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[ 21-01-2004 ]
Hotel booking deadline nearing
Like other years, FOSDEM visitors can have the same deal at the hotel where we booked rooms for the speakers. Deadline for booking is end of the week though (23rd january if you want to be sure), so you'd better hurry.
To book rooms at the FOSDEM rate (80 euros/night signle room, breakfast included), just dowload the form,fill it and fax it to the Novotel Tour Noire (02 505 50 00).
You'll get feedback from the hotel to confirm your booking.
The hotel is located at the center of Brussels, not far from the Grand Place.
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[ 17-01-2004 ]
Introduction talk & background contest
The Open Source Paradigm Shift
The computer industry has gone through a sea change in the past few years. The killer applications of the web era turned out not to be PC-based software packages like the web browser, but web hosted applications like google, mapquest and amazon.com. These applications are built on top of Linux and Apache, yet they are themselves fiercely proprietary. But what would most developers do with their source code? These massive systems are valuable for their data as much as for their programs. And by opening up XML web services APIs to that data, the most innovative of these sites are creating new opportunities for hackers to "scratch their own itch." One of the greatest challenges for open source in the next few years is to understand and adapt to the paradigm shift implicit in network computing, and to shed the legacy thinking of the desktop era.
Love art ?
So, check out the FOSDEM background contest. Create cool pictures "FOSDEM oriented" and let the visitors vote for you. Check out here.
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