FOSDEM

FOSDEM will take place on 23 and 24 February 2008, and we provide so-called Developer Rooms ("devrooms") as well as Stands (booths) to Free and Opensource projects. For every devroom we invite a project to organize talks, open discussions and/or hacking sessions. We offer an environment for developer collaboration, but we have only a limited number of rooms at our disposal.

Stands are provided to let projects present themselves, draw interest and talk and share knowledge with the vast crowd of developers attending the conference.

1) What we offer:

1.1) Developer Rooms:

• a room on Sat 23rd from 14:00 to 19:00 and on Sun 24th from 09:00 to 18:00,
• a video projector with cables (VGA)
• power (C/E plugs)
• wired (RJ-45) network with Internet access at the speaker's desk,
• best-effort shared wireless Internet access (a and b),
• publication of the schedule FOSDEM website, including speaker bios and talk abstracts.

1.2) Stands:

• one or two tables of min. 1m x 70cm each, positioned in the hallways of the Developer Rooms and between the Main Track conference rooms,
• two chairs per table,
• one power plug type C/E (bring connectors/adapters etc yourself),
• best-effort shared wireless Internet access (a and b)

2) Conditions for requests:

2.1) Developer Room:

• be a Free or Opensource project,
• send us a devroom request as described below,
• send us a complete schedule at least 3 weeks before the event (further details provided when request is accepted),
• we prefer joint DevRoom requests of projects with similar goals, collaboration guaranteed.

2.2) Stand:

• be a Free or Opensource project,
• send us a stand request as described below.

3) Applying for a devroom:

Every year, we get a lot more requests than we have rooms, and the latter also vary a lot in size (from 30 to 200 seats). Because "first come first served" is not the best option by any means, the FOSDEM organization team will select the projects that will get a DevRoom.

To request a DevRoom, send the following information to devrooms@fosdem.org:

• Project name
• URL of the website of the project
• Description of the project(s) (will be put on website when accepted)
• Name of devroom responsible and your role in the project

All Developer Room request must be sent in before Monday 2007-11-26, 23:59 CET.

If you would also like to have a Stand, include a stand-request in the email as described below. Both requests will be treated seperately, so you might get either one of them, none or both. Note that we try to put booths next to their DevRooms, but in the worst case they will be 2-3 minutes away.

4) Applying for a stand:

As with Developer Rooms the number of available stands is limited as well, and the FOSDEM organization team will select projects that will get a stand.

To request a stand, send the following information to devrooms@fosdem.org:

• Project name
• URL of the website of the project
• Description of the project(s) (will be put on website when accepted)
• Name of stand responsible and your role in the project
• A short description of the activities you plan to do on your stand (demoing applications, handing out information or media, ...)
• Whether you would like 2 tables in stead of one, your motivation for the second one.

All Stand request must be sent in before Monday 2007-11-26, 23:59 CET.