FSOSS 2011/Meetings/2011-05-12

Proposed Schedule

Thu Oct 27

• Workshops

• Food

• • Morning snack (workshop hallway)

• • Afternoon snack (workshop hallway)

• • (Speaker's dinner)

Fri Oct 28

• Presentations

• Keynote

• Reception

• Exhibits

• Food

• • Morning snack (break room)

• • Lunch

• • Afternoon snack (break room)

• • Reception

Sat Oct 29

• Presentations

• Unconference/barcamp

• Exhibits

• Food

• • Morning snack (break room)

• • Lunch

• • Afternoon snack (break room)

Event Name

• Long form:

10th Free Software and Open Source Symposium
and Toronto LinuxFest 2011

• Short form:

FSOSS/LinuxFest 2011

Sponsorship

• See sponsorship document from previous years (foundation for this year)

• Exhibit option

• • 6' table (or equivalent space)

• • 5A 120V power

• • 2 chairs

Community Groups

• $75

• Includes 2 passes

• Half-table in the community literature hall

Sponsorship Levels

• See sponsorship spreadsheet

Presentation and Workshop Proposals

• Update CFP wording

• Friday - Technical Focus

• • 4 tracks x 6 slots

• Saturday - User Focus

• • 4 tracks x ? slots

CFP

Open to any and all topics related to open source!

This year, we particularly welcome talks on open source :

• Cloud & Virtualization

• Mobile

• Open Source Business Models and Commercialization

• Open Hardware

• Green IT

Talks can be targeted at any audience level from neophyte to expert.

First round of submissions closes June 30.

Keynote Possibilities

• Linus Torvalds (Linux) ***

• Mark Surman (Mozilla) (CT)

• Mark Shuttleworth (Canonical) (CT)

• Shawn Powers (Linux Journal) (DA)

• Andrew Morton (Linux) (CT)

• Larry Wall (Perl) ***

• Eben Moglen (SFLC) ***

• Michael Geist (UofO) (CT)

• Michael Shaver (Mozilla) (CT)

• Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media) (CT)

• Evan Prodromou (identi.ca) ***

• Jim Whitehurst (Red Hat) (CT)

• Alan Cox (Intel) (CT)

• Jon "Maddog" Hall (Linux International) (CT)

Action Points

• Sponsorship package update and distribution to team: chairs

• Distribute package to contacts: team

• Tracking: Tim & Sam

• Sponsorship management: Tim

• Logo update: Chris

• CFP: John