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Hi all,

we have complied a list of open source conferences, expos and other related events world wide. As we can't manage to present Joomla! on all of them we ask you for some feedback about those events.

The detailed confirmed list of events can be found in our events calendar at: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?sr ... joomla.org

May be you can tell us something about one of those events and with that help us to more easily understand if we should go there or not. Also if you would be able to support us on the booth of one of those events it would be great to hear for you.

Please do not hesistate to suggest any other Expo, Fair, Congresss you think we should consider.

• an 11-12  Foundations of Open Media Software  Sydney  Australia 
• Jan 15-16  Debian Miniconf  Sydney  Australia 
• Jan 15-20  Linux Conference Australia  Sydney  Australia 
• Jan 24-26  Open Source meets Business  Nuremberg  Germany  (http://www.heise.de/veranstaltungen/2007/ho_osb/)
• Jan 30-Feb 1  Solutions LinuParis  France 
• Jan 31-Feb 2  Linuxdays  Luxembourg  Luxembourg 
• Feb 10-11  Southern California Linux Expo  Los Angeles  U.S.A.  (http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/)
• Feb 12-13  Linux Storage & Filesystem Workshop  San Jose  U.S.A. 
• Feb 13-16  USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies  San Jose  U.S.A. 
• Feb 14-15  LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit  New York  U.S.A.
• Feb 20-22  Open Source Developers' Conference  Netanya  Israel 
• Feb 23-25  Python Conference  Addison  U.S.A. 
• Feb 24-25  Free & Open Source software developer's European Meeting  Brussels  Belgium (http://www.fosdem.org) 
• Feb 27-Mar 1  Emerging Telephony  San Francisco  U.S.A. 
• Feb 27-Mar 2  GUUG-Frühjahrsfachgespräch  Berlin  Germany 
• Feb 27-Mar 2  OpenSolaris Developer Conference  Berlin  Germany 
• Feb 28-Mar 2  Network & Distributed System Security Symposium  San Diego  U.S.A. 
• Mar 2-3  Linuxforum  København  Denmark 
• Mar 3-4  Chemnitzer Linux-Tage  Chemnitz  Germany 
• Mar 12-16  Security Enhanced Linux Symposium  Baltimore  U.S.A. 
• Mar 14-15  Oldenburger Linux-Informationstage  Oldenburg  Germany 
• Mar 15-21  CeBIT  Hannover  Germany (very big end user fair, no idea of it really makes sense - feedback please) 
• Mar 19-21  UKUUG Spring Conference  Manchester  U.K. 
• Mar 22-24  Linux Audio Conference  Berlin  Germany 
• Mar 30-31  Computer Human Interaction for Management of IT  Cambridge  U.S.A. 
• Apr 10  International Workshop on Networking Meets Databases  Cambridge  U.S.A. 
• Apr 10  Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning Techniques  Cambridge  U.S.A. 
• Apr 10  Workshop on Hot Topics in Understanding Botnets  Cambridge  U.S.A. 
• Apr 11-13  Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation  Cambridge  U.S.A. 
• Apr 12-14  Fórum Internacional Software Livre  Porto Alegre  Brazil 
• Apr 17-19  Embedded Linux Conference  Santa Clara  U.S.A. 
• Apr 23-26  MySQL Users Conference  Santa Clara  U.S.A. (confirmed: Joomla! will be there) 
• May 7-9  Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems  San Diego  U.S.A. 
• May 10  NLUUG Spring Conference  Ede  Netherlands 
• May 30- Jun 02  LinuxTag 2007, (Berlin Germany, Call for paper open now!)
• Jun 10-15  Debian Camp  Edinburgh  U.K. 
• Jun 17-23  Debian Conference  Edinburgh  U.K. 
• Jun 24-28  Jazoon  Zürich  Switzerland 
• Jun 30-Jul 7  Akademy  Glasgow  U.K. 
• Jul 29-Aug 4  The outdoor Networking Event  Elburg  Netherlands 
• Aug 6-10  USENIX Security Symposium  Boston  U.S.A. 
• Oct 22-26  Systems IT.Media.Communications fair, Munich Germany (http://www.systems.de)
  (Quite successful for Joomla! in 2006, might be worth considering it again)
• 24TH -25TH October linuxworld london
• Dec 11-16  Large Installation System Administration Conference  Dallas  U.S.A.

Feb 14-15   LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit   New York   U.S.A. 

this is not the same as the boston event last year. it is the second time the summit has been held and iirc does NOT have exhibition space.

24TH -25TH October linuxworld london

Yea LinuxWorld London is already pretty much standard for us - that's definitly a must go

Hi all,

just a note:

Anyone can represent Joomla! on one of the mentioned events with prior approval from the team!

We will try to make it possible that someone from the working groups or the core team will join the event as well, but that is something we can not garantuee.

