FOSDEM '09 is a free and non-commercial event organized 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 2009-02-07
Janson Chavanne Ferrer Lameere H.1301 UA2.114 H.1302
10:00

Welcome

FOSDEM Staff Keynotes

           
10:15            
10:30

Free. Open. Future?

Mark Surman Keynotes

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

Debian

Bdale Garbee Keynotes

           
11:45            
12:00            
12:15            
12:30              
12:45              
13:00    

OSI: Recent Activities an…

Michael Tiemann Open Source Initiative

OpenWrt: UCI and beyond

John Crispin Embedded

 

Welcome to the PostgreSQL…

Marc Balmer BSD+PostgreSQL

 
13:15    

Welcome to the KDE devroo…

Bart Coppens KDE

Welcome to the GNOME devr…

Christophe Fergeau GNOME

13:30    

KDE 42 and you

Jos Poortvliet KDE

What's coming in PostgreS…

Magnus Hagander BSD+PostgreSQL

The People Framework

Johann Prieur GNOME

13:45    
14:00

openSUSE

Joe Brockmeier Distributions

OpenAMQ

Pieter Hintjens Development and Languages

 

Wt, a C++ web toolkit, fo…

Pieter Libin Embedded

Replication, Replication,…

Simon Riggs BSD+PostgreSQL

14:15

Lightning Talks

Amarok 2 - rediscover mus…

Sven Krohlas KDE

The Hynerian Empire

Zeeshan Ali GNOME

14:30
14:45
15:00

The Fedora Project

Max Spevack Distributions

Reverse Engineering of Pr…

Rob Savoye Development and Languages

Lightning Talks

Dynamic voltage and curre…

Liam Girdwood Embedded

KOffice 2.0: KOffice comi…

Marijn Kruisselbrink KDE

UTF-8 support for syscons…

Ed Schouten BSD+PostgreSQL

The Sugar platform

Tomeu Vizoso GNOME

15:15
15:30
15:45

KDE Group Photo

Bart Coppens KDE

Group Picture

Christophe Fergeau GNOME

16:00

10 cool things about Exhe…

Bryan Østergaard Distributions

Scala - A Scalable Langua…

Martin Odersky Development and Languages

Lightning Talks

Hacking with modular hard…

Ken Gilmer Embedded

OLAP/Windowing functions

David Fetter BSD+PostgreSQL

16:15

Sharing the burden - doub…

Alexandra Leisse KDE

Bringing geolocation into…

Pierre-Luc Beaudoin GNOME

16:30
16:45
17:00    

Lightning Talks

Building Embedded Linux S…

Robert Schwebel Embedded

Programming is fun with Q…

Olivier Goffart KDE

Porting applications in F…

Rodrigo Osorio BSD+PostgreSQL

Nemiver, a GNOME debugger

Dodji Seketeli GNOME

17:15    
17:30    
17:45      

Tracker

Philip Van Hoof GNOME

18:00    

Lightning Talks

 

Clarify technical rumours…

Susanne Ebrecht BSD+PostgreSQL

18:15      
18:30      

KDE on OpenSolaris

Gerard van den Berg KDE

 
18:45        
H.1308 H.1309 H.2213 H.2214 AW1.105 AW1.115 AW1.117
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RPM packaging

Christophe Wickert Fedora+CentOS

Welcome to the openSUSE d…

Martin Lasarsch openSUSE

   

Theming in GNUstep

Richard Frith-Macdonald GNUstep+OpenGroupware+Etoile

13:15

Mozilla Europe

Tristan Nitot Mozilla

 

Who can you trust ?

