Re: upcoming conferences and liveCDs

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

Doing useful work during the board meeting? :-) </runs>

sri

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 08:44:06AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> I'll do it, sometime this evening (probably during the board meeting).
>
> Dave.
>
> Luis Villa a écrit :
> > 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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