Re: Accessibility devroom FOSDEM 2011

["Bryen M. Yunashko" <suserocks bryen com>]

On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 23:30 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Mario Sanchez Prada, le Wed 03 Nov 2010 22:45:30 +0100, a écrit :
> > On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 20:34 +0100, Piñeiro wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > It would be also good to know what happened with the people that
> > > already proposed a talk, before this devroom creation. If we need to
> > > submit again the talk or whatever.
> > > 
> > > Let's wait for Mario and Bryen discoveries.
> > 
> > So it looks the main track is not rejected, it's just they don't have a
> > decision on it yet :-). Anyway, now I think of it, perhaps a devroom
> > makes more sense than a main track after all (more diversity, as
> > devrooms usually have more talks than main tracks),
> 
> Well, a main track would have the benefit of being exposed to a much
> bigger audiance, which would be a good thing to raise awareness of the
> issues.
> 
> Samuel
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So, having just now talked to Pascal Bleser, I have the following
information:

The contact person in charge of the A11y Devroom is Oracle-Louis
Suarez-Potts.  I'm not sure I know who this person is.  

The difference between track and devroom is a track is sessions
(read-only) in the main conference, whereas a devroom is a dedicated
room on a specific topic and the people in charge of that room get to
call out sesssions as they see fit to the topic.

Generally, dev rooms are packed at FOSDEM, so as long as we make sure to
have interesting topics to draw in the folks, we should be fine.   I
guess this means we shift our submissions to this Louis fellow now.

Folks, please do keep me informed on what comes out of this when you
talk with Louis.

Thanks,
Bryen