Press & Promotion
Press Releases
The below FOSDEM 2009 press release is aimed at technical media. A general media PR is sent out the week before FOSDEM. Contact us if you want it early. You might also be interested in past press coverage.
FOSDEM 2009 technical press release in English (pdf/ odt/ txt) - Albanian (pdf/ odt/ txt) - Belarussian ( pdf/ odt/ txt) - Bulgarian ( pdf/ odt/ txt) - Catalan ( pdf/ odt/ txt) - Croatian ( pdf/ odt/ txt) - Danish ( pdf/ odt/ txt) - Dutch ( pdf/ odt/ txt) - Estonian ( pdf/ odt/ txt) - French ( pdf/ odt/ txt) - German ( pdf/ odt/ txt) - Greek ( pdf/ odt/ txt) - Hungarian ( pdf/ odt/ txt) - Italian ( pdf/ odt/ txt) - Latvian ( pdf/ odt/ txt) - Macedonian ( pdf/ odt/ txt) - Norvegian ( pdf/ odt/ txt) - Polish ( pdf/ odt/ txt) - Romanian ( pdf/ odt/ txt) - Russian ( pdf/ odt/ txt) - Spanish ( pdf/ odt/ txt) - Swedish ( pdf/ odt/ txt) - Portuguese ( pdf/ odt/ txt)
Flyers, ads & banners
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!
Flyers
A flyer for you to 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 - (510x716) 136 KB: http://fosdem.org/2009/promo/flyer/color-lo
High resolution - (2551x3579) 700 KB: http://fosdem.org/2009/promo/flyer/color-hi
PDF/Vector - 460 KB : http://fosdem.org/2009/promo/flyer/pdf
Web Badges
Image | Link | Description | Code |
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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/fosdem09.png | "fosdem09", PNG | <a href="http://www.fosdem.org"><img src="http://www.fosdem.org/promo/badge/fosdem09.png" alt="FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting" /></a> | |
http://fosdem.org/promo/badge/fosdem09.gif | "fosdem09", GIF | <a href="http://www.fosdem.org"><img src="http://www.fosdem.org/promo/badge/fosdem09.gif" alt="FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting" /></a> | |
http://fosdem.org/promo/badge/fosdem09-blue.png | "fosdem09-blue", PNG | <a href="http://www.fosdem.org"><img src="http://www.fosdem.org/promo/badge/fosdem09-blue.png" alt="FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting" /></a> | |
http://fosdem.org/promo/badge/fosdem09-blue.gif | "fosdem09-blue", GIF | <a href="http://www.fosdem.org"><img src="http://www.fosdem.org/promo/badge/fosdem09-blue.gif" alt="FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting" /></a> |
Banners
Image | Code |
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http://fosdem.org/promo/going-to |
<a href="http://www.fosdem.org"><img src="http://www.fosdem.org/promo/going-to" alt="I'm going to FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting" /></a> |
http://fosdem.org/promo/fosdem |
<a href="http://www.fosdem.org"><img src="http://www.fosdem.org/promo/fosdem" alt="FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting" /></a> |
http://fosdem.org/promo/fosdem/static |
<a href="http://www.fosdem.org"><img src="http://www.fosdem.org/promo/fosdem/static" alt="FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting" /></a> |
http://fosdem.org/promo/fosdem/square |
<a href="http://www.fosdem.org"><img src="http://www.fosdem.org/promo/fosdem/square" alt="FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting" /></a> |
http://fosdem.org/promo/fosdem/square/static |
<a href="http://www.fosdem.org"><img src="http://www.fosdem.org/promo/fosdem/square/static" alt="FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting" /></a> |
FOSDEM in the news
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- RTBF evening news
- Indymedia.be - Indymedia.be coverage of FOSDEM 2008
- LXer
- Linux.com
- OSnews.com
- LinuxToday.com
- LinuxFR.org
- TooLinux.com
- LinuxIn.dk
- SUSEItalia.org
- Linux-Magazin.de
- Drupal.be
- Blogs.Sun.com
- Dot.KDE.org
- Linux-Magazin.de
- Mozilla-Europe.org
- Linux-Magazine.com
- Elisa.Fluendo.com
- Blog.Emakina.com
- News.OpenSUSE.org
- Wikinews - Open software developers meet at FOSDEM 2008
- Wikinews - Interview at FOSDEM 2008: Drupal founder Dries Buytaert balances community and company interests
- ZDNet - Mozilla-evangelist praat over Prism
- ZDNet - Openbronbeurs FOSDEM in foto’s