[SLUG] Fwd: FOSDEM: Brussels, Sat 24 - Sun 25 Feb 2006

[Stephen O'Neill]

[bit short notice, but if you happen to be in Brussels at the weekend ...]

The 7th Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting will
take place over the weekend of 24th and 25th of February 2006 in
Brussels.  Previous events were hugely successful with a few thousand
developers coming from all over the world to attend talks given by
famous figures of the Free Software and Open Source community.  It is a
free, non-commercial event and there is no need to register, although
donations are encouraged towards the costs of holding the event.

See http://www.fosdem.org/ for more information.


This year's speakers include:

   Jim Gettys - One Laptop Per Child
   Georg Greve - Beyond GPLv3
   Simon Phipps - Liberating Java
   Andrew Morton - Linux Kernel
   Jeremy Allison - Samba
   Miguel de Icaza - Turbocharging Linux with Mono
   Keith Packard - X.org
   Peter Saint-Andre - Secure Communications with Jabber
   Tom Baeyens - JBoss BPM
   Jim Blandy - GDB Tracepoints
   Aleksey Bragin - ReactOS
   Paul Everitt - Plone 3.0
   Pete Herzog - Security Testing
   Pieter Hintjens - Status of Software Patents in Europe
   Kristian Hogsberg - AIGLX
   Oyvind Kolas - GEGL
   Roland G Minnich - LinuxBIOS
   H D Moore - Metasploit Framework
   Federico Mena Quintero - Profiling Desktop Applications
   Mike Schroepfer - Mozilla
   Kern Sibbald - Bacula
   Dries Buytaert - Drupal

And many others who will be speaking in the following developers' rooms:
CrossDesktop, KDE, GNOME, openSUSE, Mozilla, GNU Classpath + OpenJDK
DevJam, CentOS + Fedora, Jabber, OpenGroupware + GNUStep, Python,
Libre Software Research, X.org, Gentoo, Debian, Embedded.

The final schedule is here: http://www.fosdem.org/2007/schedule

On the Friday evening before the event, many visitors gather at
the Roy d'Espagne on the Grand Place:
   http://fosdem.org/2007/beerevent