Re: upcoming conferences and liveCDs

[Dave Neary <dneary free fr>]

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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David Neary
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