[Lumiera] Fw: [FrOSCon Alumni] Call for Papers/Projects FrOSCon 2014
Christian Thaeter
ct at pipapo.org
Tue Apr 29 14:34:49 CEST 2014
Beginn der weitergeleiteten Nachricht:
Datum: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 10:24:24 +0200
Von: Andreas Kupfer <kupfer at froscon.de>
An: alumni at lists.froscon.de
Betreff: [FrOSCon Alumni] Call for Papers/Projects FrOSCon 2014
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/en/cfp/ or refer to the text
below. Please feel free to forward this to anybody who might be
interested.
For the FrOSCon Orga team,
Andreas aka ScottyTM
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# Call for Papers FrOSCon 2014 #
The Free and Open Source software conference (FrOSCon), a summer
conference for users and developers of FOSS, will again be held on the
23th and 24th of August at the University of Applied Sciences
Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin near Bonn, Germany. It is organized by
the department of computer science in collaboration with the Linux/Unix
User Group Sankt Augustin, the student body and the FrOSCon e.V.
As its key feature, volunteer speakers will hold 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 sub conferences. It is topped off with a fair of booths
from FLOSS projects and companies.
# Topics #
We are looking for contributions on current trends and development in
all areas of Free and Open Source Software, e.g.:
- Operating systems
- Software development
- Administration
- IT security
- Legal aspects
- Desktop
- Education
Focus areas in 2014 are:
- "Encryption & Security" - Technical solutions for political problems
- "The state of the init"
- "Tuxracer's Need for Speed - Linux as a gaming platform"
- "Of Beagles and Berries - it's Open Source all the way down. How Open
Hardware Projects have gone mainstream"
Until May 23rd, 2014 developers and experts interested in giving a
lecture or workshop at the conference can submit their proposals. The
selection is done by a program committee early June.
# Submitting Contributions #
Registration and submission of contributions is accomplished via the
web-based frontend 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. To participate in the conference you will also
need to submit slides for your talk beforehand.
# Language #
Contributions can be submitted in German as well as English. The choice
of language should depend solely on which language is more suitable for
presenting the chosen topic. Language of the submitted texts and of the
talk should be the same.
# Length of the contributions #
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.
The talks should take no more than 45 minutes, in order to allow some
time for questions and for preparing the stage for the following
speaker.
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 web
frontend. We ask for submission of the slides in PDF; other open
document format such as OpenOffice should only be submitted after prior
consultation.
# Licenses #
We will publish abstract, description and slides on a website and
include the abstract in the conference program. We demand that you
place your contributions under the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Germany
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/de/) 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
and are limited by the number and quality of the submissions. 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.
# Accomodation #
There will be a contingent of rooms reserved for our speakers in a
nearby hotel. You will receive details on that after your submission
has been accepted.
# Social Event #
We are planning to hold a social event on the evening of the 23th and
kindly invite all speakers to attend.
# Important Dates and Contacts #
May 23rd, 2014 End of the Call for Papers. All contributions need to be
submitted by this date in order to qualify.
June 8th, 2014 Notification of acceptance of all contributions
June 20th, 2014 Final acceptance. We ask all invited speakers to give
their final acceptance by this date.
August 3rd, 2014 Last date for submitting slides
August 23th, 2014 First day of FrOSCon
Further information can be found on the web under
http://www.froscon.org.
Please send questions about the Call for Papers via email to:
program at froscon.org
Contact the organizers via email: contact at froscon.org
Postal address:
FrOSCon e.V.
c/o Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
53757 Sankt Augustin
Germany
# Kids Track / FrogLabs #
There will be a separate CfP for the Kids Track, because we invite kids
not only as participants this year, but also as instructors. So-called
“FrogLabs” address young Open Source fans with playful workshops about
the world of computer programming and Open Source software. We will soon
publish the Call for Papers for the Frog Labs on
http://kids.froscon.org/
--
FrOSCon 2014
August 23th - August 24th 2014, St. Augustin, Germany
http://www.froscon.org --- http://www.froscon.de
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