Oh! AI & Machine Learning, those are topics I find particularly
interesting. Thanks for the heads up!
On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 12:59 +0200, Christian Dersch wrote:
Hi Ambassadors,
FrOSCon is a nice FOSS event here in Germany, yesterday they sent
me
the information about FrOSCon 2017. Registration for projects is
open until May 23. I don't know yet if I can participate this
year,
but I'll also ask other local ambassadors. I'm forwarding the
mail
from FrOSCon here.
Greetings,
Christian
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:
[FrOSCon Alumni] Call for Papers/Projects FrOSCon 2017
Date:
Tue, 11 Apr 2017 20:09:53 +0200
From:
Andreas Kupfer <kupfer(a)froscon.de>
Reply-To:
programm(a)froscon.de
Organization:
FrOSCon e.V. <
http://www.froscon.de>
To:
alumni(a)lists.froscon.de
Hello,
you are receiving this mail because you have previously been involved
with
making FrOSCon a successful Free and Open Source Software event.
If you would like to help us out again: We have started this year's
Call
for Papers/Projects. See our website for details:
https://www.froscon.de/cfp/ or refer to the texts
below. Please feel free to forward this to anybody who might be
interested.
For the FrOSCon Orga team,
Andreas aka ScottyTM
##################################
# Call for Papers FrOSCon 2017 #
The Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon), an annual
summer
conference for users and developers of FOSS, will be held on the
August 19-20 at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
in
Sankt Augustin near Bonn, Germany. It is organized by the
University's
Department of Computer Science in collaboration with the student body
and
the FrOSCon e.V.
As its key feature, volunteer speakers will deliver a comprehensive
range
of talks and workshops. Additionally, the event offers space and
facilities to Free Software developers and projects to organize their
own
meetings or subconferences. The event also hosts an exhibit hall with
booths from both FLOSS projects and companies.
# Topics #
We are looking for contributed papers on current trends and
developments
in all areas of Free and Open Source Software, e.g.:
- Operating systems
- Software development
- Administration
- IT security
- Legal aspects
- Desktop
- Education
- GIS
Focus areas in 2017 are:
- "Cooexisting with Bots" - Why can't we be friends?
- "The Rise of Machine Learning" - You Only Learn Once
- "Persistent Migration" - The changing pace of software in the Open
Source landscape
- "The days of plenty are over" - Software Design Patterns in 2017
# OSGeo & OSM Subconference #
For the first time at FrOSCon, there will be a subconference for free
geodata & geosoftware. FOSSGIS e.V. (
http://fossgis.de) is organizing
this
sidebar event and they are looking for contributions on
OpenStreetMap,
free geodata, free GIS software & more. They welcome submissions of
both
shorter talks (20 min) and longer presentations (45 min).
# Submitting Contributions #
To submit a paper, create an account and submit your contribution at
http://cfp.froscon.org/. To participate in the Call for Papers, you
will
have to submit a short abstract as well as a detailed description of
your
proposed session.
All accepted speakers must submit slides for their talk before the
event.
The call for papers is open through May 23, 2017. The program
committee
meets to review proposals in early June. We will do our best to
notify
submitters whether their proposals were accepted within a week or
two.
# Language #
Talks can be held in German or in English. The choice of
language should depend solely on which language is more suitable for
presenting the chosen topic. Language of submitted texts and the
resulting
talk should be the same.
# Length of the Submissions #
The abstract should summarize the planned content of the talk in a
precise
and succinct way. We do not place a limit on its length.
Talks should take no more than 45 minutes, in order to allow some
time
for Q&A and speaker transition.
We can accept longer contributions in special cases; we ask for a
justification for the longer extent in this case.
# Format #
Abstract and description have to be submitted as plain text via the
http://cfp.froscon.de. We ask for submission of the slides in PDF
format;
other open document formats such as OpenOffice should only be
submitted
after prior consultation.
