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| #acl eal:read,write,admin,revert,delete ''Imagine a European Union that builds its IT infrastructure on Free Software. Imagine European Member States exchange information in Open Standards and share their software. Imagine that municipalities and city councils gain from decentralized and collaborative software under free licenses. Imagine no European is any longer forced to use non-Free Software.'' This is what we are looking for. And although this visions seems like a long road ahead, we know that we do major steps today. To help unlocking our full potential on this road, the FSFE offers cross-border collaboration and its first European summit. Be part and join our movement. |
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| This is not the "usual" kind of call for talks or papers you might know from another conference. This is a call for your participation to a unique event where several vibrant Free Software communities will meet and share a weekend of knowledge sharing with a high participatory spirit. You feel like giving a talk, a workshop, a presentation, any activity or a side event? You feel like simply participating? You feel like volunteering or like contributing in other ways? In any case, this is the call for you! | {{attachment:fsfe-summit-2016-headerimage-360px-with-date-separated.jpg|FSFE Summit logo|align="right"}} |
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| This is the call of the first FSFE summit that will take place from September 2 – 4, 2016, in the Berlin Congress Center. The whole event will be for the FSFE community and by the FSFE community. Expect to meet people from all over Europe and the members of our association. Expect to exchange insights and outsides, to build new friendships and teams or to align with your already existing (virtual) teams. Above all, we invite you to come together to use, study, share and improve your skills and knowledge about Free Software and beyond. | In 2016 the FSFE is celebrating 15 years of existence and will celebrate this with its first ever European summit. This is the call for your participation to a unique environment where several vibrant Free Software communities will meet and share a weekend of knowledge sharing with a high participatory spirit. |
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| = Some of the facts = * '''The idea:''' For mutual benefits and to facilitate the organisation, the FSFE summit will be a part of the [[https://qtcon.org/|QtCon16]]. It will offer a unique forum for talks and knowledge sharing in an event that gathers the communities and combines the summits from the [[https://fsfe.org|FSFE]], the [[https://akademy.kde.org/|KDE Akademy]], Qt Contributors' Summit, [[https://www.kdab.com/|KDAB]] and [[https://www.videolan.org/videolan/events/vdd16/|VideoLAN Dev Days]]. All of these communities holding their very own summits on one hand - and sharing with each other at the same time. As a key feature, all participants of any sub-conference will be allowed to listen to any other talk or workshop from the other sub-conferences. Yes, you can take part in all of them at the same weekend. |
The FSFE summit takes place from '''September 2 – 4, 2016, in the Berlin Congress Center'''. We aim at gathering Free Software enthusiasts and FSFE community from all over Europe to exchange insights and outsides, to build new friendships and allies. It is time to connect and collaborate. We invite you to come together to use, study, share and improve your skills, knowledge and network with Free Software and beyond. = Some facts = * '''Idea & Environment:''' For mutual benefits and to facilitate the organisation, the FSFE summit will be a part of the [[https://qtcon.org/|QtCon16]]. It will offer a unique forum for talks and knowledge sharing in an event that gathers the communities and combines the summits from the [[https://fsfe.org|FSFE]], the [[https://akademy.kde.org/|KDE Akademy]], Qt Contributors' Summit, [[https://www.kdab.com/|KDAB]] and [[https://www.videolan.org/videolan/events/vdd16/|VideoLAN Dev Days]]. All of these communities holding their very own summits on one hand - and sharing with each other at the same time. As a key feature, all participants of any sub-conference will be allowed to listen to any other talk or workshop from the other sub-conferences. Yes, you can take part in all of them at the same weekend. |
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| * '''Location:''' [[http://www.bcc-berlin.de/en|Berlin Congress Center (BCC)]], Berlin, Germany. The venue provides an amazing auditorium for keynotes, many large and small conference rooms, a great open area for breaks and presentations, a large eating area and good spaces for discussions * '''Admission''': Free of charge * '''Deadline:''' There is an existing Call for Papers for the Qtcon available at https://qtcon.org/cfp . It emphasizes the point to run "presentations that cater for one or more of the whole communities". Feel free to apply to this general Call for the Qtcon - or to apply to this FSFE specific one. However, please do not apply for both. Deadline for both calls are '''May 17, 2016'''. |
{{attachment:bcc_teaser_das_bcc_0-200px.jpg|BCC location|align="right"}} * '''Location:''' [[http://www.bcc-berlin.de/en|Berlin Congress Center (BCC)]], Berlin, Germany. The venue provides an auditorium for keynotes, many large and small conference rooms, a great open area for breaks and presentations, a large eating area and good spaces for discussions * '''Admission''': Free of charge. However, capacity is physically restricted. To offer a peaceful and secure environment for all participants we need to run a registration process that we will provide in the upcoming weeks. * '''Deadline:''' There is an existing Call for Papers for the Qtcon available at https://qtcon.org/cfp . It emphasizes the point to run "presentations that cater for one or more of the whole communities". You can either follow the Qtcon call or this one for the FSFE summit. However, please do not apply for both. Deadline is '''May 17, 2016'''. |
