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==O'Reilly's Oscon==
==O'Reilly's Oscon==


July 20-24 2009
July 20-24 2009 '''During the week'''


in San Jose, California
in San Jose, California

Revision as of 04:44, 10 May 2009

Prospective upcoming ones

Collaboration Summit

April 8-10 2009

in San Francisco, CA

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

  • invitation only
  • steve gave a talk; zahl was on a panel

Northwest Linuxfest

April 25-26 2009

in Bellingham, WA (south of Seattle)

http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/

  • see Dan's page for planning:

https://techbase.kde.org/User:Danborne/NWLF

  • we had a booth
  • we had speakers (zahl, chani, jefferai, condordes)
  • hardware transport was problematic (shipping to school)
  • gave out candy and pepsi

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
  • geiseri is in BIG BOLD on the front page as giving a talk. :D anybody else?
  • Presenting: gesieri, ?
  • Attending: geiseri, ?
  • Possibly attending: ?

Gran Canaria

July 3-11 2009

just noting....

O'Reilly's Oscon

July 20-24 2009 During the week

in San Jose, California

http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009

  • we have a booth, maybe can get someone to do unconference talks?
  • Probably big; Probably somewhat corporate
  • Unconference presenting: ?
  • Definitely attending: ?
  • Possibly attending: alex/zahl

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
  • Probably worth skipping at this point, they don't seem to be very clueful

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 person is signed up to go; mpyne might be available

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