Marko Jung openSUSE

   
13:30      
13:45  

openSUSE Community

Dinar Valeev openSUSE

   
14:00

Mozilla Foundation

Gervase Markham Mozilla

RandR 1.3: New Features i…

Matthias Hopf X.org

Fedora Electronic Lab

Chitlesh Goorah Fedora+CentOS

Public Meeting of the Ope…

Michael Tiemann Open Source Initiative

 

ScalableOGo

Helge Heß GNUstep+OpenGroupware+Etoile

14:15  
14:30

openSUSE Build Service ov…

Adrian Schroeter openSUSE

 
14:45

Mozilla and Universities

Gregorio Robles Mozilla

Collaboration in the open…

Hendrik Vogelsang openSUSE

 
15:00

The Rebuilt Linux Desktop

Keith Packard X.org

Future Fedora-fr challeng…

Thomas Canniot Fedora+CentOS

 

Cross-Platform Objective-…

Nicola Pero GNUstep+OpenGroupware+Etoile

15:15

What's next after Firefox…

Mike Connor Mozilla

 
15:30

Putting Cross Development…

Martin Mohring openSUSE

 
15:45  
16:00

Mozilla Community Sites P…

Zbigniew Braniecki Mozilla

Nouveau Status Update

Stéphane Marchesin X.org

Func, Symbolic: Present a…

Francesco Crippa Fedora+CentOS

   

Web Services in Objective…

Riccardo Mottola GNUstep+OpenGroupware+Etoile

16:15

Create your own Linux Dis…

Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel openSUSE

   
16:30    
16:45

Community and Design

John Slater Mozilla

   
17:00

Intel's graphics projects…

Eric Anholt X.org

Sugar: what is and why Fe…

Greg DeKoenigsberg Fedora+CentOS

Creating customized openS…

Daniel Bornkessel openSUSE

Building XUL Communities

Paul Rouget Mozilla

 

Etoilé

Nicolas Roard GNUstep+OpenGroupware+Etoile

17:15  
17:30    
17:45  

Legal aspects of distribu…

Jürgen Weigert openSUSE

 
18:00    

Augeas

Raphaël Pinson Fedora+CentOS

   
18:15    

Apport - Automatic Applic…

Jan Blunck openSUSE

   
18:30        
18:45        
AW1.120 AW1.121 AW1.124 AW1.125 AW1.126 H.3227 Guillissen
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XMPP 101: A Fast-Paced In…

Remko Tronçon Jabber+XMPP

Outside broadcast on a bu…

Ben Hutchings Debian

Welcome to the Ada devroo…

Dirk Craeynest Ada

 

Welcome to the OpenOffice…

Jürgen Schmidt OpenOffice.org

   
13:15

Ada Break: Questions and …

Valentine Reboul Ada

The state of OpenJDK & Op…

Joe Darcy Free Java

UNO: Anecdotal Evidence

Stephan Bergmann OpenOffice.org

   
13:30    
13:45

Project Jigsaw

Mark Reinhold Free Java

   
14:00

PubSub and the Web

Nathan Fritz Jabber+XMPP

Ultimate Debian Database:…

Stefano Zacchiroli Debian

Introduction to Ada for B…

Jean-Pierre Rosen Ada

 

LPI exam session 1

Klaus Behrla LPI Certification

14:15

Small Language Changes

Joe Darcy Free Java

Introduction to Java deve…

Robert Vojta OpenOffice.org

 
14:30

Integrating XMPP into Web…

Jack Moffitt Jabber+XMPP

 
14:45    
15:00

Geolocation

Simon Tennant Jabber+XMPP

Introducing DDE, Debian D…

Enrico Zini Debian

GNAT Programming Studio

Vincent Celier Ada

The state of IcedTea

Lillian Angel Free Java

 
15:15

OpenOffice.org Extensions…

Jürgen Schmidt OpenOffice.org

 
15:30

Deploying Jingle

Diana Cionoiu Jabber+XMPP

The IcedTea Plugin

Deepak Bhole Free Java

   
15:45    
16:00

Personal Media Networks

Dirk Meyer Jabber+XMPP

The Debian status quo on …

Luca Capello Debian

Ada in Debian

Ludovic Brenta Ada

Jalimo: Cross-compiling O…

Robert Schuster Free Java

 

