Brussels / 1 & 2 February 2014

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Schedule

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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:

Track Saturday Sunday
Tracing and debugging Janson -
Memory and storage - Janson
IPv6 Janson K.1.105 (La Fontaine)
Mail K.1.105 (La Fontaine) -
Mathematics K.1.105 (La Fontaine) -
Hardware - K.1.105 (La Fontaine)
Miscellaneous - Janson
Security - K.1.105 (La Fontaine)

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

BSDCG Exam Session UA2.220 (Guillissen) Saturday 12:00 - 14:00

LPI

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

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