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Call for participation: main tracks and developer rooms
by Philip Paeps 11 Sep '14

11 Sep '14

FOSDEM offers open source developers a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Renowned for being highly developer-oriented, the event brings together some 5000+ geeks from all over the world. The fifteenth edition will take place on Saturday 31 January and Sunday 1 February 2015 at the usual location: ULB Campus Solbosch in Brussels. We now invite proposals for main track presentations and developer rooms. Previous editions have featured tracks centered around security, operating system development, community building, and many other topics. Presentations are expected to be 50 minutes long and should cater to a varied technical audience. The conference covers travel expenses and arranges accommodation for accepted main track speakers. Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work together on open source projects, to discuss topics relevant to a broader subset of the community, etc. Content may be scheduled in any format, subject to approval. Popular formats include presentation tracks, hacking sessions and panel discussions. Proposals involving collaboration across project or domain boundaries are strongly encouraged. Proposals for main track presentations should be submitted using Pentabarf: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/ Developer room proposals should be emailed to <devrooms(a)fosdem.org> and be as detailed as possible. In particular, coordinators should indicate their affinity with the topic being proposed and provide a rough idea of the content they plan to schedule. Key dates: 15 September - deadline for developer room proposals 1 October - deadline for main track proposals - accepted developer rooms announced -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Ministry of Information

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Dates for FOSDEM 2015: 31 January & 1 February
by Philip Paeps 27 Jun '14

27 Jun '14

We have agreed with ULB that FOSDEM 2015 will take place on Saturday 31 January and Sunday 1 February 2015. Further announcements, including calls for participation, can be expected later this summer (probably late August). Have a good summer. Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Ministry of Information

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Personal invitation to "Kaltura Connect" - June 13-18th in NYC
by Zohar Babin 04 Jun '14

04 Jun '14

Hi Sir/Madam, In case you did not already get this invitation from our team, I want to take this opportunity to personally invite you to our upcoming series of events titled “Kaltura Connect <http://connect.kaltura.com/>” - a week of workshops, hackathons, parties, and a 1,000 person customer and partner conference taking place this June 13th-18th in New York City. The events of Kaltura Connect offer a unique opportunity for you to spend time with the most relevant people in the online video industry today, from leading media companies, operators, enterprises, educational institutions and tech companies. We will be announcing exciting new products, and discuss a wide range of topics including OTT TV, video-based sales and marketing, video-powered learning and training, creating social and personalized experiences with video, the use of video by large cloud vendors, air droids and video and much more… Featuring real world insights, the event is focused on industry leaders and many Kaltura community members, customers and partners from a variety of industries and verticals. Speakers include executives from IBM, Amazon, Oracle, PayPal, Tata Communications, Wikimedia Foundation, Canopy, DuPont, Gogo, Eutelsat, Philips, 2U, New England Institute of Technology, Oregon Status University, University of Michigan, Kaplan University, University of Virginia, and more… A few highlights: - Kaltura Developer Hackathon, June 13-15 <http://videoxhackathon.challengepost.com/>: The largest Video Hackaton of the year offering a $50,000 prize for the winners! - Kaltura Connect - Product and Technology Day, June 16: Taking place at the iconic JW Marriott Essex House <http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/nycex-jw-marriott-essex-house-new-yor…>. We will deep dive into how to make the most of the Kaltura products and technology: MediaSpace, MediaGo, LMS integrations, APIs, Application Framework, mobile SDK, lecture capture, eCDN, workflow automization, live delivery, video monetization techniques and more.. - The Video Experience Conference – June 17-18 2014 <http://connect.kaltura.com/>: we have found a new home at the beautiful Jazz at Lincoln Center <http://jalc.org/>, overlooking Columbus Circle <https://www.google.com/search?q=columbus+circle&espv=210&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&…> and Central Park. Aside from the great content at the conference, we also plan on fine dining and parties in upscale NYC venues. our lunch breaks will be hosted by famous New York City restaurants from established chefs – join us to dine at A Voce <http://www.avocerestaurant.com/columbus/>, Porter House <http://www.porterhousenewyork.com/>, and Landmarc <http://landmarc-restaurant.com/> restaurants throughout the days of the conference. Connect Tickets, agenda, list of speakers, and registration: http://connect.kaltura.com/ <http://connect.kaltura.com/>. You can register for free using my personal discount code during checkout: “KConnectFREE” Please sign up using these links above, but do let me know if you can make it, so we can plan to spend some time together. This invite is personal, but if you can't make it and want to instead invite somebody from your team, or can think of other people that should be there, do let me know. Hope to see you at one or more of these events. Zohar -- Zohar Babin Senior Director of Community | Kaltura Inc. Skype: z.babin | zohar.babin(a)kaltura.com <mailto:zohar.babin@kaltura.com> If you no longer wish to receive these emails, go to the following link to unsubscribe: http://site.kaltura.com/UnsubscribePage.html?mkt_unsubscribe=1&mkt_tok=3RkM….

