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

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On ke, 08 tammi 2020, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> 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.

I gave a talk and led a workshop at OSDEM 2001. At the time, organizers were
saying it is their first international event but that they had some
events before at the university.

-- 
/ Alexander Bokovoy