Peter, It’s been a while +1 to your idea.
It might be better to join forces with OpenZFS to improve our chances of acceptance. The number of devroom/stand submissions at FOSDEM continues to increase every year, so a joint application could be good idea. Regards, Masafumi Sent with Spark 2026年10月3日 18:33 +0900, Peter Tribble <[email protected]>: > On Sat, Oct 3, 2026 at 10:24 AM stes--- via openindiana-discuss > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Is OpenIndiana able to provide 7 to 8 hours of content for a special > > "openindiana" devroom at : > > > > I think OpenIndiana would be too narrow a scope. If you extend it to > the wider illumos ecosystem > (so you include the other distributions - OmniOS, SmartOS, Tribblix; > and related technologies - such > as OpenZFS and bhyve; even ports of additional languages/runtimes) > then you stand a much better > chance. > > Filling a whole day seems challenging. Don't they have half-day > devrooms any more? > > > > https://fosdem.org/2027/ > > > > From the submission page there (submission deadline October 4 2026) : > > > > Devroom coordinators must enter a complete schedule into our conference > > system by 7th December. It is particularly important to be available and to > > respond promptly to emails about the schedule for about a week either side > > of this date. We also require all proposals to be submitted directly by the > > speakers into our system. > > > > Devroom submissions will only be accepted with at least two named managers > > who are responsible for the room. > > > > - Saturday devroom schedules should contain between 7.5 and 8.5 hours of > > content, beginning at 10.30 and running until between 18.00 and 19.00. > > - Sunday schedules should contain between 7 and 8 hours of content and > > start between 09.00 and 10.00 and run through until 17.00. > > - No lunch breaks should be scheduled for devrooms. > > > > The fosdem page also writes: "If you don’t think you can fill a full day, > > please try to join up with another project." > > > > Assuming there are two named managers, then perhaps OpenIndiana could have > > its own devroom ... > > > > Regards, > > David Stes > > > > _______________________________________________ > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > > > > -- > -Peter Tribble > https://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - https://ptribble.blogspot.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
