FOSDEM '08 is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community, for the community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet.

   

FOSDEM Video Recordings

Video recordings of talks held at FOSDEM editions 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 are available on http://video.fosdem.org

Direct links to the videos can be found below. Please always use the video.fosdem.org URL when linking to the files. This way we can prevent dead links if mirrors change.

Thanks to Belnet, HEAnet and Unixheads for hosting them and NamurLUG for recording and encoding.

Starting from FOSDEM 2007, videos of all the main track talks are available in a patent unencumbered, open and free video format: Ogg/Theora, which means they will play out-of-the-box on any platform using video player applications such as VLC, MPlayer, Kaffeine, Totem, etc...

FOSDEM 2008

TalkSpeakerSize (MB)
Opening/Closing Talks
Welcome FOSDEM Staff 18
Tux with Shades, Linux in Hollywood Robin Rowe & Gabrielle Pantera 84
How a large scale opensource project works Robert Watson 82
Status update of Software Patents Pieter Hintjens 81
Languages
Perl 6 Patrick Michaud 67
Unicoding With PHP 6 Andrei Zmievski 67
JRuby Charles Oliver Nutter 73
Build Systems
Hudson Kohsuke Kawaguchi 79
SCons Steven Knight 77
CMake Bill Hoffman 78
Games
Battle for Wesnoth David White 297
Crystalspace3D Jorrit Tyberghein 300
Globulation 2 Stéphane Magnenat 602
Packaging
Conary Packaging: Simply Powerful Michael K. Johnson 73
PackageKit Richard Hughes 72
Klik2 Simon Peter & Kurt Pfeifle 71
Virtualization
Xen Ian Pratt 333
VirtualBox Achim Hasenmueller 324
openQRM Matthias Rechenburg 315
Web
CakePHP Garrett J Woodworth 396
OWASP WebScarab-NG Rogan Dawes 354
Mozilla Prism Mark Finkle 245

FOSDEM 2007

TalkSpeakerSize (MB)
Opening & Closing
Welcome to FOSDEM 2007Raphael Bauduin45
Thanks for visiting FOSDEM 2007Pascal Bleser6
Keynotes
OLPC (One Laptop Per Child)Jim Gettys240
Liberating JavaSimon Phipps338
Status of Software Patents in EuropePieter Hintjens186
Beyond GPLv3Georg Greve327
Security
Security TestingPete Herzog226
Metasploit FrameworkH.D. Moore303
BaculaKern Sibbald327
Desktop Applications
X.orgKeith Packard297
AIGLXKristian Høgsberg229
GEGLØyvind Kolås300
Development Languages
Profiling Desktop ApplicationsFederico Mena Quintero258
GDB TracepointsJim Blandy197
Turbocharging Linux with MonoMiguel de Icaza302
Kernel
ReactOSAleksey Bragin230
LinuxBIOSRonald G Minnich234
Linux KernelAndrew Morton264
Web
Plone 3.0Paul Everitt178
DrupalDries Buytaert222
MozillaMike Schroepfer203
Internet Services
JBoss JBPMTom Baeyens271
Secure Communications with JabberPeter Saint-Andre197
SambaJeremy Allison299

 

FOSDEM 2006

TalkSpeakerSize (MB)
Opening
Welcome to FOSDEM 2006Raphael Bauduin38
Desktop
OpenOfficeMichael Meeks308
XULAxel Hecht229
BeagleJon Trowbridge287
Security
AppArmorCrispin Cowan229
VOIP
AsteriskMark Spencer235
SERJan Janak38
SpeexJean-Marc Valin287
Development
DarcsDavid Round270
SubversionGreg Stein281
ValgrindJulian Seward207
Valgrind (Q+A)Julian Seward53
Web 2.0
Dojo ToolkitAlex Russel185
RIFEGeert Bevin38
Internet Services
DTraceJon Haslam231
Plan9Uriel Pereira291
XenIan Pratt333
Tutorials
Asterisk TutorialMark Spencer299
DTrace TutorialJon Haslam356
OpenOffice TutorialMichael Meeks249
openSUSE--
Debian--

 

FOSDEM 2005

TalkSpeakerSize (MB)
Opening
Opening Talk: CopyrightRichard Stallman480
Grid/Clusters
Globus ToolkitOlle Mulmo464
Linux-HAAlan Robertson441
OpenGFSKen Preslan367
Desktop
KDEMatthias Ettrich431
XFCEOlivier Fourdan375
NautilusAlex Larsson300
Linux Kernel
Linux KernelAlan Cox436
Linux Device MapperAlasdair Kergon491
SysFS/Kernel Driver CorePat Mochel346
Distributions
SlackwareStuart Winter521