October 2007 - FOSDEM - lists.fosdem.org

ligthning talks
by Jordi Massaguer 17 Oct '07

17 Oct '07

Hi! I guess it is still too early but, when are we going to be able to submit a ligthning talk? I've already sent an email to the lightning-talks list but get no answer, so I guess I should ask here. greetings, jordi massaguer i pla http://jordimassaguerpla.blogspot.com/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sé un Mejor Amante del Cine ¿Quieres saber cómo? ¡Deja que otras personas te ayuden! http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/reto/entretenimiento.html

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New website
by Christophe Vandeplas 17 Oct '07

17 Oct '07

Hello All, Just a short mail to tell we have a brand new website theme... You can see the thing here: <http://fosdem.org> Greets Christophe -- Christophe Vandeplas cvandeplas(a)fosdem.org http://www.fosdem.org

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Sponsor
by john joseph roets 16 Oct '07

16 Oct '07

Hello. How do we become a sponsor? Specifically, do we donate money, donate items, or other? Thank you. -- john joseph roets createTank, llc chief architect http://createtank.com joe(a)createtank.com voice +1 800 975 8379 x.702 mobile +1 304 695 0381 fax +1 800 975 8379

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[ANN] Python Ninjas! join us!
by Mauro Pompilio 11 Oct '07

11 Oct '07

Barcelona Music and Audio Technologies (BMAT) [http://www.bmat.com] (Barcelona, Spain) ==================================================== **Job Description**: BMAT is a digital music dreams factory, it enables computers and devices to understand music like humans do to provide services like a musical google that organizes all music of the world, a smart shuffle that improves end-user's experience when interacting with music in portable players by selecting music that suits your mood or activity, or even a virtual partner that can recommend new music, concerts of unknown bands you might like, or even people you might like to go to the concert with. BMAT, with customers from every corner of the earth, is technology company which spinned off the best important Music Information lab in the world (MTG at UPF). The perfect candidate will be passionate, creative, self-driven and aiming to work in a fast paced 'startup' environment with leading edge technologies. We are based in Barcelona, Spain, and the working language is English. If this sounds like a dream project, please read on and consider applying. This position involves the design and implementation of a robust and scalable back-end multimedia architecture (millions of music tracks and millions of users, providing APIs and creating services around those. We will consider Python developers with different levels of experience. Skills: - Python development experience - Text indexing and searching - Scalability, load balancing, caching - memcached, etc. - Persistent object databases - Lexical scanning and parsing - Knowledge of data structures and algorithms, especially for trees - Fluent English. Desired skills: - Python optimization - e.g., via C extensions - Asychronous network programming, particularly using Twisted - Use of Amazon's S3 and/or EC2 services - Web advertising systems - e.g., Adsense - C++ Development - Web Frameworks (Djando, RoR...) - Ruby Language knowledge * **Contact**: O. Paytuvi, Program Manager * **E-mail contact**: jobs(a)bmat.com * **Web**: http://www.bmat.com

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23-24 Feb 2008 FOSDEM?
by Roberto Correa 07 Oct '07

07 Oct '07

Hi, I would like to know if the confirmed date of fosdem 2008 will be on february 23rd-24th, in order to book the fly and the hotel. Thanks in advance, -- -- Greetings. ;-) robertux ---------------- "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand" - Martin Fowler

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