[eo-announce] Everything Open 2025 Call for Sessions is now open

[Everything Open Announcements]

Hello everyone,

Just a quick reminder that the writing sessions are on today and 
tomorrow, if you wish to attend please email speakers at everythingopen.au 
and we will send through a meeting link and calendar invite.

Time is running out to submit!

Sae Ra


On 15/09/2024 12:58 pm, Everything Open wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> This is your friendly Everything Open Session Selection Committee
> Co-Chairs, Donna Benjamin and Sae Ra Germaine!
> 
> We are hoping that you are spending this weekend writing up some
> amazing proposals to submit to EO2025's Call for Sessions. We already
> have some great submissions but we need more! we want to hear from
> you!
> 
> There is only ONE WEEK LEFT so get onto it!
> 
> Are you a developer, maintainer, user, contributor, distributor of
> anything related to the world of Open Methodologies and Technologies?
> We want to hear from you!
> 
> Everything Open is a conference that welcomes all ranges of talks from
> the seasoned speakers to new people. We are a very welcoming space for
> speakers and we want you to help us make EO the best conference it
> could be.
> 
> If you are unsure as to what to write or how to write it, Sae Ra will
> be running 2 sessions on putting together a submission with some
> insights as to what the Session Selection Committee is looking for.
> Details are below:
> 
> Session 1: Thursday 19 September 2024 - 8pm-9pm AEST
> Session 2: Friday 20 September 2024 - 1pm-2pm AEST
> 
> If you are interested in attending please email
> speakers at everythingopen.au with the session you would like to join and
> we will send through a calendar invite for that session.
> 
> The sessions will talk you through putting together a proposal, what
> is expected, what the reviewers are looking for, and then we will
> spend some time putting together the talk.
> 
> More details about the Call for Sessions is below.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sae Ra & Donna
> 
> --
> Co-Chairs, Session Selection Committee
> Everything Open 2025
> 
> On 20/08/2024 11:20 pm, Everything Open wrote:
>> Submit your session proposals today - the Everything Open 2025 Call
>> for Sessions is now open
>> 
>> Everything Open is coming to Tarntanya (Adelaide) at the Adelaide
>> Convention Centre from Mon 20 - Wed 22 January 2025.
>> 
>> We are putting everything in place to welcome everyone to the
>> conference. We are ready to open up our Call for Sessions and we would
>> love for you to speak at our conference!
>> 
>> ## Call for Sessions
>> 
>> We invite you to submit a session proposal on a topic you are familiar
>> with via our proposals portal at
>> https://2025.everythingopen.au/programme/proposals/. The Call for
>> Sessions will remain open until 11:59pm on 22nd September 2024
>> anywhere on earth (AoE).
>> 
>> There will be multiple streams catering for a wide range of interest
>> areas across the many facets of open methodology and technology,
>> including Linux, open source software, open hardware, standards, data,
>> GLAM, formats and documentation, and our communities. In keeping with
>> the conference’s aim to be inclusive to all community members,
>> presentations can be aimed at any level, ranging from technical
>> deep-dives through to beginner and intermediate level presentations
>> for those who are newer to the subject.
>> 
>> There will be two types of sessions at Everything Open: talks and
>> tutorials. Talks will be 45 minutes long on a single topic presented
>> in lecture format. Tutorials are interactive and hands-on in nature,
>> presented in classroom format. Each accepted session will receive one
>> Professional level ticket to attend the conference.
>> 
>> The Session Selection Committee is looking forward to reading your
>> submissions. We would also like to thank them for coming together and
>> volunteering their time to help put this conference together.
>> 
>> ## Sponsor Early
>> 
>> As usual, we have a range of sponsorship opportunities available, for
>> the conference overall as well as the ability to contribute towards
>> specific parts of the event. We encourage you to sponsor the
>> conference early, to get the maximum promotion during the lead up to
>> the event. If you or your organisation is interested in sponsoring
>> Everything Open, please get in touch via
>> https://2025.everythingopen.au/sponsors/prospectus/.