FOSDEM - Press & Promotional

Call for volunteers

floris — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:15:23 +0100

During the FOSDEM weekend we'll welcome several thousand visitors, requiring a lot of volunteers to make their visit as nice as we can. Are you interested in helping out?

"What can I do?", you might think. Well, a lot:

Greeting/helping visitors, handling donations, providing information, moderating talks, assist the speaker, guarding our precious equipment, setting up, translating, calling taxis, being praised for the wonderful event you're helping to organize, ... The list goes on. You will be assisted by a couple of experienced volunteers who know the ropes from previous editions.

So, if you'd like to help out during the weekend of 23-24-25 February, even for a few hours, please let us know at volunteers@fosdem.org.

How to promote FOSDEM

loki — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:44:56 +0100

Hereafter you will find some FOSDEM ads and banners - feel free to use them to promote the event.

These are some flyers to print and banners to add to your personal (or FOSS project) website in order to reference FOSDEM.

Feel free to use them to promote the event and send us an e-mail so we can talk about you as well!

Our news page has an RSS feed. Feel free to aggregate it!

Press Release

FOSDEM 2007 Persbericht - (Nederlands/Dutch)

Flyers

Like previous editions there is a flyer you can print and distribute. We usually print 2 flyers per A4-format page.
Some good ideas of places to spam are:

Computer store
Geek friends and fellow hackers
University and school
At work (yes yes, don't be shy)
Hang one on your car
...

Low resolution - (413x585) 164 KB: http://fosdem.org/2007/promo/flyer/color-lo
High resolution - (2480x3508) 1.2 MB: http://fosdem.org/2007/promo/flyer/color-hi
PDF/Vector - 1.2 MB : http://fosdem.org/2007/promo/flyer/pdf
Brochure - 760 KB: http://fosdem.org/2007/promo/flyer/brochure
Thanks to Karlheinz Geyer for his work on the brochure

Web Badges

Link	Description	Code
http://fosdem.org/promo/badge/fosdem.png	"fosdem", PNG	`<a href="http://www.fosdem.org"><img src="http://www.fosdem.org/promo/badge/fosdem.png" alt="FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting" /></a>`
http://fosdem.org/promo/badge/fosdem.gif	"fosdem", GIF	`<a href="http://www.fosdem.org"><img src="http://www.fosdem.org/promo/badge/fosdem.gif" alt="FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting" /></a>`
http://fosdem.org/promo/badge/fosdem07.png	"fosdem07", PNG	`<a href="http://www.fosdem.org"><img src="http://www.fosdem.org/promo/badge/fosdem07.png" alt="FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting" /></a>`
http://fosdem.org/promo/badge/fosdem07.gif	"fosdem07", GIF	`<a href="http://www.fosdem.org"><img src="http://www.fosdem.org/promo/badge/fosdem07.gif" alt="FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting" /></a>`

Banners

Image	Code
http://fosdem.org/promo/fosdem-2007	`<a href="http://www.fosdem.org"><img src="http://www.fosdem.org/promo/fosdem-2007" alt="FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting" /></a>`
http://fosdem.org/promo/fosdem-2007-short	`<a href="http://www.fosdem.org"><img src="http://www.fosdem.org/promo/fosdem-2007-short" alt="FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting" /></a>`
http://fosdem.org/promo/fosdem-2007-static	`<a href="http://www.fosdem.org"><img src="http://www.fosdem.org/promo/fosdem-2007-static" alt="FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting" /></a>`

Thanks to Peter Soetens for fixing the first animated banner

FOSDEM in the news

http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/78/FOSDEM_Brussels_2007_Event_Report.pdf - Linux Magazine FOSDEM 2007 Report
http://codecave.org/?weblog_id=FOSDEM-interview - Øyvind Kolås, GEGL
http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news-2007-02.html#01 - Federico Mena-Quintero, GNOME / Profiling destkop applications
http://osnews.com/story.php/17159/FOSDEM-2007-Interviews - OSnews: FOSDEM 2007 interviews
http://osnews.com/story.php/17146/ReactOSs-Project-Leader-Speaks-up - OSnews: ReactOS's project leader speaks up
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/80041/index.html - LXer: Jim Gettys on the OLPC hardware/software innovations
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/79924/index.html - LXer: Interview: Øyvind Kolås talks GEGL
http://linuxfr.org/2007/02/01/22000.html - LinuxFr: 4 Interviews FOSDEM 2007
http://lwn.net/Articles/220618/ - LWN: Enjoy the first FOSDEM interviews
http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2007020501926INSWDV - Linux Today: FOSDEM.org: First FOSDEM Interviews
https://www.linux-community.de/Neues/story?storyid=21898 - Linux-community.de : Fosdem 2007 - Interviews mit Referenten
http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2007/10803.html - Pro-Linux: Interviews im Vorfeld der FOSDEM 2007
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/84943/from/rss09 - Heide.de : FOSDEM 2007: Interviews mit Open-Source-Entwicklern
http://news.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/02/1935221&tid=96 - Linux.com : Jim Gettys on the OLPC hardware
http://www.saint-andre.com/blog/2007-02.html#2007-02-08T09:44 Peter Saint-Andre: FOSDEM Interview - Jabbering in Brussels
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/80642/index.html - LXer: Interview: Kristian Høgsberg
http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17213/LinuxBIOS-Creator-EFI-is-a-Security-Threat - OSNews: LinuxBIOS Creator: EFI is a Security Threat
http://pvanhoof.be/blog/index.php/2007/02/12/bla-bla-bla-new-todo-items-bla-bla - Philip Van Hoof
http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/fosdem-interview-with-linuxbios-founder-ronald-g-minnich - Hermann Uwe: FOSDEM interview with LinuxBIOS founder Ronald G. Minnich
http://lwn.net/Articles/220946/ - LWN: Second batch of FOSDEM interviews
http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-02-07-030-26-IN-DV-EV Linux Today: FOSDEM.org: Second Batch of FOSDEM Interviews
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2669 - Bart Coppens: FOSDEM 2007 KDE schedule
http://figuiere.net/hub/blog/?2007/02/08/498-fosdem - Diary of a CrazyFrench: FOSDEM
http://lpi.org/en/lpi/english/news/events/lpi_offers_discounted_certification_exams_at_fosdem_2007 - LPI.org: LPI Offers Discounted Certification Exams at FOSDEM 2007
http://beranger.org/index.php?article=2367 - Planète Béranger: Interviews day, FOSDEM 2007 and stuff
http://www.beaufour.dk/blog-archives/2007/02/fosdem_2007.html - blogfour: Fosdem 2007
http://summerrainx.com/blog/?p=739 - Summerrainx: FOSDEM 2007
http://www.buytaert.net/fosdem-2007 - Dries Buytaert: FOSDEM 2007
http://www.grillbar.org/wordpress/?p=185 - The Evil Blog: Going to FOSDEM from Denmark?
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/81231/index.html - LXer: FOSDEM interviews: software patents, security, JBoss jBPM and Firebug
See also: Planet FOSDEM
http://www.indymedia.be/en/node/7362 - Indymedia Belgium news about FOSDEM