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| A full weekend for and with the FSFE community with * Talks * Workshops * Lightning talk sessions * FSFE group meetings * and much more ... (More details will follow in time) |
A full weekend for and with the European Free Software community with Talks, Workshops, Lightning talks, FSFE meetings and much more ... (More details will follow in time) |
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| == Friday, September 2nd == On Friday, we are happy to offer what many people have been asking us for a couple of times: a full conference day dedicated to “Running successful business with Free Software”. It will be a day for developers, entrepreneurs or anyone else interested in business. In addition, FSFE will invite relevant stakeholders, politicians and other potential clients to bring both sides together. Also, we expect a lot of attendees from our accompanying communities at the Qtcon. Expect high quality talks and insights. |
=== Friday, September 2nd === On Friday, we are happy to offer what many people keep asking for: a full conference day with high quality talks and insights about ''“Successful business with Free Software”''. A day for companies, politicians, developers, entrepreneurs and anyone else interested in business aspects of Free Software. While we teach and learn, we also try to bring closer clients and suppliers. In addition we expect a lot of attendees from our accompanying communities at the Qtcon. |
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| == Saturday / Sunday, September 3 – 4 == These will be full conference days dedicated to the FSFE, our community, Free Software and Free Society. Expect talks in the morning and workshops in the afternoon. Expect to meet and ask questions to members of our General Assembly, get insights in our working groups, build new ones or to listen the topics we all care about. You can expect face-to-face meeting with the FSFE, to network across Europe, to get updated on political and societal progresses and get inspired. If you have any topic you like to talk about, a project you like to present or a network you like to build, these are the days to be filled by you. |
=== Saturday / Sunday, September 3 – 4 === {{attachment:Earthlights_2002-220px.jpg|Help enlighten Europe|align="right"}} Two full conference days dedicated to the FSFE, the European Free Software community, to Free Software and Free Society. We will have a diverse range of talks and workshops - technical and non-technical. You can have face-to-face meetings with the FSFE, get insights in our working groups, build new ones or listen the topics we all care about. These are the days to network across Europe, to get updated on political and societal progresses concerning our road to Freedom and to get inspired. If you have a Free Software related topic you like to talk about, a project you like to present or a network you like to build, these are the days to be filled by you. |
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| In short: Talks, Workshops, Lightning talks, FSFE group meetings, moderators, volunteers, participants, Poster sessions, key signing party ... Feel free to propose whatever you like or you feel good at and that you think will be also in interest for other attendees. Inspire us and we make it happen. As an input, these are some of the topics/content we are looking for in particular: |
In short: Talks, Workshops, Lightning talks, FSFE group meetings, moderators, volunteers, participants, Poster sessions, key signing party [...] we are definitely open for your input. Feel free to propose what you feel good at and that you think will also be in interest for other attendees. Inspire us and we make it happen! As an input, these are some of the topics/content we and our community is interested in: |
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| * Your company or employer is open-sourcing more and more of its software? Tell us how and why. | * Your company or employer is "open-sourcing" more and more of its software? Tell us how and why. * You work in a public administration and you know about particular needs, do's and don'ts to compete with proprietary software vendors? Tell us! |
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| * Free Software in education/schools: How can we expand the use of Free Software in education? How can we compete with proprietary vendors who attract schools by offering zero license costs? [...] * Threats to Free Software or actions to take: How can I stop my government from threatening Free Software? Who can help me? [...] * Present and/or work with your team: The FSFE is built on the unpayable contributions of divergent teams, the Sysadmins, Legal Network, our translators and so on. Do you feel like hosting a session dedicated to your team, to meet each other and plan ahead? * All the non-technical skills: rhetoric, negotiations, win an argument, run local campaigns, motivate volunteers to participate, attract new members [...] If you can offer a workshop in these fields, please go ahead! * Outreach: How can we reach non-technical people with our message of Free Software and society? |
* Free Software in education * Threats to Free Software or actions to take * Hacking politics: How to influence my politician * Insights on successful (national) campaigns * Federation and Decentralization: Free Software on a large scale * Running or upcoming changes: "Cloud", "Internet of things", [...] * The cultural aspects of Free Software as resource for commons, heritage, sustainability [...] * Outreach: How to reach non-technical people with our message? * Workshops for all the non-technical skills: rhetoric, negotiations, win an argument, run local campaigns, motivate volunteers to participate, attract new members [...] * Insights, talks or strategies towards other communities and technologies that work with/need more/built on Free Software: Freifunk, 3D-printing, Open Educational Resources, Open Knowledge, Open Hardware, Open Design [...] |
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| === For the lightning talks === * Anything that could be in interest for other people from the FSFE community. Technical or not. |