Alex

Hey guys,

We're planning on setting up a Joomla booth at the Non-Profit Technology Conference in Washington DC on April 4-6, 2007.

http://www.nten.org/ntc

Best,
Ryan

I should have checked this first.

Hi Ryan,

can you get in contact with them, may be we can do a speach or have even a chance to get a free of cost booth on the show.

Thx

Alex

There was a booth at LinuxWorld Toronto last year...  is that a no go for this year?  It is April 30 - May 2, 2007.  I would be willing to be at the booth at least one day, possibly more...  any other Toronto area Joomla-ites?

Ian

Educause 2007 will be held in Seattle October 23 - 26, 2007 < http://www.educause.edu/e07 >

This is the largest annual event for Institutions of Higher Education in the US attended by the IT and academic/IT decision makers.

It might be worthwhile for a couple of the Universities to work together on a presentation proposal. I will talk to my CIO and see what he wants to do, but typically collaborative presentations tend to be better candidates. We will likely submit.

Deadlines for presenters are advancing:

- Pre-conference half and full day seminars are due January 16, 2007.  ($1,000 honorarium for the half day and $1,500 for the full day; http://www.educause.edu/11216)

- Proposals for presentations (lecture/demo), and poster presentations - are due February 6th. (http://www.educause.edu/11216)

- The exhibit halls are open 2 1/2 days; booths run $3,200 for Educause members and $5,250 for non members; I have no idea if they have a non profit/open source ".org" price or if my institution *could* cover it. I am also uncertain when registration must be submitted. Let me know if you are interested, and I will dig further. If you want to review the demographic information for event participants and learn more about the exhibit hall (http://www.educause.edu/e06/CorporateParticipation/9186 )

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One comment: the conference choices tend to reflect the core team demographics (i.e., heavy duty Linux, MySQL, Python, Networking, etc.). These conferences seen appropriate for really geeky technical people who hand carve operating systems for fun to attend. It seems to me that our target audience might lean more to the end user or influential decision maker types who attend  application or vertical market seminars. Business and education and non-profit people who need easy to use technology and tremble when they see the letter X. 

AmyStephen wrote:- The exhibit halls are open 2 1/2 days; booths run $3,200 for Educause members and $5,250 for non members; I have no idea if they have a non profit/open source ".org" price or if my institution *could* cover it. I am also uncertain when registration must be submitted. Let me know if you are interested, and I will dig further. If you want to review the demographic information for event participants and learn more about the exhibit hall (http://www.educause.edu/e06/CorporateParticipation/9186 )
the letter X. 

hmmm...  didn't realize you had been institutionalized, Amy!

Ian

No, I *should* be institutionalized.  (I mean if my university technically can do this.)

One comment: the conference choices tend to reflect the core team demographics (i.e., heavy duty Linux, MySQL, Python, Networking, etc.). These conferences seen appropriate for really geeky technical people who hand carve operating systems for fun to attend. It seems to me that our target audience might lean more to the end user or influential decision maker types who attend  application or vertical market seminars. Business and education and non-profit people who need easy to use technology and tremble when they see the letter X

They are bot so much choices as suggestions and are typicaly exhibitions and conferences that are Open Source friendly and appreciate that a project like Joomla doesn havd $10000 to spend on a booth. But feel free to suggest others. We cant know everythingl

brian wrote:They are bot so much choices as suggestions and are typicaly exhibitions and conferences that are Open Source friendly and appreciate that a project like Joomla doesn havd $10000 to spend on a booth.

Those are interesting comments, Brian. It gives me an understanding of why those conferences have been selected.

I wonder if we are ready to "cross over" now into areas where open source is absolutely ready to catch fire. Higher education is very open source friendly and ripe - ready to go. If you check those links, you will find entire conference tracks call for seminars and poster presentations specifically on "Community and open source solutions." There is not a CIO at a major institution who isn't scrambling to figure out how to build a software portfolio with the right mix of open source solutions. 

Over the past 15 years as I have worked at a University, one common theme I have noticed with software vendors is the desire to get their product into a university setting for a very interesting reason. They want faculty to bump into it, start playing with it and begin teaching it to an army of new software engineers heading into the work force.

In terms of growth potential, higher ed is huge.

There are many universities, colleges and community colleges who use Joomla!. If the core team is interested in this, there are many ways to go with this and many institutions who would also willingly submit proposals on Joomla!'s behalf. Time is running short, so, if Joomla! core is interested, the decision should be made quickly. Proposal have to be written and others within the institution have to be consulted. Funding issues can be pursued, but time must be provided to work those details out.

But, universities are, indeed, "open source friendly", and Educause is, indeed, the place to be if you are interested in higher ed in the US.