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FOSDEM Videos
by Andreas Schneider 16 Apr '14

16 Apr '14

Hi, I'm wondering if you will finish the Videos for FOSDEM. I still miss the videos for the Testing & Automation devroom. The previews are there. Thanks for all your work, -- andreas -- Andreas Schneider GPG-ID: CC014E3D www.cryptomilk.org asn(a)cryptomilk.org

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schedule as single A3 page per day
by Michael Haubenwallner 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

Hi! To get an overview of all the concurrent talks to organize my fosdem day, it does help me to have one day's schedule on one single A3 sheet as a whole, either from an A3 printer, or as two A4 sheets sticked together: http://dev.gentoo.org/~haubi/FOSDEM2014-schedule-onepage-a3.pdf http://dev.gentoo.org/~haubi/FOSDEM2014-schedule-twopage-a4.pdf These have been created doing copy&paste from Acrobat Reader's snapshot tool, so there is still room for space optimization, but it does work quite well already. In hope to help out more people like me preferring handy printed schedule overview, /haubi/

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Nametags
by Jeremy White 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

<soapbox size="large"> FOSDEM is amazing; the organizers are excellent people. But it would be even better if there were name tags with affiliation. Every other great conference I've been to does this; FOSDEM is the sole exception. And name tags are a source of great joy. They allow people to strike up a conversation with you (as many did this weekend when seeing my WineHQ name tag). They allow you to figure out that the guy next to you in the beer line is a guy who graciously helped you fix a flaw in your patch - and now you can buy him a beer to say thanks! I know name tags are hard and fiddly. But the reward for doing a fantastic job is being asked to do more <grin>. Maybe the booklets could have a preprinted punch out name tag? Maybe each room could have a stash of blank tags by the door with pens, or just have a table in each of the main buildings? Last year, Benjamin Henrion publicly volunteered to do the work[1], but was silently ignored. Cheers, Jeremy </SOAPBOX> [1] https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2013-February/001794.html

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To the random hero that helped me survive belgian beer
by Rubén Torrero Marijnissen 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

Hi everyone, I just wanted to thank the guy that on friday the night of friday, after the beer event, helped me trying to find my hotel after I had lost my jacket and wallet, and blocked my phone. I was in pretty bad shape after thinking I could still drink beer as if it where college days all over again. He tried help me find my hotel for a while, but when it became clear I was not going to remember, he gave me 20€ without even having to ask for it, so I could take a cab back to the hotel. The worse part is that I normally have trouble remembering faces, but when I drink, its totally impossible for me. I tried to look for him the next days, but I remembered very little. Since those 20€ don't really belong to me, i'll be donating them to FOSDEM, which I think that he would also appreciate. Feel free to copy and paste this message anywhere with the hope it will reach him or someone who knows him. Thanks, and sorry for the off-topic!

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[IPv6] FOSDEM mail servers
by Damian Zaremba 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

Hi All, Since we had a totally IPv6 network, I'd just like to point out the fosdem.org mail servers seem broken for accepting mail over ipv6. Only one server has a v6 address and is not listening on port 25 (the v4 address is), happened to notice looking at my mail server logs :) 2014-02-03 11:02:13 1WAHHx-00074w-9K episteme.fosdem.org [2a01:4f8:191:4332::28] Connection refused damian@Capricorn:~$ dig +short fosdem.org mx 20 episteme.fosdem.org. 10 apeiron.fosdem.org. damian@Capricorn:~$ dig +short episteme.fosdem.org ANY 85.10.228.28 2a01:4f8:191:4332::28 damian@Capricorn:~$ dig +short apeiron.fosdem.org ANY 82.146.116.115 IPv4 ok: damian@Capricorn:~$ telnet apeiron.fosdem.org 25 Trying 82.146.116.115... Connected to apeiron.fosdem.org. Escape character is '^]'. 220 apeiron.fosdem.org ESMTP Postfix ^]quit telnet> quit Connection closed. damian@Capricorn:~$ telnet episteme.fosdem.org 25 Trying 85.10.228.28... Connected to episteme.fosdem.org. Escape character is '^]'. 220 episteme.fosdem.org ESMTP Postfix ^]quit telnet> quit Connection closed. IPv6 not: web1-man:~# telnet episteme.fosdem.org 25 Trying 2a01:4f8:191:4332::28... Trying 85.10.228.28... Connected to episteme.fosdem.org. Escape character is '^]'. 220 episteme.fosdem.org ESMTP Postfix ^]quit telnet> quit Connection closed. (Fails over to v4) web1-man:~# telnet 2a01:4f8:191:4332::28 25 Trying 2a01:4f8:191:4332::28... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused :( Would be good to get this resolved so mail can be received over V6! Cheers - Damian

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Add links to videos in app
by Pander 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

Please add links in the current Android app to events as soon as the events become available. In that way we can use the app and favourites in the app to view videos.

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Thanks
by Bruno Friedmann 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

Dear Fosdem Team & the army of volunteers, In the name of the openSUSE's booth staff, I'm presenting our warmest thanks and congratulations for the 2014 edition. -- Bruno Friedmann openSUSE Member GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot

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