Oh man, thats just capital. Thanks! sri
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:41:24AM -1200, Glynn Foster wrote: > Heya, > > > > There was some discussion of this last year :) > > > > Yeah, I remembered we had it, but wasn't sure where it went. Did we > > get a wiki page up? My thinking is that we could have a general list > > of conferences that happen every year, and then a list (either same > > place or separate) listing what the date of the next known one is, > > whether or not we've contacted the organizer, what speakers we have > > there, etc., etc. > > Okay, found a mail that might help that was in my board-list archives. > Here's a cut and paste of the mail from Malcolm - > > Glynn > > > ======================================================= > This involves a number of steps and I have made a start on a couple of > these: > > (1) Knowing which conferences are coming up in each area of the world > and when their paper submission dates are. > > - attached to this mail is the start of such a list (ordered by > conference date. I need to make a similar list ordered by > submission date). Naturally, as you can see, a number of > submission dates have already passed by. In such cases, I have > listed if there are any GNOME related talks being given. > > - I have concentrated on desktop-, consumer- and > developer-related conferences. There are other conferences at > which GNOME talks have been given (e.g. Daniel Veillard's > presentation at XML Europe last year) but which are more of a > niche market and which require particular speakers to give > effective talks. > > - This list is far from complete. Can people send me any other > conferences they know about (including submission deadlines > and/or a website so I can scrounge out the info and monitor > things). In particular, I have nothing for any South American > countries and nothing for Spain, although both areas had > conferences last year, if I recall correctly. I suspect there > are a couple of British (particularly London-based) conferences > that I have missed. I am also not going to be surprised if I > have missed a number of significant European and North American > summer conferences. > > - In 2004, we need to also be looking at 2005 conferences. > Submission deadlines are months in advance of the conference, so > by around mid-2004 we (the entire GNOME community) are going to > have to have got our act together for conferences in the first > couple of months of 2005. > > (2) Contacting GNOME volunteers and user groups in the appropriate areas > to see if they can help out with demonstration stands and giving talks, > etc. > > (3) Preparing a kit to help kickstart such demonstrations. > - There have been posts to various mailing lists over the past > few years about what people have learnt when helping out at a > GNOME stand at conferences. I am trying to track down all of > those. > > - We need to have something like a HOWTO available for people > who want to do this kind of stuff. Possible also a HOWTO for > somebody wanting to give a talk about GNOME to the general > population. Sometimes it is just a matter of giving people ideas > of what they can talk about and convincing them that it is not > such a big job, since the people they are talking to may know > very little about GNOME. > > (4) Complete this list. Currently it only contains three significant > points. There are probably more. > > See attached - > 2004 > ====== > January: > 12 - 17: linux.conf.au > - http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ (or http://linux.conf.au/) > - Adelaide, Australia > - much GNOME (and peripherally related) involvement: James > Henstridge, Malcolm Tredinnick, Jeff Waugh, Havoc > Pennington, Keith Packard, Glynn Foster spread between the > main conference and a couple of the preceding > mini-conferences. > > 20 - 23: LinuxWorld Conference & Expo > - New York, USA > > February: > 3 - 5: Linux Solutions > - Paris, France > - http://www.solutionslinux.fr/en/index.php > - costs â for exhibition space. > > 9 - 12: O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference > - San Diego, USA > - http://conferences.oreillynet.com/etech/ > - too late for this year. Keep in mind for 2005 conference. > > 11 - 13: Linux Asia > - New Delhi, India > - http://www.linuxasia2004.com/ > - speaker registration closes Jan 22, 2004 (?? - maybe). > > 21 - 22: FOSDEM > - Brussels, Belgium > - http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/ > - Bill Haneman speaking about GOK, Robert Love speaking about > Kernel and Desktop. > > March: > 8 - 10: Asia Open Source Software Symposium > - Hanoi, Vietname > - http://www.asia-oss.org/ > > 17 - 19: Open Standards/Open Source for National and Local eGovernment > Programs in the U.S. and EU > - Washington DC, USA > - http://www.egovos.org/ > - Bill Haneman et al speaking about accessibility, Leila > Chucri talking about the Sun desktop, Nat Friedman on the > Enterprise Linux Desktop > ???????: California State University, Northridge Conference on > Technology and Disabilities (CSUN) > > April: > 13 - 15: Real World Linux > - Toronto, Canada > - http://www.realworldlinux.com/ > - submission date for 2004 is past (was 15 Nov 2003). > - Desktop usage is one area they look at. Audience is > management and senior technology professionals. > > June: > 2 - 4: LinuxWorld Conference & Expo > - Tokyo, Japan > - http://www.idg.co.jp/expo/lw/eng/index.html > > 7 - 9: EuroPython > - GÃteborg, Sweden. > - http://www.europython.org/ > - Talk submission deadline currently unclear > > 28 - 30: GVADEC > - Kristiansand, Norway > - http://2004.guadec.org/ > - talks due by Feb 1, 2004. > > 27 - 02 (Jul): Freenix and UseLinux conferences > - Boston, USA > - http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/ > - paper submissions deadlines have passed (was 16 Dec 2003). > > July: > 21 - 24: Ottawa Linux Symposium > - http://www.linuxsymposium.org > - Ottawa, Canada > - last year, GNOME-related talks from Luis, Jody, Nat, > Havoc and Jim (Freedesktop BOF). > - abstracts due sometime in January 2004. > > 26 - 30: O'Reilly Open Source Convention > - http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2004/create/e_sess > - proposals due Feb 9, 2004 > - Edd Dumbill has a list of ideas for presentations at > http://usefulinc.com/edd/blog/contents/2003/12/19-oscon/read > > ???: UKUUG Summer Conference > - Leeds (?) > - http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2004/ > - abstracts due 12 March 2004 > > August: > 2 - 5: Linux World San Francisco > > 24 - 26: Linux World Beijing > > 29 - 3 (Sep): Australian Unix Users Group (AUUG) Annual Conference > - Melbourne, Australia > - http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/auug2004/ > - abstracts for tutorials and main conference due 7 May 2004. > > October: > 25 - 27: Linux World Germany > > 2005 > ===== > January: > - linux.conf.au > - ???, Australia > > Unknown > ========= > Bangalore conference repeat (from December 2003) > > LinuxWorld Conference & Expo > - Hong Kong > - dates and details unknown (was in November in 2003) > > LinuxTag > - In 2003, was held in Karlsruhe, Germany from 10 - 13 July. -- -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