LPI exam session 2

Klaus Behrla LPI Certification

16:15  
16:30

Large-Scale XMPP Deployme…

Florian Jensen Jabber+XMPP

   
16:45

How to port a Java GUI ba…

Mario Torre Free Java

 
17:00

XMPP in Real Life

Mickaël Rémond Jabber+XMPP

Running Debian on Inexpen…

Martin Michlmayr Debian

Ada Annex E - Distributed…

Thomas Quinot Ada

 
17:15

OpenGL ES to boost embedd…

Guillaume Legris Free Java

Layout & Canvas & Slidesh…

Thorsten Behrens OpenOffice.org

 
17:30

Presenting Information Fl…

Dave Cridland Jabber+XMPP

Grid Computing with Debia…

Anders Wäänänen Debian

   
17:45

XRender Java2D Pipeline

Clemens Eisserer Free Java

   
18:00

Lightning Talks!

Peter Saint-Andre Jabber+XMPP

NARVAL - Distributed Data…

Xavier Grave Ada

   
18:15

What does the DPL do?

Steve McIntyre Debian

Gervill Software Synthesi…

Karl Helgason Free Java

OOo Bug hunting and fixin…

Jürgen Schmidt OpenOffice.org

   
18:30    
18:45        
Sunday 2009-02-08
Janson Chavanne Ferrer Lameere H.1301 UA2.114 H.1302
09:00      

Development on the Openmo…

Pierre Pronchery Embedded

 

Job scheduling in Postgre…

Dave Page BSD+PostgreSQL

 
09:15        

Welcome to the Drupal dev…

Dries Buytaert Drupal

09:30        

Postgres Pet Peeves

Greg Stark BSD+PostgreSQL

What's new in Drupal 7?

Dries Buytaert Drupal

09:45        
10:00

Cobbler & Koan

Robert Lazzurs Systems

OWASP Testing Guide v3 an…

Matteo Meucci Security

Lightning Talks

Solar Control with 1-wire…

Wookey Embedded

Welcome to the Crossdeskt…

Christophe Fergeau CrossDesktop

OpenBSD: From the Atomic …

Marc Balmer BSD+PostgreSQL

10:15

A talk on FLOSSMetrics

Jesus M. Gonzalez Barahona CrossDesktop

Improving Drupal's page l…

Wim Leers Drupal

10:30
10:45
11:00

MySQL High Availability S…

Lenz Grimmer Systems

FreeIPA, Identity Managem…

Simo Sorce Security

Lightning Talks

Development and Certifica…

Baurzhan Ismagulov Embedded

Xfce 4.6 and then?

Jannis Pohlmann CrossDesktop

Free Space Map and Visibi…

Heikki Linnakangas BSD+PostgreSQL

Building a Community Webs…

Niels van Mourik Drupal

11:15
11:30
11:45  

Drupal Multi-site for Fun…

Emma Jane Hogbin Drupal

12:00

Upstart

Scott James Remnant Systems

Fusil

Victor Stinner Security

Lightning Talks

Maemo on BeagleBoard

Juha Kallionen Embedded

 

FreeBSD and Dtrace

Marius Nünnerich BSD+PostgreSQL

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

CMake - what can it do fo…

Alexander Neundorf CrossDesktop

Migration from informix t…

Koen Martens BSD+PostgreSQL

Importing data with job q…

Neil Drumm Drupal

13:15        
13:30        

User Groups: Leading with…

Selena Deckelmann BSD+PostgreSQL

13:45        

WebKit on ebook readers

Marco Barisione CrossDesktop

14:00

Syslinux and the dynamic …

H. Peter Anvin Kernel

MediaWiki

Brion Vibber Collaboration

Lightning Talks

Advanced powermanagement …

Peter De Schrijver Embedded

Introduction to recursive…

Greg Stark BSD+PostgreSQL

Moving Content from Stagi…

Roel de Meester Drupal

14:15
14:30

Xfce as a Platform

Stephan Arts CrossDesktop

SQL/MED

Peter Eisentraut BSD+PostgreSQL

14:45

Drupal Showcase: Cultural…

Frederik Van Outryve Drupal

15:00

Ext4

Theodore Ts'o Kernel

Easy Integration with plu…

Steve Hardy Collaboration

Lightning Talks

Emdebian 1.0 release - sm…

Neil Williams Embedded

Filesystem I/O From a Dat…

Selena Deckelmann BSD+PostgreSQL

15:15

Why logs are important

Paul Adams CrossDesktop

15:30

Automated Web Translation…

Stany van Gelder Drupal

15:45
16:00

Help my system is slow...

