This weekend we are doing our annual FrOSCon planning workshop. As in previous years, it will take place at @linuxhotel in Essen.
We'll be using the weekend to discuss the FrOSCon in a larger group (spoiler: there are exciting construction sites in the H-BRS again) and work on todos in small groups.
If you have any questions, information or suggestions for this FrOSCon, just write us a message!
Dieses Wochenende halten wir unseren jährlichen FrOSCon Planungsworkshop ab. Dieser findet wie auch die letzten Jahre im @linuxhotel in Essen statt.
Wir nutzen das Wochenende um in größerer Runde Diskussionspunkte (Spoiler: Es gibt wieder spannende Baustellen in der H-BRS) um die FrOSCon zu klären und in kleinen Gruppen Todos abzuarbeiten.
Wenn ihr Fragen, Tipps oder Anregungen für diese FrOSCon habt, schreibt uns einfach eine Nachricht!
Mach ich den PV/WP/HA-Talk nochmal, auf der #FrOScon? Oder muss ich da damit rechnen, als subversives Element verhaftet zu werden? (Mit dem Zug anreisen würde ich auch noch!)
Die #FrOSCon@FrOSCon hat gerade ihren CfP veröffentlicht: (fullquote)
Call for Papers FrOSCon 2024
The Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon), an annual summer conference for users and developers of FOSS, will be held from August 17th to August 18th at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin near Bonn, Germany. It is organized by the University's Department of Computer Science in collaboration with the student body and the FrOSCon e.V.
As its key feature, volunteer speakers will deliver a comprehensive range of talks and workshops. Additionally, the event offers space and facilities to Free Software developers and projects to organize their own meetings or subconferences. The event also hosts an exhibit hall with booths from both FLOSS projects and companies.
Topics
We are looking for contributed papers on current trends and developments in all areas of Free and Open Source Software, e.g.:
Operating systems
Software development
Administration
IT security
Legal aspects
Desktop
Education
Geographic Information Systems (GISs)
Cloud
Focus areas in 2024 are:
In Rust we trust - Memory safe languages
Grow your own - Open Source Plant management
SBOM - Who supplies your software chain?
Thinking outside the stack - eBPF and friends
Bridging the Gap between politics and reality - Open Source Lobbying
AI AI, captain - LLM, machine learning & Co
Submitting Contributions
To submit a paper, create an account and submit your contribution at https://cfp.froscon.org/. To participate in the Call for Papers, you will have to submit a short abstract as well as a detailed description of your proposed session.
All accepted speakers must submit slides for their talk before the event.
The call for papers is open through May 23rd, 2024. The program committee meets to review proposals in mid June. We will do our best to notify submitters whether their proposals were accepted within a week or two.
Language
Talks can be held in German or in English. The choice of language should depend solely on which language is more suitable for presenting the chosen topic. Language of submitted texts and the resulting talk should be the same.
Length of the submissions
The abstract should summarize the planned content of the talk in a precise and succinct way. We do not place a limit on its length.
Talks should take no more than 45 minutes, in order to allow some time for Q&A and speaker transition.
We can accept longer contributions in special cases, we ask for a justification for the longer extent in this case.
Format
Abstract and description have to be submitted as plain text via the https://cfp.froscon.org/. We ask for submission of the slides in PDF format; other open document formats (e.g. those that can be opened with tools like LibreOffice) should only be submitted after prior consultation.
Licenses
We will publish abstract, description, slides and a video of your presentation online and include the abstract in the conference program. We require that you place your contributions under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) license (or a more lenient license).
Unless another license is noted, we will assume that your contribution is under this license. If you want to place your works under a less restrictive license, please note so with your submission.
Selection of contributions
Contributions are selected based on their content by a program committee. Please understand that we cannot accept all contributions and are limited by the number and quality of the submissions. We will favor submissions which fall under one of the aforementioned topics.
Other remuneration
FrOSCon is organized by volunteers and is mostly funded by partners. We ask you to understand that we will not be able to reimburse you for your expenses.
Social Event
We are planning to hold a social event on the evening of the 17th and kindly invite all speakers to attend.
Important Dates and Contact Information
May 23rd, 2024 End of the Call for Papers. All contributions need to be submitted by this date in order to qualify.
Mid June 2024 Notification of acceptance of all contributions .
July 2nd, 2024 Final acceptance. We ask all invited speakers to give their final confirmation by this date.
FrOSCon e.V.
c/o Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
53757 Sankt Augustin
Germany
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We invite you to participate in the 19th Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon). FrOSCon will take place on August 17th and 18th, 2024 at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, in Sankt Augustin, Germany.
We provide a large exhibition area, where free and open source projects have the opportunity to present themselves to get in touch with users and developers. Additionally, we offer rooms for projects to host developer meetings or to self-organize a talk program for visitors.
You are welcome to contribute with your project to this year's FrOSCon and thus support the communication and exchange within the Free/Libre and Open Source Software community.
Visit https://callforprojects.froscon.org/ to register and submit your proposal. Please include a short summary of what you are planning and any requirements you might have.
If you have any questions, you can reach us via projects@froscon.org.
Please register before May 23rd, 2024 to give us enough time to organize your project's participation. We'll get back to you shortly after.
Note that also our Call for Papers has started and we're looking forward to your talk submissions. You can register via https://cfp.froscon.org/.
For further information concerning the Call for Papers take a look at https://www.froscon.org/en/cfp/.
What are the free software and/or opensource events in your country /region that you would recommend. I want to give a few more talks about #heavymetal#community#Foss and #Thunderbird this year.
I've took an early enough train so that I would be able to attend the very interesting talk about #libcamera at 10:00
Of course having arrived at the premises I quickly scouted out the stands, and immediately met with some #Debian friends and noticed a huge, but friendly #linux penguin wearing a #froscon shirt :)
I think I will start a thread here as a sort of diary.
Starting at #FrOSCon, I have started to try #openSUSE on my laptop. As a #Debian Developer, I felt reluctant to try something else, and Debian is a great project.
However, as I am teaching openSUSE at Linuxhotel, I thought I should maybe get more familiar with it 🤣. Also, I had already fallen in love with #zypper.
If you are keen in following the pros and cons I discover, take a seat!
Is there anyone who has managed to use #signal on the #pinephone running @postmarketOS with #phosh? This is the only reason I use my pinephone only for business purposes and not as my (private) daily driver. Neither #axolotl or #signal-cli or pidgin worked for me (and I spent countless hours...). It's time that @signalapp support #mobilelinux.
Hab mich gestern beim #froscon Social Event lange mit Leuten über #veganismus unterhalten (wieder mal nicht von mir initiiert...) und eines der Argumente war: ich hab Angst was zu verlieren.
Das konnte ich sogar gut nachvollziehen. Aber let's be honest - man muss gar nix verlieren!
Hier gibt's heute #veganes Zwiebel-Hähnchen aus Sojaschnetzeln, überbacken mit ner dicken Käseschicht aus Hefeschmelz & der Instant-Käsesauce von Würzteufel statt Mehl, das Ganze auf Nudeln geworfen. Richtig gut.
Angenommen, es sollte wirklich mal eine Open Source Friedhofsverwaltungssoftware in Deutschland geben, dann kommt der Impuls dazu wohl von dieser #froscon