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Libre Software and the FSFE Community Meeting

In 2018, for the first time, FSFE will cooperate with the Libre Software Meeting (aka Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre / RMLL): http://rmll2018.info/

To this end, the FSFE will set up a FSFE track during the weekend of July 7 and 8 as well as a FSFE assembly. Our track will cover topics in the interplay of technology and society and the assembly will be a place to meet and share experiences for all participants and our own community.

We will also use the occasion to run our annual community meeting at the same event.

Libre Software Meeting (LSM) is probably the biggest community-organised Free Software event in France happening annually in July and rotating venues around different cities in France. In 2018, the LSM takes place from July 7-12 in Strasbourg.

Join our track at the Libre Software Meeting

The FSFE will be part of the LSM2018 with an own track. The FSFE track will be happening on the weekend of July 7+8 at the LSM venue (see below). Until the final agenda is visible on the LSM-homeepage, find a preliminary draft here:

Saturday, July 7

• 10:00 Democracy requires Free Software (Matthias Kirschner, FSFE); Room: ESCARPE - Amphi Ortscheidt;
• 11:00 Tinkering in Strasbourg and Brussels (Sebastian Raible, Policy Advisor to MEP Julia Reda); Room: ESCARPE - Amphi Ortscheidt;
• 12:00 CoC vs Community? (Florian Snow, FSFE coordinator Germany); Room: ESCARPE - Amphi Ortscheidt;
• 12:30 Software Freedom in the Cloud (Björn Schießle, FSFE); Room: ESCARPE - Amphi Ortscheidt;

• 14:30 Diversity in Free Software (Kristi Progri, Open Labs)

• 16:00 Public Money? Public Code! (Max Mehl, FSFE); Room: ATRIUM - AT8;

• 17:00 Critical success factors for open source implementations in public services (Gijs Hillenius, Joinup)

Sunday, July 8

• 10:00 Marketing FOSS: a crash course for community members (Italo Vignoli, The Document Foundation); Room: PLATANE - B04;

• 11:00 F-Droid:Pimp your Android(-fork) with the best Free Software apps (Erik Albers, FSFE); Room: ESCARPE - Amphi 29;

• 13:00 Free Software in education – A glance at Europe (Guido Arnold, FSFE); Room: PLATANE - B04;
• 13:30 Open Source Activism or Advocacy? (Astor Nummelin Carlberg, Open Forum Europe); Room: PLATANE - B04;
• 14:00 Using free communication tools to make a real world impact (Daniel Pocock, Debian, FSFE Fellowship representative); Room: ATRIUM - AT9;
• 15:00 Educating about open document formats to help advocating FOSS (Italo Vignoli, The Document Foundation); Room: ATRIUM - AT9;

• 16:00 Funding Free Software: Stories from Grantee and Grantmaker (Moritz Bartl, Center for the Cultivation of Technology)

• 17:00 Report from the EU Frontline: The future of privacy and upload filters (Diego Naranjo, EDRi)

Join community meeting and the FSFE Assembly

As the LSM is a big community-driven event by itself, our cooperation with hackstub offers an exciting environment for our annual FSFE community meeting. This way we can meet up as well as connect with the broader and international Free Software community.

Like you might know the concept from other events like the Chaos Communication Congress or Sha-Camp, the FSFE will have a so called assembly at the LSM 2018. An assembly is a place for the FSFE community and friends to come together, to share knowledge, to make friends, organise the next activity and so on - or to simply hang out. Of course we will also bring the latest news, merch, promotion material and gossip ; )

We will have our own room for the assembly and we can use it the whole time for spontaneous or planned events.

+++ UPDATE +++ Our assembly room is room number B04 in the building Platane, wich is the building on the right side in the map below.

On Monday, July 9, we also like to offer a full day agenda for our community meeting to bond ties and prepare for the next months. More details of this meeting will come in the next weeks. Find here a preliminary agenda:

• 10:00 Opening
• 10:30 Introducing Sessions of Open Space
• 11:00 Open Space
• 12:00 Ask us anything: interview the staffers
• 12:30 Lunch
• 13:30 Open Space
• 14:30 Coffee Break
• 15:00 Reflections: What are we good at and where shall we improve?
• 15:30 Open Space
• 16:30 Coffee Break
• 17:00 Closing

"Open Space" is a method for a team-meeting in that the actual content of the meeting is still to be defined and open for your input. If you have been at the last community meeting you already know the concept: People can put their topic on a dashboard and after a short introduction in the beginning, people can vote on the sessions and workshops to happen and join accordingly.

