Hi all. This is my first attempt to organize events as an Ambassador. First of all, I know that the available time is probably not enough, so this attempt will probably fail, but at least I would like to try. AICA (www.aicanet.it) is an Italian no-profit Association for the promotion of IT, Automated Computing and IT skills development, and have their local offices within Universities R&D offices. Composed of IT Companies, IT Professionals and Computer Science Universities and High Schools, they collaborate with Universities, High Schools, Government institutions, R&D organizations, public offices, etc.. They organize events, R&D projects, education activities, and collaborate with http://www.eucip.com and http://www.ecdl.com. They also promote innovation in skill building, like using Open Source based Operating Systems and Office Automation as for the basic certification paths. The most important event they hold, is a yearly Congress that is hold, for this year, on November the 4th, 5th and 6th at the Rome based University 'La Sapienza'. This is NOT an Open Source event, but a general IT and Innovation event, so participants will be coming from different 'environments'. There is a call for paper expiring on July the 15th with various arguments to be proposed (http://aica2009.sapienza.roma.it/). Again, I understand that the available time is probably not enouhg, so I'm just trying... I have set in my mind a list of activities I will have to do from now on, but there is one of these for which I'm asking for help from the marketing ML: the document to be submitted as the first draft to the call for paper. The document should be in PDF or RTF format, either in English or Italian, and is to be developed based on one of the agenda items. If the document will be chosen, I will have to generate the final version and present the content with a projected presentation (I would take care of them), and the document itself will be distributed to the participants as an act of congress. I'm thinking to propose 2 of the items, but for one of them I will take care of submitting the proposal (I will let you all know about this in the next few days). The argument for which I'm asking help is 'Governance of Open Source Communities'. I was thinking to submit a document with this type of content: - What is Open Source, what is an Open Source Community (i.e. their objectives, their usual way to act, etc.) - What is openSUSE (brief history, from its birth date, through Novell acquisition, up to the state of today). - Characteristics of the openSUSE distro (YaST, OpenOffice Novell edition?, etc.) - What is the model: openSUSE community, Novell development addition up to the SLES and SLED enterprise offerings. - How is the openSUSE community organized (i.e. Community Manager, various tematic teams, wikis, Ambassadors, OBS, suse studio, Guiding Principles, etc.). - Numbers of openSUSE (number of registered users, members, downloads, visitors, IRC groups/users, etc.). - ... The document has to be generated based on provided guidance (http://aica2009.sapienza.roma.it/istruzioni-per-gli-autori). Here is a digest: - A4 format - Single Interline - Font: 12pt - First page to contain: Document Title, Autor[s], Abstract (Font: 10pt) - Up to 10 pages, with tables and pictures as well, and PDF or RTF format - Content pages with all lines used (font: 12pt, single interline) - Bibliography at the end with: 1. Author[s], 2. Date/Period, 3. Title (Italic font), 4. publisher. - Tables and pictures can be used but consider that it will be printed on B5 format. Do not use colors for pictures. - If you will use formulas, use the standard SYMBOLS. This means that the document should be ready within July the 14th (Tuesday) for me to be submitted. If there is anybody that can help me, even if by sharing previously used documents that have to be just reviewed (in that case, I would take care of doing it). Any questions, let me know. Thanks in advance for any help. -- Mariano Iumiento miumiento [at] gmail [dot] com openSUSE Marketing Team Blogs: http://marigeek.blogspot.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/miumiento -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org