FOSDEM2014

OSGeo stand at FOSDEM 2014

FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developer Meeting) is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community. The goal is to provide open source software developers and communities a place to meet to.

This year, OSGeo will participate with a stand. The stand aims to be the meeting point for the OSGeo members of German, Belgian, Dutch and French chapters, as well as open source geospatial enthusiasts.

Date and location

1-2 February, ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels, Belgium, Europe, Earth.

Organisation of the stand

The stand offered by FOSDEM consists of:

• one 180x80cm table, positioned in one of the buildings with developer rooms, for the entire duration of the conference. In some cases, a second table may be possible, if you have a good reason to need two.
• two chairs per table
• one power socket type C/E (if you require adapters or additional sockets, please bring them yourself)
• fast uplink shared wireless Internet access

The stand should be occupied by at least two people for the duration of the conference.

Source:FOSDEM Call for participation

The organiser of OSGeo participation is Anne Ghisla, with the help of local OSGeo members.

Material

The stand should provide English versions of the marketing material, and German/Dutch/French/.. where available. TBD: mark availability of material from participants/local chapters.

• Banner
• Stickers
• OSGeo-Live DVD/USB keys
• Tshirts (?)
• Mugs (?)
• ...

People

FOSDEM requires at least 2 people at the stand for the whole duration of the conference. It will be nice to have German, Dutch and French-speaking volunteers at all times.

Timeslots

TBD: divide the days in timeslots and create a table to be filled with volunteer names.

Money management

TBD: see how to manage donations collection, and/or selling of swag, both on FOSDEM side and OSGeo side.

Interested in participating?

Please write your name (best with link to OSGeo profile) here, and any useful information (time availability, material you can bring, languages you speak)

• Anne - available for the whole duration of conference, no material available so far, speaks en/it/fr
• Margherita Di Leo - available for the whole duration of conference, no material available so far, speaks en/it/sp
• Just van den Broecke - available for the whole duration of conference, may present OSGeo.nl, Dutch Language OSGeo Chapter, speaks nl/en/de/fr
• Johan Van de Wauw - as I'm helping with the organisation of FOSDEM also, this means I'm not available on saterday before noon, but can already set up some things on fridayevening. Speaks nl/en/fr.

• Add yourself here