Brussels, Belgium. February 2nd, 2018.

This invitation-only FreeBSD Developer Summit takes place the day before FOSDEM 2018, 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 2018 takes place on February 3rd and 4th, 2018. Note that the FreeBSD mini-developer summit is organised independently from FOSDEM. The FreeBSD Foundation has agreed to sponsor parts of this mini-devsummit. Consider making a donation to help support events like this.

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). Enter the hotel lobby and take the stairs next to the elevator down to level -2 (Meeting room Adenauer/Schuman). 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!

The current general plan is as follows.

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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 devsummit@freebsd.org and include a small abstract and number of slots needed. (1 slot = 20 minutes)

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

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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.)

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.)

Lunch will consist of soup and sandwiches.

There will be an organized dinner on Friday evening at the restaurant Comptoir des Galeries beginning at 19:30. Attendees have to pay individually for their food and drinks. The menu will consist of a choice of main course (with a vegetarian option) and dessert, with an optional starter.

Dinner:

HackMD.io Notes

(Mail devsummit@freebsd.org with the link to your photos so we can add them here.)

Information on prior Developer Summits is available from the DevSummit page.