Dear fellow ambassadors,
The fourth annual conference BalCCon2k16 is getting near. The conference will be held in
Novi Sad, Serbia from 9th to 11th September.
Balkan Computer Congress (BalCCon) is an annual three days gathering of the international
hacker community in the organization of LUGoNS – Linux Users Group of Novi Sad and Wau
Holland foundation from Hamburg. The first part of the program has been envisaged to be a
set of presentations, workshops and lectures on the current topics regarding privacy,
technology, software development, free software & socio-political issues. Hands-on
projects and hacking have been planned for the second part of the program.
Please submit your papers in time! The paper submission deadline is July 1st 2016. You can
find more information about the event on the following wiki page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BalCCon_2k16
and on the event website (call for papers page):
https://2k16.balccon.org/index.php?title=CfP_BalCCon2k16
It is important to note that the accepted papers speakers will have accommodation and
travel cost covered by the organizers. The topics for the papers are very broad: hardware
hacking, software development, security, privacy etc. You can find more detailed info on
the call for papers link.
You can find the presentations from last year here, on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoHypmu8rxlB5Axh5JxFZsA/videos
to get a feel what it's like on the event.
Fedora will be having a booth on the event and at least two ambassadors will be there:
Momcilo Medic (FAS:FedoraUser) and Nemanja Milosevic (FAS:nmilosev). We will be able to
help with your travel plans, accommodation plans etc. Momcilo wrote a very nice blog post
about last year event which you can find here:
http://medic.rs/?p=24
Please contact me or Momcilo if you need any further details and submit your papers before
the deadline (July 1st 2016).
Cheers!