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2016-01-06 »
First speaker interviews
Just like previous editions we have performed some interviews with our main track speakers.
To get up to speed with the various topics discussed in the main track talks, you can start reading the following interviews:
- Alexander Bokovoy: Enterprise desktop at home with FreeIPA and GNOME
- Carsten Agger: Baobáxia - the Galaxy of Baobab Trees. Connecting off-line Afro-Brazilian communities with free software
- Cliff Click: H2O: An Open-Source Platform for Machine Learning and Big Data/Big Math
- Michael Kerrisk: How to design a Linux kernel API
- Stef Walter: Cockpit: A Linux Session in your Browser
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2016-01-04 »
Guided sightseeing tours
If you intend to bring your non-geek partner and/or kids to FOSDEM, they may be interested in exploring Brussels while you attend the conference.
Like previous years, FOSDEM is organising sightseeing tours.
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2015-12-05 »
Keysigning: submit your keys
Our keyserver is now accepting submissions for the FOSDEM 2016 keysigning event.
The annual PGP 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 in this event, please see the keysigning page on our website.
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2015-11-23 »
Certification exams
The Linux Professional Institute, the BSD Certification Group and The Document Foundation will offer exam sessions at FOSDEM 2016.
Interested candidates can now register for exams with the respective organisations.
Further details are available on the certification page.
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2015-10-23 »
Hotel offer: FunKey
Like last year, FunKey Hotel is offering special rates for FOSDEM 2016 attendees.
They offer our attendees a bed for 28EUR, per night. Their offer is valid for Friday, Saturday and Sunday night.
Please check our accommodation page for more information.
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2015-10-22 »
Accepted developer rooms
We are pleased to announce the developer rooms that will be organised at FOSDEM 2016.
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.
Both days (30 January & 31 January 2016)
Topic Call for participation CFP deadline Distributions announcement 2015-12-10 Embedded, Mobile and Automotive announcement 2015-12-07 Free Java announcement 2015-12-01 Legal and Policy issues announcement 2015-11-29 Virtualisation and IaaS announcement 2015-12-01 Saturday 30 January 2016
Topic Call for participation CFP deadline Ada announcement 2015-11-29 Containers and Process Isolation announcement 2015-12-01 EDA announcement 2015-12-04 GNU Guile announcement 2015-11-30 Graph Processing announcement 2015-12-14 IoT announcement 2015-12-01 Lua announcement 2015-12-01 Microkernels announcement 2015-12-13 Mozilla announcement 2015-12-04 MySQL and Friends announcement 2015-12-01 Open Document Editors announcement 2015-12-07 Open Media announcement 2015-12-01 Open Source Design announcement 2015-12-01 Python announcement 2015-12-11 Real Time Communications announcement 2015-11-27 Security announcement 2015-12-10 Testing and Automation announcement 2015-11-30 Sunday 31 January 2016
Topic Call for participation CFP deadline BSD announcement 2015-12-10 Coding for Language Communities announcement 2015-12-11 Config Management announcement 2015-12-01 Desktops announcement 2015-12-06 Geospatial announcement 2015-12-01 Go announcement 2015-12-05 Graphics announcement 2015-12-08 HPC, Big Data and Data Science announcement 2015-12-04 LLVM Toolchain announcement 2015-12-01 Open Game Development announcement 2015-12-04 PHP and Friends announcement 2015-11-25 Perl announcement 2015-12-08 PostgreSQL announcement 2015-12-07 Ruby announcement 2015-12-01 SDN and NFV announcement 2015-11-18 Software Defined Radio announcement 2015-12-04