FSOSS 2011/Meetings/2011-05-12

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) (DA)
• Jim Whitehurst (Red Hat) (CT)
• Alan Cox (Intel) (CT)
• Jon "Maddog" Hall (Linux International) (CT)

Action Points: May 12 meeting

• Done Sponsorship package update and distribution to team: chairs
• Done Distribute package to contacts: team
• Tracking: Tim & Sam
• Sponsorship management: Tim
• Logo update: Chris
• Done CFP: John
• Check on old computer drop-off point: Evan

Action Points: June 23 meeting

• Distinguished speaker update - All
• Where we stand with sponsorships - All
• Review presentation/workshop submissions recieved to-date - MLM
• Status of registration system - Danny/Rose
• Facility Bookings - Rose
• Swag suggestions - MLM/Rose
• Any other business: Done Posters;