[okfn-discuss] OKF at FOSDEM 2014?

Fri Sep 27 10:06:38 UTC 2013

I've volunteered there for the past 2 years, it's an awe-inspiring event
(at least by sheer size, est. 5000-7000 last year).

We should focus on intro material, don't think the audience will be greatly
familiar with Open Knowledge. The majority of people are software
developers from many different domains. There are no introductions to F/OS
software so even if there are other professionals (academics..) they will
be technically minded.

On the question of how to participate:
1/ Lighting talk - intro to OK and OKFn alone won't cut it, it'll have to
be an interesting piece of software. This could mean architecture, uptake,
users, what it does. CKAN has had wide exposure that could teach devs
something, as does CrowdCrafting I guess.

2/ Main track talk - there's only one "miscellaneous / community" track,
the rest will be extremely technical talks on security, virtualisation,
whatever is up this year. I tried submitting "Opening up science, knowledge
and getting paid to develop FLOSS" in 2013 with an intro to Open Knowledge
and a bit about the process of Cottage Labs, but to no avail. Perhaps I
estimated wrongly that the spin would be interesting. I feel it's unlikely
that a pure talk on Open Knowledge would get in though, it'll have to be
software-related.
The deadline for submitting these is 1st October 2013 unfortunately.

3/ Dev Room - a whole topic (had "FLOSS in Science" in 2013), gets a room
for 1 or 2 days and arrange their own talks within that community. In a few
days (1 Oct) the accepted dev rooms will be announced, so we could
volunteer to talk at a relevant one if they want us.

4/ Project stand - you get a table for 2 days in a large building with lots
of traffic and present your FLOSS project. The only organisation without a
specific project I've seen is Free Software Foundation Europe.

5/ Just go and talk to people, a bit difficult since the conference is
quite hectic.

OKF Belgium may want to join.

Greetings,
Emanuil

P.S. I've published my FOSDEM 2013 submission here:
https://github.com/emanuil-tolev/fosdem2013-open-knowledge-presentation
It's got a basic intro to Open Knowledge from an academic perspective, i.e.
open access, and the OKF.

LibreOffice source:
https://github.com/emanuil-tolev/fosdem2013-open-knowledge-presentation/raw/master/open-knowledge-fosdem-2013.odp
View PDF:
https://github.com/emanuil-tolev/fosdem2013-open-knowledge-presentation/raw/master/open-knowledge-fosdem-2013.pdf

On 26 September 2013 23:00, Everton Zanella Alvarenga <
everton.alvarenga at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I didn't know about this event before. Is someone from OKF going to
> participate? Since OKF has lots of people in Europe, maybe it is worth
> a visit.
>
> If someone can share your opinion about this event, that would be great.
>
> Deadline for the main sessions in 4 days.
>
> Tom
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Quim Gil <qgil at wikimedia.org>
> Date: 2013/9/25
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: FOSDEM update
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> Hi, just a heads up about http://fosdem.org - Brussels 1 & 2 Feb 2014.
>
> One of the biggest and coolest grassroots open source events in the
> World - and the main one in Europe.
>
> European orgs and individuals loving software freedom: Wikimedia wants
> to have a stand. Let's do something cool! Get involved.
>
> Discussion better at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM or
> wikitech-l.
>
> Thank you!
>
> PS: read below
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: FOSDEM update
> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 10:39:58 -0700
> From: Quim Gil <qgil at wikimedia.org>
> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>
> Hi, about FOSDEM - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM
>
> Brussels / 1 & 2 February 2014
>
> On 1 Oct we will know whether our proposal for a Wiki DevRoom has been
> accepted or not. This is a DevRoom we have proposed together with XWiki
> and TikiWiki and is open to all wiki topics. If we we get it accepted we
> will organize a call for participation for this DevRoom.
>
> The call for main track session proposals is open until 1 Oct.
> https://fosdem.org/2014/news/2013-08-06-call-for-participation/
>
> ... and the call for lightning talks and stands is open until 20 Nov.
> https://fosdem.org/2014/news/2013-09-17-call-for-participation-part-two/
>
> You are encouraged to submit lightning talk proposals! Don worry if you
> are unsure between submitting a session for a lightning talk or a
> devroom: you can contact both and then they suggest you what to do.
>
> Wikimedia wants to have a stand, and we have received an offer to help
> from the nascent Wikimedia Belgium chapter. Probably more help can be
> aggregated from CH, DE, FR, NL, UK + other tech contributors in the
> region? Let's do something really cool! To be discussed.
>
> --
> Quim Gil
> Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
>
>
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