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EVENTS GUIDELINES: How to write a good event entry?
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Event entries appear on our website start page if they are tagged with
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"front-page" [1]. It is important to make sure that they are well designed and
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give visitors sufficient information to decide if if they want to go there.
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The events are maintained over the SVN from our website. The events are stored
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under events/YYYY/. More information on how to get access to the website can be
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found on our webmaster website
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<http://www.fsfe.org/contribute/web/web.en.html>.
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== The event entry ==
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An event entry is a file with the name "event-YYYYMMDD-01.en.xml". Where
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- YYYY is the year
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- MM is the month
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- DD is the day
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- 01 is the number of the event on that day. The second event will have 02, ...
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- en is the language code
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In case of a multi day event, take the start date to determine the file name.
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== Content of the file ==
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The content of this files look like that:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<eventset>
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<event start="YYYY-MM-DD" end="YYYY-MM-DD">
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<title>Name of the Event, City, Country</title>
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<body>
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Information in one paragraph.
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</body>
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<page>http://www.luga.de/Aktionen/LIT-2009/</page>
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</event>
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</eventset>
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== General information ==
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=== What should be highlighted? ===
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When we write an event entry, we should make sure that -- besides the date --
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it describes 1) why FSFE is promoting this event, 2) WHERE _exactly_ is this event taking
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place, WHAT do you have to pay to get it, WHEN will be the speech.
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1) Why are we promoting this event: Events entries appear on the start page. We
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should take care of them. Sometimes, the only reason we are promoting an event
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is because someone from FSFE is participating (giving a speech, a
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conference...) then the event entry should say who, what his position is and
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what the talk will be about.
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2) Where this event takes place: In the title, make sure that the place where
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the event is taking place is mentioned. For instance, "FSCONS 2009, Göteborg,
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Sweden". More details should be brought in the description. Please also enter
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street name and number so people find the event without having to look for that
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information somewhere else.
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Is this event open to public? Do you have to pay an admission fee? This
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question should be answered in the description.
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- Speaker(s) (mandatory, maybe as link)
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- Title/Summary of speech/conference (mandatory)
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- Language of speech/conference (mandatory)
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- Start and end time of speech/conference (mandatory)
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- Expected audience (optional)
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- Possible link to preparatory/additional information (optional)
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== Terminology ==
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Whenever an event uses a terminology we do not encourage, like Open Source,
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intellectual property or Linux instead of GNU/Linux; the event entry should
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avoid this terms. And if necessary, e.g. when it is in the title it should be
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quoted to avoid confusion.
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=== Example ===
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Open Source Day, Göteborg, Sweden [2009-11-13]
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Adriaan de Groot and Karsten Gerloff will speak at [[this event dedicated to
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how open source can increase profitability | link to the event]] by cost
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reduction for small and medium-sized businesses. The seminar is organized by
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Resource Point AB, a consulting firm focused on open source, in collaboration
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with Informator and FSCONS, which is a meeting place for the propagation of
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Free Software.
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Should be replaced with
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"Open Source Day," Göteborg, Sweden [2009-11-13]
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Adriaan de Groot and Karsten Gerloff will speak about business case studies and
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Free Software licenses at this event preceding FSCONS. The event takes place in
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Göteburg at the World Culture Museum, Södra vägen 54, Gothenburg from 12.00 to
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17.30. Attendance fee is 995 SEK (you get 30% rebate at FSCONS).
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== Difference betweeen <page> and <link>
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For links to external event pages we use <page> as for links to FSFE's websites
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we use e.g. <link>http://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Berlin</link>. The difference is
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that the links with <page> do not appear on the start page but only on
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http://www.fsfe.org/events, and are thus less strongly advertised, while the
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links with <link> also appear on the start page.
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[1] http://fsfe.org/contribute/web/tagging.en.html
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