On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:49:33PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > (after my short talk here at XDC chicago, let's get this out to > everyone) > > It's time again to start planning for the next FOSDEM. After our poor > showing in 2010 (where in the end openmoko got given half our time, as > we had not managed to schedule more than 3 talks 2 weeks before the > event), I didn't bother organising this for 2011. And this year I am > putting down some hard requirements before I go and talk to the FOSDEM > organizers. > > So... FOSDEM. Not that it needs more introduction... One weekend in > February, 5000+ geeks on a university campus in Brussels (not that > anyone knows exact numbers). 3 main rooms, Tons of DevRooms, 20 or so > talks in parallel, project specific booths. The biggest, and most open > free software event of Europe, probably of the world. > > We have had 5 DevRooms in a row there, and even when we had a 150 seat > room (2008), we were almost at full capacity all the time, and at times > had to refuse entrance to people (for safety reasons). In 2010, when > quite a few people had to be refused, we received remarks along the > lines of: "Why doesn't a project like X have a bigger room?" "This is > the only real opportunity we get to interact with the developers > directly" > > So... After our terrible showing in 2010, i now need more to convince > the FOSDEM organizers that we are worth of a DevRoom, that we can > deliver. So, with a deadline of oktober 1st, i am now asking for 6 > people (basically fill up saturday afternoon) to step up and promise to > hold a talk at FOSDEM, even when their employers end up not paying for > their expenses, even when there is some other conference that might turn > up in the next 5.5 months. > > Of course, these talks should not be just X, anything related to free > software and graphics goes. For example: one of the really cool talks a > few years ago was about a PCI card with an FPGA which did VGA. > > So. Get me something that i can take to the FOSDEM organizers and state > "This time, we will fill our scheduly properly", and we will have > another marvellous FOSDEM in February. >
I'd like to talk about Xspice, and about plans for 3d support in spice. Spice is currently limited to qemu virtual machines, Xspice is a Xvnc like server using spice. The architecture is different in that it just implements a few drivers (which link with the spice server library) and uses Xorg binary without any changes. I can talk about the difficulties in doing that (X's select loop, too many apis for input events) 3D support - it's currently being designed. Nothing to show code/demo wise. But I hope to have a design to present by February, and would like to talk about it. > Luc Verhaegen. > _______________________________________________ > mesa-dev mailing list > mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
