FOSDEM 2008

= Fedora Events: FOSDEM 2008 =

The eight Free and Open source Software Developers European Meeting is a 2 day event, organised by volunteers, to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels (Belgium), FOSDEM meetings are recognized as "The best Free and Open Source events in Europe."



Reports and Pictures
FabianAffolter (in german)
 * http://fabaff.blogspot.com/2008/02/fosdem-2008-00.html
 * http://fabaff.blogspot.com/2008/02/fosdem-2008-01.html
 * http://fabaff.blogspot.com/2008/02/fodsem-2008-02.html
 * http://fabaff.blogspot.com/2008/02/fodsem-2008-03.html
 * http://fabaff.blogspot.com/2008/02/fosdem-2008-04.html

YaakovNemoy
 * http://loupgaroublond.blogspot.com/2008/02/fosdem-part-1.html

ThomasCanniot
 * http://mrtomlinux.org/blog/index.php?post/FOSDEM-1-en
 * http://mrtomlinux.org/blog/index.php?post/FOSDEM-again

TomCallaway
 * http://spot.livejournal.com/288785.html
 * http://spot.livejournal.com/289152.html

JeroenVanMeeuwen
 * http://blogs.fedoraunity.org/kanarip/2008/02/22/fosdem-2008-coming-up-soon
 * http://blogs.fedoraunity.org/kanarip/2008/02/23/fosdem-2008-first-day
 * http://blogs.fedoraunity.org/kanarip/2008/02/24/the-fosdem-buzz

FrancescoUgolini
 * http://ugolini.livejournal.com/1700.html
 * http://ugolini.livejournal.com/1950.html

JoergSimon
 * http://kitall.blogspot.com/2008/02/fosdem-arrival-arrived-1700-at-brussels.html
 * http://kitall.blogspot.com/2008/02/first-fosdem-day-is-over-and-compared.html
 * http://kitall.blogspot.com/2008/02/fosdem-2008-is-over.html

PierreYvesChibon
 * http://pingoured.dyndns.org/blog/index.php?post/2008/02/24/Fosdem-J1

JohanCwiklinski
 * http://odysseus.x-tnd.be/blog/index.php/post/24/02/2008/FOSDEM-edition-2008 (French)

FrancescoCrippa
 * http://people.byte-code.com/fcrippa/2008/02/25/fosdem-2008/

RichardHughes
 * http://hughsient.livejournal.com/52455.html

DimitrisGlezos
 * http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/2008/02/27/fosdem-recap/

Pictures
 * http://fedoraunity.org/Members/kanarip/pictures/2008-fosdem
 * http://odysseus.x-tnd.be/public/galerie/ajaxgallery/
 * http://www.flickr.com/photos/fcrippa/sets/72157603984126519/
 * http://www.simline.de/Fosdem08/
 * http://gallery.bernewireless.net/thumbnails.php?album=104

Location and Date
ULB Campus Solbosh Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, 50 1050 Bruxelles
 * Brussels, Belgium
 * 23 and 24 February 2008
 * Attendance is free.
 * Parking is Free
 * ULB University (the French one)



The event is easily reachable by public transportation. For details, see below. If you are afraid of getting lost, the following links might help you:


 * Google Map
 * Map24
 * ViaMichelin

More information
Mailinglist: fosdem at lists.fosdem.org. We will inform you when news about FOSDEM is available.


 * Public Wiki: http://wiki.fosdem.org
 * RSS feed: http://fosdem.org/rss.xml
 * Planet Aggregator: http://planet.fosdem.org

What FOSDEM is
FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event for the community and organised by the community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers and communities a place to meet to


 * get in touch with other developers and projects,
 * get informed about the latest developments in the Free and Open Source world,
 * attend to interesting talks and presentations held in large conference rooms by Free and Open Source project leaders and commiters on various topics,
 * and to promote the development and the benefits of Free and Open Source solutions.

