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Free & OpenSource Software Weekend

Posted by michael on from the what-else-were-you-doing-anyway dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Free Software is so mainstream by homeobocks · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't think it's really gone mainstream on the desktop. On the server, it really is, but few normal people even know what free software is! BTW, Apache isn't a product, it is a project. You're probably thinking of the Apache HTTP server (abstract concept) or the Apache HTTP daemon (the program.

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  2. Re:But.... by Mr2cents · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you go there, and you like beer, I can recommend l'atelier, a nearby bar with more than 200 (300?) beers, most of them belgian.. It's very cosy, too! Can be found at Rue Elise nr 77, 1050 brussels. At maporama you can locate it. It's not free, though :).

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  3. Re:But.... by RiverTonic · · Score: 5, Informative

    And why don't you tell 'm about the Old Market Square of Leuven? It has over 50 bars.
    http://www.leuven.be/showpage.asp?iPageID=1721

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  4. If you're there, check out Rich Kilmer's speech... by tcopeland · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...he's doing a presentation on Ruby.

    The slide images alone should be worth attending... he's hunted far and wide for images of pythons, pearls, rubies, and such-like.

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  5. Re:I attended the very first FOSDEM by CoolVibe · · Score: 3, Informative

    An ABI. It 'maps' win32 calls to unix/X11 ones. It does little emulating. All code you run with WINE runs natively.

  6. Re:Hope to meet a lot of you guys by kluut · · Score: 2, Informative

    my views are distorted
    Well, I agree can only agree with you. FYI, Belgium's population is about a third of Canada's! And it has the second highest population density in Europe (after the Netherlands) of 333 p/km^2. (US has 28 p/km^2).