[Lust] Fosdem 2005

[Michael Culverhouse]

Sorry, it's a bit short notice, but hey, if anyone has
a free weekend. - Mike

Hi,

The purpose of this e-mail is to invite you to attend
the 5th edition of FOSDEM. This edition will take
place on the 26th and 27th of February 2005 in
Brussels (see http://www.fosdem.org for more info). 
The previous edition encountered a huge success with 
more than 2000 developers coming from all over the
world to attend the talks of famous figures of
the Free Software and Open Source community.

This year, will be present (in alphabetical order):

Alan Cox - Kernel Maintainer
Alan Robertson - Linux High-Availability Project
Founder
Alasdair Kergon - Device Mapper and LVM Maintainer
Alex Larsson - Nautilus and GNOME-VFS Maintainer
Alexander Dymo - KDevelop Maintainer
Andreas Zeller - Creator of ddd
Benoit Minisini - Creator of Gambas
Ethan Galstad - Creator of Nagios
Gerald Combs - Creator of Ethereal
Harald Fernengel - KDevelop Developer
Harald Welte - Netfilter Core Team Member, GPL
Enforcement
Jeff Johnson - RPM
Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales - Wikipedia Founder
Ken Preslan - Developer of OpenGFS
Marius Mauch - Gentoo Emerge
Marty Roesch - Creator of Snort IDS
Matthias Ettrich - Creator of KDE, and Lyx
Olivier Fourdan - Creator of XFCE
Olle Mulmo - GRID Specialist, Globus Toolkit Core Team
Pat Mochel - Sysfs/Kernel Driver Core Maintainer
Richard M. Stallman - Leader of the FSF
Stuart Winter - Slackware & slacktrack Developer

And many others who will be giving talks and
tutorials...

Several Free or Open Source Software projects have
decided to hold a meeting during FOSDEM. It is a great
occasion to meet core developers in the following
developers' rooms:  Calibre room, GNU Classpath room, 
Clustering room, Debian room, Dokeos room, Drupal
room, Embedded Software room, Gentoo room, GNOME room,
GNUStep room, Jabber room, KDE room, Mozilla room,
Opengroupware room, Perl room, PHP/Pear room, Tcl
room. All those rooms have an internal schedule,
including talks and presentations from lead
developers.

Moreover, the Free Software Award will be handed out
during the FOSDEM 2005 by Richard Stallman and other
members from the Free Software Foundation.

Don't miss other FOSDEM initiatives like the Lightning
Talks, the Key Signing Party, or the buffet.

FOSDEM's goal is to provide Free Software and Open
Source developers and communities the opportunity to
learn and discuss the latest developments in the Free
and Open Source arena and to promote the development 
and the benefits of Free and Open Source solutions. 

The speakers mainly talk about technologies and make
technical speeches.

The event is totally free.

This is a non-commercial event organised by people
from the community. 
So we would like to thank our sponsors who have
understood this and helped us making FOSDEM possible
to happen this year again in the same spirit. Those
include: O'Reilly Media inc., Linux Magazine,
Freshmeat, Sourceforge, Argon7, Astaro, GNU/Linux
Magazine France, Hakin9, Misc, PePLink, X-Tend,
LinuxFR, Linux-Magazin, Best Of Publishing and all of
our donators without who organizing such an event
wouldn't be possible.

We encourage you to support FOSDEM if you appreciate
the event and want it to continue in the same spirit.
More information about the FOSDEM 2005 support
operation at:
http://www.fosdem.org/2005/index/support/

We hope to see you there. 

--

FOSDEM 2005
Damien Sandras
Community Contact


	
	
		
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