We are happy to announce the first details on the official FOSDEM 2011 program! As keynote speakers, we are very proud to host Eben Moglen, Jonathan Corbet and Chris Lattner: * Eben Moglen will speak about "Why Political Liberty Depends on Software Freedom More Than Ever", * Jonathan Corbet will speak about "How kernel development goes wrong and why you should be a part of it anyway", * and Chris Lattner will close off with a keynote on Clang and the LLVM compiler infrastructure. On top of that, there will be 6 fantastic main tracks, succinctly named 'Browsing', 'Cloud', 'Frameworks', 'Languages', 'Office' and 'System'. See also http://fosdem.org/2011/news/speaker-announcement System * Lennart Poettering: "systemd: Beyond init" * James Turnbull: "DevOps - More than Marketing" * Spike Morrelli: "I'm Going M.A.D" Office * Michael Meeks: "Liberating Open Office Development" * Jos van den Oever: "WebODF: an office suite built on browser technology" * Boudewijn Rempt: "Calligra Under the Hood — Using the Calligra Suite Office engine in your own applications." Languages * Andrew Gerrand: "Practical Go Programming" * David Fetter: "PL/Parrot: Cutting Edge Free Software" * David Chisnall: "Objective-C: Not just for Macs and iPhones" Frameworks * Andrew Godwin: "Django's architecture - the good, the bad, and the ugly" * Manik Surtani on Infinispan * Martijn Dashorst on Apache Wicket Cloud * Gratien D'haese: "Linux Disaster Recovery as a Service (with rear)" * Soren Hansen: "Building a free, massively scalable cloud computing platform" Browsing * Paul Rouget: "The life of a Firefox feature" * Ian Fette on Chrome A more detailed schedule, including devroom schedules, talk abstracts and speaker info, will be published after we've taught the conference management system to behave more nicely ; ) Kind regards, The FOSDEM organizers