Summits, Conferences and Meetups workgroup - 2020-01-06

That's to bad. Given the latest communication from FOSDEM orgs, can anyone see how we'd have a more spacy spot than last year?

If not: are we even going to bother with the bean bags and all?

Which hallway, out of curiosity?

same floor

https://fosdem.org/2020/stands/

Quoting FOSDEM email: > on K-2, group D is to the left and group E to the right

I guess perhaps they wanted to group Mattermost (I don't think they have had a stand before), but there isn't room

We're grouped under "World Wide Web" :)

I don't think it's a disaster if things are different this year, we may well get more visibility

I don't have anything to add to the agenda for tomorrow's meeting. I still need to send stuff to the list about sponsoring sprints, so we won't have time to talk about it beforehand. I'll try to send it this week so we can address it next meeting

The agenda is empty, so if there's nothing tomorrow morning I suggest we reconduct

Hmm, unsure if applicable, but for your consideration as agenda items: - GSoC ? - Create visuals / handouts to be distributed (at fosdem)

Sure

What about GSoC specifically?

I sent an email to members@ to ask for an org admin this year

unsure if we need to talk about GSoC - but deadline is rapidly approaching.

Dunno if Flow would like to stand again

I ping'ed Flow last month, he seemed interesting, but didn't commit.

(yet)

Or maybe vanitasvitae is interested? he created the wiki page :p

Kev has been the org admin before. It might be worth pinging him too.

It's also very much possible to have more than one (so that they don't have to be 100% all the time)

I think it's even required to have more than one.

Did we have more than Flow last year? You as a backup?

or at least very much suggested (by Google) that you do.

I've acted as a token admin last year, but Flow really did all of the work

Ok well let's talk about all that tomorrow. I'll ping people I think might be interested

Can you add agenda items when you have time?

GSoC really isn't SCAM, is it?

We also have pending items that we can talk about. "Accessories for conferences". MattJ mentioned last time a leaflet stand, I guess that goes with FOSDEM things

Usually that's board?

https://trello.com/c/gHSE0cEZ/12-have-information-handouts-for-events-preferably-ready-before-fosdem

thanks

I guess we can add GSoC to this week's board meeting

and yes on the accessories. I think we should just pick / order one.

Ah I created an item in the board trello thing, but there was already one..

I like how it's called "Apply for GSoC 2020", but we don't know if any project is even willing to participate :p

Ignite probably is

I'll try to add an EXI project proposal for Openfire

and I'm thinking that Florian is interested in doing something for Smack too.

I don't know about poezio, nor other projects I'm in. It's quite some time and I don't have anybody financially sponsoring this time for me..

enroll as a student, join GSoC and get sponsored 🙂

heh

Might even be possible tbh

beware that your application will be scrutinized. We don't want to be perceived as gaming the system.

(you're at a disadvantage)

dammit!