Summits, Conferences and Meetups workgroup - 2023-01-26

> Hi dear standholders, > I sent a message to Alasdair a few weeks back but worried he might have > missed the email. Sending it here as well. > Unfortunately, our team cannot participate in FOSDEM this year -- none of > my team members can come to Brussels in person. So our stand, Fluence, will > be empty. If there is a chance to forward it to some great project, please > let me know, we'd be happy if the space won't be wasted, and hopefully, we > can make it next year! > BR, > Anna Shall we call for interest?

CC: ralphm

I don't think FOSDEM allows bartering stand space this way.

If it is empty and next to us, then we just have more room.

I'm arranging dinner, but need to call back. As soon as I have details I will send out an invite to register and provide menu preferences.

I do have a sponsor for dinner already.

By the way, I looked at the FOSDEM stand overview, and it appears that we are in a different location than before: ground floor, at the large glass wall on the short side of the building.

https://fosdem.org/2023/stands/

Yes, this was discussed earlier and also mentioned in the blog post

It may make things a bit interesting for the "lounge" aspect

We'll have to see how that works out in practice. Unless you are saying that I should not bring all the stuff.

I wasn't quite saying that, but you're probably right that it's worth considering that question

IIRC those stands are usually quite close together, and it gets pretty crowded in that area (being close to the main doors)

I think this is a reasonable shot at the location: https://blog.shadura.me/images/posts/fosdem-building-k.jpg

I highly doubt we can put beanbags/etc. in front of the table, as it would obstruct the flow

Yeah, that's how I remember it

If the stands are sequential we would be probably be somewhere between the two white supports

Except I expected there would be at least gaps between the tables to get in/out

and there is limited room behind the table

So yeah, I don't think the traditional setup will work at all

Right. Including the ability to beam something on a wall.

Yep

I can try to send a message to stands@ team if they considered this, because otherwise I'll cancel the van and just arrange for a car.

FWIW I (and I think others) are not necessarily against changing the format/location

indeed

I think we can probably get a bit more visibility in a new location. Even if not more people, at least different people.

We might also want to put a poster in the old location for people looking for us :)

Hah

I have done nothing in terms of posters, swag or anything this year. Posters are still an attainable goal.

However we do have our pull-up banner, table cloths and XMPP flag.

Yeah, it's good we've got those

I will print qr codes for our channels

It looks like people do stick things to the glass behind the stands

(posters)

Lets try the new location. next years planning we can do better

Still sending the e-mail. Let's see what they come back with, but it looks like there's not enough Realtime Estate.

Cc'd emus and MattJ

thanks

> ralphm: > 2023-01-26 04:39 (GMT+01:00) > Still sending the e-mail. Let's see what they come back with, but it looks like there's not enough Realtime Estate. haha

Diner location and time set. Arranging the details.

Dinner

Sent!

👍️

Okay, this is the latest revision of the "newsletter" I plan to get printed: https://matthewwild.co.uk/uploads/2023%20XMPP%20news%20-%202.pdf

It incorporates feedback from here about the earlier versions, and some tweaks from a graphic designer friend of pep.'s

and I was planning to do some of these too: https://matthewwild.co.uk/uploads/XMPP%20for%20Developers%20and%20Individuals.pdf

As well as these, I have that client comparison matrix (I will just print one of those for the stand), some posters from Movim, and some informational materials from https://www.freie-messenger.de/ (German and English)

I will also set up a Snikket instance for demo purposes, similar to 2020, and the same QR/NFC setup. Any other demos would be good.

And just like that, we got (all) of our familiar corner

But it sounds like maybe with less of a squeeze than recent years?

Hence 'all'. Curious if they'll also move Matrix, but maybe not. Not suggesting it to them.

MattJ: newsletter looks great! one super minor note, says QUIC is a replacement for TCP but it really replaces TCP+TLS, but I never know the right way to word that :)

It's really fine as is though

sounds promising, right?