Hi Richard, On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 11:56 AM Richard Ibbotson <richard.ibbotson@gmail.com> wrote:
I sill remember the t-shirt. I could wear my original SuSE not openSUSE t-shirt. But.. don't want to upset the Debian people :) At about 2000/2001 we were thinking that Fosdem was going to fail. Not enough people. Looks like we were wrong. Nice to see that the conference that I started back in 1994 as OSDEM
1994!? I understood there has been only one OSDEM-event, in 2000 or 2001. I read at https://archive.fosdem.org/2002/about/1200.html from sept 2001: "The first event was called OSDEM. The next edition will be called FOSDEM" which seems to support that.
No. We started about 1995. I was there the year before. I got it going after some people at the university for an "Oopen source conference" In a heavy English/Belgian accent. The only way I could pull in a crowd in was to ask RMS to join in. Which he did.
/me diggs into local mailing archives... Are you sure you're not meaning the OTA Linux SIG? Seems like they held their 5th anniversary on June 12, 1999 (so they must have started in 1995), and some Linux SIG workshops were located at VUB. Of course there's also the IGUANA Linux Weekend, in 1994, but that was not held at VUB, and without RMS (got e.g. Linus and Alan Cox instead ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert (who thought he had attended all (F)OSDEMs ;-) -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds