XSF Discussion - 2014-01-20

or at least some of them

xnyhps (Thijs) is usually there, too

Hi, does anybody know if all have booked hotel rooms for FOSDEM/summit?

because one of my friends might need a room for friday/saturday/sunday

Steffen Larsen: the only person that might know is Floran Jensen

Florian

heh yes

but he's never online anymore

too busy with über I believe

;-)

Florian works at über?

He's a taxi driver now.

:-)

Will just tried to book a room, and couldn't get one using the link. Would that mean we filled all rooms in the block?

hmmm we had a problem for a week ago where we couldn't book at all.. even though the rooms were there. It was a problem with the hotel booking site. Maybe its the same now.

Steffen - I had a similar problem last year. Ended up phoning the hotel directly and got a better rate (even less than the block booking rate).

simon: he he

simon: yes..the hotel was not cheap at all

simon: are you sure it was the same type of room? Including breakfast? Same cancellation policy?

Looks like the standard rooms are sold out on booking.com.

I can't remember how long the block deal was for, but I thought we had it longer than this.

ralphm: no breakfast. Perhaps that accounts for the difference. Does the block booking include breakfast?

Yes.

Excellent. I'll be maxing out on that.

Well.

It's the five-items-or-less breakfast, isn't it.

Sold out? Does MattJ's fan club know he might not be coming?

He originally wasn't. He may be now.

Well that explains it ;)

dwd: breakfast is about the only thing I don't like about the hotel.

dwd: maybe we should order bacon every morning

5 portions of bacon, yum

It's vaguely tempting to see if there's a café that can do a decent breakfast nearby.

I'll have the bacon covered in bacon with bacon on the side, and add another bacon on bacon to finish it.

Also, why is my left arm feeling numb?

So you can pretend it's someone else's?

Looks like there is a bakery right around the corner PAUL BRUXELLES BELL'ART Rue Froissart 72 1040 Etterbeek Belgium

bread from there. bacon from A-loft.

simon: there is no bacon at Aloft. That's the whole problem.

They have the other stuff

Shall I ask Rene to pack a bacon bomb? (https://secure.flickr.com/photos/simontennant/6843836070/ and https://secure.flickr.com/photos/simontennant/6989961621/lightbox/)

http://hancke.name/jabber/bacon.jpg -- some novotel at the paris CDG airport has those things ;-)

Has anyone notices the bittorrent equivalent of XEPs? BEPs: http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0000.html

modelled after Python's PEPs, like ours. Makes sense

PEPs pre-dated JEPs?

PEPs are relatively new

Oh wow, apparently I'm wrong. They started back in 2000.

http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0001.html#nt-id122324

MattJ, waqas: ^

Guess that also kinda shows how long I've been around

How does being old feel?

waqas: come to Brussels and I'll let you experience that

Ha, I'm skipping this year sadly, but MattJ might make it, you can show him :)

feel

XSF Dinner booked in for the 1st Feb.

MacDonalds again?

Simon, You're in McDonald's. The rest of us are in l'Auberge Bréttone. ;-)

Folks, The now-traditional XSF Dinner has been booked at the now-traditional l'Auberge Brétonne, just outside Brussels. As you're probably aware, the XSF solicits sponsorship for the dinner, so that we can carry on offering an excellent meal entirely free to our members. Sponsors will be thanked (and toasted) at the dinner, listed for all to see on the Summit 15 wiki page, and are welcome to attend in person even if not members. If your company is willing to sponsor, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me, or any other member of the Board. XSF Members and their partners can, as usual, attend for free. Don't worry about getting there - we're arranging transport from FOSDEM and back to the Aloft Hotel. Dave.

Someone skim that before I send it?

Then I can get on and post the first sponsor on the Wiki.

ship it

bear, Simon ?

+1

Should we announce sponsors as they come in to the summit@ list as well?

+1

I don't see why not - it may spur some others to give

(to the text)

wd

Oh, it's "Bretonne" not "Brétonne".

dwd: what is the normal sponsorship?

Steffen Larsen, One MILLION Euros.

dwd: one billion…

Ten billion, i.e. the XSF could buy Dropbox

but not nest

Steffen Larsen, It varies. It's typically been proportional to the numbers of XSF members belonging to a company, but not always. There's usually a bit of a fight for the top spot.

dwd: ok

Steffen Larsen, All the amounts are public; they're posted on the wiki, so you can look at prevoious years (like Summit_13, Summit_11, etc)

Steffen Larsen, nope, Nest was $3.2 billion, Dropbox $10 billion

Mattj: but they are prob. worth more now

dwd: ok. I might give a dime or two..

Steffen Larsen, Nest is worth less, Dropbox is harder to say.

:-)

Simon, What's your view on announcing sponsors to the list?

BTW, added our first dinner sponsor to the wiki.

(Thanks, &Yet!)

&Yet is amazing in so many ways

By the way, I got some practical info for our FOSDEM stand. Pretty much the same as last year.