Open-Source-Treffen - How to cook your own open source event (openSUSE Conference, October 23rd 2010 in Nuremberg)

Open-Source-Treffen How to cook your own open source event openSUSE Conference, Nuremberg October 23 rd , 2010

Who woke us up so early?
[email_address] Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff
Steering Committee and Founding Member at The Document Foundation
Management Board of nonprofit OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V.
obviously having too much spare time...

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), PHProjekt, LIMBAS, LXC, LPI, Univention
and, of course, Mozilla and OpenOffice.org
special guests
Dan Mosedale, Mitchell Baker, Florian Schießl, 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-social-networking-blah-stuff
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 2011 planned
OpenStreetMap day in Munich
Bughunting sessions for LibreOffice and Firefox
thinking of video archives, probably live stream for larger events
having an event in Essen
setting up a nonprofit

Talking about salt... (Kalorien statt Kabel.)

Everybody loooooves pictures!

Some more pictures...

Say cheese!

Pictures, pictures, pictures...

Hungry?

That's it... Bon appetit! [email_address] Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff www.opensourcetreffen.de

Open-Source-Treffen - How to cook your own open source event (openSUSE Conference, October 23rd 2010 in Nuremberg)

by Florian Effenberger on Oct 23, 2010

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