Continuing the discussion from O₆ffdem?:
OFFDEM is each time building a stronger community and we are moving towards our original aim to focus on the keeping our work focused on building up over the years about specific topics:
Care > Demilitarize
Care > Synware
Care > Bonds
Care > e-Waste
Keeping OFFDEM happening at the same moment as FOSDEM has some inconvenients.
- Our main issue is practical: February is always cold and while we organize with occupations the large spaces we occupy are not heated, and it is very hard to focus and properly work in such conditions.
- Furthermore while it is important for us to work in conjunction with FOSDEM it is also crucial that the people who join OFFDEM really engage and do not only pass by, how ever some people come from FOSDEM and only pass by, they do not prepare work with us ahead of time and do not contribute on the long run.
As we realize more and more people come intown specifically for OFFDEM and do not attend FOSDEM we feel the 2 events might be less correlated than before.
Therefore we are thinking to move OFFDEM sometimes in the month of April where it would be warmer and leave us more time to prepare and organise our encounter.
What do people think about moving OFFDEM in April and work in better conditions… Or do you feel we should keep attached to FOSDEM?
Please aswer below and tell us what you think.