From: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
To: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: RFC: an online alpine developer conference
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 12:00:43 -0600
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Hello,

On Thursday, May 21, 2020 8:05:27 AM MDT Natanael Copa wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'd like to share something I have been thinking of lately. What if we
> had an online alpine developer conference?
> 
> We could set of a day or two. Invite speakers and have sessions online
> using some video conferencing tool. (jitsi, zoom, hangouts, whatever).

Yes, sounds interesting.  Perhaps we could schedule it for August or so?

I think my employer (who are sponsoring the MIPS port) can provide 
infrastructure and sysadmin assistance to integrate everything together, as 
well.

> I'd like it to be as interactive as possible so it is not just talks
> that could been done on youtube.

Agreed.

> If we want this, is there anyone who can help organize it? (find out
> when, find out what platform to use, send out call for papers, help set
> up a schedule, help figure out how/if to register participants etc)

I'm willing to help with organization as long as there are other people also 
interested.  Otherwise, I have too many things I am juggling right now.  But I 
have some experience doing this already.

Ariadne