FrOSCon 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:

• FrOSCon website (English)
• FrOSCon website (German)

Date & Location

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

Attendees

• Robert M. "romal" Albrecht (event owner)
• Max Spevack (+ talk)
• Christoph Wickert
• Stefan "CheekyBoinc" Posdzich
• Sandro "red" Mathys (perhaps)

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 -- Being made by RH Munich, paid for by Fedora budget. (MaxSpevack)
• 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

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Pictures

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