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Friday beer event

As tradition has it, on Friday the 1st of February we have the beer event. More information can be found on this page.

Keynotes

Like almost every other conference, FOSDEM invites speakers to gently start the day with talks concerning slightly less technical, but nevertheless interesting topics from the Open Source realm. The closing keynote at the end of the conference helps everyone digest the vast amount of insightful information collected over the weekend.

For this edition, the keynotes are as follows:

Title	Speaker(s)	Day	When	Room
Welcome to FOSDEM 2013	FOSDEM Staff	Saturday	10:30 - 10:55	Janson
How we made the Jenkins community	Kohsuke Kawaguchi	Saturday	11:00 - 11:50	Janson
The Devil is in the Details	Amelia Andersdotter	Saturday	12:00 - 12:50	Janson
The Keeper of Secrets	Leslie Hawthorn	Sunday	17:00 - 17:50	Janson
Closing FOSDEM 2013	FOSDEM Staff	Sunday	17:50 - 18:00	Janson

Main tracks

The main tracks consist of series of talks that are organised by topic, where the FOSDEM program committee selects suggestions and actively invites speakers on those topics.

For this edition the main tracks are:

Distribution miniconf

As the number of requests for developer rooms grew over the years, having only limited (albeit quite extensive) infrastructure to put at the disposal of open source projects, combined with the fact that a significant fraction of those requests came from Linux and *BSD distribution projects, we decided to start doing a conference in the conference with several goals in mind:

• avoid having almost all the developer rooms taken by distribution projects
• give a chance for all distribution projects that want to take part into the conference to do so
• incite collaboration amongst such projects. While each have their specificities, they also share a lot of tasks, goals, tools and concepts. And, after all, fostering collaboration is the prime goal of FOSDEM.

Hence, in 2011, we started organising a developer room on the topic of distributions, with participants coming from many different open source projects, dubbed the distro miniconf.

As there are many participants and a wealth of interesting topics to talk about, present and share, the Distribution Miniconf takes place in two rooms across both days of the conference.

There are currently 29 events scheduled in the Cross distro devroom.

Developer rooms

The vast majority of sessions (talks, hacking sessions, open discussions) are held in so-called developer rooms (devrooms), which are organized and managed by open source projects themselves, or even associations between several such projects on a common topic in order to foster collaboration.

Here is the list of the devrooms that are present at this edition of FOSDEM, in alphabetical order:

Lightning talks

The lightning talk is a very popular format, used at many conferences, where speakers have a mere 15 minutes at their disposal to showcase an open source project, an idea, or a concept thereof.

While that brief lapse of time may seem awkward, it almost always leads the presenters to concentrate on the absolute essence and what is really important, which is why it is often a much appreciated approach, as is the wide variety of the topics.

There are currently 36 lightning talks in the schedule.

Certification Exams

Several certification organizations provide FOSDEM visitors with the opportunity of taking certification exams during the conference.

Further details are available on the certification page.

The following types of exams are available at FOSDEM 2013, in alphabetical order:

Raw schedule data

The schedule data is available in:

• Pentabarf XML
• iCal
• xCal