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
- Check on old computer drop-off point: Evan