January 2009 - FOSDEM - lists.fosdem.org

Free transportation from FOSDEM to the Brussels-South railway station
by Jan-Frederik Martens 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Dear FOSDEM enthusiasts, We are pleased to announce free transportation from FOSDEM to the Brussels-South railway station on Sunday 8th of February. Check out http://fosdem.org/2009/practical/transportation > "By Bus and/or Tram" for more information. Regards, Jan-Frederik Martens

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Request for permission to distribute flyers for the Association of Free Software and Open Source of Kosovo/Kosova
by jamesmikedupont＠googlemail.com 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

I am writing to you for the newly formed Association of Free Software and Open Source of Kosovo/Kosova "Asociacioni per Softver te Lire dhe të Hapur (ASLH)" You can read and edit the charter here: http://code.google.com/p/sfck/wiki/CHARTER We invite all collaborators from all countries and nations to help. We are organizing a series of new conferences on August/September and would like to invite more people to come, for this purpose we would like to distribute this flyer there, have people print it and hand it out: http://groups.google.com/group/free-software-conference/web/flyer There is the svg/inkscape source code, if you want to improve it. We would have some people to go there and distribute the flyers, if it is ok? thanks, mike

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reminder: submit your key for the FOSDEM PGP KSP (Real Soon) _*NOW*_
by Joost van Baal 25 Jan '09

25 Jan '09

Hi, Op Fri 23 Jan 2009 om 05:40:55 +0100 schreef Karlheinz Geyer: > Is there an updated List-Of-Participants available right now? Yes there is! At http://ksp.mdcc.cx/#list . Karlheinz: thanks for showing your interest! Hrm, at Wed, 7 Jan 2009 I guessed we could double the number of participants of last year. Currently, I'm not sure we'll get as much as last year... It's surely time for a last mile sprint! O n l y f o u r m o r e d a y s t o s u b m i t y o u r k e y ! If you'd like to participate in this years FOSDEM PGP KSP, run gpg --keyserver hkp://ksp.mdcc.cx --keyserver-options export-minimal --send-keys yourkeyid _before_ thursday evening 2009-01-29 20:00:00+01:00. See http://ksp.mdcc.cx/ for more information. Bye, Joost

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Modified CACert cap pdf: still valid?
by Iacopo Benesperi 25 Jan '09

25 Jan '09

Hi, preparing things for the key signing party, I've downloaded the CACert cap form. Seeing that I should have added a lot of dates and othe info by hand, I opened pdfedit and modified the pdf to write down these info. I even signed the form pasting an image of a scan of my hand-written signature. After these modifications (see attachment) is the form still valid, or all of these informations must be hand-written? If it is not valid, can I remove just my signature, or I have to remove all the dates and the ID documents info, too? bye, Iacopo

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Room for Sugar meeting on Friday
by Bernie Innocenti 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

Dear FOSDEM organizers, me and a few other members of Sugar Labs would like to meet somewhere on Friday 6th for a day long pre-conference meeting just before we get drunk at the beer party. No more than 10 people are expected, but it's an open event. Would a room at the ULB be available for this purpose? If not, is there a place in Brussels you would recommend? -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://www.sugarlabs.org/

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Developer room schedule available
by Pascal Bleser 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Finally, all developer rooms have sent in their respective schedule: http://fosdem.org/2009/schedule/devrooms All in all, we're now at a total of 263 talks with 258 speakers :) 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 v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJeW3Er3NMWliFcXcRAj4JAKCDLPGescnG6I+Cgybcu1T7hYtMVQCgnvuF MMyL1/8BVWdlyVMtRhKZLt8= =tIQM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Saturday evening
by Benjamin Henrion 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

Hi, Are there any FOSDEM party planned for the Saturday evening? Best, -- Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion at ffii.org> FFII Brussels - +32-484-566109 - +32-2-4148403

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Call for volunteers
by Christophe Vandeplas 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

(to quote the post Juan made on our website) Yes, it's that time of the year again. No, not the time to get the plants inside. If you live anywhere near the Northern hemisphere, I'd say it's a tad too late for that anyway. No, it's time to slowly start migrating to Brussels of course, for what will be the 9th edition of the biggest, bestest Free and Open Source Software Developers' meeting in Europe: FOSDEM. Organizing such a big event is quite a chore, but one (we hope) we manage pretty well. However, during the event itself, helping hands are in short supply as we count our own and lament not being Hindu gods. That's why we came up with a pretty crafty scheme to ease our burden and leverage all that organic energy we manage to attract every year. Initially codenamed "operation exploit your visitors", later renamed to "operation free labour", we've gone public with the program some years ago under the name "call for volunteers" at the dorky PR guy's advice. The way it works is very simple: * You send an email to volunteers(a)fosdem.org telling us which talks you wish to attend, and during which timeslots you don't mind lending us a hand or two. Or hey, if unlike us you are a Hindu god, make it four! * We start bargaining with you for your free time, in return for some heavy karma. Guaranteed 98.7% pure, commercial grade karma. Except for you Hindu gods. We'll work out a separate deal with you guys since you're our supplier and well, you probably don't want to haul your own goods back home after the conference. * Together we come up with a schedule that works for you, and lets us breathe a little easier during the weekend of February 6, 7 and 8. So, what are the tasks involved then, you ask? Well, all sorts of things, really. You could be assisting the speakers by helping out with the moderation of the talks, greeting your fellow visitors and supplying information, handle donations or put your linguistic skills to good use translating for our foreign visitors. Then there's also calling taxis, guarding the equipment, helping with the setup, teardown or cleanup of the venue and I'm sure I'm forgetting half of it... Oh, and management has requested I plug the following message: if you happen to be arriving earlier, and can help out on Friday, you're more than welcome too. Afterwards, we can all go to the Beer Event together and play a round or two of "pull Philip's beard". I'm sure the man would love that... So, there you have it. Are you visiting FOSDEM, and can you spare a couple of hours on friday and/or over the weekend, let us know, and become part of the team. Uncle FOSS wants YOU!!! -- Christophe Vandeplas cvandeplas(a)fosdem.org http://www.fosdem.org

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Time of start
by Roby Sottini 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Hello! My name is Roberto from Argentina. Now I am in Würzburg (Germany) travelling. I will be in FOSDEM but I would like to know the exacly time that the conference will start and the complete address. Thanks, Roberto

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keysigning party
by markus reichelt 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Hi, will there be a keysigning party? -- left blank, right bald

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