I tried to outline some plans for the organisation of a Free Software
workshop later this year. They're attached to this email. In short, it
boils down to that we would need about 13 000 SEK to carry it out in
this form. We could cut some corners, bringing people who are already in
Gothenburg in to hold parts of the workshop, for instance, but this
would come with a quality cut as well, obviously.
--
Jonas Öberg
Free Software Foundation Europe
Phone. +46-31-7732717 or +46-733-423962
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Title: Free Software Workshop Author: Jonas Oberg,,, Abstract: This
is an outline for a possible workshop on Free Software to be arranged
by the Free Software Foundation Europe in Gothenburg sometime during
the fourth quarter of 2005. The workshop would be held during one
day, starting at 10.00 and ending sometime in the afternoon. This will
allow participants from Stockholm to arrive comfortably with the first
train from there. Hopefully, the workshop can be arranged in
collaboration with either the Department of informatics and/or the IT
University, and/or Chalmers Computer Science department.
1 SPEAKERS
This is a list of speakers that can be considered for the
workshop. The aim is to have six to eight speakers during the
workshop. None of the speakers listed here has as of yet been asked to
participate, so they only represent some thoughts of what could
possibly be arranged. The speakers fall mostly into three
cathegories, with the first talking about Free Software and related
areas and the second talking about encryption in its various forms.
The idea is to use the time before lunch to talk about Free Software
and why it's important, and then the afternoon with encryption (which
is getting increasingly important to preserve peoples integrity). The
day would end with a discussion panel on Free Software.
1.1 JONAS ÖBERG
30 minutes: Jonas could talk about the FSF Europe and Free Software in
general.
1.2 RICHARD LEVITTE
45 minutes: Richard Levitte has worked extensively with OpenSSL and
can talk about X.509 and other interesting things.
1.3 MATHIAS KLANG
30 minutes: Creative Commons
1.4 NIELS MÖLLER
45 minutes: LSH and related technologies
1.5 TOM CALTHROP
45 minutes: Barnraiser and aroundme.
1.6 WERNER KOCH
45 minutes: GnuPG and encryption infrastructure in general.
2 INVITATIONS
Invitations will need to be sent out at least two months in
advance. If the plans for the workshop can be finalised sometime
during august or september, this would make the workshop take place in
november, most likely. Some kind of registration would be good to
have to get an idea of the number of participants that will (try) to
come.
3 RESOURCES
Arranging a workshop requires some resources, in the form of venue and
travel costs for the invited speakers. Nothing needs to be budgeted
for accomodation, since speakers from Stockholm can arrive and lleave
on the same day, and an invited speaker from another country can
always be found place for somewhere.
3.1 VENUE
If the workshop is arranged in collaboration with either of the
universities, then the venue can be booked through them. The venue
would depend upon the number of people that will attend and
availability of venues, but here's some ideas; Konferenscentrum
Wallenberg (Lyktan or Wallenbergsalen), Handelshögskolan,
IT-Universitetet/Chalmers Lindholmen
3.2 REFRESHMENTS
Some refreshments will be needed in the breaks, but it should be quite
enough to have coffee, water and some cookies. With some creativitity,
it should be possible to get away with 500-1500 kr for this, depending
upon the number of participants.
3.3 TRAVEL
Travel expenses will need to be reserved for the invited speakers from
other cities. For those coming from Stockholm, about 2300kr needs to
be reserved (normal X2000 travel fee). Of course, it might well be
possible to reserve cheaper tickets, but 2300kr is the maximum it
could cost, so that is the buffer that needs to be allocated. For
invited speakers from other countries in Europe, roughly 3500kr should
cover the flight expenditure.
3.4 WEB PAGES
The web pages for the workshop can reside on the FSF Europe web server.
3.4.1 REGISTRATION
Some kind of automated system needs to be created for
registration. However, since this is just to keep tabs on how many
will participate, it would be enough to have them email some specific
address and count the number of mails (sans spam) that arrive.
3.5 LUNCH
Participants can be asked to arrange for lunch themselves, though we
might want to invite the speakers for lunch at least. This will be a
smaller cost though. However, not having an arranged lunch will put
some additional constraints on the venue and it needs to be held where
it is easy to find food around.
4 BUDGET
Taking into account three speakers from Stockholm, one from Germany
and the cost for refreshments and lunches for the speakers, about
13000 kr would be needed to complete the arrangement
successfully. Somewhat less might be needed but this would be what
needs to be allocated.