OsmoDevCon 2017 Review

After the public user-oriented OsmoCon 2017, we also recently had the
6th incarnation of our annual contributors-only .

This is a much smaller group, typically about 20 people, and is limited
to actual developers who have a past record of contributing to any of
the many Osmocom projects.

We had a large number of presentation and discussions. In fact, so
large that the schedule of talks extended from 10am to midnight on some
days. While this is great, it also means that there was definitely too
little time for more informal conversations, chatting or even actual
work on code.

We also have such a wide range of topics and scope inside Osmocom, that
the traditional ad-hoch scheduling approach no longer seems to be
working as it used to. Not everyone is interested in (or has time for)
all the topics, so we should group them according to their topic/subject
on a given day or half-day. This will enable people to attend only
those days that are relevant to them, and spend the remaining day in an
adjacent room hacking away on code.

It's sad that we only have OsmoDevCon once per year. Maybe that's
actually also something to think about. Rather than having 4 days once
per year, maybe have two weekends per year.

Always in motion the future is.