As you might have seen in this announcement, the 2025 conference will be held at the beginning of July – so the dates for the attendance & the coworking week that will follow will be June 30 to July 12, 2025 – write it in your agenda!
Since it will be in France, I will be the organizer this year!
Upcoming sprint: Talks Proposals Brainstorm
Since the deadline for submission is quite early (in a little over a month), I will be adding a task in everyone’s upcoming sprint for the brainstorm, so that we don’t have to rush it all in one sprint. Please make sure you keep enough time for it. If really you don’t have time, check with me so we organize an alternate schedule for you.
Attendance Survey
To confirm everyone’s attendance, please fill the following survey. As a reminder, attendance is mandatory for everyone who joined (or rejoined) OpenCraft after July 2018 - and highly encouraged for everyone!
Will you be able to attend:
Both weeks (June 30 - July 12)
Conference week (June 30 - July 5)
Coworking week (July 7-12)
Neither
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Also let me know if you will need a visa, so that we can allocate time for this and create specific tasks:
I will need to apply for a visa
I won’t need a visa
I’m not sure, I will need to check
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If you can’t attend any part, please also reply to indicate the reason (or write to me privately if it’s personal).
If you have questions about the talk proposal timeline, or how you might propose a relevant developer talk so far in the future, please see this thread I had with Braden: Slack
Feel free to comment on that thread with further questions/concerns. Thanks!
PS: Talks submitted prior to 12 November will get a quick pre-review and a chance to resubmit!
@cassie Not at all yet - I have some ideas, but I still have to look into this. I will try to keep it not too far, so that we don’t have to take a plane to go there, so it should be in France - but there are very different options in the area.
Oh! I was expecting us to fly to an affordable European city—which, ironically, is often less expensive than taking a 3-hour train ride to another place in France. Travelling to a city like Prague or Budapest would make the trip more affordable for everyone, though at the cost of being more polluting. In any case, a city where we can fight the July heat with a nice daily swim would be great
Also, since we’ll be close to Paris, you may enjoy this book about its history.
For co-working, two places accessible from Telecom Paris are St. Malo (4.5 hrs by train and I like the nearby village of St. Brieuc and Bruges (3.4 hrs. by train) in Belgium.
Same as previously, I can’t attend due to the martial law restrictions in my country. However, I think there is light at the end of the tunnel, and maybe something will change in ~6 months.
@antoviaque Do you have a rough sense of when you’ll make a decision about whether we’ll stay in France for the coworking week? I’m asking because with the conference being in France, I’ll have a chance to bring my partner (and our dogs) for the first time <3 And we’d like to start making concrete plans soon, to make sure that she’ll be able to take time off work as needed. If we’re going to be switching countries for the coworking week, that would be good to know because it would allow us to decide whether she’d join for the week of the conference or the coworking week (we wouldn’t be able to take our dogs to two different countries in the span of two weeks).
@tikr Not sure yet no, I haven’t started looking into that. For now I have focused on the talk proposals, since that is the much closer deadline. Then we will need to do the discovery proper & budget, which will include deciding on the locations - probably by the end of the year, or January, we should have a good idea, I think? Does that work for you?
