[SC.LUG] [Fwd: [linux-users] Invitation to FOSDEM 2003]

Richard Smedley sc at mailman.lug.org.uk
Tue Jan 28 09:18:01 2003


-----Forwarded Message-----

From: Damien Sandras <pr@fosdem.org>
To: linux-users@lists.man.ac.uk
Subject: [linux-users] Invitation to FOSDEM 2003
Date: 27 Jan 2003 18:04:37 +0100

Hi,

The purpose of this e-mail is to invite you to attend to the 3rd edition 
of FOSDEM. This edition will take place on the 8th and 9th of 
February 2003 in Brussels (see http://www.fosdem.org for more info). 
The previous editions encountered a huge success. More than 1600 people 
attended to presentations given by well-known speakers such as Richard
Stallman, Miguel De Icaza, DJ Adams, Philip Hazel in 2002, and FOSDEM 2003
will try to be even more successful thanks to numerous presentations done by 
programmers of leading Open Source and Free Software projects.

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

Ann Harrison - Firebird : an Open Source database based on the InterBase(r) 
Brian King - Mozilla
Bruce Momjian - PostgreSQL Core Developer
Bruno Coudoin - Author of GCompris
Clif Flynt - Tcl/Tk
Damien Sandras - GnomeMeeting author
David Axmark - MySQL developer
David Faure - KDE Core Developer
Guenter Bartsch - Author of xine
Harald Welte - Member of the Netfilter Core Team
Havoc Pennington - GNOME Foundation, Free Standards
Hilaire Fernandes - Author of DrGenius
Jakub Steiner - Author of many of the GTK 2.x stock icons, Gimp tutorial
Jon 'Maddog' Hall - Executive Director of Linux International
Julian Smart - Author of wxWindows
Michael Meeks - GNOME Core developer
Owen Taylor - Maintainer of GTK+
Raphael Hertzog - Author of Debian-Edu 
Richard M Stallman - Leader of the FSF
Solar Designer - Author of Openwall GNU/*/Linux
Thomas Vander Stichele - GStreamer Developer
Yoann Vandoorselaere & Laurent Oudot - Prelude-IDS authors

And many others, ...

Several Free or Open Source Software projects have decided to hold a meeting
during FOSDEM. It is a great occasion to meet core developers from GNOME, 
GNUstep, KDE, Mozilla, embedded software and PostgreSQL.

Moreover, the Free Software Award will be handed out during the FOSDEM 2003
by Richard Stallman and other members from the Free Software Foundation.

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 of Free 
and Open Source solutions. 

The speakers mainly talk about technologies and make technical speeches.

The event is totally free, but 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 support operation at:
http://www.fosdem.org/index/support/

We hope to see you there. 

--

FOSDEM 2003
Damien Sandras
Community Contact

http://lists.man.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

-- 

Richard Smedley
Production Editor, LinuxUser & Developer
 
T: 01625 855084, F: 01625 855071
richard.smedley@linuxuser.co.uk
 
http://www.linuxuser.co.uk
The GNU/Linux magazine for IT decision makers

This email message may contain privileged or confidential information. The information is intended for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of action in reliance on the contents of this electronic information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify postmaster@livepublishing.co.uk immediately via reply email. Any personal content in this email is that of the individual author and should not be interpreted as being endorsed by the company in whole or in part. Whilst care is taken, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that this email is free from virus infection, and no responsibility is accepted by Live Publishing Group for any disruption, loss or damage arising from its receipt or use.