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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: geiseri is contact liason
  • Probably big; Possibly somewhat corporate; definitely technical
  • 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... contacts unreachable
  • Looks like we are skipping.

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

  • Presenting: ?
  • Possibly attending: mpyne
  • Definitely attending: ?

LinuxCon

September 21-23 2009

in Portland, OR

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

  • Check cfp?
  • Presenting:
  • Possibly attending:
  • Definitely attending:

Ohio Linuxfest

Sept 26 2009

in Columbus, Ohio

http://ohiolinux.org

inquires:

  • Presenting:
  • Possibly attending:
  • Definitely attending:

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