[DKUUG] Open Source Days 2011: Call for Speakers

Call for Speakers

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Open Source Days 2011 - The Community Edition - will be held on Saturday March

5th 2011, at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Frederiksberg and we are looking

for gifted, entertaining and technically enlightened speakers for the conference.



Normal Talks - 45 minutes

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Open Source Software has been around the block for quite a while. Every day we

all work with rock-solid software that just works. This year we are interested in

the status of those "goldies" we all take for granted - as well as the new

upcoming savvy projects.



You might be a developer, a community leader, a businessman or a user group

participant seeing the bigger picture or just know your software inside-out -

share your knowledge with us, by giving a talk. Speakers can attend the

conference for free and to some extent we might be able to reimburse your travel

and hotel.



Lightning Talks - 15 minutes

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Speak your mind - tell us about your idea for a new open source project, how you

made your first android app or something completely different - the only limit

is the time frame - 15 minutes!



If you haven't tried giving a talk before - this is a good place to start.

Lightning speakers attend the conference for free, but we do not reimburse your

travel expenses.



Tutorials, Workshops and Demos

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If you are just dying to give us a demo of how you hacked your newest gadget,

you want to host an Arduino workshop or you know postfix forwards and backwards

and want to give a tutorial - let us know. Workshops, demos and tutorials have a

time frame set in accordance with the speaker.



Tutorial and workshop speakers will be reimbursed as normal speakers.



Community Booths - Join the Fun

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Our wish is that the community groups will start planning for their activities

and events for their booths immediately. Open Source Days 2011 - The Community

Edition will deliver the infrastructure and by doing so give the user groups the

best possibly platform for strong community content at the conference.



This year we would like the user groups to submit a description of their planned

activities at their booth as well as a short description on themselves. Having a

descriptive program for activities will greatly help us pick the most

interesting user groups for the conference audience.



Please send your request for a community booth to

together with a description of your planned events no later than February 1st

2011.



Sponsorships

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We are looking for sponsorships. We have classified sponsorships into three

groups:



* Gold: 25.000 - 50.000 kr

* Silver: 10.000 - 25.000 kr

* Bronze: 5.000 - 10.000 kr



A sponsorship can be used for a special purpose like:



* Provide the airfare/hotel for a speaker

* Provide a conference t-shirt

* Provide lunch for the participants

* Provide conference keyhangers

* Provide a conference bag

* Provide a conference beer-event

* Provide conference banners



Please write to if you want more

information on the sponsorship opportunities at the conference.



If you are interested in an exhibition booth, you can also contact us, on the

above mail-address.



Get in touch

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Please send us a title, a couple of lines about your talk and a short bio to

no later than February 1st 2011.



You are also most welcome to write to if you

have any questions regarding the conference. You can also catch us in the IRC

channel #opensourcedays @ EFnet.



Please notice that the conference language will be English. If you represent a

company, we expect you to state so in your mail.



You can find more info on http://www.opensourcedays.org



Feel free to - follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/opensourcedays or

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Open-Source-Days/100484278439 to get the

latest news about the conference.



Best,

The program-team of Open Source Days 2011