Re: FOSDEM 2013 - workshops

Thank you for you response.
2012/11/18 Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>

> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Ronan Dunklau <rdunklau(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I just noticed the "call for papers" for FOSDEM 2013, and wondered
> whether
> >
> > it was possible to propose "workshops". By workshop, I'm thinking about
> >
> > gathering a few people (< 20, most likely ~10) to explore a topic hands
> on,
> > for an hour or two.
> >
> > I'm willing to host a small workshop about foreign data wrappers. The
> goal
> > would be to build a small in-db application (collection of foreign tables
> > and function) to give a glimpse of what is possible with this feature.
>
> You can definitely propose it. However, there is one problem - we only
> have access to one room, so we can't set aside too much time. And
> there is nowhere to expand to. Setting off 2 hours amounts to more
> than 25% of the total availability we have in the devroom... And it
> would be limiting this time to 10-20 people, instead of the usual >100
> we have during these sessions...
>

I'm sorry if it sounded like I wanted to "hijack" the devroom, since it is
definitely not the case.
I was hoping for the possibility to get another room, given the size of the
ULB. Maybe this can be considered for next year ?

--
Ronan Dunklau

> Do you think anyone would be interested in attending such a workshop ? Or
in
> hosting one ?

Probably, but the question is how many :)
>

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