Re: successful booth at Fosdem (Brussels)

Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> Bruce Momjian a écrit :
>> Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
>>> Bruce Momjian a ?crit :
>>>> Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> I also think FOSDEM 2008 can have a PostgreSQL developer room. The
>>>>> Debian one was really interesting, with some great technical
>>>>> talks. Perhaps we can do the same next year ?
>>>> PostgreSQL had a developer's room at FOSDEM in 2003.
>>>>
>>> I didn't know that. I've been googling a bit tonight and didn't find
>>> much on this. For example, the schedule is no more available on your
>>> website (http://candle.pha.pa.us/fosdem/).
>>>
>>> Can you tell us more on the devroom ? how many people, how many
>>> conferences, main topics, etc. It seems to me you were quite happy
>>> with it
>>> (http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2003-02/msg00425.php),
>>> isn't it ?
>>>
>>> Do you think it can be worth it to work on such an event ?
>>
>> I think it was great. We had our own room and two days of
>> presentations. I did my tutorials, and had other speakers. I think we
>> had about 10 people for every talk. I think our devroom was the most
>> active. Many other devrooms were used just for laptop hacking, which
>> is kind of boring.
>>
>
> This year, the Debian and the Jabber devroom were only for talks and
> it was really great : lots of interesting talks, some about future
> work (netconf for example), some about current status of the project
> (Jabber 101).
>
>> We weren't invited back in 2004 because they had a different focus. I
>> think some folks were there for 2005 (Peter?) and 2006 (Josh?). I do
>> think it is a good conference because it is low cost, very techical, and
>> conveniently located for Europeans.
>>
>
> I think we should try to get a booth and a devroom next year. Susanne,
> do you think it could be possible ?
>
>
Why not? We have had a cute booth, and we did not annoy someone. We have
to ask for a devroom, but I can't see a reason, why we won't get one.

Susanne