[SC.LUG] [Fwd: [lugmaster] Invitation to FOSDEM 2005]

[Richard Smedley]

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Subject: [lugmaster] Invitation to FOSDEM 2005
From:    "Fosdem Organization" <pr at fosdem.org>
Date:    Thu, February 17, 2005 10:17 am
To:      lugmaster at mailman.lug.org.uk
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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.

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FOSDEM 2005
Damien Sandras
Community Contact

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