Snabb at FOSDEM 2018

[lukego]

Snabb hackers will be gathering at the FOSDEM 2018 conference on the weekend of Feb 3-4 2018. Join us!

People who are rumoured via Slack (#1252) to be meeting up: @asumu @benagricola @dpino @eugeneia @justincormack @lukego @mwiget @petebristow @wingo @xray7224. (Leave a comment below to add/remove your name here!)

TODO:

• [x] Confirm JAM Hotel as the suggested hotel choice.
• [x] Pick a venue for Friday afternoon/evening pre-conference socializing (JAM hotel bar.)
• [x] Confirm which Snabb-related presentations there will be at FOSDEM (joint presentation by @lukego and @asumu on drivers in the SDN/NFV dev room.)

[dpino]

Confirmed I will attend next edition of Fosdem.

JAM Hotel looks really cool. Usually I stay at whatever hotel other igalians go (there's a bunch of us attending Fosdem every year so we tend to organize the trip together). I think we haven't chosen a hotel yet, so I suggested to stay at JAM Hotel (and kill two birds with one shot).

As for talks, I proposed an introductory Lighting Talk about Snabb (no notification yet whether was approved or not).

[lukego]

@dpino Cool see you there :).

@wingo floated the idea that on Friday we could even book a conference room somewhere for an informal miniconf where we can each present what we are working on at the moment? Is anybody up for presenting something? (anyone up for organizing/moderating?)

This could be a nice venue for talks/demos that require familiarity with Snabb. I would be glad to show the RaptorJIT/Studio trace profiling tools that I am hacking.

[eugeneia]

@lukego That sounds really nice! I could talk a bit about random stuff around Vita. :-)

[mwiget]

I plan to join too. I guess it is too late to submit a talk, but happy to just tag along and mingle.

[justincormack]

I will be around at Fosdem (but not until late on Friday).

[tsyesika]

I shall be there too with the other Igalian folks :)

[lukego]

Groovy :) I am updating the info above as people leave comments.

[lukego]

Seems like everybody is happy with JAM as the suggested hotel so I've booked in there too. I plan to arrive Friday afternoon and hang out with whoever is around over the evening before the conference. Sounds like we are all up for some informal chats/demos. Have to think about how to bump into each other at the main conference, sounds like that is kind of massive...

[eugeneia]

I booked in a flat really close to JAM and will be arriving at lunch time. See you guys there. :-)

[corsix]

I will be around from the afternoon of the 2nd through until the afternoon of the 6th, staying at JAM.