[marketing] FUDCON APAC Call for Papers

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FUDCON APAC Call for Papers

FUDCon is the Fedora Users and Developers Conference, a major free software
event held in various regions around the world, usually annually per region.
FUDCon is a combination of sessions, talks, workshops, and hackfests in
which project participants can work on specific initiatives.
FUDCon is always free to attend for anyone. For 2016 the FUDCon for the
APAC region will be in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It will be held at Norton
University (NU) Phnom Penh from 04. to 06. November 2016. The event happens
synchronized with the BarCamp Phnom Penh/ASEAN, the biggest technology
oriented event in Cambodia and one of the biggest in the region. With 4.000
registered visitors.

We looking for...

FUDCon APAC 2016 now searches for contributions in form of talks,
hackfests, workshops and hands-on.
This years edition will be more user oriented therefor we looking for
articles which describe what you can do with free software and Fedora in
particular and hands-on how to begin/start particular things in or with
Fedora and/or Free Software. We welcoming contributions who help users to
migrate to Free Software, make their first steps in a particular
programming language or using and contributing to Fedora. We also looking
for contributions, who show exciting developments in the Free Software and
Fedora world. Addional there will be one day with slots for things which
could be improved in Fedora or in Fedora APAC in particular.

As FUDCon is co-located with other events and has an exhibition area,
Fedora should be also part of this. We would like to have not just an
static booth and would like if speakers also submit short presentations,
that can be hold in the exhibition area.

Submission and Registration

You can submit your ideas for talks, workshops and hackfests to the
following form [0].

As FUDCon is always free to attend for anyone, you can register with this
formular [1], an important note the budget for travel sponsoring is limited
and we cant sponsor everybody, so there will be an selection process.  For
the people who submit papers, please use also the registration formular, as
it gives us different information as the formular for the submissions.

Deadlines

The deadline for submissions will be the 25. of September 2016 ,  speakers
will be informed until 5. of October 2016.

[0] https://goo.gl/forms/mWMP0ntZ87IJg81s2
[1] https://goo.gl/forms/E0aYiNG4RcWu5Glz1