{"id":5746,"date":"2011-02-06T19:57:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T17:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/?p=5746"},"modified":"2011-02-09T11:25:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T09:25:22","slug":"fosdem-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/news\/fosdem-2011","title":{"rendered":"FOSDEM 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2008<\/p><\/div><\/a>

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2009<\/p><\/div><\/a>

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2010<\/p><\/div><\/a>

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2011<\/p><\/div><\/a><\/p>\n

Gaffer-tape galore at the ULB-campus again, it is that time of year. As always it takes a deep breath before I push the battered swing doors of the main location and dive under in the fluorescent-lit hallways filled with thousands of developers. The yearly Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting<\/em> gathers participants to any F\/LOSS project you can think of.
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\nAny project? This year, none of the dev-rooms, lightning-talks, BOFs, keynotes or tracks was devoted to Libre Graphics; fonts and visuals are missing from the overloaded program except for a lightning-talk on Libre Graphics Magazine<\/a> by ginger coons. Someone behind me whispers: “A yellow slide, and blue hair … that must be interesting!”, and of course it was.<\/p>\n

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ginger coons getting ready for her lightning-talk.<\/p><\/div>\n

In the opening-speech, Eben Moglen<\/a> rallies participants to “bring Freedom to their friends in the street”, and the gigantic lecture hall, filled-up to the last seat, responds excitedly to the connection Moglen makes between Free Software and current protests in Tunesia and Egypt. “There’s no time to waste,” he says; “Free Software must<\/em> bring Freedom to the people”. I’m happy too, to see FOSDEM connect to a larger political reality than the F\/LOSS-community itself (the 2008 opening speech Tux with Shades, Linux in Hollywood<\/a> being an all-time low) and hoping that the OS Telephony track<\/a> will put a bit of nuance to the statement that freedom is “when people bring their data home”.<\/p>\n

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Massive lecture hall fills up for Eben Moglen<\/p><\/div>\n

We meet up with Claudia, Nicu, Michael, Agnez, Juliane, Amalia, Natalia, Pierros, Koen (inviting OSP to Void Warranties<\/a> in Antwerp), Wauter, John, Jon, Jakub (documenting FOSDEM this time), ginger, Donna (she is now LPI certified<\/a>!), Peter (happily manning the openSUSE<\/a> stand), Wynke (organised a LinuxChix<\/a> meet and explained how the Anti-harassment policy<\/a> made it to the FOSDEM booklet against all odds) and many more. Some of them we’ll meet again tonight for dinner — it is an opportunity to start preparing LGM 2011.<\/p>\n

In-between, I manage to see some talks and presentations; as always a mixed bag. The interesting observations from Dave Neary (“Community Anti-Patterns<\/a>“) keep running through my head, and I was fascinated by the talk on Crash Data Analysis<\/a> in the Mozilla Dev Room. <\/p>\n

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Dave Neary proposes treatment for community anti-patterns<\/p><\/div>\n

When all talks have ended, I wonder along the row of stands, trying to decide on this years’ souvenir: sticker or mug or T-shirt? I settle for a gold-colored pin: Free Software Foundation. Established in 1985.<\/p>\n

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