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Please be aware that we have to make a choice between all the proposals that we will get and unfortunately not every talk can be chosen. The selection will be done by a jury for that we are looking for volunteers. If you are interested to help, please let us know. |
The selection will be done by a committee for that we are looking for volunteers. If you are interested to help, read the next section. |
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| A big event needs big help. We are in search for volunteers that help us to make this event a good experience for themselves and everyone participating. Although there will follow a seperate call for volunteers, we are happy if you already can let us know if you decide to volunteer. We need volunteers for the doors, for moderation, for setting up and dismantling, as contact persons and for so much more ... sure we find something for you. | {{attachment:fsfe-summit-2016-volunteer-250px.jpg}} A big event needs big help. We are in search for volunteers that help us to make this event a good experience for themselves and everyone participating. Although there will follow a seperate call for volunteers, we are happy if you already can let us know if you decide to volunteer. We need volunteers for the doors, for moderation, for setting up and dismantling, as contact persons and for so much more ... we do our best to find something that fits your interests and skills. |
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| Be aware that '''we need volunteers right now to participate in the jury'''. This is your chance to be part of the jury and therewith directly influence the agenda of the first FSFE summit. To apply, please write to ''summit2016@fsfe.org'' and start your subject with "[volunteer]". Please state that you like to be part of the jury, your mother tongue and a brief summary of your professional background and your connection to Free Software. | Right now '''we look for volunteers to participate in the committee'''. This is your chance to be part of the committee that chooses among all submissions of this call for participation and therewith directly influence the agenda of the first FSFE summit. To apply, please write to ''summit2016@fsfe.org'' and start your subject with "[volunteer]". Please state that you like to be part of the committee, your mother tongue and a brief summary of your professional background and your connection to Free Software. = Contact = {{attachment:cat-1151533_200px.jpg|FSFE contact|align="right"}} Send all your inquiries and proposals only to '''''summit2016@fsfe.org''''' latest '''until May 17''' and please start your subject with the tag “[CfP]” |
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| = Everything else = * We are planning to run a poster session for you to present your own Free Software project or company - or one that you are contributing to. A dedicated call will follow separately. |
* '''please spread our Call for Participation in the internet on mailing lists and with your word'''. Use the Hashtag ''#FSFEsummit'' and the picture on top. Thank you! |
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| * In addition we are planning to invite other national / European organisations that care about the political work for Free Software. If you know one that we should invite, please let us know. | * Any other input for the FSFE summit 2016 is welcome at the same address: summit2016@fsfe.org. |
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| * If you have any other ideas, events or projects you like to see during the FSFE summit 2016 but that have not been mentioned here ... please contact us about it. | |
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| = Contact = Please send us all your inquiries and proposals to '''''summit2016@fsfe.org''''' latest until May 17 and please let your subject start with the tag “[CfP]” Finally, please spread this call for papers in the internet and on mailing lists. |
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Imagine a European Union that builds its IT infrastructure on Free Software. Imagine European Member States exchange information in Open Standards and share their software. Imagine that municipalities and city councils gain from decentralized and collaborative software under free licenses. Imagine no European is any longer forced to use non-Free Software.
This is what we are looking for. And although this visions seems like a long road ahead, we know that we do major steps today. To help unlocking our full potential on this road, the FSFE offers cross-border collaboration and its first European summit. Be part and join our movement.
FSFE summit 2016 - Call for Participation
In 2016 the FSFE is celebrating 15 years of existence and will celebrate this with its first ever European summit. This is the call for your participation to a unique environment where several vibrant Free Software communities will meet and share a weekend of knowledge sharing with a high participatory spirit.
The FSFE summit takes place from September 2 – 4, 2016, in the Berlin Congress Center. We aim at gathering Free Software enthusiasts and FSFE community from all over Europe to exchange insights and outsides, to build new friendships and allies. It is time to connect and collaborate. We invite you to come together to use, study, share and improve your skills, knowledge and network with Free Software and beyond.
Some facts
Idea & Environment: For mutual benefits and to facilitate the organisation, the FSFE summit will be a part of the QtCon16. It will offer a unique forum for talks and knowledge sharing in an event that gathers the communities and combines the summits from the FSFE, the KDE Akademy, Qt Contributors' Summit, KDAB and VideoLAN Dev Days. All of these communities holding their very own summits on one hand - and sharing with each other at the same time. As a key feature, all participants of any sub-conference will be allowed to listen to any other talk or workshop from the other sub-conferences. Yes, you can take part in all of them at the same weekend.
