FreeBSD mini-Developer Summit, January 2016

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Brussels, Belgium. January 30th, 2016.

This invitation-only FreeBSD Developer Summit takes place during FOSDEM 2016, located in Brussels, Belgium. FreeBSD committers are welcome to register themselves using this wiki; non-committers have to be sponsored by a committer to attend.

FOSDEM 2016 takes place on January 30th and 31st, 2016. Note that the mini-developer summit is organised independently from FOSDEM.

The FOSDEM Practical page has a lot of information about how to get to Brussels for FOSDEM.

The DevSummit will be held in central Brussels.

The DevSummit will take place in the NH Carrefour de L'Europe hotel (Room Strasbourg). The address is Rue du Marché aux Herbes 110, B-1000 Brussels. This is on the Place d'Espagne, just between the Grand'Place and the Central Station.

From the Central Station:

exit and walk north towards Boulevard de l'Impératrice / Keizerinlaan.
After 30 meters, turn left on to Boulevard de l'Impératrice / Keizerinlaan.
Walk straight on and then turn right towards Rue du Marché aux Herbes / Grasmarkt.
Take the stairs, and then turn right.
The hotel is on the right.

The hotel website has more instructions.

Note that many of attendees of the summit hang out on #devsummit on EFnet during the event (as well as the conference itself). Feel free to join!

Please contact Kristof Provost (kp@freebsd.org, +32(0)498/30.73.53) for any problems, questions, …

The current general plan is as follows.

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Date	Morning 9:00–12:30	Lunch 12:30–13:30	Afternoon 13:30–16:00	Late Afternoon 16:00–18:00	Evening 19:00–21:00	…
Saturday 30 January 2016	Devsummit	Lunch	Devsummit		Organized dinner

Tell us about your latest project, brainstorm on solutions to a hard problem, train us to use a new tool, make observations about a FreeBSD development process and how to improve it, tell us how your company uses FreeBSD, or coordinate activities! But, please do not duplicate a talk that you are giving at EuroBSDcon.

Submit your proposals to kp@freebsd.org which shall include an abstract and number of slots needed. (1 slot = 20 minutes)

(Submission is open, accepted proposals are added continuously.)

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Title	Speaker	Description	Slides, Notes

If you are in trouble with preparing your slides, you could use the template attached to the page. It contains a LaTeX source file that you can modify to create PDF slides for the FreeBSD Developer Summit. It uses the Beamer class which is an easy-to-use extension to LaTeX for making presentations. You can easily install it by the following command (as root):

# pkg install latex-beamer

This will install Beamer and pdfLaTeX that can be used for compiling the sources to produce the desired PDF file.

$ pdflatex my-presentation.latex

Or you can use the LibreOffice / OpenOffice template (contributed by BaptisteDaroussin).

A few rule-of-thumbs when creating slides:

Try to make things legible, use large fonts.
Have title and closing.
Use less text, you do not have to include everything on the slides. (Prepare and) Do a demonstration if needed.
You have only a limited amount of time, having only 1 slide per minute (in addition to title and closing) is usually fine.
Sometimes images can tell more than pure text.
Discussions and meetings are the place where you might want to talk about the details.

Contact devsummit@FreeBSD.org if you have questions or problems.

In order to attend, you must register in advance; this allows us to size rooms, order food, provide beverages, and make dinner reservations. We appreciate your cooperation in letting us know your plans well in advance of the event. Non-committers must be sponsored by a committer in order to attend.

The meeting room and refreshments during the DevSummit will be sponsored. The dinner afterwards will have to be paid by the attendees (at the dinner).

Here is a list of the attendees and their guests at the summit.

Registration is closed.

(Please keep sorted alphabetically by last name. Do not change the format unless asked to.)

Name	FreeBSD ID	Dinner	Notes	Hotel
SofianBrabez	sbz	no	Arr.: Jan 29, 15:47 Bruxelles Midi, Dep.: Jan 31, 19:13 Bruxelles Midi. Available in late afternoon	Thon Hotel Brussels City Center
AllanJude	allanjude	yes	Arr.: Jan 29, 8:45 AC832, Dep.: Feb. 1st, 10:30 AC833	ibis Styles Brussels Louise
BaptisteDaroussin	bapt	yes	Arr.: Jan 29 22H17 Bruxelles midi Dep.: Jan 31	Ibis Saintes Catherine
ReneLadan	rene	yes	2016-01-29 – 2016-01-31	Ibis Saintes Catherine
GeorgeNevilleNeil	gnn	yes	Arr. 29 Jan Dep: 1st Feb	Novotel Brussels Centre Midi Station Hotel
RodrigoOsorio	rodrigo	yes	Arr.: Jan 29, 20h47 BRUXELLES MIDI Dep: Feb 31st, 18h43 BRUXELLES MIDI	Hotel Galia
KristofProvost	kp	yes	X	Local
BenedictReuschling	bcr	yes	available only in the afternoon, proctoring BSDA in the morning; Arr.: Jan. 29th, 12:25 LH1010, Dep.: Feb. 1st, 11:05 LH1009	ibis Styles Brussels Louise
DagErlingSmørgrav	des	yes	arr 29th KL 1731 dep 31st KL 1726	Carrefour de l'Europe
BernardSpil	brnrd	yes	By car from EHV	Argus Hotel
RogerPau	royger	yes	Available only in the afternoon.	Sheraton

Developers are welcome to invite guests to attend the developer summit, subject to their tolerance for ceaseless hours of kernel hacking, and availability of space at the venue.

(Please keep sorted alphabetically by last name. Do not change the format unless asked to.)