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: Days

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Saturday 2008-02-23
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            
Sunday 2008-02-24
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