Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied. (Robert Boyce)
Inspired by this, the XWiki community along with several other Open Source projects would like to organize a developer room to explore the theme of "Open Source Software for Collaboration and Content Management”, at FOSDEM 2022.
The devroom had a growing success since 2019 ; as such, we would be happy to continue talks on this subject for the edition to come.
This room is backed up by the following projects (in alphabetical order):
- Cryptpad - represented by Ludovic Dubost
- Nextcloud - represented by Jos Poortvliet
- Tiki - represented by Jean-Marc Libs
- XWiki - represented by Clément Aubin
Why does it fit FOSDEM?
- Free Software contributors are given an opportunity to understand and participate in collaborative software projects
- The challenges can be explained to a very technical audience able to provide suggestions and ideas
- Projects sharing common goals would get an opportunity to meet and start collaborating
Talks and presentations
Talks performed in this room could deal with the specifics of a project in term of the ecosystem (plug-ins, extensions, connectors, …), in term of distribution (i.e.: how the application is distributed to be used by most people) or explain how the project responds to use cases related to the theme of the room. Here is a list of potential subjects that could be used:
- New projects presentation
- Self-hosted platforms
- Secure collaboration
- Collaborative applications
- Connectors & Integrations
- Knowledge management techniques
- Protocols for collaboration
- …
CFP process
If this developer room proposal gets accepted, we will be using the following process for our call for participation:
- ASAP, once the devroom is validated: A page will be created on www.xwiki.org allowing anyone to register to the developer room;
- December 15th, 23.59 UTC: End of the call for participation, to leave 15 days to review the calls for participation and prepare the schedule of the room;
- December 16th to December 30th: Projects backing up the developer room get to agree on a schedule;
- December 31st (or before, if time allows): the full schedule of the room is published.
Special requirements:
None for this year ; please do not hesitate to get back to us if you need more information regarding our application.
