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Fosdem 2009 program
by Matthias Andersson 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

Hello! When will the program and list of speakers for Fosdem'09 be released? //Matthias Andersson, Finland

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Promo material for 2009 (banners, badges)
by Pascal Bleser 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I finally updated our promotional material for FOSDEM 2009. You may want to help us spread the word about the event by using a web badge or even one of the banners (animated or static) on your site/blog :) Stuff is available here: http://fosdem.org/2009/support/promote cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser <loki(a)fosdem.org> http://www.fosdem.org /\\ FOSDEM 2009 :: 7 + 8 February 2009 in Brussels _\_v Free and Opensource Software Developers European Meeting -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJHsDEr3NMWliFcXcRAqGZAKCwSNv0xfNPhhXztWVuwKuCr3ABkwCffjOM saiD1x9FxszU6eB9i78ABCo= =IXLl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Reminder: devrooms+stands deadline soonish
by Pascal Bleser 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Reminder: if you would like to organise a Developer Room or Stand at FOSDEM 2009 on behalf of your Free or Opensource project, contact us before the deadline, which is soonish: Saturday 2008-11-22, 23:59 CET. See here for details on sending us a request: http://fosdem.org/2009/call_for_devrooms_and_stands NB: deadline for Lightning Talks is 2008-12-26: http://fosdem.org/2009/call_for_lightningtalks cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser <loki(a)fosdem.org> http://www.fosdem.org /\\ FOSDEM 2009 :: 7 + 8 February 2009 in Brussels _\_v Free and Opensource Software Developers European Meeting -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJIg9Dr3NMWliFcXcRAjHEAJ9xW8ECfUaNJ9PLLmA1c9DDY8j/+ACdEj+y hoCZhZhKVzgy5ECdSBEMfHo= =xx7e -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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sponsoring fosdem
by Benoit Mortier 10 Nov '08

10 Nov '08

Hello, We are interested in sponsoring fosdem this year. How can we do that ? Thanks -- Benoit Mortier CEO OpenSides "logiciels libres pour entreprises" : http://www.opensides.be/ Contributor to Gosa Project : http://gosa-project.org/ Contributeur to Nagios Plugins : http://nagiosplugins.org/

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FOSDEM 2009: Call for devrooms, stands and lightning talks
by Pascal Bleser 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 FOSDEM is probably the most developer-oriented Free and Opensource conference, taking place in Brussels, Belgium on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 February 2009. Apart from having many invited speakers, the conference offers developer rooms, stands and lightning talks to projects from the Free and Opensource community. We hereby welcome proposals from projects to participate in organizing a devroom, manning a stand or holding a lightning talk. As every year, we have only a limited number of rooms, space for stands and lightning talk slots. Since we always receive more requests than we can host, a committee within the FOSDEM organizing team will review all proposals. Selection will be based on possible impact, our experience of previous editions and diversity in the offerings. *** Devrooms We offer large projects a devroom during the conference. A devroom is a room in which projects can organize their own schedule made of presentations, brainstorming and hacking sessions. Our goal is to stimulate developer collaboration and cross-pollination between projects, and as such we strongly favor projects with similar goals and domains to host a devroom together. See http://fosdem.org/2009/call_for_devrooms_and_stands *** Stands We offer stands to projects that want to present themselves to the visitors in a more personal fashion. Stands can be used to share information, demo software, sell merchandizing or give away goodies. See http://fosdem.org/2009/call_for_devrooms_and_stands *** Lightning talks We offer lightning talks to all other projects that want to present themselves. A lightning talk is a short talk in which a project can introduce itself, talk about recent developments, or share exciting new directions. See http://fosdem.org/2009/call_for_lightningtalks FOSDEM 2009 will be the 9th edition of the event, which has been steadily growing every year in importance and in the number of visitors. Our goal is to provide a platform to Free and Opensource projects to meet, discuss, present their current and future developments, both to their own developer and user community as to other projects that are present. Given the large amount of active contributors from many different projects present during the conference, it is an exceptionally well suited occasion to share goals and ideas with people from other communities, which is something we strongly encourage and do our best to support. Of course, the event only lives through the projects that take part in it, and through the many FOSS contributors who attend. We merely do our best to provide the best possible service to the FOSS community at large. *** Key dates: * 2008-11-22: Deadline for devroom & stand requests * 2008-11-30: Devroom & stand acceptance notification * 2008-12-26: Deadline for lightning talk requests * 2008-12-29: Lightning talk acceptance notification * 2009-01-09: Deadline for final devroom & lightning talk schedules * 2009-02-07 to 2009-02-08: FOSDEM 2009 For more information, visit http://fosdem.org/ Feel free to forward, kind regards, The FOSDEM Team - -- -o) Pascal Bleser <loki(a)fosdem.org> http://www.fosdem.org /\\ FOSDEM 2009 :: 7 + 8 February 2009 in Brussels _\_v Free and Opensource Software Developers European Meeting -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJEhmmr3NMWliFcXcRAuMXAJ4+q1QnQ8K9Jpdjnht4uo27hoIyrgCeLiBV jn68og3FoU9PBahsZCQNv64= =9npI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Call for FOSDEM'09 participation
by Mattias 'Tias' Guns 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

