FOSDEM 2016 was awesome!

FOSDEM 2016 was awesome!

[Ludovic Courtès]

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Hi there!

I just came back from FOSDEM where we had an awesome Guile devroom with
nice people and great talks!

  https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/gnu_guile/

Some of the slides are already on-line, and hopefully videos will
follow, assuming everything went well with recordings (which is not
entirely clear.)

The room of 80 seats was full pretty much all the time, and I think we
were all excited to see so many people stop by the devroom.  Many shared
the impression that we were at an important moment of Guile’s history.
The transition with the Lua track that followed was also insightful and
a pleasant experience.

I would like to send a big Thank You to Pjotr Prins who took the
initiative and organized all this masterfully, from applying for the
devroom, to contacting potential speakers (dozens and dozens of
messages!), to getting up early on Saturday to make sure everything
would be fine in the devroom…  Pjotr, you did an awesome job!

Thanks to Paul van der Walt who also woke up early to help out with
video in the devroom, and obviously, thanks to all the speakers and
attendees!

So, see you there next year?  :-)

Ludo’.

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Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome!

[Nala Ginrut]

On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 10:04 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> The room of 80 seats was full pretty much all the time, and I think we
> were all excited to see so many people stop by the devroom.  Many shared
> the impression that we were at an important moment of Guile’s history.
> The transition with the Lua track that followed was also insightful and
> a pleasant experience.

Oh, yet another new guile-lua?


> I would like to send a big Thank You to Pjotr Prins who took the
> initiative and organized all this masterfully, from applying for the
> devroom, to contacting potential speakers (dozens and dozens of
> messages!), to getting up early on Saturday to make sure everything
> would be fine in the devroom…  Pjotr, you did an awesome job!

Thank you for all things!
I'll learn from your videos and slides.

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome!

[Ben Woodcroft]

On 01/02/16 19:04, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> The room of 80 seats was full pretty much all the time, and I think we
> were all excited to see so many people stop by the devroom.  Many shared
> the impression that we were at an important moment of Guile’s history.
A good start to 2016, the year that Pjotr predicted "GNU Guix is going 
to get major coverage in". Thanks for spreading the word all.

ben

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome!

[Alex Sassmannshausen]

Hello,

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Hi there!
>
> I just came back from FOSDEM where we had an awesome Guile devroom with
> nice people and great talks!

I really want to echo Ludo's sentiments.  I had a great time in our dev
room and it was really nice to put faces to the names I see popping up
in IRC and on the mailing list. I really hope we'll be able to do this
again next year!

> The room of 80 seats was full pretty much all the time, and I think we
> were all excited to see so many people stop by the devroom.  Many shared
> the impression that we were at an important moment of Guile’s history.
> The transition with the Lua track that followed was also insightful and
> a pleasant experience.
>
> I would like to send a big Thank You to Pjotr Prins who took the
> initiative and organized all this masterfully, from applying for the
> devroom, to contacting potential speakers (dozens and dozens of
> messages!), to getting up early on Saturday to make sure everything
> would be fine in the devroom…  Pjotr, you did an awesome job!
>
> Thanks to Paul van der Walt who also woke up early to help out with
> video in the devroom, and obviously, thanks to all the speakers and
> attendees!

+1 for sure.  Thank you very much for the commitment in time and energy!

Alex

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome!

[Alex Sassmannshausen]

Hi Nala,

Nala Ginrut writes:

> On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 10:04 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> The room of 80 seats was full pretty much all the time, and I think we
>> were all excited to see so many people stop by the devroom.  Many shared
>> the impression that we were at an important moment of Guile’s history.
>> The transition with the Lua track that followed was also insightful and
>> a pleasant experience.
>
> Oh, yet another new guile-lua?

No, I think you misunderstood: it was just that we had the devroom for
the morning and Lua had the devroom for the afternoon.  Unless I
misunderstood and there was a shared devroom before?

Cheers,
Alex

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome!

[Nala Ginrut]

On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 11:41 +0100, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote:
> Hi Nala,
> 
> Nala Ginrut writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 10:04 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >> The room of 80 seats was full pretty much all the time, and I think we
> >> were all excited to see so many people stop by the devroom.  Many shared
> >> the impression that we were at an important moment of Guile’s history.
> >> The transition with the Lua track that followed was also insightful and
> >> a pleasant experience.
> >
> > Oh, yet another new guile-lua?
> 
> No, I think you misunderstood: it was just that we had the devroom for
> the morning and Lua had the devroom for the afternoon.  Unless I
> misunderstood and there was a shared devroom before?

Haha, I see ;-P

> Cheers,
> Alex

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome!

[Manolis Ragkousis]

I want to thank everyone for this awesome experience and I am really
looking forward for the next time.

It is awesome meeting the people behind the emails and learn so many
new things from you.

And Pjotr, thank you for taking care of everything :-)

Εις το επανιδείν as we say in greek.

Manolis

Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome!

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Alex Sassmannshausen writes:

> Hello,
>
> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
>> Hi there!
>>
>> I just came back from FOSDEM where we had an awesome Guile devroom with
>> nice people and great talks!
>
> I really want to echo Ludo's sentiments.  I had a great time in our dev
> room and it was really nice to put faces to the names I see popping up
> in IRC and on the mailing list. I really hope we'll be able to do this
> again next year!

An extra echo from me.

>> The room of 80 seats was full pretty much all the time, and I think we
>> were all excited to see so many people stop by the devroom.  Many shared
>> the impression that we were at an important moment of Guile’s history.
>> The transition with the Lua track that followed was also insightful and
>> a pleasant experience.

I was optimistic about this being a big moment in Guile's history, but
after this FOSDEM, my enthusiasm and excitement has doubled, maybe
tripled!  I can't wait to see what's happening in the year ahead!

>> I would like to send a big Thank You to Pjotr Prins who took the
>> initiative and organized all this masterfully, from applying for the
>> devroom, to contacting potential speakers (dozens and dozens of
>> messages!), to getting up early on Saturday to make sure everything
>> would be fine in the devroom…  Pjotr, you did an awesome job!
>>
>> Thanks to Paul van der Walt who also woke up early to help out with
>> video in the devroom, and obviously, thanks to all the speakers and
>> attendees!
>
> +1 for sure.  Thank you very much for the commitment in time and energy!
>
> Alex

Yes, thank you! :)