August 2012 - FOSDEM - lists.fosdem.org

First time attendee
by Samantha Kosko 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

All: Hi... my name is Samantha and I am trying to finalize all of my companies plans for FOSDEM and we are all first time attendees. We have been selected to have a stand and the event and wanted to get some feedback on what we should do with giveaways and staff for the stand. We have a limited number of people in EMEA that can attend and I want to make sure that i am using my resources as best as I can. If anyone has any information they can help me with on this ... i would be forever thankful! -- Samantha Kosko Field Marketing Manager @ 10gen, The MongoDB Company Twitter: @sam_10gen Zerply: http://zerply.com/samantha-kosko/public We are hiring!

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Dates for FOSDEM 2013: 2 & 3 February
by Philip Paeps 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

All, we have recently agreed with our venue that FOSDEM 2013 will take place on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 February 2013. It is safe to assume that there will also be a beer event as usual, on Friday 1 February 2013. Looking forward to seeing everyone there. - Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Ministry of Information

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Last minute call for speakers SFK12
by Mike Dupont 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

HI there, this is not about FOSMDEM, but should be interesting to people. We are organizing the fourth edition of SFK, the yearly free software conference in kosovo. some speakers had to cancel and we are looking for people to speak on the last minute. http://www.flossk.org/en/blog/software-freedom-kosova-2012 We have sponsorship and will cover travel and hotel costs from europe within reason for qualified speakers, thanks, mike -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org Saving wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3

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FOSDEM calls for devroom organizers and main track speakers
by Tias Guns 13 Aug '12

13 Aug '12

<<< help spread the word and make FOSDEM awesome >>> FOSDEM is a non-commercial event offering open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renowned for being highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ geeks from all over the world. FOSDEM will take place in Brussels, Belgium on the 2nd and 3rd of February 2013. We invite proposals for *devrooms* and *main track talks*: *Main Track Talks* The main tracks host high-quality seminars for a broad and technical audience. Every track is organized around a theme (security, kernel, collaboration, ...). They are held in the two biggest auditoria and last 50 minutes. Each of the talks is given by a speaker who gets their travel and accommodation costs reimbursed. To apply for a FOSDEM Main Track talk, visit https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_main_speakers.html To suggest a main track speaker that we should invite, mail program(a)fosdem.org *Devrooms* A devroom is a 'developer room' in which open source communities can organize their own schedule, made of presentations, brainstorming and hacking sessions. Our goal is to stimulate developer collaboration and cross-pollination between projects. Each year we receive more requests than we can host. To better achieve our goals, preference will be given to *proposals involving multiple, collaborating projects*. Projects with similar goals/domains that make separate requests will be asked to co-organize a devroom under their common theme. To propose organizing a devroom, visit https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_devrooms.html Note! Linux distributions should apply to the dedicated distribution mini-conference: https://fosdem.org/2013/distrominiconf.html *Key Dates* - 1 October: deadline for devroom proposals - mid October: devroom announcements - 1 November: deadline main track proposals - mid November: main track announcements - 2 and 3 February: FOSDEM 2013

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