FOSDEM 2006: February 25th-26th in Brussels
[ Thanks to jonita for
this link. ]
FOSDEM takes place on the 25th and 26th of February 2006 in
Brussels, Belgium (see http://www.fosdem.org for more info).
You are all invited to take part in the largest Free Software and
Open Source event. The previous edition encountered a huge success
with more than 3000 participants coming from all over the world to
attend the talks of famous figures of the Free Software and Open
Source community.
This year, will be present (in alphabetical order):
Alex Russell, Project Leader of the Dojo Toolkit
Axel Hecht, Member of Mozilla Europe’s Board of Directors
Crispin Cowan, Architect of the AppArmor Project
David Roundy, Lead Developer of the Darcs Project
Geert Bevin, Lead Developer of RIFE
Greg Stein, One of the Early Designers of the Subversion
Project
Ian Pratt, Leader and Chief Architect of the Xen Project
Jan Janak, Core Team Member of SER (The SIP Express Router)
Jason Huggins, Original Author and Core Team Member of Selenium
Jean-Marc Valin, Main Author and Maintainer of Speex
Jeff Waugh, Business & Community Development for Ubuntu
Jon Haslam, DTrace Project
Jon Trowbridge, Maintainer of Beagle
Julian Seward, Valgrind Founder and Project Lead
Mark Spencer, Founder of Asterisk
Massimiliano Pala, OpenCA Project Manager and Chief Designer
Michael Meeks, OpenOffice.org
Richard M Stallman, Leader of the FSF
Tomasz Kojm, Original Author and Project Leader of ClamAV
Uriel M. Pereira, Plan 9 Hacker
[…]
And many others who will be giving talks and tutorials.
Several speakers have been interviewed. You can find their
interviews at the following address: http://www.fosdem.org/2006/index/interviews
Several Free or Open Source Software projects have decided to
hold a meeting during FOSDEM. It is a great occasion to meet core
developers in the following developers’ rooms: Ada, Calibre, GNU
Classpath, Debian, Embedded Software, Gentoo, GNOME, GNUStep,
Jabber, KDE, Linux on Laptops, Mozilla, Opengroupware, openSUSE,
Tcl/Tk, X.org. All those rooms have an internal schedule, including
talks and presentations from lead developers.
Do not miss other FOSDEM initiatives like the Key Signing Party,
or the LPI exams.
FOSDEM’s goal is to provide Free Software and Open Source
developers and communities with the opportunity to learn and
discuss the latest developments in the Free and Open Source arena
and to promote the development and the benefits of Free and Open
Source solutions.
The speakers mainly talk about their technologies and make
technical speeches.
The event is totally free.
This is a non-commercial event organised by people from the
community, that is why we encourage you to support FOSDEM if you
appreciate the event and want it to continue in the same spirit.
More information about the FOSDEM 2006 support operation at
http://www.fosdem.org/2006/index/support/
We hope to see you there.
The FOSDEM team
Calgary LinuxFest 2006
[ Thanks to Dave Watkins
for this link. ]
The Calgary Linux Users Group, http://www.clug.ca presents
Calgary LinuxFest 2006.
Calgary LinuxFest 2006 is a one-day conference and exhibition
promoting the use of GNU Linux, free and and open source software.
The conference will feature a keynote speaker with two speaker
tracks focusing on both new users as those more technically
advanced.
Interested speakers should contact Dave Watkins, VP CLUG, at
[email protected] or by phone at (403)701-5746 or Shawn Grover,
President/Event Cooridinator at [email protected]
Everyone, regardless of their experience with Linux, is invited
to attend. Admission to the event is free however, due to limited
seating, advanced registration is recommended. Register at the
Calgary LinuxFest 2006 website at http://www.LinuxFest.ca.
The event is scheduled for Saturday, May 6th, 2006 and will be
held at the Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Building on the University of Calgary campus.