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| Title | RMLL (as of 2007) 2007.rmll.info |
CCC (as of 2007) events.ccc.de/congress/2007/ |
FOSDEM (as of 2008) fosdem.org |
|---|---|---|---|
| Periodicity + Organization | Every year, with different structures for the organization. | Congress every year, camps every four years. Organized by the CCC. | Every year. Organized by a benevolent group. |
| Duration | 5 days (Tuesday to Saturday). | 3 days (Dec27 to Dec30). | 2 days (Saturday and Sunday). |
| Price | Free Entry. | 80Euros flat rate. | Free entry, donations encouraged (T-Shirts and gifts are given by sponsors and given away by lotterie to donators). |
| Personal Data | You must give your identity for the preregistration. | Completely anonymous (cash payment and no infos). | No data to provide. |
| Feminine Participation | Less than 10% are women. | About 10% are women. | Less than 10% are women - even less than with RMLL. |
| Badges | Badges with person's (nick)name. | No info about people you can meet. | No info about people you can meet. |
| Statistics | Possibility to take statistics (like the number of participating countries, etc...) | Very few statistics possible apart from those about people who talk. | Very few statistics possible apart from those about people who talk. |
| Accomodation and Restauration | Administration of accomodation in a university residence, food at a university restaurant. Also a list of recommanded accomodation/restaurants. | Neither accomodation nor restaurant managed by the orga-team (only a dormitory). Food by a private company which has the monopoly of the food-selling on the congress palace. | No managed accomodation. List of recommanded accomodations. Bar with sandwiches (large choice of drinks like beer, little choice of sandwiches) |
| Visitors | Between 2000 and 3000 persons over a week. | 4000 persons. Overcrowded rooms. | Over 4000+ persons. Overcrowded corridors with stands during rush hours. Big impressing amphi theatre for the plenary session. |
| Participants | Free software people (users and developers) + mass audience | geeks, hobbyists, hackers, and activists. | especially developers and activists. |
| Financing | Public and private sponsors. Presence of institutions. | Private sponsors for the material at least. No institutions. | Private sponsors + donators. Only few or no institutions. Big sponsors, very visible (too much?). |
| Topics | Focused on free software | Focused on hobbyists+hackers (software, hardware, lego, modelism, artistic stuff, locksmithing/lockpicking...). The topic "privacy" ("private life") is of more of importance in Germany. | focused on development of free software |
| Venue | Small town (not a big city). More or less downtown at a university. No decoration. | At a congress hall at the (East) centre of Berlin (which is a fairly big city). Visual installations, lights, arts installation, geek decoration. | Free University Brussels (Université Libre de Bruxelles). Pretty linear space. No decoration. |
| Social Event | "Off" in town, "repas du Libre" ("meal of the free" - referring to freedom, free people, and free software). | At hacker spaces bootlab and c-base within Berlin. | "Beer event" on the night before first day (usually Friday). [And "free beer" event on the evening of first night (Saturday).] Internal bar frequently full of people during the day. |
| Program | Many topics and conferences in parallel. Printed programs for all participants. | Three parallel sessions maximum (over 6 topics). Printed programs are available. | Some fifteen auditoriums and rooms in parallel, including some "lightning talks" and LPI exams. Impressive programs for each participant. |
| Duration of Talks | 45/50 minutes, sometimes an hour. | 1:15h - or "lightning talk" (5mins) | 1:30h - or "lightning talk" (15mins) |
| Start of the day | Begins at 9, particularly for education and for the mass audience. | About 10:30 or 11:00. | 10h on the first day, and 9/9:30 on the second day. |
| Pauses | No real pause between two conferences. | 15 minutes pause between two conferences, with soft electronic music. | Pause between two conferences or two sessions of "lightning talks". |
| Introductions | No intros, only a little intervention of the man in charge of the topic. | The orga introduces the speaker with a text which was given/validated by the speaker. | The orga introduces the speaker with a text which was given/validated by the speaker. |
| End of Day | Closing of the event ("In") about 18/19, then beginning of the social event ("Off"). | Open all day, conferences until midnight. [There are extra night passes available to see and stay at hack center in the basement.] | Closing at about 18h. |
| Equipment | No microphone, or classical one. | Lapel microphone, or headphones. | Lapel microphone, or classical microphones. |
| Multimedia | Partial recording. Partial video streaming. | Recording of all the conferences (in theory). Live video streaming + multiformat postponed streaming. | Partial recording. Live video streaming Ogg/Theora at the big amphitheatre. |
| Spaces | Conferences + workshops + stands + "le off" (social event). | Conferences + workshops + stands + hacking + lounge. | Conferences + workshops + stands + bar + developer rooms. |
| Orientation (Arrows+Signs) |
Only few internal signs. Signs on the outside. | No outside signs; everything takes place in one place. | Very good internal signs, with one paper color per room. Good external signs between buildings and on the campus. |
| Beverages | Coffee and beer. | Club-Mate and beer (and coffee). | Beer and coffee. |
| Goals | Make Free Software people meet. | Offer a comfortable space for meetings betweens geeks and hackers. | Make developers meet between each other. |
| Talk | Mass audience and politics. | Technical subjects as well as technics and politics. | Technical subjects. |
| Place | Bordeaux, Metz, Dijon, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, Amiens, ... | Berlin and surroundings/vicinity. | Bruxelles (ULB). |
| Languages (visitors) | The majority is francophone, otherwise anglophone (sometimes some other people if the event takes place near a border). | Mostly germanophone, otherwise anglophone. | It varies. People come from all over Europe, most speak English. |
| Languages (talks) | French, English | English, German | English |
originally written by Benoît Sibaud [1024D/97FE3CFD 2001-09-11]. "oumph" on Freenode
http://april.org/~ruffy/RMLL_vs_CCC_vs_FOSDEM.html
[26/02/2008 10:10]
translated to English by Hélène Marcq [1024D/B674640C 2007-09-18].
Sven Guckes [1024R/57F77F09 1995-01-30]. "sveng" on Freenode
[13/05/2008 00:00]
http://www.guckes.net/communities/RMLL_vs_CCC_vs_FOSDEM.html
proofread by Benoît Sibaud [1024D/97FE3CFD 2001-09-11]. "oumph" on Freenode
[15/08/2008 10:30]