[Menai-LUG] Fwd: [lugmaster] FOSDEM: Brussels, Sat 24 - Sun 25 Feb 2006

[Kevin Donnelly]

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Subject: [lugmaster] FOSDEM: Brussels, Sat 24 - Sun 25 Feb 2006
Date: Tuesday 20 February 2007 15:01
From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk at fosdem.org>
To: lugmaster at mailman.lug.org.uk

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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


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