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Fosdem
The Story

Birth of an event

During the year 2000, Raphael Bauduin, a fan of the Linux movement in Belgium, decide to make a small meeting for developers of Open Source software. He called it : Open Source Developers European Meeting (aka OSDEM)



He created a mailing list, a small website and told about it around him ... a few weeks later, lots of people were waiting for an exciting events in Brussel.



Raphael sent lots of invitations to known figure : Rasterman, Fyodor, Jeremy Allison, ... and so on ... and they gave a positive response : the OSDEM was on the road to success.


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on February 8 - 9 2003
in Brussels...

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