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Accepted devrooms
by Tias Guns 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

Devrooms are 'developer rooms' in which open source communities can organize their own schedule, made of presentations, brainstorming and hacking sessions. Our goal is to stimulate developer collaboration and cross-pollination between projects. It is our pleasure and honor to announce that the following projects and topics have been granted a devroom at FOSDEM 2013: Both Days --------- * Cross Distro * CrossDesktop * Embedded and Mobile * Free Java * Legal Issues * Mozilla Saturday -------- * Apache OpenOffice * Community development and Marketing * FOSS for scientists * Graph Processing * Jabber/XMPP * Microkernels / Component-based OSes * Mono * PHP and Friends * Testing and Automation * The Wine Project * Virtualization * X.org Sunday ------ * Ada * BSD * Cloud * Configuration/Systems Management * Cross Distro * LibreOffice * MySQL & Friends * NOSQL * Open Source Game Development * PostgreSQL * Python * Smalltalk * Telephony In the coming weeks, they will announce their call for talks on various mailinglists (including this one). We will collect them on our website as well. We will also open our call for stands (a place in the hallway) and lightningtalks (15 minute talks) in the coming week. On behalf of the FOSDEM program team, Tias

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Easy work � deserving salary!
by fosdem＠lists.fosdem.org 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

Hello, A US e-builder IT company, located in Michigan, is looking for European personnell to act as intermediate chain for IT transactions overseas. Due to a large period of time that payment transactions takes between US and Europe, our company is searching for a personel in EU to save time in interbank transactions, for a part time or full time job. The earnings in return for a job is 3000 euro per month, for only 3 hours a day. Depending on your time implication, seriousness and correctness, the earnings could be increased up to 200 percent. If you are interested in our possible cooperation, please read the entire job description listed below: This job is all about: - accepting and processing payments from and to our clients from all over the world, with the help of banks and money transferring systems. - subtracting 4 percent from each transfer as a personal bonus. - running the preparation, delivery, and reporting transactions processes. - making sure that the payments and reports are payed out correctly and in time. This position is based on your location only, and no relocation is required from the candidate. This position does not involve any fixed working hours and is suitable for senior people or self-employed individuals. You don't have to invest anything. Requirements : 1. Elementary knowledge of money transfer systems. 2. The possibility to accept payments to your personal bank account: 3. Promptitude in sending the payment to the supplier(by using his preferred payment method). 4. Availability to check your email at least once a day. Let us know if you are interested in the position listed above and we will send you more details regarding this vacancy along with our corporate agreement and application form. This is Keven(a)eurobrussell.com our corporate email address, when you will make your mind write us here. Best regards

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Last week to propose a devroom
by Tias Guns 23 Sep '12

23 Sep '12

Dear open-source developers, This is a reminder that FOSDEM's call for devrooms ends in one week, on the 1st of October! https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_devrooms.html About FOSDEM devrooms: A devroom is a 'developer room' in which open source communities can organize their own schedule, made of presentations, brainstorming and hacking sessions. Our goal is to stimulate developer collaboration and cross-pollination between projects. To better achieve our goals, preference will be given to proposals involving multiple, collaborating projects. Projects with similar goals/domains that make separate requests will be asked to co-organize a devroom under their common theme. Note! Linux distributions should apply to the dedicated distribution mini-conference. The mini-conference takes place in the two largest devrooms and is organized specifically for linux distributions. About FOSDEM: FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event that offers open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renowned for being highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ geeks from all over the world. FOSDEM will take place in Brussels, Belgium on the 2nd and 3rd of February 2013.

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Dates for FOSDEM 2013: 2 & 3 February
by Philip Paeps 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

All, we have recently agreed with our venue that FOSDEM 2013 will take place on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 February 2013. It is safe to assume that there will also be a beer event as usual, on Friday 1 February 2013. Looking forward to seeing everyone there. - Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Ministry of Information

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Last minute call for speakers SFK12
by Mike Dupont 17 Aug '12

17 Aug '12

HI there, this is not about FOSMDEM, but should be interesting to people. We are organizing the fourth edition of SFK, the yearly free software conference in kosovo. some speakers had to cancel and we are looking for people to speak on the last minute. http://www.flossk.org/en/blog/software-freedom-kosova-2012 We have sponsorship and will cover travel and hotel costs from europe within reason for qualified speakers, thanks, mike -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org Saving wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3

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FOSDEM calls for devroom organizers and main track speakers
by Tias Guns 13 Aug '12

13 Aug '12

<<< help spread the word and make FOSDEM awesome >>> FOSDEM is a non-commercial event offering open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renowned for being highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ geeks from all over the world. FOSDEM will take place in Brussels, Belgium on the 2nd and 3rd of February 2013. We invite proposals for *devrooms* and *main track talks*: *Main Track Talks* The main tracks host high-quality seminars for a broad and technical audience. Every track is organized around a theme (security, kernel, collaboration, ...). They are held in the two biggest auditoria and last 50 minutes. Each of the talks is given by a speaker who gets their travel and accommodation costs reimbursed. To apply for a FOSDEM Main Track talk, visit https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_main_speakers.html To suggest a main track speaker that we should invite, mail program(a)fosdem.org *Devrooms* A devroom is a 'developer room' in which open source communities can organize their own schedule, made of presentations, brainstorming and hacking sessions. Our goal is to stimulate developer collaboration and cross-pollination between projects. Each year we receive more requests than we can host. To better achieve our goals, preference will be given to *proposals involving multiple, collaborating projects*. Projects with similar goals/domains that make separate requests will be asked to co-organize a devroom under their common theme. To propose organizing a devroom, visit https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_devrooms.html Note! Linux distributions should apply to the dedicated distribution mini-conference: https://fosdem.org/2013/distrominiconf.html *Key Dates* - 1 October: deadline for devroom proposals - mid October: devroom announcements - 1 November: deadline main track proposals - mid November: main track announcements - 2 and 3 February: FOSDEM 2013

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Fosdem 2013 dates
by Iacopo Benesperi 22 Jul '12

22 Jul '12

Hi everyone, do we know already if Fosdem 2013 will be the first week-end of February as usual (1-3 February)? thanks, Iacopo

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link broken
by Nicolas Pettiaux 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

Dear For the conference EuroScipy (see http://euroscipy.org) at ULB on python on science taking place at ULB at the end of August 2012, we refer the users to https://archive.fosdem.org/2012/practical/accommodation to find an accomodation. THe link is now broken (error 404). What could be done ? Thanks, Nicolas -- Nicolas Pettiaux

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First videos soon to be available
by shirish शिरीष 12 Jun '12

12 Jun '12

Hi all, Newbie on the list. First of all thank you the wonderful videos done so far. I have been enjoying them thoroughly. I am also awaiting the last batch of videos as well. Especially http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4xS4F779fg and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXWQQawLWUc I do have another question, would it be possible to have a debian directory/sub-directory at http://video.fosdem.org/2012/crossdistro/ where all debian-related talks are placed. Thank you again. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17

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First videos soon to be available
by Wouter Verhelst 03 Mar '12

03 Mar '12

Hi, I've started uploading the first videos recorded at FOSDEM for the main tracks, lightning talks, and cross-distribution devroom. Please note that not all videos are available yet, and that they need to be synced to our mirror network first before you'll be able to watch them. You should be able to see the videos by going to <http://video.fosdem.org/>, or by clicking on the right link when going to the schedule on the website (after the next update). Regards, -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a

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