Projects/Promo/conferences

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Prospective upcoming ones

Northwest Linuxfest

April 25-26 2009

in Bellingham, WA (south of Seattle)

http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/

  • see Dan's page for planning
  • we have a booth
  • working on speakers, etc.

Collaboration Summit

April 8-10 2009

in San Francisco, CA

http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit

  • invitation only

Penguicon

May 1-3 2009

http://www.penguicon.org/

in Romulus, Michigan

  • This one is just goofy: a science fiction convention mixed with an open source convention. Nixternal went one year and had a blast. We've missed getting on the program, though, and this isn't something where you'd do a booth.

Southeast LinuxFest

June 13 2009

http://wiki.southeastlinuxfest.org/index.php/Main_Page

in Clemson, South Carolina

  • Registration is open as of March 11, 2009
  • Currently no KDE sponsor is signed up to go

Gran Canaria

July 3-11 2009

just noting....

O'Reilly's Oscon

July 20-24 2009

in San Jose, California

http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009

  • we have a booth, maybe can get someone to do unconference talks?
  • This is probably big.

LinuxWorld (SF)

August 12-13

in San Francisco, CA

http://linuxworldexpo.com/

  • This is now called "open source world"; very corporate
  • Big, but not as big as it once was
  • more disorganized... Still trying to get in touch with a real person to get us a booth

Atlanta Linux Fest

September 19 2009 (Software Freedom Day)

in Atlanta, Georgia

http://atlantalinuxfest.org/

  • There is a call for papers right now (as of March 21, 2009), they can be emailed to:

papers at atlantalinuxfest.org

  • Currently no KDE sponsor is signed up to go

LinuxCon

September 21-23 2009

in Portland, OR

http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon

  • Register to attend by April 15 for the discounted rate of $299.

Ohio Linuxfest

Sept 26 2009

in Columbus, Ohio

http://ohiolinux.org

inquires:

Locals nearby willing to help? People who are familiar with it and have been? We currently have nothing set up.

Sites with Linux Event Listings

Information about them

  1. name
  2. place
  3. date
  4. URLs
  • homepage
  • meeting schedule
  • topics
  • speakers
  1. deadlines
  • booth
  • devroom
  • speaker slots
  • attendees
  1. KDE booth (yes/no)
  2. KDE devroom (yes/no)
  3. KDE speakers list (names/topics)
  4. event contact
 ## name
 ## email
  1. KDE contact for meeting
 ## name
 ## email
 ## mailing list, website, etc. for status updates 
  1. ready to go / needs volunteers
  2. meeting reports