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: sunday

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Janson Chavanne Ferrer H.1301 H.1302 H.1308 H.1309
09:00            

CentOS Debate

Dag Wieers CentOS+Fedora

09:15    

Lightning Talks

Welcome to the Crossdesktop room

Christophe Fergeau CrossDesktop

Welcome to the Drupal devroom

Joeri Poesen Drupal

 
09:30    

klik on KDE and Gnome - chances and challenges

Simon Peter CrossDesktop

What's new in Drupal 6

Gabor Hojtsy Drupal

KDE 4 on openSUSE 11

Dirk Mueller openSUSE

 
09:45    
10:00

Hudson

Kohsuke Kawaguchi Build Systems

Xen

Ian Pratt Virtualization

Lightning Talks

An overview of SELinux in CentOS 5

Ralph Angenendt CentOS+Fedora

10:15

KDE 4

Jos Poortvliet CrossDesktop

GNOME on openSUSE 11.0

JP Rosevaer openSUSE

 
10:30

Drupal Theming

Morten Heide Drupal

 
10:45    
11:00

SCons

Steven Knight Build Systems

VirtualBox

Achim Hasenmueller Virtualization

Lightning Talks

EnergyStar: Jump on the bandwagon!

Holger Macht openSUSE

Smolt and Web Application Privacy

Yaakov Nemoy CentOS+Fedora

11:15

Integrating the Web into GTK+ applications with WebKit

Alp Toker CrossDesktop

 
11:30

Usability and Drupal

Thomas Moseler Drupal

Kernel, udev, D-Bus, HAL, NetworkManager and Friends

Timo Hoenig openSUSE

 
11:45    
12:00

CMake

Bill Hoffman Build Systems

openQRM, pluggable virtualization for modern data-centers

Matthias Rechenburg Virtualization

Lightning Talks

Suspend

Stefan Seyfried openSUSE

 
12:15    
12:30  

Combining Amazon Web Services with Drupal

Thomas Bonte Drupal

System Imaging with KIWI

Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel openSUSE

 
12:45        
13:00      

Farsight 2: Video conferencing made easy

Olivier Crête CrossDesktop

Asset Management in Drupal using the Asset Module

Wim Mostrey Drupal

Introduction to CentOS

Fabian Arrotin CentOS+Fedora

13:15        
13:30      

Introducing the Apache Solr Module

Robert Douglass Drupal

What nobody knows about YaST

Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett openSUSE

13:45      

Free Software in Education

Knut Yrvyn CrossDesktop

14:00

Conary Packaging: Simply Powerful

Michael K. Johnson Packaging

CakePHP

Garrett J Woodworth Web

Lightning Talks

The new zypp solver

Michael Schröder openSUSE

Something new about LVM2

Alasdair Kergon CentOS+Fedora

14:15  
14:30

CMake: News and Secrets

Alexander Neundorf CrossDesktop

Implementing Drupal for the Public Sector

Michel van de Ven Drupal

One Click Install

Benjamin Weber openSUSE

 
14:45    
15:00

PackageKit

Richard Hughes Packaging

OWASP WebScarab-NG

Rogan Dawes Web

Lightning Talks

mod_zrkadlo, the openSUSE redirector

Peter Poeml openSUSE

 
15:15

GEGL

Øyvind Kolås CrossDesktop

   
15:30

Challenges for the CMS of Tomorrow and its Developers

Wouter Van den Bosch Drupal

Desktop accessibility & UI Automation

Michael Meeks openSUSE

   
15:45      
16:00

Application virtualization with next-generation Klik

Simon Peter Packaging

Mozilla Prism

Mark Finkle Web

Lightning Talks

Deb Packaging Introduction

Jonathan Riddell CrossDesktop

Fun with Zeroconf

Daniel Gollub openSUSE

Hosting custom applications on CentOS 5

Karanbir Singh CentOS+Fedora

16:15  
16:30

Web Service Development for Managers

Mixel Kiemen Drupal

   
16:45    

The BSD (G)UI

Raphael Langerhorst CrossDesktop

 
17:00    

Lightning Talks

Drupal and MySQL High Availability

Kris Buytaert Drupal

 

CentOS 5 and Virtualization

Tim Verhoeven CentOS+Fedora

17:15

The Endgame

FOSDEM Staff Opening/Closing Talks

     
17:30  

Crossdesktop closing talk

Bart Coppens CrossDesktop

 
17:45      
18:00            
18:15            
H.2213 H.2214 AW1.105 AW1.115 AW1.117 AW1.120 AW1.121
09:00  

Extensions Workshop

Philipp Kewisch Mozilla

       

Distro Rumble

Arnaud Vandyck Free Java

09:15      

OpenOffice.org extensions development in Java with NetBeans in practise

Jürgen Schmidt OpenOffice.org

 
09:30          
09:45        
10:00      

Contributions presentations (3)

Guillaume Rousseau Research Room

The Free Java Factory

Tom Marble Free Java

10:15        
10:30

XAudio, an Audio extension for the X Window System

Helge Bahmann X.org

EU Community Survey

Stanislaw Malolepszy Mozilla

     
10:45      
11:00

Bringing Metisse and Xorg together

Remi Cardona X.org

Using Rails for agile development of a job site

Koen Van der Auwera Ruby on Rails

 

