<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Alasdair G Kergon</b> <<a href="mailto:agk@fosdem.org">agk@fosdem.org</a>><br>Date: Feb 20, 2007 3:01 PM<br>
Subject: [lugmaster] FOSDEM: Brussels, Sat 24 - Sun 25 Feb 2006<br>To: <a href="mailto:lugmaster@mailman.lug.org.uk">lugmaster@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br><br></span>[Please forward to LUG mailing lists.]<br><br>The 7th Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting will
<br>take place over the weekend of 24th and 25th of February 2006 in<br>Brussels. Previous events were hugely successful with a few thousand<br>developers coming from all over the world to attend talks given by<br>famous figures of the Free Software and Open Source community. It is a
<br>free, non-commercial event and there is no need to register, although<br>donations are encouraged towards the costs of holding the event.<br><br>See <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/">http://www.fosdem.org/</a> for more information.
<br><br><br>This year's speakers include:<br><br> Jim Gettys - One Laptop Per Child<br> Georg Greve - Beyond GPLv3<br> Simon Phipps - Liberating Java<br> Andrew Morton - Linux Kernel<br> Jeremy Allison - Samba<br>
Miguel de Icaza - Turbocharging Linux with Mono<br> Keith Packard - <a href="http://X.org">X.org</a><br> Peter Saint-Andre - Secure Communications with Jabber<br> Tom Baeyens - JBoss BPM<br> Jim Blandy - GDB Tracepoints
<br> Aleksey Bragin - ReactOS<br> Paul Everitt - Plone 3.0<br> Pete Herzog - Security Testing<br> Pieter Hintjens - Status of Software Patents in Europe<br> Kristian Hogsberg - AIGLX<br> Oyvind Kolas - GEGL<br> Roland G Minnich - LinuxBIOS
<br> H D Moore - Metasploit Framework<br> Federico Mena Quintero - Profiling Desktop Applications<br> Mike Schroepfer - Mozilla<br> Kern Sibbald - Bacula<br> Dries Buytaert - Drupal<br><br>And many others who will be speaking in the following developers' rooms:
<br>CrossDesktop, KDE, GNOME, openSUSE, Mozilla, GNU Classpath + OpenJDK<br>DevJam, CentOS + Fedora, Jabber, OpenGroupware + GNUStep, Python,<br>Libre Software Research, <a href="http://X.org">X.org</a>, Gentoo, Debian, Embedded.
<br><br>The final schedule is here: <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2007/schedule">http://www.fosdem.org/2007/schedule</a><br><br>On the Friday evening before the event, many visitors gather at<br>the Roy d'Espagne on the Grand Place:
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