CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The Bazaar
An EarthWeb Event
December 14, 15, and 16, 1999
Jacob K. Javitz Center, New York, NY
The Bazaar is the foremost interactive educational event in
support of the free and open source software movement. This
movement, founded and supported through a massive global
development community, embodies two major segments of the software
industry committed to solving complex computing problems for users,
notably in the area of enterprise and internet-based
development:
1) The Free and Open Source Community – this community is
composed of the visionaries, risk takers, designers, coders, and
maintainers of the growing number of foundation technologies
available today as free and open source software.
2) Product and Service Companies – leadership software, hardware
and service enterprises motivated by the passion and excellence of
the community and driven by the promise of the resultant
technologies. Product companies embrace the foundation projects and
build upon them. They also insure that popular layered application,
tools, middleware, languages, and more can live with, and enhance,
the open source accomplishments.
The Bazaar is the only conference to provide a separate but
equal voice to both parties for the benefit of the end user. The
Bazaar not only provides an environment for the visionaries of Open
Source to meet and discuss current and future advancements in the
community but also provides the only hands-on and workshop oriented
instruction for users taught by leading product and education
companies in the industry.
SUBMISSIONS:
The Bazaar is accepting submissions from these two major
contributing areas:
1) The Community and Projects
2) Product Implementations and Case Studies
Community and Projects:
The Bazaar welcomes submissions that support any and all projects
relevant to the Open Source movement. A submission can take the
following forms:
- Project status and live demonstration.
- Practice reports highlighting personal experiences with the use
of particular project in a controlled environment. - Experience reports highlighting multi-user/team efforts, cross
platform or interoperability exercises, enterprise or mission
critical system development and collaborative efforts between
projects. - Advanced technology briefings defining development efforts
12-24 months out.
Each submission will be evaluated for technical excellence and
community and/or industry relevance.
Product Implementations and Case
Studies:
Many Fortune 500 companies are purchasing or considering
implementations of Linux, Apache, and other Open Source projects.
Traditional buying habits dictate a requirement of solid support
from the vendor community to insure rapid acceptance of the
technologies and approaches. In turn, vendors are dependent on
advances provided by the open source development efforts to serve
as a baseline for many of their own products. Vendors who can
illustrate a commitment to the community by:
- Selling or servicing a distribution.
- Providing education on any open source technology or
variant. - Having ported enterprise, application, or development products
to Linux. - Providing services or tools in support of Apache.
- Developing their own open source or free software project.
- Promoting or using other open source projects within a product
suite.
are eligible to present at The Bazaar. A select number of
vendors will be given the opportunity to deliver hands-on sessions
or interactive architectural workshops that highlight their
product, service or educational efforts. A limited number of 300
desktop Linux systems will be made available to teach development
methodologies, products or product suites.
Submissions may take the following form:
- Tutorials
- Case Studies (technical content required)
- Workshops (limited classroom size, interactive, with
pre-registration required) - Hands-on Instruction (limited classroom size, interactive, with
pre-registration required) - Product Status
Submissions will be evaluated for:
- Technical and educational merit
- Relevancy to the market place and industry
- Support of the community
SUBMISSION PROCESS:
Authors are requested to submit complete papers and abstracts by
September 17, 1999. All submissions must be in electronic form, in
PostScript or PDF, Word or HTML. Please include the following
information:
NAME:
TITLE:
COMPANY OR AFFILIATION:
VENDOR OR PROJECT (select one):
PHONE:
EMAIL:
FAX:
- SUBMISSION TITLE:
- AREA OF SPECIALITY (e.g. Security):
- TARGET AUDIENCE (technical or management):
- FORM OF PRESENATION (ie Experience report, tutorial, etc):
- PROPOSED LENGTH OF TALK, WORKSHOP, OR HANDS-ON SESSION:
SOFTWARE/HARDWARE INSTALLATION REQUIREMENTS FOR HANDS-ON: - DESCRIPTION (500 words or less):
If you are proposing a hands-on sessions please specify whether
you are requesting a 3 or 5 hour slot. Shorter sessions will not be
considered. If a topic warrants more than 5 hours of hands-on
please specify as it may qualify for a special boot camp.
Please submit all entries to papers@thebazaar.org. Authors will
be notified of receipt of submission via e-mail. If you do not
receive notification, contact: lbennett@one.net. For more
information or instruction on how to submit to The Bazaar please
contact Lydia Bennett, Conference Chair, lbennett@one.net. General
information on The Bazaar can be found at http://wwwthebazaar.org.