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T-DOSE 2025
As T-DOSE 2024 is wrapping up, we are excited to inform you that there will be another T-DOSE next year:
31 May & 1 June 2025
If you had a good time at T-DOSE this year, or if you couldn't make it, please reserve the date for next year. The location will be the same as this year: the Weeffabriek in Geldrop.
Add T-DOSE 2025 to your calendar: iCalendar event.
Call for help - A note from our chairman
I have been part of the core team of T-DOSE for a good few years now, and have even been bumped up to chairman of the T-DOSE foundation. And I have to say that I really like putting time and effort into keeping our event alive and helping it grow over the years. The enthusiasm of the core team is infectious, and we have gotten very experienced in organising this event.
However, in the years since COVID-19 we have lost a few core organisers, and this is affecting the workload of the remaining team. Some tasks are harder to get done, and I fear future editions of T-DOSE may suffer from that. We are particularly short-handed in the area of money-related tasks, such as fund raising and managing the foundation's finances.
So, if you think that organising an open source conference is worth a few evenings a month of your time, please let us know. We are particularly looking for a new treasurer for our foundation and for someone who is good at finding and communicating with prospective sponsors, but extra hands in other areas are also very welcome.
If you want to help, but feel that you lack the time to help us organise T-DOSE throughout the year, or prefer a more hands-on role during the event, we are also looking to increase our pool of volunteers for the actual weekend. So don't hesitate to let us know if you're available!
Join us for a chance to get that warm feeling of seeing your efforts lead to yet another great event!
Hope to see you soon,
Peter van Ginneken
Chairman of the T-DOSE foundation
2024 Talks Schedule
The talks schedule is now available in our pretalx instance.
There will be two tracks on Saturday and one on Sunday, spanning a wide range of technical and community topics. Have a look and pick some interesting topics you want to learn more about.
See you on the 1st and 2nd of June!
2024 Social Event
The main part of any conference is of course the social aspect! A well established T-DOSE tradition is to have a dinner and a couple of drinks with speakers, volunteers and visitors to end the first conference day. Our social event will start at 6pm on Saturday evening. This is a great way to interact informally with all our speakers and whoever else you meet at T-DOSE. Discuss your experiences of the day and all the presentation that are still coming on the next day. Everybody is welcome.
Register now to be a part of this!
In order to prepare for this event, we need a good estimate on how many people will join is. That is why registration is open as of today. If you are interested in a nice dinner with like-minded people, then please let us know via email to socialevent @ t-dose.org. Because we need to book in advance, there will only be a very limited amount of extra slots available for sale on the day itself. Yes, really limited. Register in advance to guarantee your place at the table. Do not wait to register on the day itself - you might get disappointed.
Social event tickets cost 30 euro. You can pay during the event itself, at the T-DOSE info stand on Saturday. The social event is only open to people who have registered and paid before the event starts. Attendees of the social event will gather in the main hall of the T-DOSE event location. Don't be late, the doors will close at 6pm for the start of the social event. The entrance fee must be paid before that time at the T-DOSE info stand. If you have special dinner wishes, such as vegetarian food, please specify this in your email.
Project stands
In the main room at T-DOSE, de Grote Spoel, will be an information market where Open Source related projects will be presenting. This year, next to some old friends, we also have a number of projects that have not been present before. We encourage you to visit all their stands:
- Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)
- NLnet - How to turn your FLOS project into a hexsticker
- Freie Software Freunde - Free Your Model Train (FYMT)
- Ivy CMS
- Apache OpenOffice and Free Software for business tracks
Visit our projects page for full details, including links to the websites of the organisations and a description of their project. The information market will be available on both days of the conference. Come visit these stands to learn more about these great projects.
Like last year, the Angry Nerds podcast team will also be presenting live from this room on Sunday. Feel free to drop by and greet the people behind those familiar voices.
And of course, our own T-DOSE information desk can be found here as well. Don't forget to come and get a great new 'collectors-item' T-DOSE T-shirt; or a large T-DOSE mug that you can refill for free with T-DOSE coffee and tea!
Call for Participation
T-DOSE, the Technical Dutch Open Source Event, is a freely accessible conference, organised in the Eindhoven region since 2006. The event consists of a central track with presentations and a bazaar where Open Source projects can present themselves. In 2024, T-DOSE will be held on 1 and 2 June at the Weeffabriek in Geldrop.
The T-DOSE organisation calls for proposals for talks. All presentations related to open source, open standards, open data or open hardware are welcome. Possible subjects for talks include specific software development projects, but also practical application of open source in schools/institutions or industry, open standards, community management, programming languages, open internet applications, legal aspects, historic developments, hackerspaces, etc. We also have some capacity for related workshops.
At the same time, we open registrations for participation in the bazaar, where stands will be available to open source projects and other related groups to present themselves to the public. The stands will be placed in a central information market area.
The deadline for presentation abstracts, workshops and project stand requests is 10 May 2024. Submit your registration via our registration webinterface and make sure to select the appropriate track.
T-DOSE is completely organised by volunteers. More information about the foundation and the core team, as well as sponsoring opportunities can also be found on our website. For any questions regarding submissions, please use the contact form.
T-DOSE 2024
T-DOSE 2024 will happen on 1 and 2 June, at the Weeffabriek in Geldrop (near Eindhoven). More details will be announced closed to the event.
Add T-DOSE 2024 to your calendar: iCalendar event.
Thank you!
It's over! Two days of technical open source interaction with great presentations, diverse project stands and great discussions in the hallways.
Many thanks to everyone who worked hard to make T-DOSE 2023 a success! A special thanks to the speakers and the stand owners who helped make this event. And of course also to the volunteers and our sponsors, who made everything possible. It was good to see a lot of familiar faces from the last time the event was organised - and also a lot of new faces of people who turned op for the first time. We welcome feedback about your experience at T-DOSE. Please use the contact form to provide your feedback to the organisers.
We have already started planning again for next year. There will be a T-DOSE 2024 and we hope to announce the date in a couple of weeks. However, we are still looking for people who can strengthen the core organisation team. Please let us know if you are willing to help us out with the organisation.
Full schedule available
The full conference schedule for T-DOSE 2023 has now been published on our website. Links to presentation abstracts and speaker biographies are available from the schedule page, as well as the exact timeslots for every presentation. Check out the updated schedule.
Announcing T-DOSE presenters
We are pleased to announce the presenters for T-DOSE 2023. We can look forward to some great talks on a wide range of topics, including the classic editor 'ed', Bareos, opsi and Ansible. We also have representatives from the local Home Computer Museum and from FSF Europe. In addition, the Angry Nerds will organise a live podcast from our event. Please check out our schedule for full details. Exact timeslots for the talks will be announced soon. On both conference days, the first presentation will start at 10am, so be sure to check in on time.
Unfortunately, we had a couple of cancellations as well, so there are still extra slots available. Our submission page is still open for last-minute additions. Please contact us if you are interested.