FreeBSD mini-Developer Summit, February 2018

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

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.

Travel Information

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

Approaching the Event site

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:

The hotel website has more instructions.

IRC

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!

Other

Schedule

The current general plan is as follows.

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

Date

Morning
9:00--10:00

Coffee Break
10:00--10:30

Late morning
10:30--12:00

Lunch
12:00--13:00

Afternoon
13:00--15:00

Coffee Break
15:00--15:30

Late Afternoon
15:30--18:00

Evening
19:30--22:00

...

Friday
2nd February 2018

Opening/Introductions

Devsummit

Devsummit

Devsummit

Organized dinner

Presentations

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.)

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

Title

Speaker

Description

Slides, Notes

Google SoC

List Ideas

libbe

Allan Jude

Library and base utility to manage boot environments

Graphics in ports (X11)

 Niclas Zeising

Small update on X11 in ports and discussion of approaches

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:

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

Registration

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.

Developer Attendees

Registration is closed.

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

Name

FreeBSD ID

Dinner

Notes

Hotel

AdriaandeGroot

adridg

no

arr 2 feb 13:10 train (right after lunch)

Residence Marie-Therese

SevanJaniyan

sevan

yes

TBD

TBD

AllanJude

allanjude

yes

Arr Feb 1 (AC832), Dep Feb 5 (AC833)

Floris Hotel Arlequin Grand Place

EmmanuelVadot

manu

yes

ReneLadan

rene

yes

TBD

RodrigoOsorio

rodrigo

yes

TBD

Alma Grand Place Hotel

PhilipPaeps

philip

no

Local

LucaPizzamiglio

pizzamig

yes

TBD

Pentahotel Brussels City Center

BenedictReuschling

bcr

yes

Arr. Feb. 1st, 2018 14:25 LH1012, Dep. Feb. 5, 2018, 13:05 LH1011

Floris Hotel Arlequin Grand Place

MatthewSeaman

matthew

yes

Arr Feb 2nd, Dep Feb 5th

Alma Grand Place Hotel

BernardSpil

brnrd

yes

By car, travelling with ReneLadan

tbd

NiclasZeising

zeising

yes

Arr. Feb 1st, 17:20 SK1589, Dep. Feb 5, 10:00, SK590, Vegetarian

Floris Hotel Arlequin Grand Place

RogerPau

royger

yes

Dinner only

TBD

Guest Attendees

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.)

Name

Affiliation

Host
(FreeBSD ID)

Dinner

Notes

Hotel

Roberto Fernandez Cueto

bcr

yes

Arr. Feb. 1st, 2018 19:55 SN5414, Dep. Feb. 4, 2018, 18:35 SN2589

ibis Styles Brussels Louise

Deb Goodkin

FreeBSD Foundation

bcr

yes

Floris Hotel Arlequin Grand Place

James O'Gorman

sevan

Marie Helene Kvello-Aune

allanjude

yes

Floris Hotel Arlequin Grand Place

Goran Mekic

CBSD

bcr

 

Raichoo Ketchum

bcr

yes

Floris Hotel Arlequin Grand Place 

Fabian Thorns

Linux Professional Institute (LPI)

bcr

Matthew Rice

Linux Professional Institute (LPI)

bcr

Philip Jocks

Netzkommune.de

bcr

 

 Floris Hotel Arlequin Grand Place

Natacha Porté

Port maintainer

rodrigo

yes

Further Useful Information

Catering

Lunch will consist of soup and sandwiches.

Meal Requirements

Requirement

Qty

Vegetarian

2

Vegan

1

Diet drinks

1

Dinner

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.

Maps

Hotel_map.png

Dinner:

dinner_map.png

Notes

HackMD.io Notes

Photos

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

Information on Prior Developer Summits

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

DevSummit/201802 (last edited 2018-02-02T08:12:21+0000 by BenedictReuschling)