Re: upcoming conferences and liveCDs

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

whoohoo. so who is volunteering to get that into the wiki? :)
Luis

On 5/3/05, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com> wrote:
> Oh man, thats just capital.  Thanks!
>
> sri
>
> On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:41:24AM -1200, Glynn Foster wrote:
> > Heya,
> >
> > > > There was some discussion of this last year :)
> > >
> > > Yeah, I remembered we had it, but wasn't sure where it went. Did we
> > > get a wiki page up? My thinking is that we could have a general list
> > > of conferences that happen every year, and then a list (either same
> > > place or separate) listing what the date of the next known one is,
> > > whether or not we've contacted the organizer, what speakers we have
> > > there, etc., etc.
> >
> > Okay, found a mail that might help that was in my board-list archives.
> > Here's a cut and paste of the mail from Malcolm -
> >
> > Glynn
> >
> >
> > =======================================================
> > This involves a number of steps and I have made a start on a couple of
> > these:
> >
> > (1) Knowing which conferences are coming up in each area of the world
> > and when their paper submission dates are.
> >
> >         - attached to this mail is the start of such a list (ordered by
> >         conference date. I need to make a similar list ordered by
> >         submission date). Naturally, as you can see, a number of
> >         submission dates have already passed by. In such cases, I have
> >         listed if there are any GNOME related talks being given.
> >
> >         - I have concentrated on desktop-, consumer- and
> >         developer-related conferences. There are other conferences at
> >         which GNOME talks have been given (e.g. Daniel Veillard's
> >         presentation at XML Europe last year) but which are more of a
> >         niche market and which require particular speakers to give
> >         effective talks.
> >
> >         - This list is far from complete. Can people send me any other
> >         conferences they know about (including submission deadlines
> >         and/or a website so I can scrounge out the info and monitor
> >         things). In particular, I have nothing for any South American
> >         countries and nothing for Spain, although both areas had
> >         conferences last year, if I recall correctly. I suspect there
> >         are a couple of British (particularly London-based) conferences
> >         that I have missed. I am also not going to be surprised if I
> >         have missed a number of significant European and North American
> >         summer conferences.
> >
> >         - In 2004, we need to also be looking at 2005 conferences.
> >         Submission deadlines are months in advance of the conference, so
> >         by around mid-2004 we (the entire GNOME community) are going to
> >         have to have got our act together for conferences in the first
> >         couple of months of 2005.
> >
> > (2) Contacting GNOME volunteers and user groups in the appropriate areas
> > to see if they can help out with demonstration stands and giving talks,
> > etc.
> >
> > (3) Preparing a kit to help kickstart such demonstrations.
> >         - There have been posts to various mailing lists over the past
> >         few years about what people have learnt when helping out at a
> >         GNOME stand at conferences. I am trying to track down all of
> >         those.
> >
> >         - We need to have something like a HOWTO available for people
> >         who want to do this kind of stuff. Possible also a HOWTO for
> >         somebody wanting to give a talk about GNOME to the general
> >         population. Sometimes it is just a matter of giving people ideas
> >         of what they can talk about and convincing them that it is not
> >         such a big job, since the people they are talking to may know
> >         very little about GNOME.
> >
> > (4) Complete this list. Currently it only contains three significant
> > points. There are probably more.
> >
> > See attached -
>
> >  2004
> > ======
> > January:
> >       12 - 17: linux.conf.au
> >               - http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ (or http://linux.conf.au/)
> >               - Adelaide, Australia
> >               - much GNOME (and peripherally related) involvement: James
> >                 Henstridge, Malcolm Tredinnick, Jeff Waugh, Havoc
> >                 Pennington, Keith Packard, Glynn Foster spread between the
