Hi Folks,
The nature of FOSDEM means that people can stay wherever they like. And
the FOSDEM page itself lists a bunch of places, including a bunch of
inexpensive options.
However, I thought it would be useful to pick a 'default' hotel; that's
where I and all the CodeWeavers folks will be staying, so other people
from Wine might want to stay there as well.
We have chosen the Best Western Hotel Royal Centre:
http://www.royalcentre.be/
It's fairly close to the Grand Place, which Wolfram suggested. It is a
fair way from FOSDEM itself. But I gather that most hotels are, so
we're not unique in that regard. Google transit suggests it's faster on
the public transit (30 minutes) than the hotel Mozilla used last year,
so it doesn't seem worse than most.
We were quoted a rate of 89 Euros per night, and we were told that rate
would be offered to anyone else that called. Of course, we're fairly
naive, so maybe you can get an even better deal...<grin>
You may need to call or email them; when I tried their online system
yesterday, it wasn't working.
One key feature of this hotel was a bar, which means people have a place
to connect. So that's where I'll be on Friday, testing Alexandre's
claim that Belgian beers are the best... <grin>
Cheers,
Jeremy
Hi,
FOSDEM 2014 will be on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 February.
Did we already agreed on attending again? If not, i think we should start thinking about it.
Opinions?
Folks,
There will a Wine devroom at FOSDEM '14 on Sunday, February 2, 2014.
Last year we had a great time, and I think it was valuable for us
to connect with the broader Free software community.
I'd like to now invite you to submit proposals for talks.
I'd really like to encourage everyone to think of something fun to share
with the 5,000 geeks that will be swarming Brussels.
If you have an topic you'd like to discuss, or an idea you want
to present, please submit it to:
https://penta.fosdem.org/submission
You will create an account (if you don't have one from a previous year),
and select the "Wine devroom" as the track. Please either submit
for lengths of 30 or 60 minutes.
The deadline for submissions is December 1st.
I think it would be great if we branched out a bit, and submitting a
crazy off the wall proposal will just burn churn a few electrons. So
submit it!
For further discussion, please follow up to wineconf(a)winehq.org.
Cheers,
Jeremy
