Re: upcoming conferences and liveCDs
- From: Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>
- To: Dave Neary <dneary free fr>
- Cc: Tim Ney <ten gnome org>, Glynn Foster <Glynn Foster sun com>, marketing list <marketing-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: upcoming conferences and liveCDs
- Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 08:50:29 -0700
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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> >>
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