Important Dates + Deadlines

• Speaker Registration Deadline: Tuesday, May 28, 2019
• Upload Bio + Headshot to Sched.com Deadline: Tuesday, May 28, 2019
• AV Requests Due: Wednesday, July 31, 2019
• Presentation Deadline: Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Registration

To confirm that you will be presenting, please register as a speaker by Tuesday, May 28, 2019.

If you are not registered by Tuesday, May 28, there is a possibility that your speaking slot will be replaced by one on our waiting list so please do so promptly.

Visa Letter Requests

We recommend that you check with your local government for information on required documents and arrangements you’ll need for travel to San Diego, California as soon as possible. If you need a letter to accompany your visa application confirming your attendance at Open Source Summit North America, request it here.

All visa letter requests must be submitted no later than two weeks prior to the event. Any visa letter requests made after the two-week deadline cannot be guaranteed.

Venue Location

Open Source Summit North America will be held at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront.

Hilton San Diego Bayfront

1 Park Boulevard
San Diego, California 92101
Telephone: +1-619-564-3344

Hotel Accommodations

We have negotiated a discounted conference rate at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront and invite you to view this information on our Venue & Travel page.

Rooms may sell out in advance of the room block close on July 27, 2019 – we encourage you to book early to secure a room at the conference rate.

Schedule + Uploading a Bio/Photo

The schedule will be announced Wednesday, May 15 and will be posted on our website using sched.com. You will receive an email directly from sched.com asking you to create your account; please make sure to upload your bio and photo.

Please note all conference sessions are thirty-five (35) minutes. If you have a conflict with the timing of your talk or find that it conflicts with the content of another talk; or are having problems uploading your bio and photo, please contact cfp@linuxfoundation.org.

AV Details + Requirements

Any additional AV requests are due by Wednesday, July 31, 2019

The room will include a screen, projector, and (2) wireless microphones. At the end of the session a mic will be used for questions, so be sure to leave time at the end of your talk. Required: All speakers will need to supply their own computer and necessary adaptors to use during their session.

NOTE: The projectors have both VGA and HDMI capabilities/outputs and can accommodate either. If you require any additional AV, please contact cfp@linuxfoundation.org with those needs by Wednesday, July 31.  The Linux Foundation will make every effort to accommodate additional A/V needs; however, final approval for additional A/V requests will be made on a case-by-case basis.

Presentation

Due by Wednesday, August 14

All speakers are required to submit their final presentation slides ahead of the event. In addition to providing a hard copy for accessibility purposes, we find that adding the presentations before the event helps to drive interest in attending the session.

Please note that your presentation slides should be submitted in PDF-format to Sched.com and must be formatted in 16:9.

A conference branded presentation template is available for download in the following formats (please note, use of the template is optional):

Powerpoint

OpenDocument

Once the schedule is announced on Wednesday, May 15, we appreciate you spreading the word about #0ssummit and your session – please find some sample tweets below to share on your social channels!

• Proud to be chosen as a speaker for #ossummit– visit “link to your session” to add my talk to your schedule!
• Thrilled to announce I’ll be presenting at #ossummit! Visit Open Source Summit to see the full schedule 👍
• Just learned my talk “Session Name” was accepted 🎉 See you all in San Diego for #ossummit! “link to your session”
• Can’t wait to speak at #ossummit in San Diego – visit Open Source Summit to check out the full lineup!

Inclusive Speaker Orientation Online Course

The Linux Foundation, in collaboration with the National Center for Women in Technology (NCWIT), has created an online course designed to teach the viewer about inclusion, diversity and unconscious bias. It is strongly encouraged by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation that all our speakers watch the course to learn tips/tools to use when speaking to encourage inclusivity in presentations and messaging.

Click here for the course.  

Code of Conduct

Please read and abide by our code of conduct, which can be found here. We ask that speakers especially review this code of conduct and are inclusive in the words and images used during their presentation.

Post to OpenSource.com

Opensource.com is running an Open Source Summit article series and would love to feature your open source stories for the broader community to enjoy. For most speakers, it only takes converting your speaker notes into a draft format and sending them to us.

Timeline: To be published before Open Source Summit, drafts are due by Monday, August 12th. Any drafts submitted after the deadline will be published after Open Source Summit. Drafts can be emailed to open@opensource.com with the subject line “Open Source Summit article”, or writers can fill out the form here: https://opensource.com/conferences-2019

Here are examples from articles inspired by Open Source Summit in past years: https://opensource.com/tags/open-source-summit

Here is our article submission guide: https://opensource.com/submission-style-guide

More information about writing for Opensource.com: https://opensource.com/writers

A little bit about us: Opensource.com is a Red Hat-sponsored community publication that attracts more than 1-million unique visitors a month and publishes content under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. One of our editors would work with you to polish your piece, and we would help promote it over social media and syndication channels.

Contact Us

Do you have speaker or schedule related questions?

Please contact cfp@linuxfoundation.org