FOSDEM

Almost the complete schedule has been published on our website. You will notice a few gaps that are still being filled.

Check out the :

• Grid for an overview of the timetables
• Main Tracks lectures and speakers
• DevRooms list with detailed schedule
• Lightning Talks sessions
• And last but not least, a list of all the speakers talking at FOSDEM.

For the agenda-fanatics we also publish a computer-readable calendar in ical and xcal format.

See you very soon in Brussels !

The FOSDEM 2009 press release below is aimed at technical media. This event shows again how strong and multicultural a community can be, the paper being translated in no less than twenty-one languages by our visitors! Thanks to all translators.

English (pdf/ odt/ txt) - Belarussian (pdf/ odt/ txt) - Bulgarian (pdf/ odt/ txt) - Catalan (pdf/ odt/ txt) - Croatian (pdf/ odt/ txt) - Danish (pdf/ odt/ txt) - Dutch (pdf/ odt/ txt) - Estonian (pdf/ odt/ txt) - French (pdf/ odt/ txt) - German (pdf/ odt/ txt) - Greek (pdf/ odt/ txt) - Hungarian (pdf/ odt/ txt) - Italian (pdf/ odt/ txt) - Latvian (pdf/ odt/ txt) - Macedonian (pdf/ odt/ txt) - Norvegian (pdf/ odt/ txt) - Polish (pdf/ odt/ txt) - Romanian (pdf/ odt/ txt) - Russian (pdf/ odt/ txt) - Spanish (pdf/ odt/ txt) - Swedish (pdf/ odt/ txt) - Portuguese (pdf/ odt/ txt)

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Linux Professional Institute (LPI) offers level 1, level 2 and level 3 certification exams with an almost 50% rebate to FOSDEM visitors and donates 10 EUR to FOSDEM per exam session taken during the event.

PGP public key and CAcert certificate identification is based on multiple (the more the better) persons doing an identification check with official identity document(s), like a driver license, passports, identity cards, etc.: the Web of Trustworthy. The Web of Trust is basically a reciprocal process: one has to identify to each other.

The party is essential to strengthen the Web of Trust and keep the security technique open and freely available.

Like previous years, there will be a PGP key signing and CAcert assurance party at FOSDEM. Have your identity checked at the party and bring with you a governmental issued identity document.

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)

These are the projects that are participating in FOSDEM 2009 with a lightningtalk, in probable sequential order.
Saturday: Linux Defenders, Small Sister, FLOSSMetrics, Bazaar, Caiman, Apache Felix, Opsview, Marionnet, LXDE, Camelot, hackable:1, BUG, usbpicprog, Gemvid.
Sunday morning: GnuTLS, mailman-pgp-smime, JTRunner, IPN & msockets, ModularIT, Puppet.
Sunday afternoon: FreedroidRPG, SGX Engine, MuseScore, PyRoom, eZ Find, XWiki, TikiWiki, Midgard, CalDAV.

As every year, there will be a FOSDEM beer event on Friday night before FOSDEM (6 February 2009).

Like last year, this year's event will take place at the Delirium Café, in a beautiful gallery near the Grand'Place in Brussels. In addition to the enormous variety in beers, the location also has enough room to accomodate the enormous crowd of geeks we tend to be.

These are the projects that are participating in FOSDEM 2009 with a stand, in alphabetical order: *BSD, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Free Software Foundation Europe + Free Knowledge Foundation, Gentoo, GNOME, Haiku, Jabber/XMPP, Joomla, KDE, Mandriva, Mozilla, MySQL, OpenEmbedded, Openmoko, OpenOffice.org, openSUSE, OpenWRT, PHP, PostgreSQL, SIP Communicator, Syllable, ReactOS, Ubuntu.

These are the projects that are participating in FOSDEM 2009 with a Developer Room, in alphabetical order: *BSD + PostgreSQL, Ada (user group), Cross Desktop (GNOME + KDE + XFCE), Debian, Drupal, Embedded (various FOSS projects related to embedded platforms), Fedora + CentOS, Free Java (OpenJDK and friends), GNOME, Jabber/XMPP, KDE, MySQL, Mozilla, OpenGroupware.org + GNUstep + Etoilé, OpenOffice.org, openSUSE, Ruby and Rails (Belgian Ruby User Group), X.org.

The call for devrooms and stands for FOSDEM 2009 is closed.
All available rooms and stands have been assigned.
Thanks for the many requests, and sorry to those we could not fulfill.

A list of FOSS projects present at FOSDEM 2009 with a devroom and/or a stand will be announced soon.