FOSDEM

The list of Main Track speakers for FOSDEM 2009 is almost complete and officially announced today, even though the website does not contain all the speaker bios and abstracts yet.

The keynotes will be highly interesting and entertaining, as always:

• Mark Surman discussing the Free. Open. Future?,
• Bdale Garbee talking about Debian, and
• Leslie Hawthorn, opening the Summer Of Code Internals to all of us.

Keeping our tradition of high quality technical talks, the main tracks for 2009 will be organized around 6 topics and feature a wealth of project leads and core developers from all around the FOSS horizon:

• Collaboration: MediaWiki (Brion Vibber), Zarafa (Steve Hardy)
• Development and Languages: OpenAMQ (Pieter Hintjens), Reverse Engineering of Proprietary Protocols (Rob Savoye ) and Scala (Martin Odersky)
• Security: FreeIPA, identity Management (Simo Sorce), Fusil (Victor Stinner)
• Kernel: Syslinux (H Peter Anvin), Ext4 (Theodore Ts'o) and Help my system is slow... (Kris Kennaway)
• Distributions: The Fedora Project (Max Spevack), OpenSUSE ()
• System Administration: MySQL High Availability Solutions (Lenz Grimmer) and Upstart (Scott James Remnant)