Kris Kennaway Kernel

CalDAV - the open groupwa…

Helge Heß Collaboration

Lightning Talks

at-spi2

Mark Doffman CrossDesktop

Painless Perl Ports with …

Benny Siegert BSD+PostgreSQL

16:15

Taxonomy: Drupals powerfu…

Bart Feenstra Drupal

16:30

Embedded Devroom wrap-up …

Philippe De Swert Embedded

Use of FreeBSD system cal…

Gregory Holland BSD+PostgreSQL

16:45  
17:00              
17:15

Google Summer of Code: A …

Leslie Hawthorn Keynotes

           
17:30            
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SeaMonkey

Robert Kaiser Mozilla

     

Traveling in OOo code and…

Eric Bachard OpenOffice.org

 

Garbage collection with O…

Richard Frith-Macdonald GNUstep+OpenGroupware+Etoile

09:15        
09:30        
09:45

Overview of Mozilla QA

Carsten Book Mozilla

       
10:00  

Introduction to CentOS

Fabian Arrotin Fedora+CentOS

openSUSE education

Lars Vogdt openSUSE

 

GAP Applications + PRICE

Riccardo Mottola GNUstep+OpenGroupware+Etoile

10:15    
10:30

Oni - Structured Concurre…

Alex Fritze Mozilla

   
10:45  

Zypper - openSUSE's comma…

Ján Kupec openSUSE

 
11:00

Multimedia processing ext…

Helge Bahmann X.org

Enterprise Linux Competit…

Dag Wieers Fedora+CentOS

OOoCalc Bug Hunting and P…

Eike Rathke OpenOffice.org

 

Pragmatic Smalltalk

Nicolas Roard GNUstep+OpenGroupware+Etoile

11:15

Rising to the Sun(bird)

Philipp Kewisch Mozilla

Wine - the free Windows E…

Marcus Meissner openSUSE

 
11:30  
11:45  
12:00

Thunderbird 3: what's new…

Ludovic Hirlimann Mozilla

Aggressive power manageme…

Matthew Garrett X.org

CentOS on the desktop

Toshaan Bharvani Fedora+CentOS

MirrorBrain - Free CDN fo…

Peter Poeml openSUSE

 

Building Server Applicati…

Nicola Pero GNUstep+OpenGroupware+Etoile

12:15  
12:30

Poor Man's SAN with CentO…

Andreas Rogge Fedora+CentOS

 
12:45

openSUSE on Netbooks

Stefan Seyfried openSUSE

 
13:00    

Securing CentOS with SELi…

Ralph Angenendt Fedora+CentOS

     
13:15          
13:30    

YaST2 - Future Roadmap

Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett openSUSE

     
13:45          
14:00

Prism

Matthew Gertner Mozilla

r600_demo: Programming th…

Matthias Hopf X.org

Large CentOS LDAP Deploym…

Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann Fedora+CentOS

Mozilla Marketing Café

John Slater Mozilla

 

GroupDAV/CalDAV Implement…

Helge Heß GNUstep+OpenGroupware+Etoile

14:15

openFATE - How to get you…

Thomas Schmidt openSUSE

 
14:30  
14:45

Mobile/Fennec

Mark Finkle Mozilla

Architecture of Collabora…

Brent McConnell openSUSE

 
15:00

LLVM + Gallium 3D: Mixing…

Stéphane Marchesin X.org

Cobbler & Koan

Jasper Capel Fedora+CentOS

   
15:15    
15:30

Embedding

Mark Finkle Mozilla

Bits from your GNOME team…

Vincent Untz openSUSE

   
15:45    
16:00

Shader Compiler Optimisat…

Jerome Glisse X.org

FreeIPA

Simo Sorce Fedora+CentOS

     
16:15

Mozilla Headless back-end

Chris Lord Mozilla

Putting the 'open' in ope…

Will Stephenson openSUSE

     
16:30      
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09:00

Welcome to the Ruby and R…

Peter Vandenabeele Ruby and Rails

     

