Open-Source-Treffen - How to cook your own open source event (FOSDEM 2010)

Open-Source-Treffen How to cook your own open source event Talk at FOSDEM Brussels, Belgium February 7 th , 2010

Who woke us up so early?
Florian Effenberger
[email_address] Twitter: @floeff
volunteer at OpenOffice.org since 2004
Marketing Project Lead
Distribution Project Lead
Management Board of OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V. (non-profit)
Carsten „Tomcat“ Book
[email_address] Twitter: @BavarianTomcat
employed by Mozilla since 2007
Software Engineer, Crash Analysis
Community Building

Step One: Gather Some Cooks
German Open-Source-Treffen founded by Mozilla and OpenOffice.org in July 2009
open source is widely adopted -> millions of users worldwide (with no clue about projects) -> thousands of active projects (with similar challenges) -> lots of possible new volunteers
bringing together regular users and projects
creating awareness for free software and fostering open standards on a local & regional basis

Step Two: Find a Kitchen
Café Netzwerk in Munich, a youth café facility with a small bar and little snacks
alternatives were (expensive) bars, schools, nonprofits
room for up to 70 people
convenient to reach by public transportation, near the central station
no obligation to eat and drink
has video projector, wi-fi and engaged staff :-)

Step Three: Invite Some Guests
five evening events with an average of 40 people, now taking place monthly
„every fourth Friday for free software“
2-4 talks per evening, max. 20 minutes/each
OpenStreetMap, CAcert, x2go, LiMux (City of Munich)
and, of course, Mozilla and OpenOffice.org
special guests
Dan Mosedale, Mitchell Baker, Florian Schießl
soon to come: Chris Hofmann and Kev Needham

Step Four: Make Some Noise
set up a dedicated website and mailing lists www.opensourcetreffen.de
did lots of Web 2.0-stuff
IRC
bots at Twitter and identi.ca
groups at Facebook and XING
spread the word in blogs, forums and to press
regularly give talks about the topic ;-)

Step Five: Add Salt to the Soup
first Open-Source-Treffen in Leipzig in fall 2009
dedicated workshop days for 2010 planned
OpenStreetMap day in Munich
Bughunting sessions for OpenOffice.org and Firefox
thinking of video archives, probably live stream for larger events

Everybody loooooves pictures!

Some more pictures...

Say cheese!

Pictures, pictures, pictures...

That's it... Thanks for joining! www.opensourcetreffen.de [email_address]

Open-Source-Treffen - How to cook your own open source event (FOSDEM 2010)

by Florian Effenberger on Feb 07, 2010

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