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Fedora Events: FOSDEM 2008

The eight Free and Open source Software Developers European Meeting is a 2 day event, organised by volunteers, to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels (Belgium), FOSDEM meetings are recognized as "The best Free and Open Source events in Europe."

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Reports and Pictures

FabianAffolter (in german)

YaakovNemoy

ThomasCanniot

TomCallaway

JeroenVanMeeuwen

FrancescoUgolini

JoergSimon

PierreYvesChibon

JohanCwiklinski

FrancescoCrippa

RichardHughes

DimitrisGlezos

Pictures

Location and Date

  • Brussels, Belgium
  • 23 and 24 February 2008
  • Attendance is free.
  • Parking is Free
  • ULB University (the French one)
ULB Campus Solbosh
Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, 50
1050 Bruxelles

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The event is easily reachable by public transportation. For details, see below. If you are afraid of getting lost, the following links might help you:

More information

Mailinglist: fosdem at lists.fosdem.org. We will inform you when news about FOSDEM is available.

What FOSDEM is

FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event for the community and organised by the community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers and communities a place to meet to

  • get in touch with other developers and projects,
  • get informed about the latest developments in the Free and Open Source world,
  • attend to interesting talks and presentations held in large conference rooms by Free and Open Source project leaders and commiters on various topics,
  • and to promote the development and the benefits of Free and Open Source solutions.

As for being a free event, participation and attendance is totally free of charge (although we thankfully accept donations and sponsorship). To help the community, FOSDEM sets up DevRooms (Developer Rooms) where teams can meet and showcase their projects. It is also a place where a team can discuss, code (hacking sessions), publicly present latest directions, lightning talks, news, and decisions. The FOSDEM Team thinks it is very important that developers from around the world can meet 'in real life' and we believe projects can benefit from these meetings. Common facilities such as network/internet connectivity and projectors are provided by us.

Last year there were more than 160 talks in the developer rooms, and then the main tracks, as well as the LPI exams, plus lightning talks and GPG/CAcert key signing.

Status

  • The Kick of have launched the 23th November 2007. (./)
  • Some questions still remains - see "Questions" -.
  • Contact with JBoss community have been made.
  • WE NEED SPEAKERS !!!

Attendees

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Rem: Due to the lack of space, we have to share our booth with our JBoss/Red Hat Friends. (in alphabetic order; languages ordered by the level of skills, descending)

BartCouvreur Fedora (./) (./) X NL, EN, (FR)
ChitleshGoorah Fedora (./) (./) Fedora Electronic Lab, will bring a KDE4 EN, FR
ChristosTrochalakis Fedora (./) (./) Fedora Greek Team member EN, EL
DimitrisGlezos Fedora (./) (./) Localization toolchain ninja EN, EL
FabianAffolter Fedora (./) (./) Arrival saturday morning around 10 o'clock DE, EN, (FR)
FrancescoCrippa Fedora (./) (./) Will bring Mairin Posters IT, EN
FrancescoUgolini Fedora (./) (./) X IT, EN
FredericHornain Fedora (./) (./) Event Owner EN, FR
GeroldKassube Fedora (./) (./) DE, EN
Jeroen Van Meeuwen Fedora (./) (./) X
JohanCwiklinski Fedora (./) (./) Fedora French team member EN, FR
MarekMahut Fedora (./) (./) Will bring DVDs, maybe one demo PC EN, FR, CZ, SK, PL
MichalFabry Fedora (./) (./) Will bring Fedora cookies  :) EN, SK, CZ
PawelSadowski Fedora (./) (./) - PL, EN
RobertScheck Fedora (./) (./) DE, EN
TetaBilianou Fedora (./) (./) Fedora Greek Team member EL, EN, (IT)
ThomasCanniot Fedora (./) (./) Will bring back Solutions Linux 2008 remaining media EN, FR
Tom Baeyens Jboss (./) (./) Lead developer of JBoss jBPM, the leading open source workflow management system. EN, NL
TomCallaway Fedora (./) (./) Fedora Engineering Manager EN
JoergSimon Fedora (./) (./) bring OLPC, Ambassador Polos, Posters&Signs printed on truckplane DE
AlasdairKergon agk Red Hat / Fedora -
ThemisSavvidis Fedora (./) (./) Fedora Greek Team member EN, EL
XavierLamien Fedora (./) (./) Just catch me for fedora Stickers/media EN, FR
YaakovNemoy Fedora (./) (./) Smolt, ask me if you want me to bring american goodies :) EN_us, DE, NL (SE, IS)
PierreYvesChibon Fedora (./) (./) Fedora French team member EN, FR

(./) : Present  : Absentee  : No idea yet

Booth

Two big tables have been reserved and should be shared between Red Hat, Jboss and Fedora.

