Fwd: FrOSCamp 2010 Zurich Announcement / Ankündigung [origin: contact@froscamp.org]

From: Axel Beckert <abe_at_deuxchevaux.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:43:28 +0100

Hi,

[http://www.froscamp.org/, FLOSS event at ETH Zurich, CH, 17/18 Sep 2010]

thought this may be interesting for both Debian(.ch) as organisation
as well as for the Debian community in Switzerland.

I'm quite sure, I'll be there. (Hey, I work at the venue. :-) If we
want to have a Debian booth, I'm sure, I can help there, maybe even
organize it. (Depends a little bit on other local projects I'm
involved in, if they're doing a booth or not. :-)

                Regards, Axel

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attached mail follows:


(Deutsch weiter unten / German below)

Dear friends of freedom,

The time has come to announce yet another event focusing on free and
open source and on free contents. As you might be aware of the
OpenExpo used to take place twice a year, once during spring time in
Bern and once in autumn in Zurich/Winterthur but the latter was now
cancelled. To fill this gap we started to organize a new (even better)
event, the FrOSCamp. While this is the first time it's being organized
we hope for your support to quickly make this the #1 event in
Switzerland and southern Germany and one of the biggest and most
important events in all of Europe in the future.

So here's the important facts and you'll quickly noticed we try to
combine the best parts of many existing event (while trying to leave
away the not-so-good parts). The first annual FrOSCamp will happen on
Friday and Saturday, 17/18 September 2010 in the city of Zurich on the
premises of the ETH Zurich. There will be an exhibition similar to
past OpenExpo events, talks for developers and administrators similar
to FOSDEM, talks for end-users and work-shops for varios audiences
similar to LinuxTag and hackfests similar to any of these
project-specific developer conferences. We'd also like to enable
projects to hold their annual users/developers/whatever meetings as
some sort of side-event. What we won't allow is commercial exhibitors
of any kind (no worries, projects are allowed to sell their shirts and
stuff). So instead of '.org meets .com' it's more some sort of 'MIT
meets ASL meetings GPL meets CC...and so on'.

Of course there will also be a social event but instead of geeks
sitting (or standing) around with a beer in their hand we will have
party with live music from creative commons friendly bands. And the
beer won't be just any random brand but locally brewed Free Beer with
its recipe available under CC-BY-SA. We're also trying to get a
sponsor to make the beer free (as in beer) and not "only" free (as in
freedom).

So if you're interested in actively participating at this event make
sure to answer the calls for projects/papers on our website [1]. We're
also looking forward to local people to answer the call for volunteers
as volunteers are important to any non-commercial event to become a
huge success. We also have some mailing lists for further
communication and discussion and you're free to subscribe yourself to
any of them [2]. If you have anything to tell or ask us that you can't
find on the website and that doesn't fit onto any of the mailing lists
feel free to drop us a line [3], particularly potential sponsors are
very welcome to do so!

Don't forget to tell people around you about our event! Forward them
this message, point them to our website or join our events and groups
on those well-known social networking platforms [4].

Last but not least let me mention #FrOSCamp on Freenode
(irc.freenode.net) which is open for your questions, remarks or if you
simply need another channel to idle in.

Free Regards,

The FrOSCamp Organizational Team

PS. This is the first and last time we send you a message directly. In
the future we'll only communicate through the mentioned channels.

[1] http://froscamp.org/
[2] http://lists.froscamp.org/
[3] mailto:contact_at_froscamp.org
[4] http://wiki.froscamp.org/Social_Networking

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Hallo Freiheitsliebende,
In der Schweiz fanden bis dato zwei mal jährlich unter dem Namen
'OpenExpo' Veranstaltungen zum Thema Open Source Software statt.
Leider wollen die Initiatoren die zweite Messe im Raum Zürich in
diesem Jahr nicht mehr durchfuehren.
Um diese Lücke zu schliessen, haben wir uns entschlossen ein neues
(und besseres) Event Rund um Open Source und Free Content zu
veranstalten: das FrOSCamp.
Ziel ist es die Vorzüge bereits bestehender, internationaler Events
wie der FOSDEM oder dem LinuxTag zu kombinieren um es zur besten
Veranstaltung in der Region Schweiz und Süddeutschland zu machen.
Das erste FrOSCamp findet am Freitag den 17 und Samstag den 18
September 2010 in Gebäuden der ETH Zürich statt. Es wird eine Messe,
Vorträge für Entwickler und Administratoren, Workshops und Vorträge
für Endanwender sowie einige Hackfests geben.
Projekte erhalten ausserdem die Möglichkeit ihre regelmässigen
Entwickler- oder Anwendertreffen als Side-Event zu veranstalten.
Kommerzielle Aussteller wird es auf der FrOSCamp nicht geben (Keine
Angst, Projekte dürfen natürlich T-Shirts und anderen Swag verkaufen).
Es steht Firmen aber offen Projektstände zu betreiben, ohne allerdings
Ihr Unternehmen zu bewerben.
Am Freitag Abend wird ein 'Social Event' mit Creative Commens
lizenzierter Live Musik stattfinden. Anstatt irgend einer beliebigen
Biersorte wird dort 'Free Beer' ausgeschenkt das nach einem unter der
CC-BY-SA Lizenz stehenden Rezept gebraut wird.
Wenn du also aktiv am FrOSCamp teilnehmen möchtest, beantworte bitte
die Call for Projects/Papers auf unserer Webseite [1]. Wir würden uns
auch sehr über weitere Helfer aus der Region freuen, da freiwillige
Mithilfe der Schlüssel zum Erfolg solch eines nicht-kommerziellen
Events ist.
Bei Fragen oder Anregungen laden wir dich herzlich ein unsere
Mailinglisten [2] zu abonnieren und/oder den IRC Channel #FrOSCamp auf
Freenode (irc.freenode.net) zu besuchen.
Wenn es irgendetwas gibt auf das du auf unserer Webseite keine Antwort
findest oder das nicht auf die Mailinglisten passt, schreib uns
einfach direkt an [3]. Potenzielle Sponsoren sind dazu auch herzlich
eingeladen.
Vergiss bitte nicht anderen vom FrOSCamp zu erzählen. Leite diese
Nachricht weiter, verlinke die Webseite, oder nimm an unseren
Eventgruppen auf den bekanntesten Social Network Plattformen [4] teil.
Freie Grüsse,
Das FrOSCamp Orga Team
PS: In Zukunft werden wir dich nicht mehr direkt anschreiben sondern
nur noch über die obgenannten Kanäle mit dir kommunizieren.
[1] http://froscamp.org/
[2] http://lists.froscamp.org/
[3] mailto:contact_at_froscamp.org
[4] http://wiki.froscamp.org/Social_Networking
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