On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 16:17:51 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> Thank you!
>
> The proposal must be submitted by this time.
>
> The annoucement states:
> "Developer room proposals should be emailed to devrooms@fosdem.org and be as detailed as possible. In particular, coordinators should indicate their affinity with the topic being proposed and provide a rough idea of the content they plan to schedule."
>
> IMHO the content can be talks, ranging from user experience to technical topics or how to participate. Or something like a live discussion ("to GC or not to GC" ;-) ). To get as much input as possible from the community, I would start a call for talks here after the proposal is accepted.
>
> If you look at the LLVM dev room: they had 11 talks of different length and an introduction. Maybe this could guide us...
>
> Regards,
> Kai

Does the original proposal need to already include all the talk list and details? That can be a bit challenging..

On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 13:35:17 UTC, Théo Bueno wrote:
> On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 12:55:36 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> Sounds very interesting, it is a good opportunity to effectively do small european DConf without bothering about many of organizational details. I will forward this to colleagues and report shortly.
>
> This is a very good idea.
>
> Moreover, going to Brussels from Europe is like ten times less
> expensive for Europeans than going to California, so I think you
> can count on D enthusiasts to come :)

If you look at DConf 2013, there were a lot of talks from European people, especially from Germany which is not too far away.

Regards,
Kai

On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 16:21:21 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 16:17:51 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
>> Thank you!
>>
>> The proposal must be submitted by this time.
>>
>> The annoucement states:
>> "Developer room proposals should be emailed to devrooms@fosdem.org and be as detailed as possible. In particular, coordinators should indicate their affinity with the topic being proposed and provide a rough idea of the content they plan to schedule."
>>
>> IMHO the content can be talks, ranging from user experience to technical topics or how to participate. Or something like a live discussion ("to GC or not to GC" ;-) ). To get as much input as possible from the community, I would start a call for talks here after the proposal is accepted.
>>
>> If you look at the LLVM dev room: they had 11 talks of different length and an introduction. Maybe this could guide us...
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kai
>
> Does the original proposal need to already include all the talk list and details? That can be a bit challenging..

No. The LLVM people started a call for talks after the proposal was accepted. But we need a clear idea of the topics we like to have in our schedule.

Regards,
Kai

On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 14:08:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 8/18/14, 11:18 PM, Kai Nacke wrote:
>> I think we should propose a D dev room for FOSDEM'15.
>
> Sounds like a great initiative!! -- Andrei

Any chance you have some scientific work to do in Europe by end of January? ;-)

Regards,
Kai

On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 14:40:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> If there's a strong D community in Europe I could look into holding the next DConf at Facebook London. A kind of "proof" would be awesome. -- Andrei

I like this idea :-)

On 8/19/14, 9:25 AM, Kai Nacke wrote:
> On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 14:08:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 8/18/14, 11:18 PM, Kai Nacke wrote:
>>> I think we should propose a D dev room for FOSDEM'15.
>>
>> Sounds like a great initiative!! -- Andrei
>
> Any chance you have some scientific work to do in Europe by end of
> January? ;-)

I'll make time for traveling for any even that's important to our community. -- Andrei

On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 16:24:40 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> No. The LLVM people started a call for talks after the proposal was accepted. But we need a clear idea of the topics we like to have in our schedule.
>
> Regards,
> Kai

Any news about that ?

On Sunday, 21 September 2014 at 10:19:11 UTC, Théo Bueno wrote:
> On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 16:24:40 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
>> No. The LLVM people started a call for talks after the proposal was accepted. But we need a clear idea of the topics we like to have in our schedule.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kai
>
> Any news about that ?

D dev room proposal was sent (David did some very impressive job writing description) - FOSDEM decision is expected in the beginning of October.

On Sunday, 21 September 2014 at 14:13:14 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Sunday, 21 September 2014 at 10:19:11 UTC, Théo Bueno wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 16:24:40 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
>>> No. The LLVM people started a call for talks after the proposal was accepted. But we need a clear idea of the topics we like to have in our schedule.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Kai
>>
>> Any news about that ?
>
> D dev room proposal was sent (David did some very impressive job writing description) - FOSDEM decision is expected in the beginning of October.

Thank you. I really hope this event will happen :)

On 19 August 2014 19:22, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On 8/19/14, 9:25 AM, Kai Nacke wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 14:08:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>
>>> On 8/18/14, 11:18 PM, Kai Nacke wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I think we should propose a D dev room for FOSDEM'15.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sounds like a great initiative!! -- Andrei
>>
>>
>> Any chance you have some scientific work to do in Europe by end of January? ;-)
>
>
> I'll make time for traveling for any even that's important to our community. -- Andrei
>
>

Me too.  And it would be nice to go somewhere close to home for once. ;)