
Decide and support a devroom host (if devroom is accepted)
I’m happy to be involved again for 2025 but also very happy for someone else to take the reigns it’s a great opportunity for design folks to get experience in the OSS event space.
Oh, free that’s cool! Well I will look into if I can get my workplace to maybe sponsor my flight or something. Or at least I’ll try to get off for it, and start saving for my own travel expenses.
In terms of civic tech stuff, I would be curious if there was someone who had experience with the work Nextcloud had been doing with the German government.
Hey Aslan (and thanks @SvenPu for answering the questions re. FOSDEM )
I’ll make a note re. hoping for some civic tech related talks - we typically have at least 1-2 submissions that are civic tech related or adjacent but we can certainly reach out to more folks to submit talks. The tricky thing always being as curators of the talks at FOSDEM we kind of have to pick from talks where people can self fund their travel to speak or a company sponsors. Civic tech is notoriously underfunded and difficult (in my exp) to get funding for travel to speak at OSS conference but certainly possible!
There’s a couple of Nextclouder’s in the OSD community so perhaps they’ll be ready to speak about that work in 2025
As far as I remember there was also some discussion about starting a devroom specifically about accessibility. I couldn’t find any public discussion about it in the past year so far though.
Do you know if there’s any progress on this topic / if anyone took the lead on this project?
Thank you everyone for organizing the devroom last year, I’m looking forward to meeting again in a few months!
Lucas C.
An FYI for folks interested! I’ll be working on a draft application for a FOSDEM 2025 Devroom and a Stand this week on Friday with another community volunteer and then posting an open doc for comments/feedback here before the weekend :)))) We’ll get an application in before the 10th of October for sure and we’ll be sure to consider Accessibility as a core component of of the devroom
Those would be great to reach out to once we’ve sent our devroom proposal and hopefully get accepted! keep an eye out for when we put the Call for talks up on the events page of opensourcedesign.net
Hi @Erioldoesdesign I’m MZLA / Thunderbird’s (newish) design manager. Thank you so much for the call out. Alessandro’s 2023 talk on modernizing Thunderbird was fantastic. I’'m exploring a few ideas on TB & opensource design. If there is anything particular anyone would like to hear more about, please let me know.
it’s a great opportunity for design folks to get experience in the OSS event space.
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