Development room

Fedora / Red Hat / CentOS development room

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  • a room with 150 seats - H.1309 -
  • a video projector
  • Internet connectivity (wifi + wired at the speaker's desk) during the following time frames:
  • FOSDEM web site link
  • Saturday 2008-02-23: 14:00 to 19:00
  • Sunday 2008-02-24..: 09:00 to 18:00

(please note that the rooms will _not_ be available outside of that timeframe, especially on Saturday, as courses and exams are still being taken at the ULB (the University where the event takes place) before 14:00)

Remarks
Several valuable reasons explain the fact CentOS appears on that Fedora wiki page.

Few of them are :

  • Lack of space at FOSDEM.
  • We did it last year.
  • We share most of same values.
  • They are nice people.

Speakers

AlasdairKergon agk Something new about LVM2
DimitrisGlezos Transifex: A new perspective in translation management
OlivierCleynen Getting one million to know Linux (see my profile page, link left) Saturday mid-afternoon duration: 45min inc. discussion
JensKuehnel SELinux don't just switch it off Sa or So
YaakovNemoy Smolt and Web Application Privacy Any Time duration: approx 30 - 45 minutes incl. extra time for discussions and ideas
We need more speakers, don't be shy! Please use the SpeakerTemplate to create a page with some details about your talk, and link to it from the above table.

Fedora Talks Planning

Satuday

14:00 - 15:00 Fedora Getting one million to know Linux OlivierCleynen
15:00 - 16:00 Fedora SELINUX JensKuehnel
16:00 - 17:00 CentOS Introduction to CentOS Fabian Arrotin
17:00 - 18:00 Fedora Transifex DimitrisGlezos
18:00 - 19:00 CentOS Pluggable real-time monitoring with dstat Dag Wieers

Sunday

09:00 - 10:00 CentOS CentOS debate Everyone
10:00 - 11:00 CentOS An overview of SELinux in CentOS 5 Ralph Angenendt
11:00 - 12:00 Fedora Smolt and Web Application Privacy YaakovNemoy
12:00 - 13:00 CentOS & Fedora Lunch Everyone
13:00 - 14:00 CentOS Introduction to CentOS Fabian Arrotin
14:00 - 15:00 Fedora LVM AlasdairKergon
15:00 - 16:00 CentOS CentOS 5 and Virtualization Tim Verhoeven
16:00 - 17:00 CentOS Hosting custom applications on CentOS 5 Karanbir Singh

Jboss development room

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  • a room with 74 seats
  • a video projector
  • Internet connectivity (wifi + wired at the speaker's desk)

during the following time frames: (not on Saturday nor Sunday morning, as discussed by email)

Sunday 2008-02-24..: 12:00 to 18:00

(please note that the rooms will _not_ be available outside of that timeframe, especially on Saturday, as courses and exams are still being taken at the ULB (the University where the event takes place) before 14:00)

Remarks
Several valuable reasons explain the fact a Jboss section appears on that Fedora wiki page.

Few of them are :

  • Jboss and Fedora are from the same company.
  • First time Jboss have a booth and development room at FOSDEM.
  • Give a hand to our Jboss friends.
  • Lack of space at FOSDEM.

Jboss Speakers

Tom Baeyens Workflow in java Sunday 2008-02-24..: between 12:00 and 18:00 Tom Baeyens is the founder and lead developer of JBoss jBPM. Abstract: JBoss jBPM is an open source platform that supports workflow, business process management, and service orchestration. Though BPEL has a big brand name associated to BPM, people start to realize that it is not a silver bullet. Recently two process component models have taken a different point of view. Multiple process languages are taken as the goal and process component models are frameworks on which multiple languages can be build. Tom'll look at some examples of the Process Virtual Machine and explain how this technology can be used as the basis for workflow, BPM and orchestration. Attending this talk will give a good overview of the complete JBoss jBPM project.
We need more speakers, don't be shy!
Please use the SpeakerTemplate to create a page with some details about your talk, and link to it from the above table.

