[talk] a Port Maintainer day conference in NYC

[Ariel Sanchez Mora]

All I'll add (since I don't live in NYC anymore) is that I miss bring part
of such a vibrant community. If you are on the fence, don't take this
lightly - dive in! It's an amazing opportunity!

On Jan 7, 2018 5:24 PM, "George Rosamond" <george at ceetonetechnology.com>
wrote:

> Raul Cuza:
> > On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 12:46 PM, George Rosamond
> > <george at ceetonetechnology.com> wrote:
> >> I'm forking this from my previous email, to open up the discussion and
> >> generate some concrete ideas.
> >>
> >> I'll repeat the basis:
> >>
> >> after Brian C's OpenBSD porting meeting last night, it became clear that
> >> there's a decent critical mass of port maintainers in the NYC area from
> >> the BSD projects.
> >>
> >> This specifically means people who port third-party applications to one
> >> BSD or another for inclusion in the respective ports and packages. It
> >> might include people who build and maintain large Mozilla ports, or
> >> simple shell-based utilities. There might even be those involved in the
> >> actual port-building infrastructure, ie, the Make environment that the
> >> ports systems dwell in.
> >>
> >> Assembling a bunch of them wouldn't be trivial, as we'd need space,
> >> etc., but we could probably do this without a lot of extras past
> >> NYCBSDCons require. Think no heavy sponsors, no catered food (except
> >> maybe pizzas), no hotels.
> >>
> >> There's some important issues to establish first:
> >>
> >> * is the event aimed at current maintainers talking to other
> maintainers?
> >>
> >> * if above is true, what topics would actually have them speaking the
> >> same tongue to make the event worthwhile?
> >>
> >> * would prospective maintainers be included on some level?
> >>
> >> * if above is true, would porting workshops (like last night) be part of
> >> the agenda?
> >>
> >> Anyways, I hope this opens up some discussion on the topic, since this
> >> will be the basis to determine whether this sort of event is feasible in
> >> NYC.
> >>
> >> g
> >>
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> >>
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> > At the risk of being asked to leave the ranch, I think learning to
> > make Homebrew ports should be included. For all its faults, OS X is a
> > BSD at its core.
>
> Off the ranch!
>
> I'd be -1 on that, personally.
>
> Maybe a better approach would be to gear the event towards tutorials.
>
> There is an instructor for each BSD port system, and two time slots.
> Users sign up for the BSD port system they intend to use, and in the
> first session it's an overview, then the second one is hands-on, with
> possible port submissions.
>
> Users would have to pick which BSD, and we could assess the number of
> 'helpers' at each session. If, say, 20 users sign up for LoopyBSD, the
> 2nd hands-on tutorial might require x people to be there.
>
> Something like BCallah's doc sprint, without the DDOS effect?
>
> Then we could have more general sessions preceding or following the two
> BSD-specific time slots.
>
> We could ultimately judge the results in (serious) ports submitted.
>
> Still toying with the idea, but we're not going to even consider it
> without more input.
>
> g
>
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