Events I attended and could/might do again:
Augsburger Linux-Infotag, Augsburg, Germany: https://www.luga.de/Aktionen/LIT-2019/ Sat 6 April 2019
Tübix, Tübingen, Germany https://www.tuebix.org/ (tba, usually June)
LinuxDay Vorarlberg, Dornbirn, Austria https://www.linuxday.at/ (tba, usually Mid/End October, with @schweingruber )

Events to consider perhaps:
Chemnitzer Linuxtage, Chemnitz, Germany: https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2019/de (Sat/Sun 16/17 March 2019, deadline for applications already passed iirc)

Similar list as @broulik

• FOSDEM (this is blindingly obvious, but we should be aiming for a complete event calendar so that people can plan ahead)
• Freenode#live (if it happens again)

Linux-day type things:

• T-DOSE (http://t-dose.org/, 11 may 2019)

@rgomezantoli suggests the Bett Show which focuses on tech in education - not necessarily open source related, by the way. Next one is in five day from writing this (23 - 26 Jan London), so too soon to organise anything, but we should look at this for next year.

Would it make sense to split this list to FOSS related and non-FOSS related events?

In any case, CCC is one for the former: https://www.ccc.de/en/

In T10372#174004, @neofytosk wrote:

Would it make sense to split this list to FOSS related and non-FOSS related events?

Let's get them all down and then we can split them. I agree the focus and content of non-FOSS related will be quite different from the FOSS-related. Even from one non FLOSS related event to another there will be a different focus, so we will have to do a whole lot of classifying, anyway.

In any case, CCC is one for the former: https://www.ccc.de/en/

Good one.

In T10372#173937, @broulik wrote:

Events I attended and could/might do again:
Augsburger Linux-Infotag, Augsburg, Germany: https://www.luga.de/Aktionen/LIT-2019/ Sat 6 April 2019
Tübix, Tübingen, Germany https://www.tuebix.org/ (tba, usually June)
LinuxDay Vorarlberg, Dornbirn, Austria https://www.linuxday.at/ (tba, usually Mid/End October, with @schweingruber )

Ditto for all three actually, nice to start this early so we can plan ahead.

Good suggestions all around, great for planning.

It would be good to see more non FLOSS-related events. Looking inwards towards the community, to the group of people who already know about KDE is an excellent way of reinforcing our presence and position and reaching people who know of our stuff but, or never tried it, or who left it for whatever reason. This is what the "Welcome home" campaign is all about.

Promo must also look outwards to events and communities who have little or virtually no direct contact with free software and/or KDE. Think general IT and consumer electronic shows, the MWCs, IFAs, etc.. We want to be able to meet not only for the visitors, but also talk to our co-exhibitors, the small, medium and big guns of the industry, people who may be interested in preinstalling, sponsoring or contributing resources to our stuff.

Think also of businesses and professions that may not be directly related to IT. Most private doctors surgeries in Spain still keep patient's records on paper and often don't have even imaging software to see the results sent in on digital media from specialists. It should not be too difficult to take a laptop with GNU Health preinstalled on Plasma to a medical show. Enlist somebody with a medical background from our ranks (there must be somebody!) as an on-site expert and run a demo at a booth. We can do the same for designers and artists, as well as for teachers and school administrators.

My challenge to you is this: for every FLOSS-related event you can think of, go and find and research a non FLOSS-related event too and suggest both.

@broulik, @adridg and @neofytosk, you know what to do.

In T10372#173937, @broulik wrote:

Events I attended and could/might do again:
Augsburger Linux-Infotag, Augsburg, Germany: https://www.luga.de/Aktionen/LIT-2019/ Sat 6 April 2019

They have now issued the Call for Participation: https://frab.luga.de/en/LIT2019/cfp/

Tübix is on Saturday, 6 July, and I just submitted a proposal for a 5 minute lightning talk about "KDE for universities" where I'll outline some of our offerings for students, perhaps stuff like Kile, some of our Edu apps, the fact that Plasma helps you stay focused on your tasks etc

I submitted a KDE booth for https://www.linuxday.at/

In T10372#197649, @broulik wrote:

I submitted a KDE booth for https://www.linuxday.at/

I will attend as well

In T10372#173968, @paulb wrote:

@rgomezantoli suggests the Bett Show which focuses on tech in education - not necessarily open source related, by the way. Next one is in five day from writing this (23 - 26 Jan London), so too soon to organise anything, but we should look at this for next year.

Also here in Sweden we have SETT: https://www.settdagarna.se/en/ that is kinda the Swedish version of BETT however now with COVID its not happening but might happen again next year 2021

Can we add events in the form of the calendar so it will be easy to track/participate in the events?

In T10372#244154, @aniqakhokhar wrote:

Can we add events in the form of the calendar so it will be easy to track/participate in the events?

Sure... Which calendar? The Nextcloud calendar or the Phab calendar. The latter is a bit problematic when it comes to visibility...

Since we will migrate off Phabricator entirely earlier or later, I think it would be more sensible to use the Nextcloud calendar.

In T10372#244156, @paulb wrote:

In T10372#244154, @aniqakhokhar wrote:

Can we add events in the form of the calendar so it will be easy to track/participate in the events?

Sure... Which calendar? The Nextcloud calendar or the Phab calendar. The latter is a bit problematic when it comes to visibility...

Whichever is more feasible. I have made the template in the Phabricator and we can move this to Nextcloud.

In T10372#244157, @xyquadrat wrote:

Since we will migrate off Phabricator entirely earlier or later, I think it would be more sensible to use the Nextcloud calendar.

Also, I don't know about you, but I have a lot of trouble integrating the Phab calendar into Korganizer, and, even when you do get it to work, you can't edit it. So it sounds like Nextcloud is the best bet to me.

I have created the calendar https://share.kde.org/apps/calendar/p/rnE89mjWya8LmSas
Initially, I will start by adding FOSS events and then will add other events.

There are many conference listed here that don't make sense for KDE to participate, because either it's related to a technology that we don't use (e.g. DjangoCon Europe, .NET DAY, Distributed SQL, DrupalCamping, International PHP Conference), related to cloud (DevOps World, CSA Cloud Bytes Connect, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America), security (CyberSecAsia Online Summit 2021) and also a bit too much focus on education conference.

Can we filter the list and make it a bit more realistic? We can't attend so many conference, we should probably focus on less than 20 conferences.

In T10372#247821, @ognarb wrote:

There are many conference listed here that don't make sense for KDE to participate, because either it's related to a technology that we don't use (e.g. DjangoCon Europe, .NET DAY, Distributed SQL, DrupalCamping, International PHP Conference), related to cloud (DevOps World, CSA Cloud Bytes Connect, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America), security (CyberSecAsia Online Summit 2021) and also a bit too much focus on education conference.

Can we filter the list and make it a bit more realistic? We can't attend so many conference, we should probably focus on less than 20 conferences.

I would suggest you cross them out, not delete them, so we don't accidentally add them again.

In T10372#247821, @ognarb wrote:

There are many conferences listed here that don't make sense for KDE to participate, because either it's related to a technology that we don't use (e.g. DjangoCon Europe, .NET DAY, Distributed SQL, DrupalCamping, International PHP Conference), related to cloud (DevOps World, CSA Cloud Bytes Connect, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America), security (CyberSecAsia Online Summit 2021) and also a bit too much focus on education conference.

Can we filter the list and make it a bit more realistic? We can't attend so many conference, we should probably focus on less than 20 conferences.

Of course, we will not participate in all. I have just listed them to help us where we can participate. I will appreciate if you can help us in choosing the right ones to participate.