Re: MOSSCon in Louisville in May! Submit your proposal this week!
[email protected] (Jim Giner)
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On 3/27/2013 3:35 AM, John List wrote: > Preparations are in full swing for the very first Midwest Open Source > Software Conference (MOSSCon), to be held in Louisville on May 18-19. > Your help in spreading the word and helping us fill out our schedule of > presentations and workshops would be appreciated. > > This is going to be a great networking event for the whole region! > Louisville is in such a central location, it can draw from a very wide > area. > > We have a great venue: the University of Louisville's Student Activities > Center, with several large halls, a number of smaller meeting rooms, and > plenty of exhibit space available for groups and businesses to make > their presence known. > > We are working on a broadly based "Open" theme, that can include open > source hardware, open data, etc., as well as the full gamut of open > source software. > > We already have some super presentations lined up. But there are still > plenty of pieces that need to come together. Right now we are > concentrating on filling out our schedule with more presentations and > workshops. And soliciting sponsors. > > If you're involved with Open Source (or open anything) you definitely > want to be a part of this. I encourage you to consider speaking or doing > a presentation or workshop on a subject in your area of interest and/or > expertise. > > Check out the conference website at http://mosscon.org/. Click on "Be a > Speaker" for details on submitting your proposal. > > But get to it! The deadline for submitting your preliminary proposal is > this Friday, March 29! > > http://mosscon.org/ > > Spread the word and submit your proposal. > > Thanks, > > John Hicks > pls lose my address.