Call for FOSDEM'09 participation FOSDEM is probably the most developer-oriented Free and Opensource conference, taking place in Brussels, Belgium on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 February 2009. Apart from having many invited speakers, the conference offers developer rooms, stands and lightning talks to projects from the Free and Opensource community. We hereby welcome proposals from projects to participate in organizing a devroom, manning a stand or holding a lightning talk. As every year, we have only a limited number of rooms, space for stands and lightning talk slots. Since we always receive more requests than we can host, a committee within the FOSDEM organizing team will review all proposals. Selection will be based on possible impact, our experience of previous editions and diversity in the offerings. Devrooms We offer large projects a devroom during the conference. A devroom is a room in which projects can organize their own schedule made of presentations, brainstorming and hacking sessions. Our goal is to stimulate developer collaboration and cross-pollination between projects, and as such we strongly favor projects with similar goals and domains to host a devroom together. See http://fosdem.org/2009/call_for_devrooms_and_stands Stands We offer stands to projects that want to present themselves to the visitors in a more personal fashion. Stands can be used to share information, demo software, sell merchandizing or give away goodies. See http://fosdem.org/2009/call_for_devrooms_and_stands Lightning talks We offer lightning talks to all other projects that want to present themselves. A lightning talk is a short talk in which a project can introduce itself, talk about recent developments, or share exciting new directions. See http://fosdem.org/2009/call_for_lightningtalks FOSDEM 2009 will be the 9th edition of the event, which has been steadily growing every year in importance and in the number of visitors. Our goal is to provide a platform to Free and Opensource projects to meet, discuss, present their current and future developments, both to their own developer and user community as to other projects that are present. Given the large amount of active contributors from many different projects present during the conference, it is an exceptionally well suited occasion to share goals and ideas with people from other communities, which is something we strongly encourage and do our best to support. Of course, the event only lives through the projects that take part in it, and through the many FOSS contributors who attend. We merely do our best to provide the best possible service to the FOSS community at large. Key dates: 2008-11-22: Deadline for devroom & stand requests 2008-11-24: Devroom & stand acceptance notification 2008-12-26: Deadline for lightning talk requests 2009-12-29: Lightning talk acceptance notification 2009-01-09: Deadline for final devroom & lightning talk schedules 2009-02-07 to 2009-02-08: FOSDEM 2009 For more information, visit http://fosdem.org/ Feel free to forward, kind regards, The FOSDEM Team

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FOSDEM will probably take place the 21st and 22nd February 2009
by Christophe Vandeplas 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

FOSDEM 2009 ... will probably take place the 21st and 22nd February 2009 in Brussels, Belgium. We are still struggling with some rooms that need to be freed for the conference. We will keep you updated with the confirmation once we have it. -- Christophe Vandeplas cvandeplas(a)fosdem.org http://www.fosdem.org

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Open Source ERP event
by Raphael Bauduin 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

Hi all, just a short notice about the Open Source ERP event I'm organising for Profoss. It will take place in Brussels on 18 november and 2 december. The goal is to objectively inform ICT professionals about the solutions provided by Free and Open Source Software. If you're not personaly interested, it might be of interest to your boss :-) All information at http://www.profoss.eu/events See you there, or at the next FOSDEM! Cheers Raph -- Professional Open Source user? http://www.profoss.eu Web Database: http://www.myowndb.com Free Developers Meeting: http://www.fosdem.org

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