Re: bettering open source involvement

[Riccardo Bernardini <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Dave Taht <[e-mail]> wrote:

> At both ietf and BBF this past week a frequent topic of conversation
> was how to get more open source involvement in standards orgs...
>
> ... and one counter-thrust of mine has always been to get more
> standards org members involved in open source, because that dialog has
> to go both ways.
>
> I thought I would point at several useful upcoming conferences in the
> hope that perhaps there would be some members of ietf/isoc "out there"
> planning some outreach in this regard.
>
> https://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2016/ proposals closed I think
>
> https://linux.conf.au/proposals/ CFP due aug 5
>
>
> http://finance.yahoo.com/news/program-announced-embedded-linux-conference-130000509.html
>
> http://netdevconf.org/1.2/
>
> That is just the first 4 that came to mind, and they are respectively,
> in america, australia, berlin, and japan. There are approximately 1
> zillion other conferences in that world that an ietf/isoc/bbf/etc
> member might find interesting, or have something of their org they'd
> like to get in front of a wider audience.
>

Just my 2.0e-2...

I have direct experience with FOSDEM (https://fosdem.org/2017/) that is
held every year end of January/beginning of February in Bruxelles.
Personally, I like it, I find it very active (~5000 participants/year) and
refreshing (after a year buzz-wording).  Joking I say that it looks almost
like IETF's incubator... :-) (the density of geeks per square meter is
similar :-)

The call for contribution has been opened just one week ago.



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> The best list I know of, is here:
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> http://lwn.net/Calendar/
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> Dave Täht
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