The document discusses the steps to organize an open source event called Open-Source-Treffen. It outlines finding a venue like a youth cafe, inviting speakers from projects like Mozilla and OpenOffice, promoting the event through websites and social media, and adding activities like workshops to engage the community. The event has been successful in bringing together open source users and projects on a local level in Germany.

1. Open-Source-Treffen How to cook your own open source event Talk at FOSDEM Brussels, Belgium February 7 th , 2010

3. volunteer at OpenOffice.org since 2004

4. Marketing Project Lead

5. Distribution Project Lead

7. Longtime Community Member

8. employed by Mozilla since 2007

9. Software Engineer, Crash Analysis

10. Community Building

12. open source is widely adopted -> millions of users worldwide (with no clue about projects) -> thousands of active projects (with similar challenges) -> lots of possible new volunteers

13. bringing together regular users and projects

14. creating awareness for free software and fostering open standards on a local & regional basis

16. convenient to reach by public transportation, near the central station

17. no obligation to eat and drink

18. has video projector, wi-fi and engaged staff :-)

21. soon to come: Chris Hofmann and Kev Needham

24. bots at Twitter and identi.ca

26. regularly give talks about the topic ;-)

30. Everybody loooooves pictures!

31. Some more pictures...

32. Say cheese!

33. Pictures, pictures, pictures...

34. That's it... Thanks for joining! [email_address] www.opensourcetreffen.de