# Licenses #
We will publish abstract, description, slides and a video of your
presentation online and include the abstract in the conference
program. We
require that you place your contributions under the Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International
(
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ) license (or a more
lenient
license).
Unless another license is noted, we will assume that your
contribution is
under this license. If you want to place your works under a less
restrictive license, please note so with your submission.
# Selection of Contributions #
Contributions are selected based on their content by a program
committee.
Please understand that we cannot accept all contributions. We will
favor
submissions which fall under one of the aforementioned topics.
# Other Remuneration #
FrOSCon is organized by volunteers and is mostly funded by sponsors.
We
ask you to understand that we will not be able to reimburse you for
your
expenses. In special cases, we might be able to help you with your
travel
expenses and we continue to seek sponsors to cover this cost. Please
get
in touch with us if you have a special case or if your company would
like
to sponsor speaker travel.
# Accommodation #
There will be a room block reserved for our speakers in a hotel
nearby the
conference venue. You will receive details on the room block after
your
submission has been accepted.
# Social Event #
We are planning to hold a social event on the evening of the 19th and
kindly invite all speakers to attend.
# Important Dates and Contact Information #
May 23, 2017 End of the Call for Papers. All contributions need to be
submitted by this date in order to qualify.
June 6, 2017 Notification of acceptance of all contributions .
June 19, 2017 Final acceptance. We ask all invited speakers to give
their final confirmation by this date.
August 1, 2017 Last date for submitting slides.
August 19, 2017 First day of FrOSCon.
Further information can be found on the website under
http://www.froscon.org.
Please send questions about the Call for Papers via email to:
program(a)froscon.org
Contact the organizers via email: contact(a)froscon.org
Postal address:
FrOSCon e.V.
c/o Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
53757 Sankt Augustin
Germany
##########################################
# FrOSCon 2017 Call for Projects #
Hereby, we invite you to participate in the twelfth Free and Open
Source
Software Conference (FrOSCon 2017).
FrOSCon is a two-day conference on Free Software and Open Source. It
takes
place on August 19th/20th, 2017 at the University of Applied Sciences
Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, in St. Augustin near Bonn, Germany.
The main part of the conference is a comprehensive range of talks and
workshops. Furthermore, there is a large exhibition area, where
projects
have the opportunity to present themselves and get in touch with
users and
developers. Moreover, we offer a few rooms for Free Software projects
to
organize developer meetings or to present their own program for the
visitors of the conference.
We would be pleased if your project would like to contribute to this
year's FrOSCon and thus support the communication and exchange within
the
Open Source and Free Software community. Depending on the kind of
your
participation, there is different information available to you.
# Booth #
To sign up for a booth, please visit
https://callforprojects.froscon.
de
and register your project. Please feel free to contact us for any
questions at exhibitors(a)froscon.org. The registration for booths will
be
open until May 23rd.
# Developer Room #
If your project wants to sign up for a developer room, please visit
https://callforprojects.froscon.de, register your project and submit
a
proposal. The proposal should contain a short summary (1-2
paragraphs) of
what you plan to do and special requirements. Since the demand for
developer rooms usually exceeds the number of rooms we can offer, we
will
choose the projects which look the most promising to us based on the
submitted proposals. If you have questions concerning the developer
rooms,
feel free to contact projects(a)froscon.org. The deadline for the
submission
of developer room proposals is also May 23rd.
# Talk or Workshop #
Additionally our Call for Papers has started. We are looking forward
to
your submissions of talks and workshops. You can register via
http://cfp.froscon.org/. For further information concerning the Call
for
Papers take a look at
http://www.froscon.de/cfp/. The Call for Papers
will end on May 23rd, too.
# Important Dates #
May 23, 2017 End of Call for Projects. After this deadline your
project
can only be accepted if there is still enough space on the conference
and
enough time to organize your participation.
June 15th, 2017 Notification if we accepted your project for a booth
and/or developer room
August 19th, 2017 First day of FrOSCon
We hope to meet you at FrOSCon in St. Augustin.
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