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["Lionel Dricot" <ploum@xxxxxxxxx>]

>> Hello Pyroomers,
>
> Hi all,
>
>>
>> FOSDEM published a call for lightning talks. Lightning talks are very
>> short talk (15minutes) where you can present small/new projects/ideas to
>> the crowd.
>>
>
>
> Sorry Lionel for the delayed answer, I wanted to be sure I was about
> to make it to FOSDEM.
> I'm actually planning a trip to Brussels for FOSDEM, and currently
> trying to organise myself.
>
>> Maybe it could be a good opportunity to spread PyRoom love ?
>
> Yes, that would be great, but I'm seeing a couple of issues, here.
>
> I've been at the beginning of the project, but I must say that my
> involvement in it has decayed a lot, and I haven't touch code for ages
> now. I'm still amazed by the tremendous work made by Florian (tiax),
> and this project wouldn't be as advanced as it is without him. He's
> the one who should go on stage and make a talk about this project he
> has pushed forward for several months, now.
> Unfortunately, he told me on IRC he wouldn't be able to make it to
> Brussels.
>
> I don't know if any other member of the Team comes to FOSDEM next
> february, and I'd be delighted to meet some of us there.

I'm not part of the team but I will be there and I will be gload to meet
you. (Because the only spring I hate is Java spring)

> On the other hand, it could be perfectly possible for me to work out a
> talk about pyroom, and I'd be glad to do it. I'm just wondering if I'm
> qualified enough to talk about this project as an ex-developer.
> The talk could be focused on:
>
> * Why this project? (aka. Writeroom is closed-source, 24.95 USD and
> just for the Mac)
> * Why this project, again? (aka. why yet another text editor, Why not
> just a gedit plugin, Why not vim)
> * Why Python?
> * Why Launchpad?
> * Who can use it? For what? What's the benefit?
> * What's next? What's left to be done?
>

15 minutes is very short. So there's no need to go through the code. Even
if FOSDEM attendees are geek, they will not be interested by the
SourceView -> TextView transition. Instead, your proposition seems really
really really great. I would definitely appreciate it. It would fit
perfectly in the lightning talk perspective.

Conclusion : you've my vote as a speaker :-)