Ambassadors/EMEA/EventPlan:2016

Plan of Events for FY2016

This page should help us plan events in EMEA better. Instead of just listing events, we should have an idea what kind of audience we can approach there, what our reach would be, if the event has our target audience.

Instructions:

• The fiscal year 2016 starts on March 1 2015 and ends on February 29 2016, please add only events which take place between those days.
• Add only "sizable" events which needs some planning, or budget, or we should have under our radar. Don't add events such as a monthly gathering of local user group although we encourage you attend such events and promote Fedora there.
• Date - you don't need to know an exact date, many events announce it just a couple of months before, but you should know the month, or at least the quarter when it will take place. If you're not sure that the event will take place, don't hesitate and write organizers and ask them. We have had a lot of events we budgeted money for, they didn't take place, and we lost the money. You should be sure that the event will most likely take place.
• Name, Location - pretty self-explanatory :)
• Event Owner - before we include an event to our plans and allocate money to it, we need to know who will take care of the organization of Fedora presence there, events that are not assigned to anyone can't get funding.
• Description - describe the event, topics covered, size, importance,...
• Audience - estimate the number of attendees and specify what kind of audience it is, this should help us determine whom to target there and what flavor/spin promote there.
• Justification - explain why Fedora should be at the event and invest in sending people there, what are opportunities and benefits.
• Expense - specify budget estimation to have adequate presence there.

If you have any questions, contact Jiri Eischmann.

Date	Name	Location	Event Owner	Description	Audience	Justification	Expense
March 7-8	InstallFest 2015	Prague, Czech Republic	Miro Hrončok	A two-day conference devoted to Linux and open source technologies at the campus of the biggest technical university in the country.	200, mostly computer science students	The attendees are our primary target audience for Workstation. It also makes sense to promote Server there, too	$0
March 21-22	Chemnitzer Linux Tage 2015	Chemnitz, Germany	Joerg Simon				$1300
April?	Open Source Days	Copenhagen, Denmark	Robert Scheck				$1000
April?	3D Expo	Prague, Czech Republic	Miro Hrončok	A two day expo and conference devoted to desktop 3D printing and related technologies.	300, makers and designers, hardware hackers	We can promote Fedora Workstation to makers, especially promote our 3D printing stack	$120
April 17-19	PyCon Italy	Florence, Italy	Robert Mayr				$1200
May 7-9	LinuxWochen Vienna	Vienna, Austria	Sirko Kemter				$1000
??	Greek Community Conference	??, Greece	??				$500
??	PlayIT	??, Hungary	Rákosi Gergely				$1200
August 22-24	LVEE	Grodno, Belarus	Aleksandra Fedorova	International conference of developers and users of free / open source software	160, mostly developers		$400
August 23-24	FrOSCon	Sankt Augustin, Germany	Felix Kaechele				$2000
October 3-4	Linux Days	Prague, Czech Republic	Jiri Eischmann	One of the largest events in the country devoted to Linux and FLOSS, highlighted topics: networking, administration, makers (3D printing workshops etc), there is always a Gentoo track	600, mostly students, admins, users	It's an important regional event Fedora should not miss to maintain awareness among users and target technical students as our target audience, we should primarily promote Workstation and Server there.	$0
October 5-7	LinuxCon Europe	Dublin, Ireland	Jiri Eischmann	Three-day conference with a broad range of topics around Linux, organized by the Linux Foundation, usually co-hosted with other conferences shuch as KVM Forum	1400, enterprise users (developers, admins, architects,...), upstream developers	LinuxCon is one of a few Linux events in Europe where we can meet enterprise users, we should primarily promote Server and Cloud at this event (co-hosted with OpenCloud), it's also a good event for networking with various upstream projects	$2000
October?	FSCons	Gothenburg, Sweden	Robert Scheck				$1300
October?	Bar Camp Manchester	Manchester, UK	Jon Archer				$1000
October?	T-DOSE	Eindhoven, Netherlands	Rubén Guerra Marín	It is a free and yearly 2-days event held in The Netherlands to promote use and development of Open Source Software.	500 people, mostly developers and students.	It is the biggest FLOSS event in the Netherlands, and people from Belgium and Germany also come. We should promote mainly workstation and server flavors. It is the main way to get to dutch people.	$200
November 7-8	OpenAlt	Brno, Czech Republic	Jiri Eischmann	A two-day conference devoted to Linux and open source, but recently trying to expand to other fields: open government, open education, makers, Red Hat and Fedora has traditionally a strong presence there due to a large engineering office in the same city.	500, mostly students, users	It's an important regional event Fedora should not miss to maintain awareness among users and target technical students as our target audience, we should primarily promote Workstation there.	$0
November 7-8	OpenRheinRuhr	Oberhausen, Germany	Felix Kaechele				$400
November?	OSOL Conference	Szeged, Hungary	Zoltan Hoppar				$500
January 30-31	FOSDEM	Brussels, Belgium	Jiri Eischmann	The largest gathering of open source enthusiasts in Europe, all important open source projects are present there, Fedora usually has a dev room there.	7000, open source developers, powerusers	This is a must event for Fedora because of the high number of FLOSS contributors, great opportunity to get Fedora contributors together, present our technologies to our target audiences and do networking with other projects, mainly our upstreams, we should primarily promote Workstation, but Server and Cloud may also find their audiences there.	$3000
February 5-7	DevConf.cz	Brno, Czech Republic	Jiri Eischmann	The largest technical conference of Red Hat, over 100 talks and workshops covering Red Hat-related technologies, one day is devoted to Fedora and after Flock it's the largest gathering of Fedora contributors and serves as a planning event, too.	1000, mostly redhatters, but also independent contributors, and contributors from other companies, also enterprise users	There is not much room to do outreach because most attendees are aware of and even familiar with Fedora, it's an opportunity to meet contributors from other projects Red Hat is involved in and even with RH contributors to Fedora who don't otherwise attend Fedora events, it's also an opportunity to promote Fedora to enterprise users who attend the event for information about RH technologies.	$0

Stats:

• Number of events: 20
• Countries covered: Czech Republic (5), Germany (3), Hungary (2), Denmark, Italy, Austria, Greece, Belgium, Ireland, Sweden, UK, Belarus, Netherlands.
• Total number of attendees covered: 10,860
• Total requested funding: $17,120
• Topics covered: Linux/FOSS 16 (events), cloud (2), 3D printing, programming language, gaming, bar camp

Findings:

• No events outside Europe, nothing in Africa, Middle East, or Russia!
• No events in large countries such as France, Spain, Poland.
• The Central Europe seems to be well-covered, but we don't cover the Balkans (former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania) at all, also just one event in Eastern Europe (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine,...), just two events in Scandinavia and none in the Baltic countries.
• We're still heavily focused on traditional Linux and FOSS events where the audience usually already knows us, we should expand to other fields we can do an actual outreach (events for developers, makers,...) and where our target audience is.