January 2012 - FOSDEM - lists.fosdem.org

First time attendee
by Samantha Kosko 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

All: Hi... my name is Samantha and I am trying to finalize all of my companies plans for FOSDEM and we are all first time attendees. We have been selected to have a stand and the event and wanted to get some feedback on what we should do with giveaways and staff for the stand. We have a limited number of people in EMEA that can attend and I want to make sure that i am using my resources as best as I can. If anyone has any information they can help me with on this ... i would be forever thankful! -- Samantha Kosko Field Marketing Manager @ 10gen, The MongoDB Company Twitter: @sam_10gen Zerply: http://zerply.com/samantha-kosko/public We are hiring!

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Keysigning: code on github
by Philip Paeps 02 Feb '12

02 Feb '12

Because someone wanted to hack a feature into our keyserver daemon, I've pushed the code to github. If anyone else is interested in hacking on it, or reusing it for another event... Go wild. https://github.com/ppaeps/fosdem-keysigning Most of that is highly FOSDEM-specific but might be inspiring to others. Or possibly serve as a warning. Yes, FOSDEM really is run by Perl scripts. - Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Ministry of Information

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Keysigning: venue
by Philip Paeps 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

It's been pointed out to me that the OpenPGP keysigning event isn't listed on the schedule. For technical reasons, we can't (easily) list "outside" as a room on the schedule. Like last year and the years before, we will be outside. Sunday at 14:00. Expect the weather to be bad. Not "snow to your groin" bad, but "cold and generally miserable" bad. Dress accordingly and come prepared. The faster we get through the keysigning, the faster we can get back inside. - Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Ministry of Information

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Name stickers!
by Kai Engert 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Hi everyone, Fosdem is a great place to meet new people. But how do you find the people you are interested to talk to? How do you know if you have a common interest with the people that stand around you? This is a proposal that you wear a badge or a sticker that gives other's a hint which project you're involved with, for example "LibreOffice Localizer" or "Mozilla QA". Because Fosdem is a free conference and badges are expensive, we offer a compromise: Name stickers! We will try to provide a sufficient amount of non-permanent name stickers that you could attach to your t-shirt or jacket. (Disclaimer: According to the vendor of the stickers claims they should not cause any permanent damage to your cloth, we don't take over any responsibility in case something goes wrong, please make use of the stickers at your own risk.) Fosdem organizers have agreed to share the costs. This is also a good reminder that you might consider a small amount to donate for this great conference. You should be able to get your sticker Saturday morning! (For backup purposes, you might consider to bring a bad that you already have from another conference.) Best Regards and see you next weekend, Kai -- Sending me encrypted e-mail: - get my S/MIME cert from https://kuix.de/smime-keyserver/ - get my GPG/PGP key from http://pgp.uni-mainz.de/

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General strike likely to impact FOSDEM?
by Richard Hartmann 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

Hi all, is it likely that the general, or some other, strike will be extended or repeated in a way which will affect FOSDEM? Local news tells me Bruessels is in a total deadlock and I would like to prepare if necessary. -- Richard

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3 places left
by fosdem spouse tour 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

Hi All First off We've had some cancelations, and there are 3 places left, both for saterday and sunday at the spouse tour to register please reply to this mail with the name of the person who will attend First come first served 2nd .. practical .. The Spouse tour will be meeting at the outside of the H building's top entrance (near the INFO desk) Saterday the tour will start at 14:00 and last until 18:30 Sunday the tour will start at 12:45 and last untill 15:45 If it is needed i can be reached via phone on +32496120280 Kind regards Wouter Simons

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Re: [FOSDEM] Smartcard workshop at FOSDEM 2012
by Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

Le mardi 31 janvier 2012 à 11:50 +0100, Wouter Simons a écrit : > on a personal note :) > is there any oportunity to register for this work-shop or is it first > come first served ? You are right. Last year, we donated 100 smartcards at FOSDEM. People rushed in the room and some left immediately. As a result 50% of the audience had no smartcard. To avoid this situation, there are 3 different situations: 1) You may register online for a free ePass2003: http://www.gooze.eu/feitian-epass-2003-free-software-developer-kit Indicate "FOSDEM 2012" during checkout. Give your real name and address as a normal checkout. You only need to pick-up your token at FOSDEM, on first day (Saturday) or second day (Sunday) in the dev romm. I will be sitting in front of the room with OpenSC hackers. 50 ePass2003 will be reserved this way. First in, first served. 2) You may receive a free ePass2003 during the smartcard workshop. 50 additional ePass2003 will be available for the smartcard workshop audience. You will have to register writing your name on a paper. We wan to avoid people picking-up the ePass2003 and leaving immediately. So that the audience can hack around the ePass2003 during the workshop. 3) Free software kits If you are taking part in a free software project and would like to implement security features around hardware tokens, GOOZE ***always*** donates the epass2003. Just register on this page and we will ship to your address: http://www.gooze.eu/feitian-epass-2003-free-software-developer-kit Make a full description of your token. We always verify information, even looking at source code before shipping a free token. This usually takes 24/48 hours before your order is validated or rejected. The reason why we donate the ePass2003 to free software communities is that until recently tokens were very expensive and exotic hardware. Donating a token is a first step before people discover this ***proven*** technology. Hope this helps. Kind regards, -- Jean-Michel Pouré - Gooze - http://www.gooze.eu

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Smartcard workshop at FOSDEM 2012
by Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

Dear all, Just a few information about the smartcard workshop: http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/event/smartcard_workshop The workshop is intended for people interested in discovering smartcards, security tokens and hardware cryptography. It will be based on the OpenSC framework: http://www.openSC-project.org Schedule: Sunday, 13:00 to 15:00 * Discover the hardware The workshop will start with a donation of 50 ePass2003 free developer kist. The kit includes an ePass2003 and a CD with all documentation: http://www.gooze.eu/feitian-epass-2003-free-software-developer-kit Donation of tokens is always kind of "rush" and should take around 15 minutes. Then the schedule should be: * OpenSC quickstarter guide: http://www.gooze.eu/printpdf/book/export/html/36 should take around 45 minutes We will cover installation and basic OpenSC commands. * Using SSH with smartcards: http://www.gooze.eu/printpdf/book/export/html/193 should take around 15 minutes * Using smartcards with Firefox: http://www.gooze.eu/printpdf/book/export/html/145 is a tutorial around CAcert should take around 15 minutes * Using smartcards with TrueCrypt: http://www.gooze.eu/printpdf/book/export/html/203 should take around 15 minutes * Questions and answers The slides should be based on a tutorial given at Debian day in Paris and will be available under a Free license: http://www.gooze.eu/sites/default/files/slides/debian-miniconf-paris-2010-v… Kind regards, -- Jean-Michel Pouré - Gooze - http://www.gooze.eu

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Keysigning: last day to submit your keys
by Philip Paeps 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

If you intend to participate in the OpenPGP keysigning event, please make sure you submit your keys _today_. I'll close the submission server and generate the key list at some point tomorrow and post a pointer to it. - Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Ministry of Information

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Raspberry Pi at FOSDEM?
by Richard Hartmann 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hi all, will there be a Raspberry Pi at FOSDEM? Richard

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