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.