[dev] Fwd: [LT08-Pro-Announce] LinuxTag 2009: Call for Papers

[Jan Schneider]

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      Datum: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:15:00 +0000
        Von: Marko Jung | LinuxTag <mjung at linuxtag.org>
Antwort an: projects-announce at linuxtag.org, Marko Jung | LinuxTag  
<mjung at linuxtag.org>
    Betreff: [LT08-Pro-Announce] LinuxTag 2009: Call for Papers
         An: Projects-Announce at linuxtag.org, projects-Veterans at linuxtag.org

Dear friends and colleagues!

I hope you all had a great holiday season and good start into the new  
year. We have had a great time at the 'Free Software End of Year  
Reception' in Berlin and carried forward LinuxTag's tradition to our  
Call for Papers (CfP) around Christmas time.

On behalf of LinuxTags conference team I kindly ask you to spread the  
news on the Call for Papers within your project on all available  
channels. As you know LinuxTag is Europe's leading event for Linux and  
Open Source where presentations on your project should not be missing.  
Thus you should try to get even double the amount of proposals for  
LinuxTag's conference submitted by colleagues from your project as  
last year.

Find the CfP attached or in the web:  
http://www.linuxtag.org/2009/en/program/call-for-papers.html

Thank you very much for your support!

Best regards,
Marko



PS. As already mentioned before, the Call for Projects (CfPro) will  
start in about two months. Stay tuned - we keep you posted.




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Jan.

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			   Call for Papers

			       for the

		     15th International LinuxTag
	     June 24–27, 2009 Berlin Fairgrounds, Germany
				   
LinuxTag  gets people  not  just to  use  free software,  but to  live
it.  Speakers  at LinuxTag  present  useful,  interesting topics  that
indicate coming trends. Free software permits real cost savings — will
the financial crisis put  not employees, but proprietary solutions out
of  a job?  The read-write  society and  the many-eyes  principle have
shown that  sheer mass  of users and  developers leads  to innovative,
high-quality products.  Examples include Wikipedia,  OpenStreetMap and
the Linux kernel  itself. The program committee for  the 15th LinuxTag
is seeking proposals for the  lecture program on topics including, but
not limited to, the following:

  - Open hardware,
  - Software and development,
  - Application examples and case studies,
  - Free software in education, research, and administration,
  - Collaboration among several projects and initiatives, and
  - Cool New Inventions and Experiments (CNIE).

In  addition, LinuxTag  has  chosen  three core  themes  for its  2009
conference  program. The  program  committee is  seeking proposals  on
these themes in particular:

  - Mobility: Small devices are driving dynamic Linux growth. How are
    netbooks and smart phones shifting the operating system’s image?
    What are developers up to right now?

  - Processes: Free software supports the increasingly complex
    processes in businesses today. How does it ensure scalability,
    flexibility and security?

  - Responsibility: Many IT users are concerned with the ramifications
    of information technology. What makes for cost effective and
    energy-efficient computing? What do we know about the social and
    economic aspects of free software?

In addition,  the program committee will consider  all other proposals
on Linux and open-source-related themes. Inquiries may be addressed to
the  committee by  e-mail. Unannounced  proposal submissions  are also
welcome, however.

What Is Expected of Speakers

The  Free Lecture  Program is  organized in  several tracks  that take
place simultaneously. The tracks  are aimed at audiences interested in
both  technical  and social  aspects  of  open-source  software. As  a
speaker,  you should  be an  expert in  your field  — for  example, an
active member of your project  or initiative, a developer, or a member
of a pertinent profession, such as a lawyer.

The  user-oriented lecture series  presents selected  applications and
provides practical help  for day-to-day work with Linux  systems. As a
speaker in this  section, you should have a  demonstrable aptitude for
understandable  communication. The  Business  and Government  Agencies
lecture series  features application examples and case  studies on the
professional use of Linux  and open source software. The presentations
in this section are  aimed at interested, qualified representatives of
businesses and government agencies. Speakers in this section generally
report on experiences  in their work with service  providers and other
private and public-sector  organizations. Each presentation is alloted
a total of 60 minutes, including questions and answers and set-up time
for  the following  talk. Other  time frames  are possible  in special
circumstances by arrangement with the program committee.

