Re: FOSDEM devroom
Dear Andreas and Cedric,
First of all, thanks to both of you for your interest and for your answers!
Unfortunately, only two persons showed an interest in showcasing some
free software in such a FOSDEM devroom. Furthermore, as I sadly don't
work for an University, my full-time daily job doesn't allow me to
organize or host a Debian sprint.
I will probably come back to the mailing list in about one year with the
same proposition to organize "FOSS for Healthcare devroom". Maybe there
will be more interest on that time.
In the meantime, I prefer to focus on the development of Orthanc...
spending my sparse time organizing a FOSDEM event would indeed result in
the starvation of Orthanc for a few months.
Warm Regards,
Sébastien-
On 26/08/17 11:43, Cédric Lood wrote:
> 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
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