FSCONS 2010/Call for participation

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Call for Participation

Introduction

The Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS) is a meeting place for social change, focused on the future of free software and free society. The conference brings together people from a wide range of fields, and merges the technical with the social, seeking both to activate and challenge. Open discussion and brainstorming are as important as the talks given during the conference.

Participation

For this years conference we're looking for talks on a number of different issues or projects (both full-length and lightning talks), but we're also looking specifically for workshops to be held during the conference, or in the week before as pre-conference activities. All proposals that are submitted will be reviewed by members of the community before the final decisions are made.

In order to submit your proposal, please go to FSCONS 2010 Submit Proposal. This form is to be used for your own submissions. If you have ideas of other people you want to listen to, please feel free to suggest those in the FSCONS Wiki. When you fill out the form, we would like to ask you to provide the following information. Please keep in mind that the title and summary may be read by community reviewers. When deciding on the appropriate timeslot, please calculate about five minutes for questions and answers by the audience. For example, a 45 minute talk will be 40 minutes of presentation and five minutes for questions.

  • Author name(s)
  • Contact Information
  • Preferred timeslot (30, 45, or lightning)
  • Title of proposal
  • Summary of proposal

Important dates

The deadline for submissions is the 30st of June 2010. Accepted proposals will be notified as soon as possible after that date, but at the latest on the 30th of July 2010.

If your proposal for a talk is accepted, we would like to ask you to submit your full presentation in PDF format at latest one week before the conference. If your presentation will include audio or video material, we would prefer to receive those in Ogg Theora and Ogg Vorbis formats, so that we can make sure that they can be played during the presentation. We understand that not all would be able to give their presentation as PDF, or have other technical requirements that needs to be addressed. Please note those in your proposal, so that they can be taken into consideration when planning your session.

Topics and Theme

We're looking for topics that relate to Free Society or Free Software generally, as well as those which are at the crossroads of the two or which take the philosophy of Free Society and Free Software and brings them to a whole new field. You can find a list of the descriptions of each theme at http://wiki.fscons.org/page/FSCONS_2010_Planning#Themes. The currently confirmed themes are:

  • Embedded systems
  • Infrastructure Monitoring
  • Makers of the Future
  • Net Neutrality and Openness
  • Ethics

But don't let this restrict your thinking: you can submit a suggestion even if it doesn't quite fit into any of the above themes. Some themes we have been thinking about, and might be planning, even if we currently don't have any ideas for speakers in them. So you might be one of them!

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