Jboss Talks Planning

Sunday

14:00 - 17:00 Jboss Workflow in java Tom Baeyens

Questions

  • Is it be a problem for the Fedora Community if we share our development room with CentOS as we did last year ?
  • Would Fedora community agree to share its development room with Red Hat JBoss ?
  • Do you know a point of contact for JBoss community for such event ? -
  • What is about marketing stuffs ? what do we need ? How are we going to proceed ?
  • Do you know fedora people who could be interested to present their project ?

  • I will take about 200 printed Fedora 8 DVDs for free distribution (MarekMahut).
  • Also, I will try to bring a "demo" pc (MarekMahut).
  • Will bring a Fedora poster or two (DimitrisGlezos)
  • Will bring a OLPC to present it on the booth (JoergSimon)
  • Have and bring i386 LiveCDs on behalf of Max as giveaway (GeroldKassube)

FUDCon at FOSDEM

  • No FUDcon is planned.

Misc

  • For any questions, remarks, feel free to contact Frederic Hornain at <Frederic DOT Hornain AT fedoraproject DOT org>

Visitors' Corner

  • Fedora will have a booth where visitors can come and ask all sorts of questions with respect to the fedora project.

Languages Supported at the booth

  • English (native and En-1, En-2 and En-3)
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Italian
  • Slovak
  • Czech
  • Polish
  • Dutch

Hardware Insurance

  • In past editions of the event FOSDEM organization also offered the possibility of a hardware insurance for speakers and visitors of devrooms but they have decided to discontinue it.

Accomodation

  • FOSDEM and Fedora Ambassadors do not recommend any particular hotel or hostel. However, here is a list of popular accommodations for FOSDEM visitors to get you started. wikitravel also lists some places to stay. There is a large selection of hotels that can be booked online at booking.com - along with the comments of previous hotel guests!

Bed & Breakfast

In short: They provide you with B&B accommodation and cultural service/information. Online booking.

Hotels

  • CHAB: Centre Van Gogh Rue Traversiere, 8 1210 Bruxelles Tel: +32.2.2170158 Fax: +32.2.2197995 info@chab.be http://www.chab.be

In short: Old hotel, but very good rooms in the second part (in front). Direct connection to FOSDEM by tramway. Near Turkish area, so animated.

  • Novotel Tour Noire Novotel Brussels Centre Tour Noire Rue de la Vierge Noire 32 1000 Bruxelles Tel: +32.2.5055050 Fax: +32.2.5055000 http://www.accorhotels.com/...

In short: This hotel is located right in the center of Brussels on the site of the Tour Noire.

  • Novotel Grand Place Novotel Brussels Grand Place Rue du Marché Aux Herbes 120 1000 Bruxelles Tel: +3225143333 Fax: +3225117723 http://www.accorhotels.com/...

In short: Hotel renewed, modern, a bit dark. Animated area Direct connection by bus, not far from historical center.

  • Sleep Well Youth Hostel Rue du Damier, 23 1000 Bruxelles Tel: +32.2.2185050 Fax: +32.2.2181313 info@sleepwell.be http://www.sleepwell.be

In short: Modern hotel, with lots of people. Good position for metro/bus.

In short: A recently renovated hostel, about 35 min. from FOSDEM by bus or tram.

In short: Nice central youth hostel, next to Metro Madou.

  • 2GO4 Quality Hostel Avenue Emile Jacqmain, 99 1000 Bruxelles Tel: +32.2.2193019 Fax: +32.2.2193009 info@2go4.be http://www.2go4.be

In short: Nice, new youth hostel, located in the heart of Brussels.

Social Events

Friday

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As every year, there will be a FOSDEM beer event on Friday night before FOSDEM (22 February 2008).

Unlike previous years, this year's event will take place at the Delirium Café, in a beautiful gallery near the Grand'Place in Brussels. In addition to the enormous variety in beers, the new location also has enough room to cater for the enormous crowd of geeks we tend to be.

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While coming over to Brussels to attend FOSDEM, don't miss this great opportunity to taste some of the finest beer in Belgium (and, hence, in the world).

The bar is ours to invade from 17:30 onwards, but feel free to join the party at any time of the evening. We will be there until the bar closes (well after midnight).

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Saturday

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