Re: FOSCON?

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On 5/24/06, Daniel Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Last year there was a companion event to OSCON that was totally free
> call FOSCON put on by the local ruby group.  Is anyone planning to
> have anything like it again this year?  It would really be nice to be
> able to see presentations on more subjects for free.  There are lots
> of FOSS projects that people could talk about.  I'm including some
> links to reports of last year.


Yes, we are doing FOSCON again this year.  There is also another similar
event of sorts planned call OSCamp ( http://www.oscamp.org), which is being
organized by members of a couple of different groups and sponsored to some
degree by O'Reilly (it's free, though, and not really part of OSCON).

We're still in the very early planning stages for FOSCON, but so far the
discussion has been that FOSCON would be a ruby-oriented event similar to
last years and that we would participate in OSCamp for more of a
cross-interest thing. We're not sure of the format for FOSCON, yet, but one
possibility we've discussed has been to invite people who's ruby talks were
rejected for OSCON (there were apparently a LOT of proposals submitted and
many good ones got turned down simply because there wasn't room).

Regards,
Thomas

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<div><span class=3D"q">On 5/24/06, <b class=3D"gmail_sendername">Daniel Joh=
nson</b> &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank" onclic=
k=3D"return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">[email protected]</a>&g=
t; wrote:
</span></div><div><span class=3D"q"><span class=3D"gmail_quote"></span><blo=
ckquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204,=
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Last year there was a companion event to OSCON that was totally free<br>cal=
l FOSCON put on by the local ruby group.&nbsp;&nbsp;Is anyone planning to<b=
r>have anything like it again this year?&nbsp;&nbsp;It would really be nice=
 to be<br>able to see presentations on more subjects for free.&nbsp;&nbsp;T=
here are lots
<br>of FOSS projects that people could talk about.&nbsp;&nbsp;I'm including=
 some<br>links to reports of last year.</blockquote></span></div><br>Yes, w=
e are doing FOSCON again this year.&nbsp; There is also another similar eve=
nt of sorts planned call OSCamp (
<a href=3D"http://www.oscamp.org/" target=3D"_blank" onclick=3D"return top.=
js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.oscamp.org</a>),
which is being organized by members of a couple of different groups and
sponsored to some degree by O'Reilly (it's free, though, and not really
part of OSCON).<br>
<br>We're still in the very early planning stages for FOSCON, but so
far the discussion has been that FOSCON would be a ruby-oriented event
similar to last years and that we would participate in OSCamp for more
of a cross-interest thing. We're not sure of the format for FOSCON,
yet, but one possibility we've discussed has been to invite people
who's ruby talks were rejected for OSCON (there were apparently a LOT
of proposals submitted and many good ones got turned down simply
because there wasn't room).
<br><br>Regards,<br>Thomas

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