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<h2><big><a href="http://fosdem.org/2009/node/168"
title="Main Tracks and Speakers published">Main Tracks and Speakers
published</a></big></h2>
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<p><big>The list of <a href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events">Main
Track
speakers for FOSDEM 2009</a>
is almost complete and officially announced today, even though the
website does not contain all the speaker bios and abstracts yet.
</big></p>
<p><big>The <a href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/tracks/keynotes">keynotes</a>
will be highly interesting and entertaining, as always:
</big></p>
<ul>
<li><big><a
href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/speakers/mark+surman">Mark Surman</a>
discussing the <a href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events/501">Free.
Open.
Future?</a>,</big></li>
<li><big><a
href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/speakers/bdale+garbee">Bdale
Garbee</a> talking about <a
href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events/500">Debian</a>, and</big></li>
<li><big><a
href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/speakers/leslie+hawthorn">Leslie
Hawthorn</a>, opening the <a
href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events/494">Summer Of Code
Internals</a> to all of us.</big></li>
</ul>
<p><big>Keeping our tradition of high quality technical talks, the <a
href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events">main tracks for 2009</a>
will be organized around 6 topics and feature a wealth of project leads
and core developers from all around the FOSS horizon:
</big></p>
<ul>
<li><big><em><a
href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/tracks/collaboration">Collaboration</a></em>:
<a href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events/502">MediaWiki</a> (<a
href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/speakers/brion+vibber">Brion
Vibber</a>), <a href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events/503">Zarafa</a>
(<a href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/speakers/steve+hardy">Steve
Hardy</a>)</big></li>
<li><big><em><a
href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/tracks/developmentandlanguages">Development
and
Languages</a></em>: <a
href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events/497">OpenAMQ</a> (<a
href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/speakers/pieter+hintjens">Pieter
Hintjens</a>), <a href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events/499">Reverse
Engineering
of Proprietary Protocols</a> (<a
href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/speakers/rob+savoye">Rob Savoye </a>)
and
<a href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events/505">Scala</a> (<a
href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/speakers/martin+odersky">Martin
Odersky</a>)</big></li>
<li><big><em><a href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/tracks/security">Security</a></em>:
<a href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events/493">FreeIPA,
identity Management</a> (<a
href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/speakers/simo+sorce">Simo Sorce</a>),
<a href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events/496">Fusil</a> (<a
href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/speakers/victor+stinner">Victor
Stinner</a>)</big></li>
<li><big><em><a href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/tracks/kernel">Kernel</a></em>:
<a href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events/252">Syslinux</a> (<a
href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/speakers/h.+peter+anvin">H Peter
Anvin</a>), <a href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events/256">Ext4</a>
(<a href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/speakers/theodore+ts%27o">Theodore
Ts'o</a>) and <a href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events/508">Help
my
system is slow...</a> (<a
href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/speakers/kris+kennaway">Kris
Kennaway</a>)</big></li>
<li><big><em><a
href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/tracks/distributions">Distributions</a></em>:
<a href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events/498">The Fedora
Project</a> (<a
href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/speakers/max+spevack">Max Spevack</a>),
<a href="http://fosdem.org/2009/">OpenSUSE</a> ()</big></li>
<li><big><em><a href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/tracks/systems">System
Administration</a></em>: <a
href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events/495">MySQL High
Availability Solutions</a> (<a
href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/speakers/lenz+grimmer">Lenz
Grimmer</a>) and <a href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events/509">Upstart</a>
(<a href="http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/speakers/scott+james+remnant">Scott
James
Remnant</a>)</big></li>
</ul>
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Christophe Vandeplas
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