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Ohio LinuxFest 2013

From the Ohio LinuxFest website:


The eleventh annual Ohio LinuxFest will be held on September 13-15, 2013

at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in downtown Columbus, Ohio.
Hosting authoritative speakers and a large expo, the Ohio LinuxFest welcomes
all Free and Open Source Software professionals, enthusiasts, and everyone
interested in learning more about Free and Open Source Software.

Dates/Location

  • When
    • September 13-15, 2013
    • Registration is open.
  • Where
    • Greater Columbus Convention Center, 400 North High Street, Columbus, OH 43215
    • Map

Fedora Representatives

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Fedora Representatives
List the Fedora people here who are representing Fedora at this event including links to their personal wiki pages. When possible note the capacity in which each person will be representing the project. Some might be helping at the booth, others might be speaking, others might be running special Fedora activities at the event, etc.
# Name Capacity Comments
001 Ben Williams Event owner, speaker
002 Jamie Williams Attendee Booth Worker
003 Ricky Elrod Attendee Booth Worker
004
005
006 Your name here

Event Schedule

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Event Schedule
List here the important parts of the event schedule relevant to Fedora activites including when a booth might be staffed, when Fedora contributors are giving talks, when special activities are happening, etc.

Complete Ohio LinuxFest schedule

Saturday Booth Schedule

The Fedora booth is located at position 10 in the Expo hall. (Map)

Time EST What Person 1 Person 2 Person 3 Person 4
7:30 - 8:30 SETUP Ben Williams Jamie Williams Sarah White Ricky Elrod
8:30 - 9:00 EXPO OPEN Ben Williams Jamie Williams Sarah White Ricky Elrod
9:00 - 10:00 EXPO OPEN Ben Williams Jamie Williams Sarah White Ricky Elrod? (Keynote?)
10:00 - 11:00 EXPO OPEN Ben Williams Jamie Williams Sarah White Ricky Elrod
11:00 - 12:00 EXPO OPEN Ben Williams Jamie Williams Sarah White
12:00 - 13:00 EXPO OPEN Ben Williams Jamie Williams Sarah White
13:00 - 14:00 EXPO OPEN Ben Williams Jamie Williams
14:00 - 15:00 EXPO OPEN Ben Williams Jamie Williams
15:00 - 16:00 EXPO OPEN Ben Williams Jamie Williams Sarah White Ricky Elrod
16:00 - 17:00 EXPO OPEN Ben Williams Jamie Williams Sarah White Ricky Elrod
1700 - 1800 :30 TEARDOWN Ben Williams Jamie Williams Sarah White Ricky Elrod

Ideas/Brainstorming

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Ideas/Brainstorming
Use this section to brainstorm ideas about things to do at the event.
  • film booth set up for how-to to assist future booth coordinators
  • demo fedora on raspberry pi (Sarah can bring her pi but can someone else bring a monitor?)
  • any BoF ideas?

Important Deadlines

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Important Deadlines
Use this section to remember and meet important planning deadlines.
Deadline Task Owner Notes Status
August 20, 2012 Research sponsorship options and requirements Ben Williams Bronze sponsorship level was approved by FAmNA, Contract was sent to Ruth for signature and payment Sponsorship approved, 8/20/13 contract sent to Ruth on 8/8/2012, Ruth completed contract on 8/14/12
Sept. 1, 2013 Event Box and Banners Ben Williams Have all sent to bring to conference Ben's bringing the event box, banners, and media
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Event Budget

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Event Budget
Use this section to identify and record any budget requirements for your event. This is a critical part of event planning and helps the Fedora Project use its budget effectively. Often this part of an events page changes frequently as planning develops. Please keep it up to date. List everything that you need Fedora to provide so there aren't any surprises at the last minute.
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Event Funding by the Fedora Project
This section is often used to approve funding requests. As such it needs to be as accurate as possible. After the event it is important to update this section to document the actual costs of the event for our tracking and to aid us in planning future budgets.
Item Details Budget Actual
Sponsorship Bronze Exhibitor $500
Williams Room 2 nights $300
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Requested Budget Total $1331
Approved Budget Total $2500


Travel Subsidy Requests

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Travel Subsidy Requests
Each attendee requesting travel subsidies for the event should be listed here including the information requested in Sponsoring Event Attendees.
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Event Funding by the Fedora Project
This section is often used to approve funding of travel subsidy requests. As such it needs to be as accurate as possible. After the event it is important to update this section to document the actual costs of the travel for our tracking and to aid us in planning future budgets.
Item Details Budget Actual Approval Date
Williams Room 2 nights $300 8/21/13
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Event Report

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Event Report
Please use this section to document and report about the event. Nice things to see in this section are blog posts about the event, pictures from the event, and anything else that might be valuable to showing the success of our participation in the event. If there were any "lessons learned" or problems that others might benefit from seeing please do include those here too. Some general information about report expectations can be found on the Event Reports page.