aksh/agora.md

Agora is an Ancient Greek word for "gathering place" or "assembly", which exactly represents modern-day conferences and Foss events.

• Agora
• OpenHardware
• Event Management
  • ConfTools

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Agora

• http://pydata.org/amsterdam2016/cfp/
• SAVE-SD 2016, https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-science/2015-November/004048.html
• GOR General Online Research. CFP.
• IEEE Technically Sponsored SAI Computing Conference 2016, 13-15 July 2016, London UK.
• 2016feb16 : http://www.pycon.se/

CCC

• https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/Session:Open_Science_Workshop
• https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/Main_Page
• https://events.ccc.de/2015/12/07/32c3-ticket-status/

FORCE11

• Force2016 Conference
• Dates: Preconference: April 17, 2016; Main conference: April 18-19, 2016
• Venue: Portland, Oregon.
• The FORCE2016 Research Communication and e-Scholarship Conference brings together a diverse group of people interested in changing the way scholarly and scientific information is communicated and shared. Who is it for? Scholars, researchers, librarians, data managers, grant administrators, funders, publishers, editors, societies and anyone else interested in scholarly communications.

ICCS

• INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE :: http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2016/
• Workshop on Teaching Computational Science 2016 (WTCS 2016) :: http://webs.wofford.edu/shifletab/iccs/

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OpenHardware

• http://openhardware.science/

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Event Management

Meetup Mgmt

• Portland's Calagator : http://calagator.org/ and wiki : https://github.com/calagator/calagator/wiki/Supported-Import-Formats

ConfTools

Conf Mgmt:

• OpenConferenceWare is an open source web application for events and conferences. This customizable, general-purpose platform provides proposals, sessions, schedules, tracks and more.

• An interesting thread on a Meetup forum: http://www.discussmeetup.com/forum/general-questions-how-tos-tips-tricks/i-want-to-close-my-group-what-are-good-free-alternative-platforms-to-meetup/

For Conferences:

• http://www.eventbrite.com/ (free for free events)
• https://www.farornear.com/ (free)
• http://attending.io/ (free)
• https://www.xing.com/de/events (free for free events, much like eventbrite, used often in Germany)
• http://ti.to
• https://ti.to/ (free for free events, used by PyCon UK)
• https://nvite.com/ (free for free events)
• use the Python events calendar together with the map mashup: https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEventsCalendar
  • http://lmorillas.github.io/python_events/
    

For BarCamps:

• https://www.barcamptools.eu/ (again, mostly in Germany)