[Sderby] Invitation to FOSDEM 2003

[Mike Hemstock]

Anyone interested?

On Monday 27 January 2003 17:05, Damien Sandras wrote:
> 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
>
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