Call for Papers

Trivia: "Pott" is short for " Ruhrpott", a slang-term for the Ruhr-Area. Also, Pott is German slang for a cooking-pot. Hence the slogan "A pot full of software".

The OpenRheinRuhr 2011 in Oberhausen will follow on from last year's successes. The OpenRheinRuhr is an exhibition and conference dedicated to all free software and internet policy related topics. Users, IT experts, and decision makers will get the chance to meet up and talk in workshops, lectures, and at their booths. Companies are invited to present themselves and their free-software products and services.

This year the OpenRheinRuhr will be preceeded by a PostgreSQL conference. Therefore this event will be a one-time special happening which will be in interest for a number of database specialists.

The OpenRheinRuhr invites users, developers, administrators, IT decision makers and civil rights activists to submit papers, workshops and talks about the following topics:

Premises

The Rheinische Industriemuseum is very close to Oberhausen's central station. The exhibition-area is 790 square meters in total. Three rooms for up to a 100 people for talks and workshops are available.

Submission of papers

Please submit your papers by the 31th of August using our online-form, follow it's instructions and give us the following details additionally:

Language of submissions

The audience is almost exclusively German or German-speaking. Submissions in the English language are not banned, but should be limited to rare exceptions. Submissions in languages other than German or English will not be accepted.

Schedule

Talks will last 42 minutes. The organisation team will agree on the individual duration of workshops.

Formats and Licenses

The papers shall be submitted as OpenOffice-, TeX-, DVI- or PDF-files. In the spirit of the Open Access movement the OpenRheinRuhr suggests to publish your papers unter the terms of the CC-by-SA 3.0 license.

Other details needed:

Anonymous submissions are also accepted.

The OpenRheinRuhr is looking forward to interesting papers. In case you need any help with your submission, get in touch with us: vortrag@openrheinruhr.de