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CodeCon, FOSDEM Both Around The Corner
An anonymous reader writes "The program for CodeCon was quietly announced a few days ago. The third edition of this groundbreaking programmer's conference, which adheres to a strict set of rules geared to providing a high-content event (such as requiring working demos of projects presented, and all presentations to be given by an active developer) is well stocked with interesting p2p, crypto, coding, and open source projects. Some of the highlights of this year's con include Audacity, Bram and Ross Cohen's Codeville, The U.S. Navy's Onion Router, and PGP Universal. Other notable applications, like Bittorrent, the Invisible IRC project, GNU Radio, and Mixminion all made their public debuts at past CodeCons. Produced by cypherpunk Len Sassaman and BitTorrent programmer Bram Cohen, this grass-roots conference is a must-see." CodeCon runs Feb. 20-22 in San Francisco, while FOSDEM (the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting) is taking place in Brussels on Feb 20-21.
The Gnome guys/gals don't seem to have a dev-room or much in the way or offical talks. Anyone know what is it going on?
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Simon
Both the convention site and the project homepage seem to go little way in explaining what this interesting project is about.
For those who don't know anything about the project is a cross between a P2P application and a MMORPG. Basically it's a distributed MMORPG of sorts.
That's all I could gather from the official pages. Does anyone know more about this?
My Stack Overflow user
Having attended the last 2 code-cons, I can highly recommend the event. The focus is on working or near-working applications in p2p, privacy, encryption, and other topics most Slashdotters know and love. The crowd is also great... you'll learn a lot simply talking to people between presentations. Bram and Len have done a great job with the program and this year looks to be no exception.