Ambassadors/EMEA/EventPlan:2016

Events

Date	Name	Location	Event Owner	Description	Audience	Justification	Expense
March 7-8	InstallFest 2015	Prague, Czech Republic	Miro Hrončok	A two-day conference devoted to Linux and open source technologies at the campus of the biggest technical university in the country.	200, mostly computer science students	The attendees are our primary target audience for Workstation. It also makes sense to promote Server there, too	$0
March 21-22	Chemnitzer Linux Tage 2015	Chemnitz, Germany	Joerg Simon				$1300
April?	Open Source Days	Copenhagen, Denmark	Robert Scheck				$1000
April?	3D Expo	Prague, Czech Republic	Miro Hrončok				$120
April 17-19	PyCon Italy	Florence, Italy	Robert Mayr				$1200
May 7-9	LinuxWochen Vienna	Vienna, Austria	Sirko Kemter				$1000
??	Greek Community Conference	??, Greece	??				$500
??	PlayIT	??, Hungary	Rákosi Gergely				$1200
August 22-24	LVEE	Grodno, Belarus	Aleksandra Fedorova	International conference of developers and users of free / open source software	160, mostly developers		$400
August 23-24	FrOSCon	Sankt Augustin, Germany	Felix Kaechele				$2000
October 3-4	Linux Days	Prague, Czech Republic	Jiri Eischmann	One of the largest events in the country devoted to Linux and FLOSS, highlighted topics: networking, administration, makers (3D printing workshops etc), there is always a Gentoo track	600, mostly students, admins, users	It's an important regional event Fedora should not miss to maintain awareness among users and target technical students as our target audience, we should primarily promote Workstation and Server there.	$0
October 5-7	LinuxCon Europe	Dublin, Ireland	Jiri Eischmann	Three-day conference with a broad range of topics around Linux, organized by the Linux Foundation, usually co-hosted with other conferences shuch as KVM Forum	1400, enterprise users (developers, admins, architects,...), upstream developers	LinuxCon is one of a few Linux events in Europe where we can meet enterprise users, we should primarily promote Server and Cloud at this event, it's also a good event for networking with various upstream projects	$2000
October?	FSCons	Gothenburg, Sweden	Robert Scheck				$1300
October?	Bar Camp Manchester	Manchester, UK	Jon Archer				$1000
October?	T-DOSE	Eindhoven, Netherlands	Rubén Guerra Marín				$200
November 7-8	OpenAlt	Brno, Czech Republic	Jiri Eischmann	A two-day conference devoted to Linux and open source, but recently trying to expand to other fields: open government, open education, makers, Red Hat and Fedora has traditionally a strong presence there due to a large engineering office in the same city.	500, mostly students, users	It's an important regional event Fedora should not miss to maintain awareness among users and target technical students as our target audience, we should primarily promote Workstation there.	$0
November 7-8	OpenRheinRuhr	Oberhausen, Germany	Felix Kaechele				$400
November?	OSOL Conference	Szeged, Hungary	Zoltan Hoppar				$500
January 30-31	FOSDEM	Brussels, Belgium	Jiri Eischmann	The largest gathering of open source enthusiasts in Europe, all important open source projects are present there, Fedora usually has a dev room there.	7000, open source developers, powerusers	This is a must event for Fedora because of the high number of FLOSS contributors, great opportunity to get Fedora contributors together, present our technologies to our target audiences and do networking with other projects, mainly our upstreams, we should primarily promote Workstation, but Server and Cloud may also find their audiences there.	$3000
February 5-7	DevConf.cz	Brno, Czech Republic	Jiri Eischmann	The largest technical conference of Red Hat, over 100 talks and workshops covering Red Hat-related technologies, one day is devoted to Fedora and after Flock it's the largest gathering of Fedora contributors and serves as a planning event, too.	1000, mostly redhatters, but also independent contributors, and contributors from other companies, also enterprise users	There is not much room to do outreach because most attendees are aware of and even familiar with Fedora, it's an opportunity to meet contributors from other projects Red Hat is involved in and even with RH contributors to Fedora who don't otherwise attend Fedora events, it's also an opportunity to promote Fedora to enterprise users who attend the event for information about RH technologies.	$0