FOSDEM

The FOSDEM ( Free and Open Source Software Developers ' European Meeting ), originally only OSDEM (Open Source Developers ' European Meeting ) is a two-day conference on " Free Software", which every year since 2001 on a weekend in February in Brussels, Belgium will be held. Admission to all parts of the FOSDEM is free, in 2013 they had more than 5000 participants. The organization is supported by volunteers, are financed by donations and sponsors.

In addition to the main program and spaces are provided, in which software developers can present their projects or to hold short lectures. It was also presented in the years 2002 to 2005 as part of the conference an award, the FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software.

2005

Tim O'Reilly opened the meeting with a presentation on the topic of privacy on the Internet. In addition, presentations were made by Alan Cox, Jimmy Wales and Richard Stallman.

2006

Richard Stallman gave a speech on the subject of software patents and told something about the objectives of the GPLv3 thereafter.

2007

The FOSDEM 2007 was held on 24 and 25 February 2007.

As a speaker had promised Jim Gettys ( One Laptop Per Child ), Aleksey Bragin ( ReactOS ), Federico Mena Quintero (GNOME, profiling desktop applications ), Øyvind Kolås ( GEGL ), Kristian Høgsberg ( AIGLX ), Ronald G Minnich ( LinuxBIOS ), Peter Saint -Andre ( XMPP / Jabber), Kern Sibbald ( Bacula ), Andrew Morton (Linux kernel ), Joe Hewitt ( Firebug ), Georg Greve (FSFE ), Pieter Hintjens (FFII, software patents ), Tom Baeyens (JBoss BPM) HD Moore ( Metasploit )

2008

The FOSDEM 2008 took place on 23 and 24 February 2008.

After the opening Gabrielle Pantera and Robin Rowe gave a talk on the use of Linux in film studios, Robert Watson explained using the example of FreeBSD, like a large open source software project works, and Pieter Hintjens gave an overview of software patents in Europe.

2009

The FOSDEM 2009 was held on 7 and 8 February 2009.

Speeches were made, inter alia, Ext4 file system developer Theodore Ts'o and Syslinux manager Hans Peter Anvin.

2010

The FOSDEM 2010 was held on 6 and 7 February 2010.

The computer science professor Andrew S. Tanenbaum gave a lecture on the merits of its operating system Minix 3 compared to Linux. Elena Reshetova Nokia presented the Maemo 6 security framework.

2011

The FOSDEM 2011 was held on February 5 and 6, 2011. Chris Lattner, director of the low -level tools for Apple reported on the progress of the LLVM project and about the features of the Clang compiler.

2012

The FOSDEM 2012 took place on February 4th and 5th, 2012.

2013

From 2 to 3 February 2013, the FOSDEM was held.

2014

The FOSDEM is to go to 2 February 2014, the stage from 1.