> >                 main conference and a couple of the preceding
> >                 mini-conferences.
> >
> >       20 - 23: LinuxWorld Conference & Expo
> >               - New York, USA
> >
> > February:
> >       3 - 5: Linux Solutions
> >               - Paris, France
> >               - http://www.solutionslinux.fr/en/index.php
> >               - costs € for exhibition space.
> >
> >       9 - 12: O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
> >               - San Diego, USA
> >               - http://conferences.oreillynet.com/etech/
> >               - too late for this year. Keep in mind for 2005 conference.
> >
> >       11 - 13: Linux Asia
> >               - New Delhi, India
> >               - http://www.linuxasia2004.com/
> >               - speaker registration closes Jan 22, 2004 (?? - maybe).
> >
> >       21 - 22: FOSDEM
> >               - Brussels, Belgium
> >               - http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/
> >               - Bill Haneman speaking about GOK, Robert Love speaking about
> >                 Kernel and Desktop.
> >
> > March:
> >       8 - 10: Asia Open Source Software Symposium
> >               - Hanoi, Vietname
> >               - http://www.asia-oss.org/
> >
> >       17 - 19: Open Standards/Open Source for National and Local eGovernment
> >                Programs in the U.S. and EU
> >               - Washington DC, USA
> >               - http://www.egovos.org/
> >               - Bill Haneman et al speaking about accessibility, Leila
> >                 Chucri talking about the Sun desktop, Nat Friedman on the
> >                 Enterprise Linux Desktop
> >       ???????: California State University, Northridge Conference on
> >                Technology and Disabilities (CSUN)
> >
> > April:
> >       13 - 15: Real World Linux
> >               - Toronto, Canada
> >               - http://www.realworldlinux.com/
> >               - submission date for 2004 is past (was 15 Nov 2003).
> >               - Desktop usage is one area they look at. Audience is
> >                 management and senior technology professionals.
> >
> > June:
> >       2 - 4: LinuxWorld Conference & Expo
> >               - Tokyo, Japan
> >               - http://www.idg.co.jp/expo/lw/eng/index.html
> >
> >       7 - 9: EuroPython
> >               - Göteborg, Sweden.
> >               - http://www.europython.org/
> >               - Talk submission deadline currently unclear
> >
> >       28 - 30: GVADEC
> >               - Kristiansand, Norway
> >               - http://2004.guadec.org/
> >               - talks due by Feb 1, 2004.
> >
> >       27 - 02 (Jul): Freenix and UseLinux conferences
> >               - Boston, USA
> >               - http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/
> >               - paper submissions deadlines have passed (was 16 Dec 2003).
> >
> > July:
> >       21 - 24: Ottawa Linux Symposium
> >               - http://www.linuxsymposium.org
> >               - Ottawa, Canada
> >               - last year, GNOME-related talks from Luis, Jody, Nat,
> >                 Havoc and Jim (Freedesktop BOF).
> >               - abstracts due sometime in January 2004.
> >
> >       26 - 30: O'Reilly Open Source Convention
> >               - http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2004/create/e_sess
> >               - proposals due Feb 9, 2004
> >               - Edd Dumbill has a list of ideas for presentations at
> >                 http://usefulinc.com/edd/blog/contents/2003/12/19-oscon/read
> >
> >       ???: UKUUG Summer Conference
> >               - Leeds (?)
> >               - http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2004/
> >               - abstracts due 12 March 2004
> >
> > August:
> >       2  - 5: Linux World San Francisco
> >
> >       24 - 26: Linux World Beijing
> >
> >       29 - 3 (Sep): Australian Unix Users Group (AUUG) Annual Conference
> >               - Melbourne, Australia
> >               - http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/
> >               - abstracts for tutorials and main conference due 7 May 2004.
> >
> > October:
> >       25 - 27: Linux World Germany
> >
> > 2005
> > =====
> > January:
> >       - linux.conf.au
> >               - ???, Australia
> >
> > Unknown
> > =========
> > Bangalore conference repeat (from December 2003)
> >
> > LinuxWorld Conference & Expo
> >       - Hong Kong
> >       - dates and details unknown (was in November in 2003)
> >
> > LinuxTag
> >       - In 2003, was held in Karlsruhe, Germany from 10 - 13 July.
>
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