FOSDEM13 Free and open source software developers’ European meeting

Certification exams will again be held at FOSDEM, for BSDCG and LPI.

The respective registration processes are now open and described in detail.

Instructions on how to participate in the FOSDEM 2013 keysigning event have been published and the keyserver is accepting submissions.

The annual keysigning event at FOSDEM is one of the largest of its kind. With more than one hundred participants every year, it is an excellent opportunity to strengthen the web of trust.

For instructions on how to participate, please see the keysigning page on our website.

Now that the call for main tracks has been closed, we are pleased to announce the first main tracks for FOSDEM 2013!

We are still reviewing some proposals so there is much more to come, but we don't want to keep you waiting any longer. We are proud to announce the following talks, in alphabetical order:

• "Free, open, secure and convenient communications", by Peter Saint-Andre, Bdale Garbee, Daniel Pocock, Simon Tennant, Evan Prodromou, Daniel-Constantin Mierla, Emil Ivov
• "FreedomBox 1.0", by Eben Moglen, Bdale Garbee
• "How we made the Jenkins community", by Kohsuke Kawaguchi
• "Keccak, More Than Just SHA3SUM", by Gilles Van Assche, Joan Daemen, Michaël Peeters
• "Maintaining a kernel subsystem", by Wolfram Sang
• "Open Science, Open Software, and Reproducible Code", by Bill Hoffman
• "Practical Security for developers, using OWASP ZAP", by Simon Bennetts
• "Scaling PHP with HipHop", by Sara Golemon
• "Static site generation for the masses", by Denis Defreyne
• "The Keeper of Secrets", by Leslie Hawthorn
• "Trends in Open Source Security", by Florian Weimer
• "Vroom! Free Software in your car", by Jeremiah C. Foster
• "systemd, Two Years Later", by Lennart Poettering

Update 2012-12-11: More talks confirmed, we almost have a full schedule now!

• "Aldebaran Robotics and Open Source", by Dimitri Merejkowsky
• "Has the GNOME community gone crazy?", by Vincent Untz
• "How to build an Identity Management System on Linux", by Simo Sorce
• "LibreOffice: cleaning and re-factoring a giant code-base", by Michael Meeks
• "Open ARM GPU drivers", by Luc Verhaegen
• "The Anykernel and Rump Kernels", by Antti Kantee
• "UEFI SecureBoot", by Cathy Malmrose

We are still trying to pour all of these into tracks, you can watch our progress on the schedule page.

The deadlines for stand and lightning talk submissions have been extended by popular demand.

The deadlines are now, respectively:

Stands:

28 November 2012 Saturday, 15 December 2012

Lightning Talks:

1 December 2012 Friday, 21 December 2012

Here is the list of Developer Rooms that will be present at FOSDEM 2013:

Note that the Day(s) column refers to the following:

Saturday

2 February 2013

Sunday

3 February 2013

Both days

2 & 3 February 2013