Free & OpenSource Software Weekend

Posted by michael on Friday February 20, 2004 @11:23AM 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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Re:Free Software is so mainstream by lowieken · 2004-02-20 11:49 · Score: 5, Interesting

What would you say if you saw the WordPerfect and MS Office teams get together to think about how to implement a feature in their programs? Fosdem is really much closer to that kind of activity than to a trade show. This is a "Free and Open Source Developer Meeting". That means it's targeted at _developers_. Maybe similar events don't exist in the proprietary software world? Or are they just less visible and accessible?
New NetBeans Release by WilsonSD · 2004-02-20 11:52 · Score: 5, Interesting

Everyone should check out the newest beta release of NetBeans (as mentioned in the interview with Ian Formanek). It really shows how nice a rich Java application can be.

-Steve