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Events
| 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 | $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, 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 | $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 |