Events/FOSDEM/2015

FOSDEM (Brussels, Belgium) is probably the best community driven FOSS event in Europe. It's massive, chaotic and fun.

FOSDEM main track, 2013.

Date

31 January & 1 February 2015.

All information on https://fosdem.org/2015.

See also information about Bytenight Hackerspace Brussels a kind of after-party to the big FOSDEM.

Talks about MediaWiki or Wikimedia

See mentions of Wikimedia in the FOSDEM 2015 schedule:

• Wikimedia adopts Phabricator

Wikis devroom

No dedicated Wikis devroom this year.

Wikimedia stand

See also conversation on Phabricator

Stand number K 20 (level 1). Here is complete list of stands.

Last year, we had somebody ask about accepting donations and buy things at the stand (henna) what we do this year ?

• We should have some think like a selection on shirts and mugs for sale (both very popular)
• We need goodies; other projects fundraiser a bit that way and have lots.

Stand design

What's to print ?

A banner about the resent association WMBE would be great. That's a good time to increase our list of members.

Merchandising

• To which an address to send the materials ?
• Who will bring what?

Activities

• Cool events/activities to attract our stand and make it memorable !
• Anything to demo ? PC / laptop ?
• Kiwix and other derivative product ?
• MisterWiki FOSDEM 2015 : Speed challenge to find encyclopaedic information on the net. Several sessions during the two days. We need tee-shirt and so on to make price.

Shifts

We need at least 2 volunteers in each slot. We also need volunteers for mounting / unmounting.

Times to be confirmed. Friday build up, Saturday 9:00-19:00 and Sunday 9:00-17:00.

Friday

• ?

Saturday

Which are the opening / closing times?

• 9-11:
• 11-13: Lionel Scheepmans (talk)
• 13-15:
• 15-17:
• 17-19:

Sunday

Which are the opening / closing times?

• 9-11:
• 11-13:
• 13-15:
• 15-17:
• 17-19:

Blog posts

• Wikimedia booth at FOSDEM 2015, blog.wikimedia.org.

Participants

• Lionel Scheepmans (talk)
• Romaine (talk)
• Geertivp (talk)