Amy

Together with other Open Source projects and groups in the UK we have in the past years tried to get free exhibition pspace at BETT the UK Education show but sadly with little success. ;(

brian wrote:Together with other Open Source projects and groups in the UK we have in the past years tried to get free exhibition pspace at BETT the UK Education show but sadly with little success. ;(

Yes, I agree. The higher ed conferences have not yet figured out the .ORG expo concept. It is a bit tough competing with CA and SAP and IBM and MS.

In part, that is why a bit of advance notice of interest would be helpful. If a few of us within different institutions knew J! core team was wanting to do this, we could collaborate and take a proposal to see if we can get agreement to split the lower $3,200 cost and co-lead the expo. It's not always companies, some universities have booths, as well. We just need the go ahead from the core that it is desired then look into it. (In fact, we could do it on our own for that matter.)

We can also all submit presentations on our own, but the expo would be a powerful tool. On the Educause web lists, as you might imagine, Joomla! is raised - there is growing awareness and interest. A seminar, presentation and expo spot would be powerful.

For what it's worth - can't do it all, of course! Thanks for your comments, Brian. I know you have always paid attention to higher ed, no doubt seeing potential in that space as well.

the best route to take at those sort of events is to submit papers etc.

The links I shared provide the forms to be filled out depending on the type(s) of approaches used. They have specific requirements, etc., that we would follow. Just have to decide, then we'll get it done.

There was a booth at LinuxWorld Toronto last year...  is that a no go for this year?  It is April 30 - May 2, 2007.  I would be willing to be at the booth at least one day, possibly more...  any other Toronto area Joomla-ites?

Ian

No-go?!?

No definitly it is a go for Toronto. I'm pretty sure Michelle will be very happy to have your support. She already told me that she want's to go there again.

- Thx for the offer

Alex

It looks like you are doing LinuxWorld's.  How about San Francisco?  Aug 6-9.  Call for papers on now.

http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/

Alvin

Lévis and I met Ian last year at the Linux World Expo in Toronto, so it would be great if Ian wanted to help us at the booth.

Michelle

alvinwang wrote:It looks like you are doing LinuxWorld's.  How about San Francisco?  Aug 6-9.  Call for papers on now.

http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/

Alvin

Hi Alvin,

we had been on the SF Expo last year (http://www.joomla.org/content/view/1735/37/) and we are planing to go there again. I told the team about the call for papers. Need to check how can make this.

Thx for the note

Alex

PS: Any other call for papers is very welcome, this is definitly one of the best ways to present Joomla! during a conference

Thanks for clearing that up...  just didn't see it on the list you posted, is all...  looking forward to LWTO!

@Michelle - let me know if there is anything I can do to help!

Ian

akede wrote:

There was a booth at LinuxWorld Toronto last year...  is that a no go for this year?  It is April 30 - May 2, 2007.  I would be willing to be at the booth at least one day, possibly more...  any other Toronto area Joomla-ites?

Ian

No-go?!?

No definitly it is a go for Toronto. I'm pretty sure Michelle will be very happy to have your support. She already told me that she want's to go there again.

- Thx for the offer

Alex

Found a few more to consider

fisl 8.0 Porto Alegre, Brazil 12.04.2007
14.04.2007
http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/

Web 2.0 Expo 2007 San Francisco, CA, USA 15.04.2007
18.04.2007
http://www.web2expo.com

Open Source Business Conference San Francisco, CA, USA 22.05.2007
23.05.2007
http://osbc.com

Ian, please contact in the beginning of the new year, let's say mid January.  I have some ideas about how we can promote this even on a larger scale, but I would love to work with you on this.  Of course, I would love to hear your ideas. 

Hi,
LinuxAsia 2007. New Delhi, India.
http://www.linuxasia.net/la07/index.php
I have my friend as one of the coordinators. I am planning to visit this event.
What do you guys say?
History: http://www.linuxasia.net/la07/history.php
Web site: Linux Asia 2006, February 8-10, 2006, New Delhi http://www.linuxasia.net/index.php

Web site: Linux Asia 2004, February 11-13, 2004, New Delhi http://www.technetra.com/linuxasia2004

The event dates are: January 31st 2007 to February 2nd 2007
BTW

Ok so far I will try to complie the complete list.

Next is that we need to define on which of those events we are really going - as all is most likely not possible. Anybody putting his hands up for taking over the responsibility to one of those events?

Alex

shouldn't the core first try to see which events have free space etc first. [no point getting people to plan attendance at an event if we can't get space]

I will talk and find out. Linux Asia I can take charge..
In fact my friend called me few minutes ago to inquire how many passes I need.
I will talk back and update you guys..,

I just found out the stall rates..
INR 10000 per Sq Mtrs. (1 USD = 44.5 INR)
And my friend suggested a minimum of 3X2 = 6 Sq. Mtr Space.
How do we go about it?