[OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana at FOSDEM 2027 ?

[Peter Tribble]

To follow up on this, the list of devrooms for FOSDEM has now been published:

https://fosdem.org/2027/news/accepted-developer-rooms/

And we're there - BSD, illumos, bhyve, OpenZFS

Hoping to see folks in Brussels at the end of January!

On Tue, Oct 6, 2026 at 4:50 AM <masafumi.ohta at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Peter,
>
> It’s been a while
> +1 to your idea.
>
> It might be better to join forces with OpenZFS to improve our chances of acceptance. The number of devroom/stand submissions at FOSDEM continues to increase every year, so a joint application could be good idea.
>
> Regards,
> Masafumi
>
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> 2026年10月3日 18:33 +0900, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com>:
>
> > On Sat, Oct 3, 2026 at 10:24 AM stes--- via openindiana-discuss
> > <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
> >
>
>
> > > Is OpenIndiana able to provide 7 to 8 hours of content for a special "openindiana" devroom at :
> > >
> >
> > I think OpenIndiana would be too narrow a scope. If you extend it to
> > the wider illumos ecosystem
> > (so you include the other distributions - OmniOS, SmartOS, Tribblix;
> > and related technologies - such
> > as OpenZFS and bhyve; even ports of additional languages/runtimes)
> > then you stand a much better
> > chance.
> >
> > Filling a whole day seems challenging. Don't they have half-day
> > devrooms any more?
> >
> >
> > > https://fosdem.org/2027/
> > >
> > > From the submission page there (submission deadline October 4 2026) :
> > >
> > > Devroom coordinators must enter a complete schedule into our conference system by 7th December. It is particularly important to be available and to respond promptly to emails about the schedule for about a week either side of this date. We also require all proposals to be submitted directly by the speakers into our system.
> > >
> > > Devroom submissions will only be accepted with at least two named managers who are responsible for the room.
> > >
> > > - Saturday devroom schedules should contain between 7.5 and 8.5 hours of content, beginning at 10.30 and running until between 18.00 and 19.00.
> > > - Sunday schedules should contain between 7 and 8 hours of content and start between 09.00 and 10.00 and run through until 17.00.
> > > - No lunch breaks should be scheduled for devrooms.
> > >
> > > The fosdem page also writes: "If you don’t think you can fill a full day, please try to join up with another project."
> > >
> > > Assuming there are two named managers, then perhaps OpenIndiana could have its own devroom ...
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > David Stes
> > >
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