Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 01:24:01 -0600 (MDT)
From: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
To: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Revisiting alpineconf
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Hello all,

Last year a developer's conference was proposed by ncopa, which lead to 
exploring the logistics of implementing such a conference.  Unfortunately, 
not much effort went into moving forward with the conference because the 
GCC 10 and Musl 10.2 transitions kept everyone quite busy.

As those transitions are now completed and 3.14 has been a quite mellow 
and uneventful development cycle, I thought it might be nice to revisit 
and start implementing the conference.

In the interests of keeping things simple, I propose that we use Gitlab 
for the call for papers, as we can just create a repo and have people file 
issues against it with their CFP.  This seems to work well for Fedora, so 
I am confident we can make it work here, too.

For the conference itself: I suggest a tentative date of May 15 and May 
16.  This puts us right after the 3.14 release.  For the video side of 
things, I think we could probably reach out to fosshost, who have 
some experience running conferences.  That should significantly reduce the 
burden on the infra team.

If there is no objection, the first step would be to have the infra team 
set up an organization and repo for the CFPs in Gitlab.  Then we can 
figure out a more specific timeline from there.

(It is also my interest that there be content from related distributions 
in the Alpine world, like postmarketOS and Adelie, if they are interested 
in contributing talks, as well as people building projects with Alpine 
who want to tell us about it.)

Ariadne