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.

   

Schedule: saturday

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Janson Chavanne Ferrer H.1301 H.1302 H.1308 H.1309
10:00

Welcome

FOSDEM Staff Opening/Closing Talks

           
10:15            
10:30

Tux with Shades, Linux in Hollywood

Robin Rowe Opening/Closing Talks

           
10:45            
11:00            
11:15            
11:30

How a large scale opensource project works

Robert Watson Opening/Closing Talks

           
11:45            
12:00            
12:15            
12:30

Status update of Software Patents

Pieter Hintjens Opening/Closing Talks

           
12:45            
13:00            
13:15              
13:30              
13:45      

KDE Group Photo

Bart Coppens KDE

     
14:00

Perl 6

Patrick Michaud Languages

Battle for Wesnoth

David White Games

Lightning Talks

Welcome

Bart Coppens KDE

   

Getting one million to know Linux

Olivier Cleynen CentOS+Fedora

14:15

Amarok 2

Nikolaj Hald Nielsen KDE

Welcome to the GNOME devroom

Christophe Fergeau GNOME

The openSUSE project

Michael Löffler openSUSE

 
14:30

GNOME Developer Kit

Ken VanDine GNOME

 
14:45    

Looking ahead to openSUSE 11.0

Michael Löffler openSUSE

15:00

Unicoding With PHP 6

Andrei Zmievski Languages

Crystalspace3D

Jorrit Tyberghein Games

Lightning Talks

A Look at KOffice 2 and ODF

Bart Coppens KDE

SELinux don't just switch it off

Jens Kuehnel CentOS+Fedora

15:15

More Clutter: Animating the Platform

Emmanuele Bassi GNOME

 
15:30

Linkat: a distribution based on SUSE for the schools, community and services around it

Jordi Massaguer openSUSE

 
15:45    

Nepomuk

Sebastian Trüg KDE

16:00

JRuby

Charles Oliver Nutter Languages

Globulation 2

Stéphane Magnenat Games

Lightning Talks

Pigment: Towards a desktop scene graph

Loïc Molinari GNOME

Introduction to CentOS

Fabian Arrotin CentOS+Fedora

16:15

openSUSE Build Service Overview

Andreas Bauer openSUSE

 
16:30

Free software in Telecom focusing on Qtopia

Knut Yrvyn KDE

Build Service Web Interface

Robert Lihm openSUSE

 
16:45    

Elisa - Enjoy your multimedia world

Alessandro Decina GNOME

17:00    

Lightning Talks

Build Service and Packaging Workshop

Klaas Freitag openSUSE

Transifex: A new perspective in translation management

Dimitris Glezos CentOS+Fedora

17:15      
17:30    

KDE on Windows

Holger Schröder KDE

Mobile Manager

Roberto Majadas GNOME

 
17:45    

The openSUSE Base System

Richard Guenther openSUSE

18:00    

Lightning Talks

Pluggable real-time monitoring with dstat

Dag Wieers CentOS+Fedora

18:15    

Roadmap for multiplayer gaming in KDE 4

Josef Spillner KDE

GUPnP: UPnP made easy

Zeeshan Ali GNOME

   
18:30        
18:45        
H.2213 H.2214 AW1.105 AW1.115 AW1.117 AW1.120 AW1.121
10:00              
10:15              
10:30              
10:45              
11:00              
11:15              
11:30              
11:45              
12:00              
12:15              
12:30              
12:45              
13:00              
13:15              
13:30              
13:45              
14:00  

Mozilla Europe

Brian King Mozilla

     

Welcome and Research projects introduction

Israel Herraiz Research Room

Welcome to the Free Java Meeting - Introductions

Rich Sands Free Java

14:15      

OOo 3: Shattered and Resurrected

Stephan Bergmann OpenOffice.org

 
14:30

Open sourcing ATI

John Bridgman X.org

     
14:45

Mozilla Labs Weave

Dan Mills Mozilla

   
15:00    

Mobile Java

Ray Gans Free Java

15:15    

Where's OOo's UI abstraction heading for?

Thorsten Behrens OpenOffice.org

 
15:30

The RadeonHD project

Egbert Eich X.org

     
15:45

Calendar Project

Martin Schröder Mozilla

   
16:00    

Contributions presentations (1)

Javier Estevez Research Room

Women in Java Technology

Linda van der Pal Free Java

16:15

Mozilla Calendar Workshop

Philipp Kewisch Mozilla

       
16:30

Nouveau: Cooking an open source driver

Stéphane Marchesin X.org

   

OpenOffice.org programmability - at a glance

Jürgen Schmidt OpenOffice.org

 
16:45

Thunderbird

Dan Mosedale Mozilla

     
17:00      

Hacking OpenJDK & Friends

Andrew Hughes Free Java

17:15    

Contributions presentations (2)

Martin Krafft Research Room

 
17:30  

Project SUMO (Firefox Support)

David Tenser Mozilla

   

VM Rumble, Porting and Architectures

Jeroen Frijters Free Java

 
17:45      
18:00        
18:15  

Songbird

Stephen Lau Mozilla

     

Discussion on the topic: research and libre software communities

Israel Herraiz Research Room

 
18:30          
18:45        
AW1.124 AW1.125 AW1.126 H.3227 Guillissen Decroly  
10:00              
10:15              
10:30              
10:45              
11:00              
11:15              
11:30              
11:45              
12:00              
12:15              
12:30              
12:45              
13:00              
13:15              
13:30        

LPI 2008 - a certification passage

Klaus Behrla LPI Certification

About the BSDA certification

Machtelt Garrels BSDA Certification

 
13:45          
14:00

Keynote PostgreSQL 8.3

David Fetter BSD+PostgreSQL

       
14:15  

Linux on the PS3

Olivier Grisel Embedded

         
14:30

Cross-building Debian and Tdebs

Neil Williams Debian

 

LPI exam session 1

Klaus Behrla LPI Certification

BSDA exam session 1

Machtelt Garrels BSDA Certification

   
14:45    
15:00

FreeBSD 7.0 and beyond

Robert Watson BSD+PostgreSQL

Xen for Secure Isolation on ARM11

George Davis Embedded

/etc/init.d/olpc_europe start

Holger Levsen OLPC

 
15:15    
15:30

PostgreSQL Infrastructure

Stefan Kaltenbrunner BSD+PostgreSQL

netconf - design and overview

Martin Krafft Debian

   
15:45  
16:00

SNMP monitoring

Shteryana Shopova BSD+PostgreSQL

Building blocks for Embedded Power Management

Kevin Hilman Embedded

     
16:15        
16:30

PostgreSQL 8.3 Performance Features

Simon Riggs BSD+PostgreSQL

Persistent Device Naming

Frans Pop Debian

LPI exam session 2

Klaus Behrla LPI Certification

BSDA exam session 2

Machtelt Garrels BSDA Certification

   
16:45  
17:00

SWOT analysis between MySQL and PostgreSQL

Guido Barosio BSD+PostgreSQL

Apt Xapian Index

Enrico Zini Debian

Modest, email client for embedded systems

Dirk-Jan Binnema Embedded

   
17:15      
17:30      
17:45    
18:00

PC-BSD Live demo, pbi essentials

Tim McCormick BSD+PostgreSQL

Packaging with git (or $DSCM)

Pierre Habouzit Debian

         
18:15            
18:30              
18:45