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FOSDEM 2005 Speakers List Available

Posted by michael on from the mark-your-calendar dept.

FOSDEM team writes "The FOSDEM guys have just released the speakers list for FOSDEM 2005. Great names like Jimbo Wales (Wikipedia), Marty Roesch (Snort IDS), Alan Cox and many others. You can submit questions for the interviews to be published later on their site. As it was for previous years, there will also be developers' rooms holding conferences on Mozilla, Gnome, KDE, etc."

6 comments

  1. Umm, "FOSDEM"? by notyou2 · · Score: 1

    Is it too much to ask for submitters (or at least the EDITORS, for god's sake) to actually define acronyms and names that we see once or less a year around here? Why does everyone assume that their product/conference/association is a household name throughout the world?

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    1. Re:Umm, "FOSDEM"? by wouterke · · Score: 1

      Had you actually bothered to follow the link, you would've seen it immediately.

      The main content on http://www.fosdem.org/, linked above, starts like:

      "Welcome to the FOSDEM 2005 site !

      The fifth Free and Open source Software Developer's European Meeting (...)"

      Now. There.

    2. Re:Umm, "FOSDEM"? by unknownalain · · Score: 1

      If you're an open-source developer, you should know what FOSDEM is : the only OSS event which is not commercial and dedicated to developers ! Just check the previous editions for 2004 and 2003 to have an idea.

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      Alain Buret FOSDEM Core Team Visit www.fosdem.org
    3. Re:Umm, "FOSDEM"? by notyou2 · · Score: 1

      I've no doubt that the site details exactly what FOSDEM is, and from the roster of people in the article summary I guessed that it was something along those lines.

      But if the FOSDEM guys actually want to interest people in their site/meeting, wouldn't it behoove them to mention WhoTF they are in their submission? Likewise for the editor who felt it was an interesting enough story to post. And if they did mention it but the editor chose to clip that part, well... shame on the editor.

      I just don't get how this happens so frequently, I guess. If someone submits a story to slashdot about the 5th annual ABCFOOBAR convention... it just seems like it doesn't take a genius to see how desirable it might be to describe what ABCFOOBAR is.

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  2. Free and Open source Software Developers' Euro Mtg by brlewis · · Score: 2, Informative

    FOSDEM: Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting

  3. What is FOSDEM? by Omniscient+Ferret · · Score: 1

    From the site:

    The fifth Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting is a 2 days event, organized by volunteers, to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels, Belgium, FOSDEM meetings are recognised as the best Free and Open Source events in Europe.

    This fifth edition will take place at the same location (in the ULB) on the Feb 26 & 27 Feb 2005.