[AulaSL] Correo de A. Tanenbaum: MINIX conference

[Javier Sánchez Monedero]

Tanenbaum está buscando gente para crear comunidad.

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Subject: 	MINIX conference
Date: 	Thu, 25 Jun 2015 18:49:48 +0200
From: 	A.S. Tanenbaum <ast en fluit.few.vu.nl>
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As you may know, I am now officially retired from the VU. This gives me more time 
to travel around the world giving talks on MINIX 3 at conferences, including 
EuroBSDCon in Sofia last Fall, Codemotion in Rome this past March, HAXPO in 
Amsterdam in May, BSDCan in Ottawa 2 weeks ago, FrOSCon in Sankt Augustin, 
Germany this coming August, and Devoxx in Antwerp in November). Since I no 
longer have a funded research group at the VU, my fantastic full-time programmers, 
Arun, Ben, Kees, Lionel, and Thomas, have all moved on to other jobs, but are still 
doing great work for the project. We now have to manage the transition to a 
completely volunteer-based open-source project and need youÑthe existing 
communityÑto help.

The project is still going strong with a new release planned in a few months. If you 
look at minix3.org/stats you can see that in 2014, there were 65,000 downloads of the 
CD-ROM image.  In total, the image file has been downloaded over 650,000 times in 
the past 9 years. Many open-source projects would die for these numbers. 

To help expand and strengthen the community, I think we should have a conference 
or workshop where MINIX 3 developers could get together, meet each other, and 
figure out where to go from here. We could pick a random date and do it in 
Amsterdam but it might be better to piggyback onto some other event. One possibility 
is EuroBSDCon on 3-4 October in Stockholm but this conflicts with the 25th SOSP 
conference in California and the logistics of running our own conference in Sweden 
would be daunting.

Another idea is to try to get a devroom at FOSDEM Õ16 (see fosdem.org) which will 
be held in Brussels in February 2016. This would give us a place to meet at a big 
conference devoted to open-source software. FOSDEM lasts a whole weekend and 
attracts thousands of students, software developers, engineers, hackers, and others for 
a variety of sessions and devrooms, which are workshops for specific communities. 
We could have some presentations by people who have interesting things to talk about 
and maybe a demonstration or two. We could also talk about the way forward, which 
will have to depend on volunteers.

If we donÕt get a devroom due to a limited number of rooms and competition from 
many other open-source projects, a backup plan could be to hold an event at VU 
University a day or so before or after FOSDEM. There are many trains between 
Brussels and Amsterdam every day and the trip takes about 3 hours so people 
attending FOSDEM could get to Amsterdam easily. If we were to do this, we would 
need to charge a small registration fee, probably 20 euros, to cover lunch and coffee 
breaks. FOSDEM is free because it has many corporate sponsors, which we donÕt.

What I would like is to get a feeling for is (1) how many people would attend a 1-day 
event in either Brussels or Amsterdam next February and (2) who would be willing to 
make a presentation on some topic related to MINIX 3 (and on what). The 
presentations could be of different lengths, depending on how many there are and 
how much time the speaker needs. Also (3) what should the event focus on (talks, 
demos, discussions, etc.)?

Please respond by going to 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gQLAvpJhak9vh-
tQ_Ydzwo6a_gA69B9UcEYBadLbNHI/viewform?usp=send_form

and filling out the form. Please note that this is NOT a registration form or a binding 
commitment to speak. IÕd just like to get an idea of how many attendees and speakers 
we might have (e.g., for determining how big a room to ask for at FOSDEM).

Thanks for your help.

Finally, unless there are a lot of objections, IÕm inclined to call the mascot ÒRocky 
RacoonÓ due to the alliteration and the suggestion that ÒRockyÓ sounds spunky. It 
doesnÕt relate to the software but neither do ÒTuxÓ or ÒBeastie.Ó

Andy Tanenbaum





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