Re: upcoming conferences and liveCDs

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

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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