Projects/Promo/conferences

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?

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?
• 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:

• speaker [email protected]
• sponsor [email protected]
• general [email protected]

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

• http://lwn.net/Calendar/Monthly/2009-04/
• http://events.linuxfoundation.org

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