Wiki source code of Proposal
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| 1 | ==Power, today, comes from sharing information, not withholding it. (Keith Ferrazzi)== | ||
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| 3 | 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 "Collaboration Software and Collaborative Uses of Open Source Software”, at FOSDEM 2020. | ||
| 4 | Considering last year's devroom success https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/collaborative_information_and_content_management_applications/, with most talks having the room fully packed and never less than half full, we estimate that the session will be well attended and appreciated. | ||
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| 6 | ===This room is backed up by the following projects (in alphabetical order):=== | ||
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| 8 | * Cryptpad - represented by Ludovic Dubost | ||
| 9 | * Nextcloud - represented by Jos Poortvliet | ||
| 10 | * Tiki - represented by Jean-Marc Libs | ||
| 11 | * XWiki - represented by Clément Aubin | ||
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| 13 | ===Why does it fit FOSDEM?=== | ||
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| 15 | * Free Software contributors are given an opportunity to understand and participate to collaborative software projects | ||
| 16 | * The challenges can be explained to a very technical audience able to provide suggestions and ideas | ||
| 17 | * Projects sharing common goals would get an opportunity to meet and start collaborating | ||
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| 20 | ==Talks and presentations== | ||
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| 22 | Talks performed in this room could deal with the specifics of a project in term of 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: | ||
| 23 | * New projects presentation | ||
| 24 | * Self-hosted platforms | ||
| 25 | * Secure collaboration | ||
| 26 | * Collaborative applications | ||
| 27 | * Connectors & Integrations | ||
| 28 | * Knowledge management techniques | ||
| 29 | * Protocols for collaboration | ||
| 30 | * … | ||
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| 32 | ==CFP process== | ||
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| 34 | If this developer room proposal gets accepted, we will be using the following process for our call for participation: | ||
| 35 | * //**Before October 5th**:// A page will be created on www.xwiki.org allowing anyone to register to the developer room; | ||
| 36 | * //**December 9th, 23.59 UTC**:// End of the call for participation, to leave 5 days to review the calls for participation and prepare the schedule of the room; | ||
| 37 | * //**December 10th to December 15th**:// Projects backing up the developer room get to agree on a schedule; | ||
| 38 | * //**December 15th (or before, if time allows)**:// the full schedule of the room is published. | ||
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| 41 | ==Special requirements:== | ||
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| 43 | Last year devroom (UD2.119) fitted the crowd quite nicely but we had to refuse people because the room was full on multiple occasions. A bigger room would resolve that problem. Even more, due to a high volume of submissions and limited time, we had to turn down talks & presentations. This could be easily solved with more time reserved. | ||
| 44 | Our preference is for 6 hours or a full day, on Saturday. | ||
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| 46 | Please do not hesitate to get back to us if you need more information regarding our application. |
