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Anybody going? ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [lugmaster] FOSDEM: Brussels, Sat 24 - Sun 25 Feb 2007 Date: Tuesday 20 February 2007 15:04 From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx> To: lugmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The 7th Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting will take place over the weekend of 24th and 25th of February 2007 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 ------------------------------------------------------- -- David Johnson www.david-web.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html