Together with Mindquarry’s CEO Stephan Voigt, I’ll be attending Red Herring Spring in Monterey, CA. We’ll fly to LA April 30 and plan to be in Monterey May 1-3. It looks as if we’ll be in San Francisco a few hours during May 1st and definitely at May 4th. Back in LA May 5th to fly back.
If you’re around and would like to meet, drop me a line: sandro [dot] groganz [at] mindquarry [dot] com.
Good ‘ol friend Zak pointed me to a major Open Source event in Romania: eLiberatica.
Intro blurb from their site:
The eLiberatica Conference brings community leaders from around the world to talk about the hottest topics in FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) movement demonstrating the advantages of adopting, using and developing Open Source and Free Software solutions.
Some of the stars will be speaking there: Rasmus Lerdorf, Monty Widenius, Brian Behlendorf, Aleksander Farstad and of course Zak himself. The sessions and workshops cover various interesting topics, they all are in English. The registration fee is quite moderate: 249 EUR and even less if you book now.
If you’re close, don’t miss it from May 18th-19th in BraÅ?ov, Romania.
Hurry up, submit a paper! The LinuxTag Call for Papers ends tomorrow, February 16th.
Short info about LinuxTag from the homepage:
LinuxTag 2007 opens doors from May 30 to June 2, 2007 on Berlin Expo Center under the Funkturm. We invite users and experts to learn at Europe’s leading conference and expo more about the potential of Linux, Open Source, and Free Software.
Arrived in Badajoz yesterday for the Free Software World Conference. Right now I sit in the empty “Sala Azul” with Görkem.
The venue looks nice, plenty of people. Unfortunately, all talks in Spanish yet, even Richard Stallman’s.
Just met Erkan, who leads the Pardus project. That’s a Linux distribution mainly for the Turkish market and it’s financed by the Turkish government. They pay 15 full time Linux devs – seems like the largest state run Linux developers group. Will write more about that project later.
I’ll be at the 3rd Free Software World Conference in Badajoz/Spain from February 7-9. Last year’s event was huge with 6500 attendees.
I will be one of the presenters of the tOSSad EU project, where I am a member of the steering committee on behalf of eZ.
Will you be there as well?
BÃ¥rd published a short note on his blog that the call for papers for the 5th annual eZ Conference is now open. Deadline for submissions is February 1st.
The conference is worth attending not only for eZ Publish or eZ Components users and geeks, it is also interesting if you’re interested in content and knowledge management or PHP/LAMP in general. Last year, I enjoyed talking to guests such as Martin White and Anne Jubert, Rasmus Lerdorf and David Axmark – and some more of the 350 attendees.
If you are close, check out this two-days workshop Free and Open Source Software in South-Eastern Europe from March 24-25 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Some time ago, Lukas asked for an overview of Open Source events and compiled one himself.
The tOSSad EU project also got a list of events online. eZ systems is a consortium partner in tOSSad, thus I recently passed some of the events to Görkem (a tOSSad fellow) which eZ systems had internally. He just added them.
If you’d like to have an event added to the tOSSad list, please leave a comment here.
BTW: tOSSad is an abbreviation of “towards Open Source Software adoption and dissemination”. Take a look at
www.tossad.org for more information.
Here are some more collections:
I am going to present a talk and a workshop at the Free Software & Open Source Days 2006 in Istanbul/Turkey. Currently, the program is only available in Turkish, so I’ll tell you a bit more about my presentations here in English. BTW: They will also be presented in English, because I speak no Turkish:
Feb 25, Saturday, 14:00-15:00
eZ publish is an Open Source Enterprise Content Management System based on PHP. It is being used by thousands of customers around the world, installed over 150.000 and with 1,5 million downloads. This talk provides an overview of the eZ publish functionality. You will also get first-hand information on new features and the roadmap ahead.
Feb 25, Saturday, 15:00-19:00
In this tutorial you will learn how to use the Open Source Enterprise Content Management System eZ publish to set-up a typical small business site where you need to customize the CMS system for the customer. This site will include e-commerce functionality, PDF exports, a customized content structure, RSS feeds to publish news and a WebDAV interface for simpler document management.
Sandro Groganz 