Date: September 2-4, 2016 (subscribe from the Fellowship calendar)
Location: Berlin Congress Center (BCC), Berlin, Germany. The venue provides an auditorium for keynotes, many large and small conference rooms, a great open area for breaks and presentations, a large eating area and good spaces for discussions
Admission: Free of charge. However, capacity is physically restricted. To offer a peaceful and secure environment for all participants we need to run a registration process that we will provide in the upcoming weeks.
Deadline: There is an existing Call for Papers for the Qtcon available at https://qtcon.org/cfp . It emphasizes the point to run "presentations that cater for one or more of the whole communities". You can either follow the Qtcon call or this one for the FSFE summit. However, please do not apply for both. Deadline is May 17, 2016.
Contact: Please send us all your inquiries and proposals to summit2016@fsfe.org and please let your subject start with the tag “[CfP]”
- Our summit will also be used to celebrate 15 years of FSFE. Prepare for something special.
What we offer
A full weekend for and with the European Free Software community with Talks, Workshops, Lightning talks, FSFE meetings and much more ... (More details will follow in time)
Friday, September 2nd
On Friday, we are happy to offer what many people keep asking for: a full conference day with high quality talks and insights about “Successful business with Free Software”. A day for companies, politicians, developers, entrepreneurs and anyone else interested in business aspects of Free Software. While we teach and learn, we also try to bring closer clients and suppliers. In addition we expect a lot of attendees from our accompanying communities at the Qtcon.
Saturday / Sunday, September 3 – 4
Two full conference days dedicated to the FSFE, the European Free Software community, to Free Software and Free Society. We will have a diverse range of talks and workshops - technical and non-technical. You can have face-to-face meetings with the FSFE, get insights in our working groups, build new ones or listen the topics we all care about. These are the days to network across Europe, to get updated on political and societal progresses concerning our road to Freedom and to get inspired. If you have a Free Software related topic you like to talk about, a project you like to present or a network you like to build, these are the days to be filled by you.
What we are looking for
In short: Talks, Workshops, Lightning talks, FSFE group meetings, moderators, volunteers, participants, Poster sessions, key signing party [...] we are definitely open for your input. Feel free to propose what you feel good at and that you think will also be in interest for other attendees. Inspire us and we make it happen!
As an input, these are some of the topics/content we and our community is interested in:
Talks
For Friday
- You know or you run a successful business model for/with Free Software? Tell us about it!
- You are hacking for freedom and make your living as a Free Software developer? Tell us about it!
- Running a Free Software company is no problem for you, because you can tell us about this traditional business model that works with every company ... ?
- Your company or employer is "open-sourcing" more and more of its software? Tell us how and why.
- You work in a public administration and you know about particular needs, do's and don'ts to compete with proprietary software vendors? Tell us!
- [...]
For Saturday/Sunday
- Free Software in education
- Threats to Free Software or actions to take
- Hacking politics: How to influence my politician
- Insights on successful (national) campaigns
- Federation and Decentralization: Free Software on a large scale
- Running or upcoming changes: "Cloud", "Internet of things", [...]
- The cultural aspects of Free Software as resource for commons, heritage, sustainability [...]
- Outreach: How to reach non-technical people with our message?
- Workshops for all the non-technical skills: rhetoric, negotiations, win an argument, run local campaigns, motivate volunteers to participate, attract new members [...]
- Insights, talks or strategies towards other communities and technologies that work with/need more/built on Free Software: Freifunk, 3D-printing, Open Educational Resources, Open Knowledge, Open Hardware, Open Design [...]
- [...]
Proposal guidelines
Please provide the following information to your submission:
* Title - the title of your session/presentation * Abstract - a brief summary of your presentation * Description - information about your topic and its potential benefits for the audience * A short bio - including anything that qualifies you to speak on your subject * Tags - add appropriate tags to your proposal to help the committee sort through the categories of proposals
The selection will be done by a committee for that we are looking for volunteers. If you are interested to help, read the next section.
Volunteers
A big event needs big help. We are in search for volunteers that help us to make this event a good experience for themselves and everyone participating. Although there will follow a seperate call for volunteers, we are happy if you already can let us know if you decide to volunteer. We need volunteers for the doors, for moderation, for setting up and dismantling, as contact persons and for so much more ... we do our best to find something that fits your interests and skills.
Right now we look for volunteers to participate in the committee. This is your chance to be part of the committee that chooses among all submissions of this call for participation and therewith directly influence the agenda of the first FSFE summit. To apply, please write to summit2016@fsfe.org and start your subject with "[volunteer]". Please state that you like to be part of the committee, your mother tongue and a brief summary of your professional background and your connection to Free Software.
Contact
Send all your inquiries and proposals only to summit2016@fsfe.org latest until May 17 and please start your subject with the tag “[CfP]”
please spread our Call for Participation in the internet on mailing lists and with your word. Use the Hashtag #FSFEsummit and the picture on top. Thank you!
Any other input for the FSFE summit 2016 is welcome at the same address: summit2016@fsfe.org.
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