FOSSCON 2014: Difference between revisions

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Fosscon is a Philadelphia event, quite closely tied to our local open source community... specifically the philly linux users group and hive76 (a local and very active hackerspace).

Date and time

August 9, 2014

Schedule

Registration
(more updates soon)

Location

Franklin Institute 222 N 20th Street Philadelphia, PA 19103

Registration

The event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required for attendees, but preferred.

Activities

This year, we will be celebrating our 5th consecutive year in service. FOSSCON is a free and open source software conference that include talks and workshops on topics including development, community building, hackerspace activities, and more. Some of the topics previously presented at FOSSCON include: 3D printing, security, protecting your privacy, networking with the local tech community and discovering new technologies.

Presentations

The following Fedora Contributors are presenting at FOSSCON

New User - topic Linux - topic you wish to speak about

Event volunteers

If you are attending the FOSSCON, please add your name to the list below:

Budget

Item	Budget	Actual
Sponsorship	$500	$500
Travel/Lodging	$380	$380
Media	$120
Current Total	$1000
Approved Budget Total	$1000

Budget Approved at 20130514 FAmNa Meeting

Transportation to and from the event

Arrivals and Departures

Chart for knowing when folks are arriving or departing, by plane, train, car, roller skates, or otherwise.

Who	Arrive (Flight-Time)	Departure (Flight-Time)	Comments	Ridesharing

Tasks to be done

Arrange for event box, banners, and Media. Done
Arrange for speakers if any from Fedora
Room reservations
Volunteers?

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 == Activities ==
-Talks for general interest stuff in our larger rooms (there will be two tracks of that) plus hands-on workshops.
+This year, we will be celebrating our 5th consecutive year in service. FOSSCON is a free and open source software conference that include talks and workshops on topics including development, community building, hackerspace activities, and more. Some of the topics previously presented at FOSSCON include: 3D printing, security, protecting your privacy, networking with the local tech community and discovering new technologies.
-[[http://www.hive76.org/open-source-is-a-philosophy-not-a-checkbox  Hive76]] is an active participant
-Basekamp is a Philly non-profit, which was initially involved in arts and culture here in Philly.  Basekamp had a space here for 13 years but is currently space-less. Basekamps purpose is more "open source culture" than "open source software" but over the years we've found interesting ways to work together. This is part of why hive is so closely involved, hackerspaces tend to bring all those things together. Hive76 will have their own workshop space, where they will be covering things like soldering, arduino, and battle-bots (they have a battle-bot assembly class and will be demo-ing their bots in an arena in their workshop space at fosscon)
 == Presentations ==

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