As for being a free event, participation and attendance is totally free of charge (although we thankfully accept donations and sponsorship). To help the community, FOSDEM sets up DevRooms (Developer Rooms) where teams can meet and showcase their projects. It is also a place where a team can discuss, code (hacking sessions), publicly present latest directions, lightning talks, news, and decisions. The FOSDEM Team thinks it is very important that developers from around the world can meet 'in real life' and we believe projects can benefit from these meetings. Common facilities such as network/internet connectivity and projectors are provided by us.

Last year there were more than 160 talks in the developer rooms, and then the main tracks, as well as the LPI exams, plus lightning talks and GPG/CAcert key signing.

Status

 * The Kick of have launched the 23th November 2007. (./)
 * Some questions still remains - see "Questions" -.
 * Contact with JBoss community have been made.
 * WE NEED SPEAKERS !!!

Attendees


Rem: Due to the lack of space, we have to share our booth with our JBoss/Red Hat Friends. (in alphabetic order; languages ordered by the level of skills, descending)

: Absentee : No idea yet

Booth
Two big tables have been reserved and should be shared between Red Hat, Jboss and Fedora.

Fedora / Red Hat / CentOS development room

 * a room with 150 seats - H.1309 -
 * a video projector
 * Internet connectivity (wifi + wired at the speaker's desk) during the following time frames:
 * FOSDEM web site link


 * Saturday 2008-02-23: 14:00 to 19:00
 * Sunday 2008-02-24..: 09:00 to 18:00

(please note that the rooms will _not_ be available outside of that timeframe, especially on Saturday, as courses and exams are still being taken at the ULB (the University where the event takes place) before 14:00)

Fedora Talks Planning
Satuday 

Sunday

Jboss development room


during the following time frames: (not on Saturday nor Sunday morning, as discussed by email)
 * a room with 74 seats
 * a video projector
 * Internet connectivity (wifi + wired at the speaker's desk)

Sunday 2008-02-24..: 12:00 to 18:00

(please note that the rooms will _not_ be available outside of that timeframe, especially on Saturday, as courses and exams are still being taken at the ULB (the University where the event takes place) before 14:00)

Jboss Talks Planning
Sunday

Questions

 * Is it be a problem for the Fedora Community if we share our development room with Cent OS as we did last year ?
 * Would Fedora community agree to share its development room with Red Hat JBoss ?
 * Do you know a point of contact for JBoss community for such event ? -
 * What is about marketing stuffs ? what do we need ? How are we going to proceed ?
 * Do you know fedora people who could be interested to present their project ?

Advertisement

 * I will take about 200 printed Fedora 8 DVDs for free distribution (MarekMahut).
 * Also, I will try to bring a "demo" pc (MarekMahut).
 * Will bring a Fedora poster or two (DimitrisGlezos)
 * Will bring a OLPC to present it on the booth (JoergSimon)
 * Have and bring i386 LiveCDs on behalf of Max as giveaway (GeroldKassube)

FUDCon at FOSDEM

 * No FUDcon is planned.

Misc

 * For any questions, remarks, feel free to contact Frederic Hornain at 

Visitors' Corner

 * Fedora will have a booth where visitors can come and ask all sorts of questions with respect to the fedora project.

Languages Supported at the booth

 * English (native and En-1, En-2 and En-3)
 * French
 * German
 * Greek
 * Italian
 * Slovak
 * Czech
 * Polish
 * Dutch

Hardware Insurance

 * In past editions of the event FOSDEM organization also offered the possibility of a hardware insurance for speakers and visitors of devrooms but they have decided to discontinue it.

Accommodation

 * see Accommodation page

Social Events
Friday



As every year, there will be a FOSDEM beer event on Friday night before FOSDEM (22 February 2008).

Unlike previous years, this year's event will take place at the Delirium Café, in a beautiful gallery near the Grand'Place in Brussels. In addition to the enormous variety in beers, the new location also has enough room to cater for the enormous crowd of geeks we tend to be.



While coming over to Brussels to attend FOSDEM, don't miss this great opportunity to taste some of the finest beer in Belgium (and, hence, in the world).

The bar is ours to invade from 17:30 onwards, but feel free to join the party at any time of the evening. We will be there until the bar closes (well after midnight).