Re: upcoming conferences and liveCDs

[Glynn Foster <Glynn Foster Sun COM>]

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


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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
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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.