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Fedora Events: FrOSCon 2018 - Sankt Augustin, Germany

About FrOSCon

FrOSCon is a two day conference on Free Software and Open Source, taking place for the seventh time on August, 25th/26th 2018 at the University of Applied Science 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.

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Date & Location

  • Saturday/Sunday, August, 25th/26th 2018
  • Sankt Augustin, not far from Bonn in NRW, Germany.
  • Getting there

There's a bus directly driving between Troisdorf train station and Sankt Augustin center near to the event location, reachable by foot. A train is going between Siegburg/Bonn and Sankt Augustin center. Directions to the airport and Cologne city are available by train (S-Bahn).

Status

  • Booth: requested bu User:Till
  • Accommodation: private organization, typically sponsored for approved speakers

Attendees

This event has Free Admission for everyone!

Name Hotel room needed Booth service Saturday Sunday Hotel Confirmed
Christian Jantz (Conference Orga team)
Christian Dersch -
Raphael Groner - maybe

Needed

Please feel free to add stuff if you think something is missing here.

  • swag
  • tablecloth

Accommodation

Speakers can normally get a sponsored room in a hotel in Siegburg.

Further, there are recommendable cheap hotel rooms available in Troisdorf or Porz, both locations are nearest to the airport of Cologne and can be reached easily by public transport (train or bus) from Cologne or Siegburg/Bonn (with ICE train station).

Social Event

The social event takes place on Saturday evening at the event location right after doors are closing.

Tickets

The conference is free of charge and you can just hop by. As soon as a booth is requested you can have the point of contact to FrOSCon add you into the system to get an exhibitor badge and access to on-location catering.

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