Linking to us...

http://xchm.sourceforge.net/ - xCHM project
http://www.dierenasieltienen.be/ - Animal asylum Tienen(be)
http://dasdan.be/ - Dasdan's website: Forum, Download, Links about prog lang, webdev,...
http://linuxfr.org/ - Da Linux French Page
http://www.gothweb.be/ - Belgian Gothic Community
http://duister.org/ - Photography website
http://www.zeuslinux.gr/ - The First HELLENIC Linux Distribution
http://www.kde-france.org - KDE France
http://www.open-t.nl - Open-T, Open Source Training & Consultancy
http://www.linux-service.be/welkom.htm - Linux Service Belgium
http://summerrainx.com/blog/?p=739 - Summerrainx
http://jroller.com/page/neugens?entry=fosdem - Una tazza di café: FOSDEM
http://ilabra.org/?p=77 - ilabra.org: Looking forward to XMPP @ Fosdem
http://ads.wars-nicht.de/blog/archives/114-PostgreSQL-booth-at-FOSDEM-2007.html - ads' corner: PostgreSQL booth at FOSDEM 2007
http://www.ibridge.be/?p=34 - Matt Casters on Data Integration: FOSDEM Brussels 2007

Donate to FOSDEM

loki — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:19:28 +0100

FOSDEM is an event for the community, by the community. As such, we think it is important to keep access to the event free.
It is organised by volunteers who don't get paid and don't have commercial interests in the event.
However, as one might imagine, organizing such an event costs a lot of money.

The main characteristic of FOSDEM is that it is a non-commercial event. To keep it that way, we think the best way to fund the event is to ask for support from the open source community on a voluntary basis.

Donators Return

We're asking you to support the event by making a voluntary donation.
As a return to donators, various prizes will be given by us and our sponsors.

The draw works dynamically: for every multiplication of 25 EUR, your chance to win one of the prizes below will increase (example: with 100 EUR you have 4 times more chances to win than with 25 EUR).
Note that you have to donate at least 25 EUR to participate to the draw.

2 high-performance Sun Ultra 20 workstations (sponsored by Sun Microsystems)
3 FOSS-powered Nokia N800 devices (sponsored by Nokia)
20 international Hakin9 magazine subscriptions (sponsored by Hakin9)
20 international Linux Magazine subscriptions (sponsored by Linux Magazine)
20 GNU/Linux Magazine subscriptions to french-speaking donators (sponsored by GNU/Linux Magazine)
20 MISC magazine subscriptions to french-speaking donators (sponsored by MISC)

Other gifts are given for donations depending on the amount of money, to each donator:

25 EUR or more: a FOSDEM T-shirt ! (different sizes available)
50→99 EUR: a FOSDEM T-shirt + an O'Reilly pocket guide of your choice (*)
100→149 EUR: a FOSDEM T-shirt + an O'Reilly book of your choice (*)
150 EUR or more: a FOSDEM T-shirt + an O'Reilly book of your choice (*) + participation in a draw to get 5 additional O'Reilly books of your choice (2 winners of 5 books)

FOSDEM ASBL/VZW (the non-profit association) was founded in April 2002. Donations will sadly enough not be tax deductible.

How ?

So, how can I contribute to FOSDEM?

Donations at the infodesk during the conference
Donations in advance (read below)

First, you need to create an account on our website. Please fill all fields.
After that, it's as simple as a bank transfer to the following account number:

Account
Bank Account Number:	310-1613048-24
SWIFT Code:	BBRUBEBB
IBAN:	BE81 3101 6130 4824
Account Holder
FOSDEM ASBL Rue Saint Roch, 36 B-1360 PERWEZ BELGIUM
Bank Information
ING Belgium Avenue Marnix, 24 B-1000 Brussels BELGIUM

Write, as reference (communication), the login of your account on www.fosdem.org

To avoid any problems in the future, read the following VERY CAREFULLY: you don't buy these items from FOSDEM. We give this to you to thank you for your support. We don't guarantee anything. In case of problems (whatever that may be), we can't give you your money back.