Marketing-trac: #124: FUDCon EMEA Announcement needed

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#124: FUDCon EMEA Announcement needed
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 Hi all. We need a press release/announce for FUDCon EMEA.

 Here is some general information which could be taken as 'source'. I would
 work out the German translation on my own, afterwards:

 ...
 It’s time to announce two events that will take place in September in
 downtown Zurich, Switzerland that among more share the head organizers
 (Marcus and me).

 FrOSCamp 2010 Zurich

 FrOSCamp is an annual multilingual two-day event that will take place on
 2010-09-17/18 and evolves around an exhibition, talks, workshops and
 hackfests in the world of free and open source as well as creative
 contents, also including open standards/systems and digital
 sustainability.

 Currently planning is in its early stages but the most important points
 have been or are close to be cleared. Various calls are open: volunteers,
 projects, talks, workshops, sponsors and more are coming up soon, like the
 call for hackfests. We’re in negotiations with LPI Central Europe to offer
 cheap exams and we’re preparing a key-signing party. More is to come –
 stay tuned by subscribing to the various mailing lists and/or joining
 #FrOSCamp on Freenode.

 Note that the event takes place in the German-speaking part of Switzerland
 but aims at an international audience. Therefore you’ll see different
 languages on the lists and in the channel.

 FUDCon Zurich 2010

 FUDCon EMEA is the annual Fedora Users & Developers Conference for Europe,
 the Middle East and Africa and will take place on 2010-09-17/19 and
 features talks, hacking and barcamp sessions related to anything in the
 Fedora ecosystem of end users, contributors, upstream, downstream, etc.

 Planning started some months ago but we did not get the official “go”
 until earlier this week. We therefore have conference and hotel rooms
 ready but were not yet able to plan what the agenda will look like and
 stuff like that. Nevertheless pre-registration is open and more details
 are added to the wiki on a daily basis. We’ll try to get the agenda
 outline, the call for talks, the call for sponsors and FUDPub information
 online ASAP. Soon bi-weekly IRC planning meetings will be announced but
 discussion is already possible on the FUDCon planning list.

 Shared Spirit

 Both events heavily focus on free and open source software and related
 topics. We therefore encourage the participants of FrOSCamp and FUDCon to
 mix up, work together, discuss, exchange and whatever else might help to
 have a productive time together. Fedora is a major Linux distribution and
 FrOSCamp will feature many of their upstream projects and also some
 “competitors”, other Linux distributions and UNIX derivatives – it’s
 always good to sit together and speak about issues or chances!

 Shared Location

 Both events take place in the same building on the premises of the ETH
 Zurich on their Zentrum Campus in downtown Zurich. Zurich can be very well
 accessed by airplane and train from all over the world. The international
 airport is approached by most major international airlines and just about
 11 minutes away from Zurich main station by train. The main station is a
 destination of direct trains from many major cities of Europe including
 Berlin, Paris, Milan and Vienna and it only takes about 14 minutes by tram
 from the main station to the CHN building, the primary event location.

 The shared event location makes it even easier to work together and will
 allow a single agenda featuring the talks of both events so the audience
 of both events can fully profit. Of course there’ll be Fedora-dedicated
 rooms and rooms for all the projects participating at FrOSCamp but
 there’ll only be one shared keynote room.

 Shared Party

 On Friday, 2010-09-17 there will be a party after the first event day just
 next to the primary event location featuring free (as in creative commons)
 music by live bands and delicious FreeBeer (again as in creative commons).
 Need to chill a bit after a long event day? Get a beer or two at the
 party! Need to get lose of some energy because you only sat around all day
 listening to all those interesting talks? Move to the party’s dancefloor!

 FUDPub

 On Saturday, 2010-09-18 there will be a party in the evening in the midst
 of downtown Zurich and everyone participating in FUDCon is very welcome to
 join us. There’ll be beer and some snacks and a great possibility to just
 have some fun together before the last day of FUDCon begins. More details
 are TBA.

 We look forward to seeing you in September 2010 in Zurich for our events.
 Everyone is welcome and both events are free of charge.

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