Hi,
The purpose of this e-mail is to invite you to attend the next edition of FOSDEM. This fourth edition will take place on the 21th and 22th of february 2004 in Brussels (see http://www.fosdem.org for more info). The previous edition encountered a huge success with more than 1500 developers coming from all over the world to attend the talks of famous figures of the Free Software and Open Source community.
This year, will be present (in alphabetical order):
Bill Haneman - GOK Dave Cross - Perl Denis Oliver Kropp - DirectFB Dominique Colnet - SmartEiffel Florent Benoit - JOnAS Gunnar Schmi Dt - KDE Accessibility Project Hans Reiser - Reiser4 Henning Brauer - OpenBSD Ian Formanek - Netbeans Jon 'Maddog' Hall - Closing talk Jonathan Corbet - Kernel modules Keith Packard - Within X Mathias Brossard - Cryptonit Richard Kilmer - Ruby Richard M Stallman - FSF Robert Love - The Linux Kernel and the Desktop Roger Butenuth - BRASS Stefan Seefeld - Fresco Tim O'Reilly - Introduction talk Tom Kistner - Current Antispam techniques Tom Tromey - GCJ
And many others who will be giving talks and tutorials, ...
Several Free or Open Source Software projects have decided to hold a meeting during FOSDEM. It is a great occasion to meet core developers from Debian, Java, OpenMosix, MySQL, KDE, Mozilla, Tcl, Embedded Software.
Moreover, the FSF award will be handed out during the FOSDEM 2004 by Richard Stallman and other members from the Free Software Foundation.
FOSDEM's goal is to provide Free Software and Open Source developers and communities the opportunity to learn and discuss the latest developments in the Free and Open Source arena and to promote the development and the benefits of Free and Open Source solutions.
The speakers mainly talk about technologies and make technical speeches.
The event is totally free.
This is a non-commercial event organised by people from the community. So we would like to thank our sponsors who have understood this and helped us making FOSDEM possible to happen this year again in the same spirit. Those include: O'Reilly, Argon7, Linux Magazine, Linux.com, GNU/Linux Magazine France, Linux-Magazin, Todo Linux, Linux Weekly News, MySQL, ... We encourage you to support FOSDEM if you appreciate the event and want it to continue in the same spirit. More information about the FOSDEM 2004 support operation at: http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/support/
We hope to see you there.
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FOSDEM 2004 Damien Sandras Community Contact