Polish Arch Linux Conference - 2011

Partition · 2011-07-22 13:24:36

Hi there!

We'd love to inform You about our conference! Tomorrow (23'rd of July) we'll meet for the first time as Polish Archlinux community[1] at Archcon 2011 in Warsaw. This year Archcon will also be KDE Release Party and a great start for next meetings about FLOSS in business world.

Thanks to Polish FLOSS Foundation[2] and BRAMA Mobile Technologies Laboratory[3] we'll meet at Warsaw University of Technology spending whole day watching interesting presentations and networking during brakes and after party.

We hope to start Archcon as a series of conferences about FLOSS in business (2-3 presentations of successful cases + pizza & networking) in Warsaw and annual road show which will be a great opportunity to meet other members of Archlinux community in Poland.

Thanks to our sponsors and partners we have a chance to do everything as planned, have fun meeting other members of our community and starting new exciting projects using FLOSS!

You'll find more informations about Archcon and future meetings at our site[4] (soon also in English) and on twitter (look for #archcon2011 and #archcon).

[1] http://archlinux.pl
[2] http://fwioo.pl/section/o-nas/
[3] http://brama.elka.pw.edu.pl/site/home#goto:about
[4] http://archcon.pl

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Xyne · 2011-07-22 13:41:23

This appears to be completely unrelated to the official ArchCon conferences, only one of which has been held.

If that is the case then I think naming this "ArchCon" is both confusing and potentially illegal. "ArchCon" is and should be the official name of the official Arch Linux Conference organized by the Arch Linux developers, and only by them or those they delegate. Misappropriating the title can be viewed as trademark infringement. Given that you have sponsors for this, you may be directly profiting from trademark infringement which is even more serious.

If this actually is the official ArchCon (which I doubt), then I think it's deplorable that it has only been announced 1 day in advance. There is no way that most people would be able to attend on such short notice. Also, ArchCon is about Arch Linux itself, not general FLOSS in business. Such an ArchCon would misrepresent Arch Linux and its purpose, which is not to become a business distro nor to promote FLOSS in business.

I would appreciate some clarification on these points, both from you and from the developers.

Thanks.

karol · 2011-07-22 13:48:21

The info about this event was published on the Polish forum some time ago, so the folks could plan e.g. their vacations in advance.
http://bbs.archlinux.pl/viewtopic.php?id=1014 (in Polish)

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Xyne · 2011-07-22 13:54:31

karol wrote:

The info about this event was published on the Polish forum some time ago, so the folks could plan e.g. their vacations in advance.
http://bbs.archlinux.pl/viewtopic.php?id=1014 (in Polish)

So it isn't the official ArchCon if it's only aimed at Polish users. I'm obviously not in a position to speak for the devs, so I will simply wait to see what they have to say about this, but I suspect that there will be objections to using the name "ArchCon" (on the site, on Twitter, etc) as though it were the official conference.

I also want to say that I'm not against the conference itself, only the misappropriation of the name. I think you should have used ArchConPL or something which clearly distinguishes from the official conference.

karol · 2011-07-22 13:57:01

http://www.archlinux.org/news/archcon2010-registration/ (the link to the news about the official ArchCon)

litemotiv · 2011-07-22 14:02:49

Moving this to Arch Discussion for now.

Partition · 2011-07-22 14:08:25

You're right Xyne - this conference is not related with official ArchCon conference. It's directed to Polish users, and we just wanted to let community know, that something related with Arch Linux is happening in Poland.
We really didn't want to 'stole' ArchCon trademark, sorry.

Also - the reason of late announcement is caused by some doubts related with organization at all.

PS: This conference is completely non-profit and it aims to grow popularity of Arch Linux (and FLOSS at all) in our region.

Last edited by Partition (2011-07-22 14:11:20)

Dusty · 2011-07-22 15:30:05

As one of the organizers of what is being called the first official ArchCon, I don't strictly mind the use of the name. The community is still small enough to understand the difference, and I don't remember if we had official sanctioning on the name from Aaron in the first place! :-)

That said, I think it would be good to use different names for different types of events. What would have been ideal for me is if someone had told me they were planning one, and we could have considered a semiofficial Polish/English conference of some sort. But I'd probably have declined involvement anyway, my life is too full as it is!

My original plan/dream was to host an ArchCon 2011 somewhere here in Europe, but I couldn't find enough people to contribute at the time. Kudos for putting an event together at all, I know how much work it is!!d

Dusty

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Xyne · 2011-07-22 22:18:52

Thanks for the clarification. Good luck with the conference tomorrow!

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