[FOSDEM] 20 years of t-shirts - a photo op?

[Joost van Baal-Ilić]

Hi again,

On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 10:56:16AM +0000, Richard Ibbotson 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.

So, there was a OSDEM-meeting in Brussels in 1995 where RMS participated?
Wow...

> > Do you have a link to stuff from the late nineties?
> 
> For some reason most of it or all of it has vanished. Apart from my
> own SuSE t-shirts. Which were always controversial due to the fact
> that some developers didn't like them.  Never mind.

Hrm, I learned Peter 'p2' De Schrijver gave a talk at OSDEM 2001.  He just told
me he is not aware of any OSDEM-meetings in Brussels _before_ the 2001 meeting.
And http://dag.wiee.rs/events/ lists 1997 events, but not any pre-2001 OSDEM...

BTW, I've found http://fosdem.3ti.be/osdem-2001-index.php : pics from OSDEM
2001 ; and there's
http://plaatjes.mdcc.cx/2002/200202-brussels-fosdem/me_preparing_talk.jpg :)

Still very much interested in some confirmation about these pre-2001
meetings.

> > > has survived this
> > > long. Even if it's not quite the same thing. I remember RMS claimed
> > > all of the credit for my own work with - https://www.ulb.be/. Which I
> > > never mentioned to anyone else. Never mind. We had some effect on the
> > > world around us. That was important at the time and probably even more
> > > important at a time when people like Trump claim that they are
> > > political leaders.
> >
> > Yup :)
> >
> > C U in about 3 weeks, Bye,

I'll be at the Debian booth at K level 1 (group A) btw.

Bye,

Joost

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