Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 06:42:01 -0600 (MDT)
From: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
To: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
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Subject: Re: Revisiting alpineconf
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Hello,

On Sun, 21 Mar 2021, Ariadne Conill wrote:

> 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.)

As an update, this repository is now available on Alpine GitLab:
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/alpineconf-cfp

If anybody is interested in helping with organization, feel free to ping 
me in IRC and I'll get you added to the group.

Ariadne