The second Free and Open Source Conference “FrOSCon” takes place on August, 25th and 26th 2007 in St. Augustin, near Bonn, Germany. The conference is once again hosted by the faculty of computer science of the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in collaboration with the student body and the Linux/Unix User Group St. Augustin.
In a Call for Papers, we ask for submission of contributions. A broad variety of topics concerning free and open source software is desired.
Contributions can be submitted in English or German and should summarize the intended talk concisely and succinctly; talks should be no longer than 45 minutes in length. Deadline for submission is June, 4th 2007.
General
FrOSCon is a two-day conference on free software and open source, which takes place on 25th and 26th August 2007 at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, in St. Augustin near Bonn, Germany.
Focus of the conference is a comprehensive range of talks about current topics in free software and open source. Furthermore, space will be provided for developers of free software and open source projects to organize their own developer meetings or even their own program.
2007 will see the second installment of FrOSCon. It is organized by the deparmtent of computer science in collaboration with the Linux/Unix User Group Sankt Augustin, the student body and the FrOSCon e.V.
Topics
We are looking for contributions about current developments from the whole field of Free Software and Open Source., e.g.:
- Operating Systems
- Development
- Administration
- Security
- Legal Issues
- Desktop
- Open Hardware
We would especially like to see contributions about the following topics:
- Web2.0 – Free Software as the building blocks of the web revolution
- Virtualization – Basics, comparison and new developments (e.g. VT/Pacifica, Linux 2.6.20, QEMU, Virtualbox etc.)
- Open beyond Software – The principles of Free Software applied far from source code
Furthermore we are planning a special track (in german) for beginners. We would also like to see proposals for that.
Submitting Contributions
Registration and submission of contributions is via the web-based frontend under http://cfp.froscon.org/. For participating in the Call for Papers, you will have to submit a short abstract, as well as a detailed description. To participate in the conference, you will also need to submit slides for your talk beforehand.
Language
Contributions can be submitted in German as well as English. The choice of language should depend solely on which language is more suitable for presenting the chosen topic. Language of the submitted texts and of the talk should be the same.
Length of the Contributions
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.
The talks should take no more than 45 minutes, in order to allow some time for questions and for preparing the stage for the following speaker.
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 web frontend. We ask for submission of the slides in PDF; other open document format such as OpenOffice should only be submitted after prior consultation.
Licenses
We will publish abstract, description and slides on a website and include the abstract in the conference program. We demand that you place your contributions under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Germany (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/de/) 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, depending on 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 sponsors. We ask you to understand that we will not be able to reimburse you for your expenses.
Accomodation
The organizers of FrOSCon are looking for suitable accomodation at the moment. Current developments will be published on the web site of the event (http://www.froscon.org). We can also help find a place to sleep.
Social Event
We are planning to hold a social event on the evening of the 25th and kindly invite all speakers to attend.
Important Dates and Contacts
June 4th, 2007 End of the Call for Papers. All contributions need to be submitted by this date in order to qualify.
June 18th, 2007 Notification of acceptance of all contributions
June 30th, 2007 Final acceptance. We ask all invited speakers to give their final acceptance by this date.
August 1st, 2007 Last date for submitting slides
August 25th, 2007 First day of FrOSCon
Further information can be found on the web under http://www.froscon.org.
Please send questions about the Call for Papers via email to: program@froscon.org
Contact the organizers via email: contact@froscon.org
Postal address:
FrOSCon e.V.
c/o Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
Grantham-Allee 20
53757 Sankt Augustin
Germany
General
FrOSCon is a two-day conference on free software and open source, which takes place on 25th and 26th August 2007 at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, in St. Augustin near Bonn, Germany.
Focus of the conference is a comprehensive range of talks about current topics in free software and open source. Furthermore, space will be provided for developers of free software and open source projects to organize their own developer meetings or even their own program.
2007 will see the second installment of FrOSCon. It is organized by the deparmtent of computer science in collaboration with the Linux/Unix User Group Sankt Augustin, the student body and the FrOSCon e.V.
Topics
We are looking for contributions about current developments from the whole field of Free Software and Open Source., e.g.:
- Operating Systems
- Development
- Administration
- Security
- Legal Issues
- Desktop
- Open Hardware
We would especially like to see contributions about the following topics:
- Web2.0 – Free Software as the building blocks of the web revolution
- Virtualization – Basics, comparison and new developments (e.g. VT/Pacifica, Linux 2.6.20, QEMU, Virtualbox etc.)
- Open beyond Software – The principles of Free Software applied far from source code
Furthermore we are planning a special track (in german) for beginners. We would also like to see proposals for that.
Submitting Contributions
Registration and submission of contributions is via the web-based frontend under http://cfp.froscon.org/. For participating in the Call for Papers, you will have to submit a short abstract, as well as a detailed description. To participate in the conference, you will also need to submit slides for your talk beforehand.
Language
Contributions can be submitted in German as well as English. The choice of language should depend solely on which language is more suitable for presenting the chosen topic. Language of the submitted texts and of the talk should be the same.
Length of the Contributions
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.
The talks should take no more than 45 minutes, in order to allow some time for questions and for preparing the stage for the following speaker.
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 web frontend. We ask for submission of the slides in PDF; other open document format such as OpenOffice should only be submitted after prior consultation.
Licenses
We will publish abstract, description and slides on a website and include the abstract in the conference program. We demand that you place your contributions under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Germany (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/de/) 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, depending on 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 sponsors. We ask you to understand that we will not be able to reimburse you for your expenses.
Accomodation
The organizers of FrOSCon are looking for suitable accomodation at the moment. Current developments will be published on the web site of the event (http://www.froscon.org). We can also help find a place to sleep.
Social Event
We are planning to hold a social event on the evening of the 25th and kindly invite all speakers to attend.
Important Dates and Contacts
June 4th, 2007 End of the Call for Papers. All contributions need to be submitted by this date in order to qualify.
June 18th, 2007 Notification of acceptance of all contributions
June 30th, 2007 Final acceptance. We ask all invited speakers to give their final acceptance by this date.
August 1st, 2007 Last date for submitting slides
August 25th, 2007 First day of FrOSCon
Further information can be found on the web under http://www.froscon.org.
Please send questions about the Call for Papers via email to: program@froscon.org
Contact the organizers via email: contact@froscon.org
Postal address:
FrOSCon e.V.
c/o Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
Grantham-Allee 20
53757 Sankt Augustin
Germany
Thursday, March 15. 2007