OpenZFS Developer Summit 2016

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OpenZFS Dev Summit 2016

The fourth annual OpenZFS Developer Summit will be held in San Francisco, California. All OpenZFS developers are invited to participate!

The goal of the event is to foster cross-community discussions of OpenZFS work and to make progress on some of the projects we have proposed. This 2-day event consisted of 1 day of presentation and a 1-day hackathon.

Event

When

September 26 and 27, 2016

A detailed agenda will be announced at a later date.

Where

The conference will take place in San Francisco, with each day held at a different location within the city:

Call for Papers

If you want to give a talk, submit a proposal via email to admin@open-zfs.org by Aug 1, 2016. The proposal should be a 1-2 paragraph abstract. Matt will review all of the submissions and select talks that will be most interesting for the audience. We will notify the submitters about the result, and the presentation details will be posted on the site. The registration fee will be waived for speakers.

Deadlines

  • August 1, 2016: All abstracts/proposals submitted to admin@open-zfs.org
  • August 12, 2016: Proposal submitters notified

Sponsorship

Thank you for considering sponsoring the OpenZFS Developers Summit!

As an OpenZFS Dev Summit sponsor, you are providing critical support to our annual event, without which it would not be able to continue. Your generous contributions pay for the venue, food and beverage expenses, live streaming service, and other miscellaneous goods and services. There are multiple sponsorship opportunities for each package.

Please note that we are happy to customize a sponsorship package if you are willing to provide more or less support than specified by our packages.

We are also happy to accept non-monetary support, such as by webcasting and video recording the event, creating the badges, providing hackathon prizes, or designing the t-shirts. For this type of support, we match the sponsorship benefits to the level of effort/support you provide.

For more information or questions, please contact admin@open-zfs.org.

  • August 29, 2016: Attendee registration deadline for reserved sponsor tickets. Attendees registered after this deadline may need to be placed on a waitlist.
  • September 1, 2016: Sponsorship confirmed, logo provided, and documentation returned in order to have logo included on OpenZFS Dev Summit 2016 conference t-shirt and conference signage
  • September 1, 2016: Sizes and quantities provided for extra t-shirts.

Sponsorship Packages

Platinum
Beer Bash
Hackathon
Gold Silver Bronze
Amount $4,000 $2,000 $1,000 $500
Logo on the back of OpenZFS Dev Summit t-shirts X
A dedicated table at venue for promotional purposes to
display sponsor branded swag and any provided tablecloths
X
Space to put up the sponsoring company’s
pop-up banner for display at venue
X
Home page acknowledgement with
corporate name, logo, and link on open-zfs.org
X
Top of event page acknowledgement with
corporate name, logo, and link on open-zfs.org
X X
Ability to provide a number of sponsor branded
swag types for promotional purposes
Unlimited 2 1
Reserved Free Conference Tickets 4 3 2 1
Extra t-shirts in chosen sizes sent to the sponsor 5 3 2 1
An opportunity to be known as an OpenZFS supporter
in a very talented and influential community
X X X X
Inclusion of company logo on a
sponsor “thank you” banner for display at venue
X X X X
Event page acknowledgement with
corporate name, logo, and link on open-zfs.org
X X X X
Permission to use OpenZFS Dev Summit logo
on sponsor website
X X X X
Mentioned as a “thank you” during
the opening and closing of the event
X X X X

Registration

Coming Soon

Harrasment Policy

OpenZFS Developer Summit is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference venue, including talks. Conference participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the conference at the discretion of the conference organizers.

For information about last year's event, see the OpenZFS Developer Summit 2015 page.