"Ask us anything" will be a session in that staffers present (Matthias, Max, Erik) answer all your questions about current developments in FSFE, running campaigns, future changes and anything else that we are working on right now.

"Reflections" will be a session in that we ask yourselves to reflect where the FSFE and its community currently is doing good and where is some room for improvement.

Here are already proposals for the Open Space. If you like run a session, please get in touch with Erik.

• Learning materials about Free Software with FOSS4SMEs (Max Mehl)
• How to translate FSFE.org (André Ockers)
• What I learned from running FSFE booths for many years (Cryptie)
• Our Code of Conduct and how it helps (Erik)

Report Collection:

• Protocol "Booth Tips"

• Protocol "Assistance on Announcing Local Group Acitivities"

The venue

The LSM is happening on the Campus of the University of Strasbourg. You can see the three buildings that will be used in the map on the right side marked with a blue circle.

On the bottom you see the location of the so-called "village", where are the booths of different organisations (including the FSFE) located during the weekend of July 7+8.

Accommodation

There are several options. Be quick because Strasbourg is usually crowded over the weekends and hotels book out very fast. We have a special community offer inside students housing and other low and mid-budget locations listed here.

special community offer

due to our cooperation with hackstub (the organisers of LSM2018) we have a special offer with access to students housing. The apartments are a bit away from the venue as well as from the city center but it is 20 minutes by tram or 45 minutes to walk and the price is unbeatable.

 Location: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1748503108
 Offer: 9m² single room with own bathroom and a fridge as well as a common kitchen
 Price: 105 euro the whole week from July 6 to 12, 2018
 Accessibility: Tram ride to the venue / the city center around ~20 minutes. Walking distance ~ 45 minutes.

this offer is for all FSFE community - no matter if you give a talk or not!

Please note that although the price is for the whole week you can also book it if you stay, for example, the weekend only.

Attention: If you like to use this special offer please inform Erik latest until May 28 or put your name in the list at the bottom of this page. After that the rooms will be distributed to other participants.

Registrations so far for the special community offer

• Damian Fajfer
• Thomas Doczkal
• Erik Grun
• Tomas Zerolo
• Michael Weimann
• Guido Arnold
• Vincent Lequertier

Low budget

• http://www.hotel-esplanade.fr/ around 50 Euro, maybe best value for money, close to the venue

• http://strasbourg.cityresidence.fr/en around 50 Euro, close to the main station and old town, needs a tram-ride to the venue

• https://www.appartcity.com/en/ around 50 Euro, away from the venue but next to a tram-station

• http://www.ibis.com/gb/hotel-3183-ibis-budget-strasbourg-centre-gare/index.shtml close to the main station and old town, needs a tram-ride to the venue, from 55 euro/night

Mid budget

• https://www.graffalgar-hotel-strasbourg.fr fancy modern hotel around main station for 70 euro/night

• https://www.hotel-princes.com/en/ walking distance to the venue. price around 75 euro/night.

• https://www.citadines.com/en/france/strasbourg/citadines-kleber-strasbourg/index.html city center, price around 70-85 euro/night.

• http://www.ibis.com/gb/hotel-9085-ibis-styles-strasbourg-centre-petite-france/index.shtml close to the main station and old town, needs a tram-ride to the venue. price is around 100 euro/night

• http://www.ibis.com/gb/hotel-3018-ibis-strasbourg-centre-gare/index.shtml close to the main station and old town, needs a tram ride to the venue. Price is from 81 euro/night

• https://www.adagio-city.com/gb/hotel-7123-aparthotel-adagio-strasbourg-place-kleber/index.shtml 4 star apartment. close to the city center and main station, tram to the venue. price is from 70 to 90

Also the RMLL-pages have a list of recommended hotels: https://rmll2018.info/conferences/RMLL2018/#lodging

Transportation

Strasbourg has an extensive network of trams, with additional buss lines, operated by CTS (Compagnie des Transports Strasbourgeois). During the day trams typically go every 6 minutes. The venue is easily reachable with the tram network. You can buy tickets in the tram but you'll save money if you use a Badgeo Card. You can buy a Badgeo card in Strasbourg but if you'll save time if you buy one online. If you buy a Badgeo card online make sure to choose the French language on the CTS website, as that is the only working option to buy one at this moment (2018-05-21). More information: https://www.cts-strasbourg.eu/en/

Code of Conduct

Although the final words still need to be written, the event of RMLL / LSM comes with a Code of Conduct that is very similar to our own Code of Conduct. Inside the FSFE assembly and during our community meeting, of course, our own Code of Conduct is adhered.

Miscellaneous

• Moderators available: Tomás Zerolo, Christian Carlowitz