OOoCalc Formula Compiler and Expression Interpreter Workshop

Eike Rathke OpenOffice.org

Demos

Israel Herraiz Research Room

11:15

Miro

Holmes Wilson Mozilla

   
11:30    
11:45  
12:00

Fixing X input

Daniel Stone X.org

RESTful best practices

Nicolas Jacobeus Ruby on Rails

   

JIT Session: Discussion Topics Dynamically Loaded

Tom Marble Free Java

12:15      
12:30        
12:45        
13:00              
13:15              
13:30              
13:45              
14:00

Project VGA

Michael Meeuwisse X.org

Community Project Organisation and Seamonkey 2

Robert Kaiser Mozilla

CSA on Rails: a practical case-study

Bernard Dubuisson Ruby on Rails

 

Hacking OpenOffice.org for beginners

Eric Bachard OpenOffice.org

 

Cool stuff

Peter Barth Free Java

14:15      
14:30      
14:45      
15:00

Update on Gallium3D

Keith Whitwell X.org

Mozilla Mobile

Christian Sejersen Mozilla

Shoes, a versatile Ruby GUI toolkit

Koen Van der Auwera Ruby on Rails

 

Workflow In Java

Tom Baeyens JBoss

15:15    
15:30    

Creating OpenOffice.org Wizards

Berend Cornelius OpenOffice.org

 
15:45      
16:00

Radeon, from DRM to Gallium

Jerome Glisse X.org

       

Java: Freedom, Compatibility and Community

Dalibor Topic Free Java

16:15          
16:30          
16:45

Electronic Ombuds: Firefighting in Online Communities

Zak Greant Mozilla

     
17:00

Roadmap to recovery - pain and redemption in X driver development

Keith Packard X.org

   

OOo/ODF Integration using the OO.org SDK

Michael Bohn OpenOffice.org

 
17:15        
17:30        
17:45        

JIT Session: Free Java plans for 2008

Mark Wielaard Free Java

18:00              
18:15              
AW1.124 AW1.125 AW1.126 H.3227 Guillissen Decroly  
09:00

IT-PUG + ht://Miner

Gabriele Bartolini BSD+PostgreSQL

 

Free software in Telecom focusing on Qtopia

Knut Yrvyn Embedded

       
09:15          
09:30

The Belgian electronic ID card in Debian

Wouter Verhelst Debian

         
09:45        
10:00

X.org and BSD, changes ahead

Matthieu Herrb BSD+PostgreSQL

Update on Virtualization in Debian

Henning Sprang Debian

Controlling embedded devices with the Maemo internet tablet

Kate Alhola Embedded

 

LPI exam session 3

Klaus Behrla LPI Certification

BSDA exam session 3

Machtelt Garrels BSDA Certification

 
10:15      
10:30

PostgreSQL Future Directions

Bruce Momjian BSD+PostgreSQL

     
10:45    
11:00

Win32 development in a Unix project

Magnus Hagander BSD+PostgreSQL

Running Debian on Inexpensive Network Storage Devices

Martin Michlmayr Debian

GNUStep on embedded devices

Nikolaus Schaller Embedded

   
11:15      
11:30

Ruby on rails on FreeBSD with PostgreSQl

Marius Nünnerich BSD+PostgreSQL

         
11:45        
12:00

DBI-Link 3.0

David Fetter BSD+PostgreSQL

etch-n-half: Supporting new hardware within stable

Andreas Barth Debian

Tomoyo Linux for secure embedded (Linux)

Toshiharu Harada Embedded

       
12:15

New Enterprise features in PostgreSQL

Simon Riggs BSD+PostgreSQL

       
12:30

What can you do for PostgreSQL community

Susanne Ebrecht BSD+PostgreSQL

       
12:45        
13:00    

pjsip: lightweight portable SIP stack

Perry Ismangil Embedded

 

LPI exam session 4

Klaus Behrla LPI Certification

BSDA exam session 4

Machtelt Garrels BSDA Certification

 
13:15        
13:30        
13:45        
14:00

Build systems with autotools and libtool

Benny Siegert BSD+PostgreSQL

Reordering the Debian boot sequence for correctness and speed

Petter Reinholdtsen Debian

Design a Linux robot companion with 8 bits microcontrollers

David Bourgeois Embedded

   
14:15      
14:30          
14:45

Creating a nice view into the Debian archives

Frank Lichtenheld Debian

       
15:00

Building search.postgresql.org

Magnus Hagander BSD+PostgreSQL

Emdebian Update: Rootfs, GPE and tdebs

Neil Williams Embedded

 

LPI exam session 5

Klaus Behrla LPI Certification

BSDA exam session 5

Machtelt Garrels BSDA Certification

 
15:15      
15:30

Two Phase Commit with PostgreSQL

Heikki Linnakangas BSD+PostgreSQL

How accessible is Debian?

Samuel Thibault Debian

     
15:45    
16:00

pbi - the new paket management system

Austin Stewart BSD+PostgreSQL

The long road to Debian Edu in main

Holger Levsen Debian

OpenWrt

Florian Fainelli Embedded

   
16:15      
16:30

Migrating from Linux to FreeBSD

Gregory Holland BSD+PostgreSQL

         
16:45        
17:00

PostgreSQL High Availability Options

Simon Riggs BSD+PostgreSQL

Lenny: the past and the future

Luk Claes Debian

UPnP: dead simple, or simply deadly ?

Armijn Hemel Embedded

       
17:15          
17:30

Election of PostgreSQL EU group

Susanne Ebrecht BSD+PostgreSQL

       
17:45          
18:00              
18:15