Call for participation FSCONS 2012, November 09‒11

The Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS) is a meeting
place for social change, focused on the future of free software and
free society. The conference brings together people from a wide range
of fields, and merges the technical with the social, seeking both
to activate and challenge. Open discussion and brainstorming are as
important as the talks given during the conference.

Invitation

For this years conference we're looking for proposals on a number of
different subjects. We're looking for proposals that relate to Free
Society or Free Software generally, as well as those which are at the
crossroads of the two or which take the philosophy of Free Society and
Free Software and brings them to a whole new field. To give you a hint
of the scope of the conference here are some topics already planned:

* Embedded systems
* FSFE—Legal track
* FSFE—Hosting your own services
* Wikimedia
* Open entertainment
* Open security
* Free software in a free world
* Decentralised society
* Web science

But don't let this restrict your thinking: you can submit a proposal
even if it doesn't quite fit into any of the above topics.

The dealine for your proposal is July 1 st.

How to submit your proposal

In order to submit your proposal, please go to
http://fscons.org/2012/cfp/submit/ , register your proposal and
make sure your provide valid contact information. This proposal
form is to be used only for your personal proposal. If you
have ideas of other people you want to suggest as speakers,
please feel free to suggest those in the FSCONS Wiki
(http://wiki.fscons.org/page/Suggested_Speakers_2012).

When you fill out the proposal form, we would like to ask you to
provide the following information.

* Title—The title of your session/presentation
* Abstract—The abstract and description of your presentation.
* Presenter(s)—You can add any number of presenters to the session.
* Contact information
* Video recording/streaming—Indicates wether you want your session
recorded or not.
* Accessibility pledge—Indicates you want your talk inluded in the
list of accessible talks. Please see
 http://fscons.org/2012/cfp/accessibility/
to understand what this means.

After the review period, ending August 1 st, you will get notified
if your proposal is accepted or not.

Important dates for FSCONS 2012

* July 1 st - deadline for submissions
* August 1 st - accepted proposals will be notified.

If your proposal is accepted, the abstract submission deadline is
September 1 st.

Looking forward to see you at FSCONS 2012 in November!

Programme manager, Leif-Jöran Olsson