Brussels, Belgium. January 31, 2020

This invitation-only FreeBSD Developer Summit takes place on Friday, January 31 2020 (the day before FOSDEM), located in Brussels, Belgium. FreeBSD committers are welcome to register themselves; non-committers have to be sponsored by a committer to attend.

FOSDEM 2020 takes place on February 1st and 2nd, 2020. Note that the FreeBSD mini-developer summit is organized 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 at the Hotel NH Brussels Carrefour de l'Europe close to Brussels Centraal.

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.

(Do not edit this section yourself unless asked to.)

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!

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

These sessions are intended to get developers with common areas of interest or specific projects in mind together for collaboration and hacking. They might involve prepared presentations, structured code reading, or a notebook-assisted whiteboard session. Advance preparation for such events is critical so everyone comes to the table with the right reading done so you can get to the meat of the matter.

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. We collect a small fee from attendees to help cover the costs. The dinner will have to be paid by the attendees themselves (at the dinner).

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

(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.)

(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.