FOSDEM14

The Linux Professional Institute and the BSD Certification Group will offer exam sessions at FOSDEM 2014.

Interested candidates can now register for exams with the respective organisations.

Further details are available on the certification page.

We received a lot of good proposals and deciding which ones to accept is not an easy task.

A number of proposals are still being reviewed and we are still working with some speakers. We can already announce the following keynotes and main track presentations:

Thanks to Brussels Booking Desk, a number of hotels have made a discounted rate available to FOSDEM visitors.

Check their website for more information.

Please note that this is an offer from a third party extended to FOSDEM attendees. FOSDEM organisers have no relationship with Brussels Booking Desk or the hotels mentioned on their website. We only forward their offer to our attendees.

We are pleased to announce the developer rooms that will be organised at FOSDEM 2014.

Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work together on open source projects, to discuss topics relevant to a broader subset of the community, etc. The individual developer room organisers will issue their calls for participation in the next few days.

We will update this table with links to the calls for participation.

We now invite proposals for lightning talks and stands.

There is still time to submit main track presentations. The deadline for proposing developer rooms has now passed. Please see our previous call for participation for more information on submitting main track proposals.

Lighting talks are short - 15 minutes - talks on a wide variety of topics. Anyone who has something interesting to say about an open source topic can apply. We particularly encourage topics that do not fit in any of the developer rooms.

Proposals for lightning talks should be submitted using Pentabarf:

https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM14

Please be sure to select "lightning talks" in the "track" field.

Questions or remarks? Contact us at lightningtalks@fosdem.org.

Stands

FOSDEM offers open source projects the opportunity to display their work during the event. At their stand, a project can share information, demo software, sell merchandise, give away goodies, and so on, and personally interact with the visitors.

What we offer:

• one 180x80cm table, positioned in one of the buildings with developer rooms, for the entire duration of the conference. In some cases, a second table may be possible, if you have a good reason to need two.
• two chairs per table
• one power socket type C/E (if you require adapters or additional sockets, please bring them yourself)
• fast uplink shared wireless Internet access

Further practical considerations:

• The offer for stands is open to open source projects and communities
• There is no cost or fee for the stands
• The stand should be occupied by at least two people for the duration of the conference.

Submission details:

Send your request via email to stands@fosdem.org. Please include at least the following information:

• Project name
• Stand description
• Project URLs
• Your name and relation to the project
• Why should FOSDEM accept this proposal?
• Optionally, if requesting two tables, motivation for the second table

Questions or remarks? Contact us at stands@fosdem.org.

Key dates:

• 15 September
  • deadline for developer room proposals
• 1 October
  • deadline for main track proposals
  • accepted developer rooms announced
• 20 November
  • deadline for stands and lightning talks
• 15 December
  • accepted stands and lightning talks announced

We have received a proposal from FunKey hotel, only valid for FOSDEM attendees.

They offer our attendees a bed for 25EUR, per night. Their offer is valid for Friday, Saturday and Sunday night.

Please check our accommodation page for more information.