Schedule
Quick links:
- Timetables: Saturday, Sunday
- Overview of rooms per days
- Mobile apps: many platforms
- Printable PDF: A4 A3
Every year, FOSDEM hosts a wide variety of activities. This page gives an overview with links to further information about scheduled events.
FOSDEM is a very busy conference. This edition features 487 speakers, 512 events, and 44 tracks. We do our best to provide you with as much information and navigation options about the schedule as we can.
Activities take place in
23
rooms spread across several buildings of
the Solbosch campus
of the ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles).
An overview of the room
occupation by track is available, too.
There are essentially five different categories of sessions and activities: keynotes, main tracks, developer rooms, lightning talks and certification exams.
For a complete (but crowded) overview, there is also a
page that lists all events.
A list of all speakers is available, too.
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 2014 |
 FOSDEM Staff
|
Saturday | 10:30 - 10:55 | Janson |
| How we found a million style and grammar errors in the English Wikipedia ...and how to fix them |
 Daniel Naber
|
Saturday | 11:00 - 11:50 | Janson |
| Software Archaeology for Beginners Code, Culture and Community |
 James Turnbull
|
Saturday | 12:00 - 12:50 | Janson |
| NSA operation ORCHESTRA: Annual Status Report |
 Poul-Henning Kamp
|
Sunday | 17:00 - 17:50 | Janson |
| Closing FOSDEM 2014 |
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:
Developer rooms
The vast majority of events (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 39 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 2014, in alphabetical order:
| Session | Room | Day | When |
|---|---|---|---|
BSDCG |
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| BSDCG Exam Session | UA2.220 (Guillissen) | Saturday | 12:00 - 14:00 |
LPI |
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| LPI Exam Session 1 | UA2.220 (Guillissen) | Saturday | 14:00 - 15:45 |
| LPI Exam Session 2 | UA2.220 (Guillissen) | Saturday | 16:00 - 17:45 |
| LPI Exam Session 3 | UA2.220 (Guillissen) | Sunday | 10:30 - 12:15 |
| LPI Exam Session 4 | UA2.220 (Guillissen) | Sunday | 13:00 - 14:45 |
| LPI Exam Session 5 | UA2.220 (Guillissen) | Sunday | 15:00 - 16:45 |
Raw schedule data
The schedule data is available in: