FSOSS 2011/Meetings/2011-05-12
Contents
Proposed Schedule
Thu Oct 27
- Workshops
- Food
- Morning snack (workshop hallway)
- Afternoon snack (workshop hallway)
- (Speaker's dinner)
T2107 | T2108 | T2109 | T2110 |
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Beginner's Guide to Linux Kernel Programming | Mapping Digital Stories with Ushahidi | cell | cell |
Beginner's Guide to Linux Kernel Programming | cell | LPI Item Cleanup Workshop |
T2107 | T2108 | T2109 | T2110 |
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Popcorn Maker | Android Development - Web Service and Data Access | Five Secrets to Building Drupal Themes Faster | cell |
Popcorn Maker | Android Development - Web Service and Data Access | cell | cell |
Fri Oct 28
- Presentations
- Keynote
- Reception
- Exhibits
- Food
- Morning snack (break room)
- Lunch
- Afternoon snack (break room)
- Reception
S1206 | S2169 | S2160 | S2160 |
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Paladin: Open source gaming for the web | FreeNAS 8: Open Source Storage for the Enterprise | Writing, Debugging, and analyzing C/C++ Linux Aplications in Eclipse | Lecture Broadcast and Capture with BigBlueButton |
Building a Commercial Game Using Processing.js for Cross-platform Delivery | Un-bork your hardware: bake it! | Nostalgic About the Future: the challenges of open source entrepreneurship | |
Web Accessibiity Development Tools in Action | Beyond MAN Pages: 3 Things to Make your Open Source Project a User Favourtine | looking deep into the cloud with systemtap | XBMC: Turn your house into a media center with open source software |
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Drupal vs. Wordpress Smackdown | Free and Open Source Strategy as Practice: Participant Perspectives | Compaqrding Unity and Gnome 3 | |
Site Building Extravaganza | XB PointSteam: Rendering Point Clouds with WebGL | ||
Publish Your Own ebooks with FOSS Tools | Consumer, Creator, Cloud: The Future of Computing, and the Role of Open Source |
Sat Oct 29
- Presentations
- Unconference/barcamp
- Exhibits
- Food
- Morning snack (break room)
- Lunch
- Afternoon snack (break room)
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Ubuntu Canada: Communitizing the Community with Community Tools | Popcorn.js & Popcorn-Maker | Multilingual Sites and Translation Management in Drupal | cell |
FreeBSD Basics | Introduction to Mozilla's Add-on SDK | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware - Software the Wiki way | Introduction to the Google Android Platform |
Care | When you cannot be there... Remote access and collaboration | cell | Packaging made easy with Fedora Packager for Eclipse |
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LPI Certification Exam Session |
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) (DA)
- Jim Whitehurst (Red Hat) (CT)
- Alan Cox (Intel) (CT)
- Jon "Maddog" Hall (Linux International) (CT)
Action Points: May 12 meeting
- Sponsorship package update and distribution to team: chairs Done
- Distribute package to contacts: team Done
- Tracking: Tim & Sam Nothing to report at this time
- Sponsorship management: Tim Done
- Logo update: Chris Nothing to report at this time
- CFP: John Done
- Check on old computer drop-off point: Evan Done - will be confirmed/arranged closer to event
Action Points: June 23 meeting
- Distinguished speaker update - All Outstanding - need to make contact with more potential sponsors: ALL
- Where we stand with sponsorships - All
- Tim's update:
- - Mozilla have been contacted but issue with name provided as they are no longer with the company; may finally have correct contact
- - Microsoft contacted: no response
- - Seneca Professional Development contacted and want to set it up as a PD event
- - TUG have been contacted - meeting week of June 27th inviting them to attend and looking for sponsors
- - Suggested by John Selmys to go after private companies (e.g. Apotex). John S. to draft a personalized form letter for team to use to distribute to companies
- Review presentation/workshop submissions recieved to-date - MLM
- - No presenters/workshop sign up's so far. MLM change early bird date to be July 25. ALL need to communicate this please to your communities
- - MLM to contact all past presenters
- - Sam to contact past Linuxfest presenters
- Status of registration system - Danny/Rose
- - Two conference registration solutions identified. To be followed up within next couple of weeks.
- - Sam to provide other registration solution contacts.
- Facility Bookings - Rose
- - Rooms S1208, S1206, S1269, S2160, upper and lower kalidescope rooms (S2168, S1209) booked for Friday/Saturday and TEL labs (T2107, T2108, T2110, T2109) booked for Thursday for workshops. All Saturday bookings to be confirmed in September when Continuing Education schedule in place.
- - Rose to let facilities know event is scheduled
- - Suggested that vendors not be permitted at this time (concentrate on the various sponsorship levels instead)
- Swag suggestions - MLM/Rose
- - One suggested was for USBs. To be investigated and discussed at next meeting
- Any other business:
- - Posters: Done and copies made available at meeting. If you wish copies, contact Rose. Rose to contact York to have posters posted.
- - T-shirts: Michael Hoye contacted by Rose. Design should be ready in August (although before next meeting would be better)
- - Marketing/Advertising: All need to promote event (through copies of posters received)
Next Meeting: Wednesday, July 27th 6:00pm-9:00pm, same room
Action Points: August 24 meeting
Attendees: Sammy, Ushnish, John, Mary Lynn, Rose, Tim (via phone)
- Distinguished speaker update Nothing to report
- Update on sponsorship
- - Tim requested information to provide to sponsor: MLM to provide
- - Microsoft inquired about coordinating our event with the other events for open source week. John S to follow up with getting the opensource website updated with this years events.
- - Microsoft have asked to cross advertise our events (they have access to our attendee/presenter list and we there's. MLM indicated that in the spirit of opensource that our attendees/presenters may not appreciate being contacted directly by MS. Tim to let MS know.
- - Microsoft have requested putting their 'Make Web Not War' logo available on our site as advertisers (instead of MS logo). Approved.
- Review of presentation/workshop submissions
- - All presentations/workshops submitted by August 24th were reviewed. MLM to open up approvied ones. MLM and John following up on a few to request more information on their submission.
- t-shirt design. Not available for meeting. Will be available for the next meeting.
- Swag for attendees and speakers. Not done yet. MLM and Rose to look into this for next meeting.
- Registration
- - Set cost for early bird Seneca/non-Seneca attendees as well as late fee cost. Decided on the following: Early Bird cut off date will be October 8th. Before early bird: $20 for students and Seneca faculty; $40 for general admission. After early bird: $40 for students and Seneca faculty; $85 for general admission. Walk in price day-of event: $120. Issue still outstanding on how to handle those that are unable to afford to attend.
- - HST - build into fee cost or charge extra? HST will be included in the price but will be shown separately on the receipt confirmation.
- Any other business
- - 1 room still yet to be confirmed for Saturday. Will know once Con Ed courses have been confirmed.
- - new volunteer shirts to be made up (new colour!)
Next Meetings: Wednesday, September 14 and Wednesday, October 5
Action Points: September 14 meeting
Attendees:
- Distinguished speaker update
- Update on sponsorship
- - PVX Plus Technologies (Silver)
- Review of presentation/workshop submissions - preliminary schedule
- t-shirt design.
- Swag for attendees and speakers
- - Presenters (budget $25)
- - last year: water bottle/padfolio/business card holder/t-shirt
- - Attendees (budget $12)
- - last year: water bottle/t-shirt
- - Suggestions for this year:
- - Presenters (budget $25)
- - t-shirt
- - water bottle 28oz stainless steel (EPWB7331) $6.55 or 16 oz for $4.75 (EPWB7075)
- - carry bag $2.78 ea + $45 1-time art chrge) (EPNW4787) or ($3 ea + $45 1-time art chrge) (EPNW4057)
- - pen $.58 (EPG1192)
- - clipboard $7.95 (EP0550-02)
- - Attendees (budget $12)
- - t-shirt
- - water bottle (see above)
- - pen (see above)
- - carry bag (see above)
- Registration status
- - approximately 15 registrations received to-date
- - outstanding from August meeting: how to handle those that are unable to pay
- - AndroidTO coupon
- Volunteer Planning: http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Volunteer
- Any other business
- - SecTor
- - Unconference Responsibility