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Free & OpenSource Software Weekend
FOSDEM Team writes "This week-end, the fourth edition of the FOSDEM (Free and Opensource Software Developers' European Meeting) is taking place in Brussels, Belgium. Once more, famous speakers will be present for this 2 days event to talk in the different tracks presented (Linux Kernel, Accessibility, Desktop, Java, Scripting languages and Security); on Saturday evening, the FS Award ceremony will be conducted by Richard Stallman. This year, the introduction talk will be made by Tim O'Reilly and the end talk by Jon Maddog Hall. Don't miss the interviews made by the FOSDEM guys : Hans Reiser, Ian Formanek, Keith Packard, Tim O'Reilly, Robert Love and many others."
Is the meeting free? Is it free as in free beer? Or more importantly, IS THERE FREE BEER?!
WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
Yeah, I was on a date once and started explaining the GPL. free as in speech, etc. My date went to the bathroom and never came back.
Can the Win2k SP1 developpers attend this year?
there are a lot of foreign people who can't be there. . .
Yeah. Don't you just hate it when the Belgians act like they're the whole world, just because of their size and insularity?
KFG
it was called OSDEM back then, and RMS was there telling audience people off because they said "Linux" and not "GNU/Linux" when asking questions.
During his session he was talking about emulators for some reason and he said "Emulators like WINE" I yelled "Wine Is Not An Emulator!"
serves him right!
On the server, it really is, but few normal people even know what free software is!
:)
Hundreds of thousands of BitTorrent/Kazaa/Usenet/IRC users would beg to differ.
The Free Software movement has gotten so large and so mainstream
Does that mean, if I go, there'll be chicks?!?
I'm there!!!!!!!!
Ok, so to do my part, I'll boot to my Slackware partition (instead of XP) and run that all weekend :)
:)
But seriously, weird "holiday" but enjoy it
This is the sig that says NI (again)
Didn't they get the ESR memo that Java isn't popular in open source projects?
Well, if you're a female AND you go there, then there will be chicks.
But then I somehow miss the point of your interest in the matter.
Well, if the Belgains are acting like they're the whole world, it clearly must be Bush's fault.
No, wait, Karl Rove. Yeah, that's it, Karl Rove made the Belgians insular.
Btw, anyone want my 3 crates of Dean for President bumperstickers?
Darl McBride? Blake Stowell, Ralph Yarro?
They too are part of the Linux movement, in their own weird sort of way.
Certainly. Unfortunately, the "SCO Developers' Room" sign appears to have ended up posted on the toilet doors. (Sorry, I don't have pictures.) I wonder how that could have happened.