FOSDEM - Press & Promotional

Thank you, volunteers!

jrial — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:07:41 +0100

FOSDEM was a success again, not in small part thanks to the efforts of the army of volunteers who helped us run things smoothly. Thank you all for your enthousiasm and your energy. We couldn't have managed without you.

Working with you guys & gals was refreshing as always, and I hope we can do this again next year. But first, some hard needed rest!

Call for volunteers

jrial — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:25:23 +0100

Less than 2 weeks until FOSDEM, time flies indeed. This year we'll have over 200 lectures and more than 5000 geeks, which means quite a lot of work.

That's why we're calling on you, our visitors, to lend a hand during the event and help us in making this edition another success. Even if you only have a couple of spare hours in between talks, don't be shy to grab this chance to become part of the team that "makes it happen".

What can you do? Well, as a matter of fact, we have quite a list of tasks we could use some help with:

Setting up the venue (network, tables & stands, signalization) on friday and saturday morning
Welcoming visitors at the infodesk and supplying them with information
Handling the donations
Translating for our foreign guests
Handle taxis for speakers
Moderation of the main tracks and the lightning talks
Clean up after the event

And I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton!

Does this sound like fun to you? Then point your mail client towards volunteers@fosdem.org, and become part of the team now! And remember, even if you can only contribute a couple of hours in between talks, your help is more than appreciated.

Helping hands are especially welcome on Friday afternoon. If you're in the neighborhood of Brussels, just come to the venue, we'll need it !
PS: Don't worry about missing the beer event. As a matter of fact, we're going all together after wards.

See you at FOSDEM!

Are you going to FOSDEM?

chri — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:24:52 +0100

Did you already tell everyone you were going to FOSDEM this year?

You can use the following code to embed this banner into your website or blog:

For more promotional material, please visit here.

Press

markvdb — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:49:02 +0100

Press Releases

The below FOSDEM 2009 press release is aimed at a fairly technical audience of software developers and the media they consume.
(A press release for general media is sent out the week before the release.)

FOSDEM 2009 technical press release in English (PDF/ OOo/ txt)

FOSDEM 2009 Technical press release in your native language

Belarussian ( PDF/ OOo/ txt) - Bulgarian ( PDF/ OOo/ txt) - Croatian ( PDF/ OOo/ txt) - Danish ( PDF/ OOo/ txt) - Dutch ( PDF/ OOo/ txt) - Estonian ( PDF/ OOo/ txt) - French ( PDF/ OOo/ txt) - German ( PDF/ OOo/ txt) - Greek ( PDF/ OOo/ txt) - Hungarian ( PDF/ OOo/ txt) - Italian ( PDF/ OOo/ txt) - Latvian ( PDF/ OOo/ txt) - Norvegian ( PDF/ OOo/ txt) - Polish ( PDF/ OOo/ txt) - Romanian ( PDF/ OOo/ txt) - Russian ( PDF/ OOo/ txt) - Spanish ( PDF/ OOo/ txt) - Swedish ( PDF/ OOo/ txt) - Portuguese ( PDF/ OOo/ txt)

FOSDEM in the news

FOSDEM 2009

to be done

FOSDEM 2008

RTBF television 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 fotoâ€™s

Promotion material for 2009

loki — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:25:27 +0100

Update promotion material (banners, web badges) for FOSDEM 2009 are now available.

If you appreciate the event, you might want to help us spread the word about it by including one of our 2009 badges or banners on your site or blog.

Call for volunteers

chri — 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 22-23-24 February, even for a few hours, please let us know at volunteers@fosdem.org.

Press & Promotion

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

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

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/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
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

FOSDEM 2009

to be done

FOSDEM 2008

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 fotoâ€™s

Donate to FOSDEM

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

FOSDEM is an event organized for the community by the community. As such, we think it is important to keep access to the event free.

The event is organized by volunteers who don't get paid and don't have commercial interests in the event. As one might imagine, however, the organization costs a lot of money and other resources.

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.

Donors Return

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

The draw works dynamically: for every multiplication of € 25, your chance to win one of the prizes below will increase (example: for € 100 you have four (4) times more chance to win than for € 25).

Note that you have to donate at least € 25 to participate in the draw.

3 Nokia N810 devices (sponsored by Nokia)
3 BUG devices (donated by Bug Labs)
20 international Linux Magazine subscriptions (sponsored by Linux Magazine)

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

€ 25 or more: a FOSDEM T-shirt! (different sizes available)
€ 50 – € 99: a FOSDEM T-shirt + an O'Reilly pocket guide of your choice (*)
€ 100 – € 149: a FOSDEM T-shirt + an O'Reilly book of your choice (*)
€ 150 or more: a FOSDEM T-shirt + an O'Reilly book of your choice (*) + participation in a draw to get five 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 are not 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 in 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 or misunderstandings in the future, read the following VERY CAREFULLY: you don't buy these items from FOSDEM — we give them to you to thank you for your support. We can't guarantee anything. In case of problems (whatever they may be), we can't give you your money back.