Sandro Mathys

So you might have read my announcement or heard of FUDCon Zurich 2010 and FrOSCamp 2010 Zurich in any other way. It’s true the organization is pretty quiet so far but that’s mainly because we’re working on tasks that mostly consist of face to face meetings or investigating locations. We couldn’t really involve the community in this but we’ll try to make the process more open in the future. But there’s some things the community can already do to support us and make sure this are becoming great events:

• Spread the word. This is more important than you could ever imagine. We’re known well over Switzerland’s borders already and we mostly get positive feedback from everyone so far but there’s still lots of people and projects that don’t consider to join us yet while they really should! We created basic FrOSCamp flyers recently which you’re always welcome to print yourself (monochrome is fine) and distribute at work, school, local businesses and most importantly every FOSS event you’re attending.
• Be bold and answer the open calls for: projects, hackfests, talks, workshops, sponsors, volunteers – and soon also artists. FUDCon hat its own call for talk/workshop sessions, by the way.
• Design the FUDCon shirt or buttons, pretty please!
• Make sure your community friendly company considers donating money (i.e. sponsoring either event). We know that this shouldn’t be about money but let’s be honest – more money can make those events better. It might allow us to add some free catering or paying for the first round of FreeBeer. And that’s really just the beginning, there’s lots of things (more) money could help us with. Particularly as for FUDCon we will be able to get more Fedora folks to the event the more money is left after all the other bills are paid.

Speaking of money reminds me to thank our first sponsors (namely Swiss Puzzle ITC and Italian Byte Code – both long term friends of both the FOSS & the Fedora community) we’ll soon be able to announce more details about the Wired Dreams Party and FUDPub!

More information about most of those topics should be available on the respective pages. Where information is missing or insufficient you can always leave a comment here or drop me a line (red at fp.o or at froscamp.org).

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