Speaker Acceptance Procedure

If you would  like to be a speaker, you can  submit key information on
your proposal electronically through  in the Virtual Conference Center
(vCC) at https://www.linuxtag.org/vcc/. You  do not need to submit the
full text of  your presentation in your initial  response to this Call
for  Papers.  The  LinuxTag   website  contains  additional  tips  for
optimizing the  content of presentations.  Presentations and proposals
can be in  German or English. The abstract  accompanying your proposal
should be  in the same  language as the proposed  presentation. Choose
the  language in  which you  can  best express  yourself. The  program
committee especially  welcomes submissions in  English, since LinuxTag
is  an international event.  After the  deadline for  submissions, the
program committee will evaluate the abstracts submitted with regard to
content, clarity and technical depth. LinuxTag will then notify you if
your proposal is accepted, and will provide a style sheet to guide you
in preparing a  full written version of your  presentation — generally
about ten pages  of text — in the Open Document  Format (ODF). This is
the version  that will appear  in the conference proceedings.  You may
also submit presentation slides. From this point on, presentations and
author  information are submitted  only through  the vCC.  The program
committee  does not  accept such  information by  e-mail. If  the full
version  differs drastically  in  form or  content  from the  accepted
abstract,  the program  committee  reserves the  right  to reject  the
submission. Authors  who submit their  presentations only in  a format
other  than ODF, such  as HTML,  PDF, LaTeX  or a  proprietary format,
cannot apply for remuneration of accommodation or travel expenses.

Use of Submitted Presentations

LinuxTag e.  V. and  its partners must  be granted a  perpetual, full,
non-exclusive  license  to  use  the presentation  submitted,  and  to
publish it  in electronic and  other forms, including digital  form on
CD, DVD, or the Internet, and  in print. A list of recognized licenses
that  fulfill these requirements  is available  for authors  to choose
from. The titles and abstracts of presentations and the authors' names
and biographical sketches will  be published in the conference program
on  the LinuxTag  website and  in the  printed program,  if  any, upon
acceptance by  the program committee.  The actual presentation  may be
recorded audiovisually. The resulting recording will be subject to the
same  license  conditions  as  the  submitted  presentation  text.  By
submitting  a   presentation,  you   express  your  assent   to  these
conditions.  Submissions  that  are  subject to  any  restrictions  or
reservations, such as non-disclosure agreements for example, cannot be
considered  and  will not  be  evaluated.  The  submissions and  their
contents will  be treated confidentially  until the proposal  has been
accepted. The evaluations will be  kept in strict confidence, and will
be accessible only to members  of the program committee. The committee
will endeavor as  far as possible to give  every applicant feedback on
the proposal  submitted. Upon inquiry,  the program committee  will be
happy to clarify the results of its evaluation.

Speakers at LinuxTag

LinuxTag offers  all speakers free admission to  its exclusive evening
social  event, LinuxNacht. Additional  admission tickets  for partners
can  be purchased. On  request, LinuxTag  will be  happy to  reserve a
hotel  room in  the  official  speakers' hotel  for  each speaker  who
submits a presentation promptly in the specified format. Limited funds
are  available   to  subsidize  speakers'   accommodation  and  travel
expenses. Speakers  can apply for  aid from this fund.  Where granted,
such aid generally covers the  cost of up to two nights' accommodation
with breakfast,  regardless of the  number of presentations  given. In
case of joint presentations  by several speakers, expenses are limited
to one  room with double occupancy  for two nights.  Special rates are
available  for subsequent nights  at your  own expense.  The available
speaker  accommodations  cannot  be   exchanged  for  other  forms  of
remuneration, since  LinuxTag reserves the rooms as  a block. LinuxTag
normally does  not reimburse  travel expenses. However,  limited funds
are available to  aid participants who cannot otherwise  meet the cost
of travel to LinuxTag. Many companies are willing to pay an employee's
travel expenses in return for an  acknowledgment on a slide at the end
of the presentation, for example.  All requests for travel aid must be
submitted by  the deadline specified below.  LinuxTag cannot guarantee
that any  specific amount will be  reimbursed. In most  cases, the aid
granted covers only  part of the actual travel  expenses. Expenses are
reimbursed only after the  event on presentation of original documents
such as railway or airline tickets or gasoline receipts.

Important Deadlines

LinuxTag reserves the right to revoke invitations if submission
deadlines are not met.

  Submission deadline for proposals:           February 8, 2009.
  Notification of acceptance or rejection:     March 7, 2009.
  Submission deadline for travel aid requests: March 21, 2009.
  Submission deadline for full versions:       April 11, 2009.

All submissions are due by 11:59 p.m. UTC on the given date.

Examples of possible subjects of LinuxTag presentations include, but
are not limited to:

Software  development,   system  administration,  GNOME,   KDE,  Linux
desktops  virtualization,   databases,  security,  networking,  kernel
development, drivers,  subsystems, corporate applications, multimedia,
video,  audio,  Linux  distributions,  mobile  applications,  embedded
systems, wikis, blogs, podcasts,  remixing, mashups, *2.0, How-tos for
novices,  social  and   economic  issues,  document  management,  data
centers, storage,  HA, maps, geoinformation  systems, web development,
web languages, migrations, success stories, medicine, and health care.

Contact Us

  LinuxTag 2009 on the web:                 http://www.linuxtag.org/

  LinuxTag Virtual Conference Center (vCC): https://www.linuxtag.org/vcc/

  Program committee:                        papers at linuxtag.org

  Exhibitors' liaison:                      sales at linuxtag.org

  Berlin, Germany:                          http://www.berlin.de/