May FSF 40 event
In commemoration of 40th anniversary of Free Software Foundation (FSF), we are planning on conducting a exclusive workshop starting at 2:30 PM till 6 PM.
The workshop will be lead by a group of individuals, aimed to foster collaborative learning about FOSS tools and technologies.
The deadline for proposals is May 14, 2025.
Proposal structure
- Title: The title of your workshop, keep it small and memorable
- Team members, including the workshop lead: Tag the members involved with the workshop or provide a link to your socials so that we can reach out to you. Team size can range from 2 to 4.
- Volunteers: Additional volunteers (if needed) who will be handling the logistics before and during the event. It can range from 2 to 4.
- Background: Previous experience with the associated technologies, tools or process involved in the workshop with needed references.
- Description: Description of your workshop, the background pertaining to the technology, process or tool that you’re covering.
- Bill of Materials: The materials that the participants are expected to bring (laptops, peripherals, any related hardware), needed software to be installed on it for participation (*nix, Python, etc.).
- Pre-requisites: Expected skills from participants, along with the needed instructions for setting up their system described in Bill of Materials beforehand, provide links if needed.
- References: References to the workshop you’re conducting for documentation access and learning among participants.
- Support (optional): Support needed from FOSS United Chennai, from technical assistance to attendees, guiding through workshop. Please bear in mind that you’re the one to conduct the workshop and will be leading it primarily, we will only be able to provide assistance.
Guidelines
- Keep the workshop relevant to FOSS principles and ideologies, it can involve any FOSS tool or technology or process (self-hosting, configuration management, installation, etc.)
- Only one proposal will be selected upon double blind review, so make sure you include as much details as possible to get approval.
- We will announced the selected workshop in this thread by May 18, 2025.
- Workshop lead along with the volunteers and members are expected to be on the day of the event (May 24, 2025). In case of unavailability of members, please make a call within yourself and find replacement. In case of unavailability of majority of the team due to unforeseen circumstances, please reply to this thread stating your unavailability by May 22, 2025.
- Attendees will be sent a mail with the bill of materials and guidelines 3 days before the event.