Open software developers meet at FOSDEM 2008
Open software developers meet at FOSDEM 2008
michaël25 februari 2008 – 20:53
Thousands of developers of freely licensed and open source software from all over Europe met in Brussels, Belgium this weekend for FOSDEM 2008.
The 8th edition attracted considerably more visitors than previous editions, mainly from Belgium and its neighbouring countries the Netherlands, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, but also from other European countries and even from the United States.

Since FOSDEM brings many European open software developers to Brussels, it also provides an important networking opportunity. FOSDEM traditionally kicks off Belgium-style on Friday with a beer event, but during the entire weekend several groups hold parties all over town. Wikinews reporters attended a barbecue hosted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Friday for an interview with EFF and Open Rights Group representatives about the upcoming E.U. proposal to extend copyright for performers to 95 years. Wikinews also interviewed Drupal founder and Acquia CTO Dries Buytaert about Drupal and how Acquia will relate to the Drupal developer community.

During the conference weekend, presentations touched on programming languages, build systems, gaming (such as Battle for Wesnoth, Crystal Space, Globulation 2), packaging, virtualisation and web applications. The conference also has rooms (called DevRooms) were developers who usually work together via the internet can meet in real life and share thoughts on their projects; CentOS, Fedora, CrossDesktop, Drupal, GNOME, KDE, Mozilla, OpenSUSE and X.org had the biggest rooms this year. The corridors were filled with stands from organisations such as the Free Software Foundation Europe and the Free Knowledge Foundation, Debian, Ubuntu, OpenOffice.org, etc.
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men
wim , 27/02/2008 – 10:28
Is it a man's world?
Conference
enlightened wealth institute, 18/07/2008 – 18:55
I'm sure it was a very worthwhile conference. I'm curious if a lot of US people also made their way over?
Speakers
Foredragsvirksomhed, 22/07/2008 – 23:31
If you are in need of speakers next year, please consider contacting us: www.foredragsvirksomhed.dk/