FOSDEM ideas

[Stephan Arts]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Ali Abdallah <aliov at xfce.org> wrote:
> Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> 4.6 beta2 is out the door - let's do some thinking about taking
>> part in FOSDEM 2009. Personally, I'd be happy to attend and it should
>> be no problem for me at all.
>>
>> If enough people show their interest, do we want to apply for a
>> developer room and do some talks about Xfce 4.6 (retrospectively) and
>> 4.8 (involving brainstorming together)? We still have a few days to
>> apply for one and I think it would be cool to do that.
>>
>> This raises the question what kind of talks we could do. Here's what I
>> think might be worth a talk:
>>
>> General
>> =======
>> - Introducing Xfce (what is it? how has it evolved over the years?
>>   who's Xfce? how is it shipped? etc.)
>>
>> Covering 4.6
>> ============
>> (The ideas below are somewhat inspired by
>> http://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.6/videos)
>>
>> - Introducing 4.6 (overview over new features and changes since 4.4)
>>
>> For developers
>> --------------
>> - Xfconf
>> - Xfce as a platform (overview over the libraries and usage examples
>>   e.g. for libxfce4menu)
>> - Extending Xfce (covering Thunar and panel plugins)
>> - Xfce for third parties
>>
>> For users
>> ---------
>> - Customizing Xfce (maybe in parallel with a live demonstration;
>>   including xfconf-query and xfce4-settings-editor)
>>
>> Covering 4.8
>> ============
>> - Feature preview
>> - Brainstorming sessions on certain topics (not really a "talk")
>> - Xfce release management (how has it evolved, how did it work in 4.6,
>>   what and how can things be improved, what's the release plan for
>>   4.8)
>>
>> Considering that many of us live in Western Europe quite close to
>> Belgium I'm really optimistic that we can make this happen. So ... what
>> do you think?
>>
>>
> I want to go there, what i have to do apart from buying a train ticket
> to Belgium?

Ehm, iirc... get on the train and take bus 300 (i think) to the LUB.

> Hopefully we will see you there.
>
> Best Regards,
> Ali.

Stephan