Re: FOSDEM devroom

[Cédric Lood <cedric.lood@kuleuven.be>]

Hi there,

> > > This devroom could be entitled "FOSS for Healthcare", and could be a
> > > sequence of talks presenting various FOSS projects, pretty like the
> > > "FOSS for Scientists devroom" of the 2013 edition [2].
> > >
> > > In order to avoid doing any unnecessary work, it would be nice to know
> > > upfront whether some DebianMed contributors would be interested to give
> > > a talk in such a devroom. Please could you express your interest?

I just joined the debian-med project so wouldn't give a talk.

> > Thanks for the FOSDEM wakeup call.  I admit I did not joined FOSDEM for
> > years since it either conflicted by date with the Debian Med sprint or
> > I did not wanted to travel on subsequent weekends.  While I like your
> > idea my constraint would remain valid except if we would organise our
> > yearly Debian Med sprint either in Brussels or somewhere closeby (two
> > days before or after FOSDEM and use the Healthcare dedicated room also
> > for common hacking to continue our sprint).

> Brussel (or nearby) would be a good idea if indeed right before/after Fosdem (would love to go to Fosdem too). But if I am correct FOSDEM is on week-ends, so this means our sprint would occur during the week.
> This is not an issue for me as my university would consider it as part of my job, but this may be an issue for others, no?

Same here. 

I would love to participate to a sprint - I work at the uni of Leuven (KUL), which is not far from Brussels, and could book a room there for the team. 

> > Who is considering this a good idea and who of those who think it is a
> > good idea would take over organising the sprint?  Sébastien, as far as I
> > remember you live a one hour train ride from Brussels so if there is a
> > cheaper place close to you this might work somehow.  I would be happy if
> > you would become involved since we could strengthen the medical imaging
> > branch and may be if we could attract the interest of Gnumed /
> > Freemedforms developers we couls also attract the practice management
> > interested people.
> >
> > On the other hand there was some idea to do the sprint in St. Petersburg
> > and as always who raises the hand first to volunteer for organising the
> > sprint will win.

Best,
Cedric