2020/02 FOSDEM

[bzz]

URL: https://fosdem.org/2020

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Dates: 2020/02/01-02

Expenses covered: no

Topic: OSS

Call for Participation:

DevRoom proposals

• 20 September deadline for developer room proposals
• 30 September accepted developer rooms announced

https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2019-08-13-call-for-participation/

Notes:

• In 2017 we organized beer payback event
• In 2018 we stepped up organizing "Source Code Analysis" 1/2 day devroom + speakers dinner/beer payback event
• In 2019 we stepped us organizing "Go" and ML on Code full day devrooms + speakers dinner/beer payback event.

For 2020, we discussed a possible preliminary plan of:

• Getting involved in organizing Go devroom
• Stepping up and organizing a general "Machine Learning" full day devroom
• Possibly stepping up and organizing a "Source Code Analysis" (half day?) devroom
• Hosting a co-located "ML on Code" (half day?) workshop before/after the FOSDEM Co-organize it with other key players in "ML on Code" field e.g JetBrains/MS using materials from DevFest workshop
• Speakers dinner + beer payback event

Action Items

• [x] Determine who wants to be involved and meet in Aug Put ❤️ reaction to this issue if you want to be involved in organizing any of the above.
• Draft and share all dev room proposals Aug-early Sep
  • [x] Machine Learning
  • [x] Source Code Analysis
• Submit the proposal before deadline
  • [x] Machine Learning
  • [x] Source Code Analysis
• [ ] Create separate issues for ever devroom/initiative Aug-Sep

[bzz]

I'm looking to start drafting an general "ML DevRoom" proposal and will post it here. One of the speakers from https://www.sourcesense.com reached out, who seems to interested in collaborating/helping with this one this year.

[bzz]

Hey, @creachadair @dmitryvinn @vcoisne @gomesfernanda @m09 @vmarkovtsev @mcuadros as soon as we have the deadline announced, do you want to have a quick kick-off call next week, so we can share the expectations?

[vmarkovtsev]

Yes! A few thoughts about the plans:

Getting involved in organizing Go devroom

I guess that we should ask @campoy about his involvement this year.

Stepping up and organizing a general "Machine Learning" full day devroom

I am mentally prepared for this.

MLonCode workshop

I feel that having a full ML room and a workshop /and Go perhaps/ maybe too much for us...

Extras:

• We should order many, many more nice t-shirts!
• We should already start collecting the list of ML companies which produce open-source.

[mcuadros]

I vote for bringing the original idea of the LA room.

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 9:39 AM Vadim Markovtsev [email protected] wrote:

Yes! A few thoughts about the plans:

Getting involved in organizing Go devroom

I guess that we should ask @campoy about his involvement this year.

Stepping up and organizing a general "Machine Learning" full day devroom

I am mentally prepared for this.

MLonCode workshop

I feel that having a full ML room and a workshop /and Go perhaps/ maybe too much for us...

Extras:

We should order many, many more nice t-shirts! We should already start collecting the list of ML companies which produce open-source.

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[campoy]

I'm planning on organizing the Go devroom, yes. I already sent a proposal.

[creachadair]

I'm happy to help support a Go devroom if that is desired/useful.

I'm also glad to work on a Source Code Analysis room, though I think probably we should limit that to at most 1/2 day. I agree also with @vmarkovtsev that we should not commit to more than we can handle.

[bzz]

All that make sense to me. I've taken the liberty of sending a Calendar invitation for a kick-off meeting for this Thu 5th 16:30 GMT+2.

[bzz]

Draft of the ML DevRoom proposal is available. Please feel free to edit/update/add feedback. I'm planing to submit it today around 5-6pm.

@creachadair I have also update this issue description to include links to the materials from the previous years of Source Code Analysis devRoom, just in case you want to use it for inspiration.

[bzz]

A 1 day Machine Learning devRoom proposal has been submitted.

[creachadair]

Thanks @bzz for the resources. I also added a draft proposal for the Source Code Analysis half-day we discussed.

[creachadair]

Thanks @bzz for the resources. I also added a draft proposal for the Source Code Analysis half-day we discussed.

Thanks for the comments so far! If there are no more comments in the next few hours, I plan to submit the proposal this afternoon (my time) to be sure it lands before the deadline.

[creachadair]

The half-day Source Code Analysis proposal linked above has been submitted.

[bzz]

The list of accepted DevRoom rooms has been just published.

ML DevRoom has not been accepted this year (there seems to be an NLP track again).

[creachadair]

The Source Code Analysis half-day was also not accepted this year. 😞