Practicing DBA's Guide to…

Vladimir Kolesnikov MySQL

   
09:15

IronRuby with .NET techno…

Ivan Porto Carrero Ruby and Rails

         
09:30

Debian Font Task Force: o…

Nicolas Spalinger Debian

       
09:45        
10:00

Prawn

Tom Klaasen Ruby and Rails

TDebs

Neil Williams Debian

GPRBuild - A New Build To…

Vincent Celier Ada

Cacao

Michael Starzinger Free Java

Monitoring MySQL

Kris Buytaert MySQL

   
10:15

VMKit

Nicolas Geoffray Free Java

   
10:30

LogiLogi and Freedom on t…

Wybo Wiersma Ruby and Rails

 

LPI exam session 3

Klaus Behrla LPI Certification

10:45

Jikes RVM 3

Ian Rogers Free Java

 
11:00  

Internationalization in D…

Nicolas François Debian

The Object-Oriented Progr…

Jean-Pierre Rosen Ada

PhoneME CLDC and CDC VMs

Terrence Barr Free Java

MySQL Cluster

Geert Vanderkelen MySQL

 
11:15

MyOwnDB/Dedomenon

Raphaël Bauduin Ruby and Rails

 
11:30    
11:45

Groovy Grails for NetBean…

Matthias Schmidt Free Java

MySQL 5.1 Plugins

Roland Bouman MySQL

 
12:00

Developing Web applicatio…

Richard Dale Ruby and Rails

The Common Debian Build S…

Peter Eisentraut Debian

Ast2Cfg - A Framework for…

Georg Kienesberger Ada

   
12:15

Towards a Universal VM

Alex Buckley Free Java

   
12:30      
12:45  

JSR292 - Supporting Dynam…

Remi Forax Free Java

     
13:00  

Release management in Deb…

Frans Pop Debian

Ada informal discussions …

Valentine Reboul Ada

   

LPI exam session 4

Klaus Behrla LPI Certification

13:15    

MySQL, powering and using…

Kaj Arnö MySQL

 
13:30

On objects, classes, bind…

Peter Vanbroekhoven Ruby and Rails

   
13:45    
14:00

Lenny - the road to relea…

Neil McGovern Debian

MaRTE-OS

Daniel Sangorrín Ada

JamVM

Robert Lougher Free Java

 
14:15

Introduction to Sinatra

Koen Van der Auwera Ruby and Rails

Porting a Java VM to a Ha…

Guennadi Liakhovetski Free Java

Percona MySQL patches and…

Ewen Fortune MySQL

 
14:30    
14:45

Ruby and Java: What are t…

Jean-Baptiste Escoyez Ruby and Rails

JNode

Levente Sántha Free Java

   
15:00

The long road to KDE4 in …

Sune Vuorela Debian

GNATBench: Ada programmin…

Vincent Celier Ada

Boost performance with My…

Giuseppe Maxia MySQL

 

LPI exam session 5

Klaus Behrla LPI Certification

15:15  

Zero/Shark

Gary Benson Free Java

 
15:30

Internationalization in R…

Nicolas Jacobeus Ruby and Rails

   
15:45

Recruiting people to FOSS…

Petteri Räty Free Java

 
16:00

Debian and Google Summer …

Obey Arthur Liu Debian

 

OpenJDK Community Priorit…

Dalibor Topic Free Java

Database Sharding

Jurriaan Persyn MySQL

 
16:15

Hosting ruby on rails

Bernard Grymonpon Ruby and Rails

   
16:30  

Pure GPL - Is it still up…

Terrence Barr Free Java

   
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