From Fedora Project Wiki

(Creation)
(Undo revision 37185 by Ynemoy (Talk))
Line 1: Line 1:
{{header|events}}
{{header|events}}


= Fedora Events: ETH-0 2008 - Den Oever, Netherlands =
= Fedora Events: FrOSCon 2008 - Sankt Augustin, Germany =


== About ETH-0 ==
== About FrOSCon ==
ETH0 is an outdoor computer event intended to bring people with differing computer-related interests and skills together for an informative and fun time.
FrOSCon is a two day conference on Free Software and Open Source, taking place for the third time on August, 23rd/24th 2008 at the Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin near the cities of Bonn and Cologne.
ETH0 will be held from the 5th of July 2008 to the 11th of July 2008.
 
The conference revolves around a rich schedule of talks, highlighting current topics in Free Software and Open Source. Moreover, developers will be offered a large Free Software / Open Source space, allowing them to organize their own meetings or even their own lineup of events.
 
Additionally, exhibition space will be available to companies and projects, so they can present themselves to the visitors.  


For more information, visit:
For more information, visit:
* [http://www.eth-0.nl/ ETH-0 Website]
* [http://www.froscon.org/ FrOSCon website (English)]
* [http://www.froscon.de/ FrOSCon website (German)]


== Date & Location ==
== Date & Location ==
* Saturday - Friday, July 5 - 11, 2008
* Saturday/Sunday, 23rd/24th August 2008
* Near Den Oever, in the Netherlands.
* Sankt Augustin, not far from Bonn in NRW, Germany.
* Location: [http://tinyurl.com/yupmmp Google Maps]
* [http://www.froscon.de/en/getting-there.html Getting there]


== Attendees ==
== Attendees ==
* [YaakovNemoy Yaakov Nemoy] (event owner)
* [[User:romal|Robert M. "romal" Albrecht]] (event owner)
* [[User:mspevack|Max Spevack]] (+ talk)
* [[User:cwickert|Christoph Wickert]]
* [[User:Cheekyboinc|Stefan "CheekyBoinc" Posdzich]]
* [[User:red|Sandro "red" Mathys]] (perhaps)


== Needed ==
== Needed ==
* Tents, and other camping supplies
* <del>Booth -- provided free of charge</del>
* Stickers - Laptop and big ones
* Posters -- Joerg Simon can send us some. Who can bring them to the FrOSCon and take them back home? Send Joerg an e-mail with your address.
* Power strips, networking switches, wireless hubs (power is provided)
* Live CDs and DVDs -- MaxSpevack with local help
* Bring your own hardware
* Tshirts -- MaxSpevack with local help
* Food
* Stickers -- ???
 
* <del>XO -- romal has one to bring along</del>
== Wanted ==
* Speakers to talk about the more exotic things in Fedora
* Schwag
* USB Sticks for LiveUSB
* an OLPC for demoing - nothing mission critical, in case someone wants to reflash it for fun.
* Any other embedded hardware running Fedora or Fedora based code.


== Accommodation ==
== Accommodation ==
Line 36: Line 38:


== Status ==
== Status ==
* Potential Budget of 500 Euros max.
* Budget of $1000 USD (600 EUR) for the event (swag + travel/lodging)
* YaakovNemoy is paying for most of his expenses out of pocket
* FrOSCon accepted Max Spevack's talk
* FrOSCon confirmed our booth
* <del>Max Spevack (and others?) handed in a talk</del>
* <del>Fedora Project applied for a booth</del>


== Reports ==
== Reports ==

Revision as of 21:48, 30 June 2008

Fedora Events: FrOSCon 2008 - Sankt Augustin, Germany

About FrOSCon

FrOSCon is a two day conference on Free Software and Open Source, taking place for the third time on August, 23rd/24th 2008 at the Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin near the cities of Bonn and Cologne.

The conference revolves around a rich schedule of talks, highlighting current topics in Free Software and Open Source. Moreover, developers will be offered a large Free Software / Open Source space, allowing them to organize their own meetings or even their own lineup of events.

Additionally, exhibition space will be available to companies and projects, so they can present themselves to the visitors.

For more information, visit:

Date & Location

  • Saturday/Sunday, 23rd/24th August 2008
  • Sankt Augustin, not far from Bonn in NRW, Germany.
  • Getting there

Attendees

Needed

  • Booth -- provided free of charge
  • Posters -- Joerg Simon can send us some. Who can bring them to the FrOSCon and take them back home? Send Joerg an e-mail with your address.
  • Live CDs and DVDs -- MaxSpevack with local help
  • Tshirts -- MaxSpevack with local help
  • Stickers -- ???
  • XO -- romal has one to bring along

Accommodation

  • Someone needs to volunteer to look into accomodation options.

Status

  • Budget of $1000 USD (600 EUR) for the event (swag + travel/lodging)
  • FrOSCon accepted Max Spevack's talk
  • FrOSCon confirmed our booth
  • Max Spevack (and others?) handed in a talk
  • Fedora Project applied for a booth

Reports

  • N/A

Pictures

  • N/A
Retrieved from "https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=FrOSCon_2008&oldid=37186"