Open-Source-Treffen
How to cook your own open source event
Talk at FOSDEMBrussels, BelgiumFebruary 7th, 2010
Who woke us up so early?
Florian
[email protected]
Twitter: @floeff
volunteer at OpenOffice.org since 2004
Marketing Project Lead
Distribution Project Lead
Management Board of OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V.
(non-profit)
Carsten Tomcat Book [email protected]
Twitter: @BavarianTomcat
Longtime Community Member
employed by Mozilla
since 2007
Software Engineer,
Crash Analysis
Community Building
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
Caf Netzwerk in Munich, a youth caf facility with a small bar
and little snacksalternatives 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 monthlyevery fourth Friday for free software
2-4 talks per evening, max. 20 minutes/eachOpenStreetMap,
CAcert, x2go, LiMux (City of Munich)
and, of course, Mozilla and OpenOffice.org
special guestsDan Mosedale, Mitchell Baker, Florian Schiel
soon to come: 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-stuffIRC
bots at Twitter and identi.ca
groups at Facebook and XING
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 2010 plannedOpenStreetMap day in
Munich
Bughunting sessions for OpenOffice.org and Firefox
thinking of video archives,
probably live stream for larger events
Everybody loooooves pictures!
Some more pictures...
Say cheese!
Pictures, pictures, pictures...
That's it...
Thanks for joining!
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Open-Source-Treffen
