Talks and Workshops

FOSSCON is actively recruiting people who have interesting ideas or who have made great contributions to FOSS to give talks on a variety of subjects. We are also recruiting people to teach workshops focusing on a variety of topics needed to make an open-source project successful. However, since we are still actively recruiting presenters we are not ready to finalize the speaker schedules at this time. Please check back closer to the conference.

We are recruiting speakers for the following tracks:

  • Tech Track
    • Source control management (SCM)
    • Technical standardization and interoperability
    • Virtualization
    • User interface design
    • Toolchain improvements
    • Networking
    • Programming languages
    • Any other interesting or innovative technology or tools
  • Community Track
    • Community building
    • Marketing
    • Public relations
    • Developer/User relations
    • Relations with academia, industry and other open-source projects
    • Licensing, assignment of copyright, foundations and other legal issues
    • Bug tracking and/or code testing

We are also recruiting people to do workshops, please click on the "Be a Speaker" button if you're interested in speaking on any of these tracks or doing a workshop.