Meeting places

Finding a good meeting place can be time consuming, so we'll try to note here whenever we know of a place that's reasonable.

On this page:

• Per-city entries

• Notes & Format of this file

city: Vienna, Austria

• coordinator: David Ayers, Georg Kienesberger
• ping: David Ayers, Georg Kienesberger, Reinhard Müller
• date: Monthly on the third Friday in the month
• contact:
• venue:

city: Brussels, Belgium

• coordinator: Mauricio Nascimento
• ping: Ciaran O'Riordan
• date: ?
• contact:

  • We have an English speaking Benelux list: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-bnl

  • The Brussels LUG is quite big: http://www.bxlug.be/mailmanlists/linux-bruxelles

• venue:

  • There's a pub in the city centre that's usually quiet: http://ciaran.compsoc.com/faq.html#bonvieux

  • For something more formal, asking the Brussels LUG (mentioned above) might be able to give you access to the community centre they use.

city: Berlin, Germany

• coordinator: Christof Thim
• ping: Matthias Kirschner
• date: Monthly on the second Thursday in the month
• contact:

  • Our berlin@lists.fsfe.org list contains all people who want to be informed about local meetings in Berlin. https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/berlin

• venue:
  • Usually the meeting is in the FSFE office, Linienstr. 141, 10115, Berlin. There we have a beamer and enough place for about 30-40 people.

city: Bonn, Germany

• coordinator: Michael Kesper
• ping: Michael Kesper
• date: 1st Wednesday
• contact:
• venue: Brotfabrik Bonn, see

city: Cologne, Germany

• coordinator: Michael Kesper
• ping: Michael Kesper
• date: ?
• contact:
• venue:

city: Düsseldorf, Germany

• coordinator: Patrick 'xpatrick' Haehnel
• ping: Rainer Kersten, Patrick 'xpatrick' Haehnel
• date: Monthly on the last Wednesday in the month

• contact: rheinland@lists.fsfe.org

• venue:

city: Stuttgart, Germany

• coordinator: Björn Schießle

• ping: Björn Schießle

• date: about every second month. For more details see: Fellowship Group Stuttgart

• contact: <sueddeutschland AT lists.fsfe DOT org>

city: Dublin, Ireland

• coordinator: ?
• ping: Ciaran O'Riordan
• date: ?
• contact:

  • Our fsfe-ie list has about 100 members: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-ie

  • The Irish LUG is very big: http://www.linux.ie/community/mailinglists.php

• venue:

  • The White Horse is a pub in Dublin city centre: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.34678&lon=-6.25653&zoom=17&layers=B0F

It's good because it's reasonably quiet. Or The Long Stone.

city: Nijmegen, Netherlands

• coordinator: Maurice Verheesen (mho@fsfe.org)

• ping: Maurice or Felix (flx@fsfe.org)

• date: every 2nd Tuesday of the month (check website below)

• contact: fsfe-bnl@lists.fsfe.org

• venue: (ca. 1km from "Nijmegen Centraal" train station) together with the Nijmegen Linux User Group: http://www.linuxnijmegen.nl/.

Notes

NOTE: The "ping" field is only for cities where you are an expert on that city. You should probably only be listed for pinging about one or two cities - three at the most. The "ping" field is not for staying informed about all events which are in your language area or which are reachable by train.

NOTE #3: Consider using http://www.openstreetmap.org/ to show where venues are. There is a "permalink" link in the bottom right hand corner of the map, or to make an image, use the "export" button.

Format of this file

• Please order entries alphabetically (ascending) by Country and then by City
• city: name of city, country
• coordinator: local coordinator of the group
• ping: FSFE people who live, work, or have personal connection to city
• date: When do they meet?
• contact:
  • Paragraph or two about what mailing lists and web forums and calendars are used by the community in this area.
• venue:
  • Places where you can hold a meeting. Note things like proximity to external tranport (probably main train station, for people arriving from other cities)