My employer, well actually mainly Kris, would like me to do talks on conferences. The problem is, however, that I don’t feel like I have a lot to talk about. I can of course jump the stage and talk about whatever I know a little bit about. Which is what most conference speakers do, I guess. Another problem is that FOSDEM will happen sooner or later: Kris will likely again ask me whether or not I submitted a paper.
So the question. What should I talk about? By now I think people have had enough custom treemodel stuff from me. I could talk a little bit about how to get started as an evolution contributor and how you could earn some bounty money by doing that. But then again, it looks like these days nobody likes the evolution code anyway. Tinymail is unfinished and not yet worth a conference talk. Gnome-schedule is way to simple. If I’d do a talk about deconf, people would throw large objects at me, would start yelling and would put the building on fire (just take a look at the xdg-list if you want to know what a heated subject like that can do). And finally codegen can’t yet generate GObjects (which can change, of course). And again, some people would throw large objects at me if I’d do a talk about a .NET subject. Especially Kris, the guy who wants me to do talks, would.
So basically, I have nothing to talk about :p. Lucky me!
Anyway. I will be at FOSDEM. That’s for sure. This year, a developer room for Gnomies is arranged (and else, we’ll just steal/take/pick a room. Right?)! Brussels is easy to fly, drive, travel, etc. And they say we Belgians have great chocolate (and the Belgian chocolate is, of course, much cheaper in Belgium), waffles and good beer. So let’s all be there :p! Jeff has setup this wiki page. You can fill in the attendees page if you’re coming.