Hello everyone, the sixth Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (commonly known as FOSDEM, http://www.fosdem.org/) will take place during the last week-end (25&26) of February 2006 in the city of Brussels, Belgium. It's an annual 2-day event hosting talks, tutorials, and booths for the free software/open source community. It is organized by volunteers at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Access to all parts of FOSDEM is _free of charge_ (but donations and sponsors are welcome to help fund the event). The openSUSE project will be participating at FOSDEM with an openSUSE 'DevRoom' (Developer Room) and a small booth. This week we had a meeting to further coordinate our FOSDEM participance. The outcome is a tentative schedule for the DevRoom, which we would like to share with you. Your feedback on this would be very much appreciated! Did we miss to address a certain topic? Please note that this schedule isn't cast in stone in any way yet -- so if you would like to contribute to our DevRoom (e.g. by delivering a talk or by giving a tutorial), raise your hand NOW (or contact me off-list). I'v just updated http://www.opensuse.org/FOSDEM, which has all the information on openSUSE @ FOSDEM 2006. (If any wiki god is listening: Any style improvement to that page would be very welcome!) That's it for the moment, time to proceed to the actual schedule: Saturday, February 25th ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13:00 - 14:00 openSUSE--Motivation, Goals, and Opportunities (Sonja Krause-Harder, adrian? / michl? / cthiel?) Why did Novell start the openSUSE project? What is different from other projects? Get a short overview of our motivations and plans for the future of the openSUSE project as well as hear your opinions and discuss where openSUSE can go in the future with you. 14:00 - 15:00 Introducing the openSUSE Build Service (Adrian Schroeter, Cornelius Schumacher, Andreas Bauer) Learn how the openSUSE Build Service works and helps you build packages. Get an overview of the tools and functionalities that the openSUSE Build Service offers. 15:00 - 16:00 SUSE Linux Power Management--One Step Ahead! (Timo Hoenig, Holger Macht) Power management for SUSE Linux. Suspending the whole system was the first step. Now it is time for runtime power management to paralyze devices that shorten your battery life time on the road. 16:00 - 17:00 SUSE Linux 10.2--Quo vadis? (Michael Loeffler, Christoph Thiel) What's new and cool in SUSE Linux 10.1? What are the features and highlights? We answer these questions and discuss goals and focuses for SUSE Linux 10.2 and beyond. 17:00 - 17:30 Q & A Sunday, February 26th ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09:00 - 10:00 Developer Breakfast 10:00 - 11:00 Packaging Tutorial--The Bricks We Build With (Hendrik Vogelsang, Marcus Rueckert) The journey from a spec file to a distribution. An introduction to RPM packaging for openSUSE and the tasks that come with it. 11:00 - 12:00 Cross-Distribution Building with the openSUSE Build Service (Michael Schroeder) The openSUSE Build Service is not only limited to build packages for SUSE Linux, but offers the possibility to build a package for other distributions (such as Mandriva, Fedora, or even Debian). This talk presents methods to make packages built for multiple distributions. 12:00 - 12:30 "Speed Talks" (various topics) This slot is reserved to present various topics in 5-10 minute talks. 12:30 - 14:00 Writing Your Own YaST Module in a Few Hours (Stefan Hundhammer) Powerful configuration options are what set many OS projects apart from commercial software. Why not go all the way and offer an easy-to-use GUI for configuration--on top of existing configuration files? YaST provides a powerful framework to do just that and it is simple and efficient enough to write your own YaST module. 14:00 - 15:00 The SUSE Security Process (Marcus Meissner) This lecture gives an introduction into the work of the SUSE Security Team. If you ever wanted to know how SUSE approaches releasing security updates or looking at new security critical packages, this is the place to listen and ask questions. 15:00 - 16:00 SUSE Linux LiveCD Tutorial (Torsten Duwe) This tutorial introduces the SUSE Linux LiveCD script, which transforms a SUSE Linux installation source into a CD or DVD image that hosts a live version of SUSE Linux, which can be used without the need to install it onto a hard disk first. 16:00 - 17:30 Q & A ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have a nice weekend Christoph
On Friday 13 January 2006 18:49, Christoph Thiel wrote:
The openSUSE project will be participating at FOSDEM with an openSUSE 'DevRoom' (Developer Room) and a small booth. This week we had a meeting to further coordinate our FOSDEM participance. The outcome is a tentative schedule for the DevRoom, which we would like to share with you.
Gosh - this program in itself is making me think it would be worth going there. It's particularly interesting to see the various talks on package building, which I would like to start doing, but don't know where to begin. Well done on this. -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.kyfieithu.co.uk - KDE yn Gymraeg www.rhedadur.org.uk - Rhedeg berfau Cymraeg www.cymrux.org.uk - Linux Cymraeg ar un CD
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On Friday 13 January 2006 18:49, Christoph Thiel wrote:
The openSUSE project will be participating at FOSDEM with an openSUSE 'DevRoom' (Developer Room) and a small booth. This week we had a meeting to further coordinate our FOSDEM participance. The outcome is a tentative schedule for the DevRoom, which we would like to share with you.
Gosh - this program in itself is making me think it would be worth going there. It's particularly interesting to see the various talks on package building, which I would like to start doing, but don't know where to begin. Well done on this.
Note that there is a *LOT* more to see at FOSDEM.
More particularely, it's _the_ place to be to meet fellow FOSS activists, developers, project
leaders, get to see many interesting talks and projects, meet a lot of people.
It's really every year's favourite event for a lot of FOSS projects (such as Mozilla, KDE or the
various Free Java projects).
As far as openSUSE is concerned, the SUSE staff is really coming in numbers, so it's a great
occasion to get to meet the people behind our beloved distribution and, as I'm sure, have a lot of
very interesting discussions on several topics.
Unlike other events such as LinuxTag, the atmosphere is very relaxed, everyone is very accessible
and you can join into any development room.
For last year we had an estimated 2500 visitors over the weekend (although it's very difficult to
guess, given entrance is free), which is rather modest compared to LinuxTag and a few others, but we
really want to favour the quality of the talks that are only held by developers and project managers.
(BTW, I don't intend to bash other events, certainly not, it's just to explain why FOSDEM is so special)
I don't have the numbers for this year's edition as I don't have all the schedules yet (I manage the
devrooms & booths at FOSDEM), but last year we had 140 (!!) talks in the various devrooms alone,
throughout the weekend (1.5 days actually).
+ the 18 talks in the "main tracks" (this year: Security, Desktop, VoIP, Development, Systems, Web
2.0). And, as already mentioned, LPI organizes 4 exam sessions at a discounted rate of 50 EUR
instead of 100 USD, more information about that on the FOSDEM website.
Entrance/attendance is *free* for everyone. Of course, as Christoph mentioned, we gratefully accept
every donation and we do offer things in return (FOSDEM t-shirts, participation to a contest to win
various Linux/OSS magazine abos, O'Reilly books, ... - depending on the amount of money you donate
;)). Every contribution (even if it's just 5 EUR) helps keeping the event alive.
Although we have some sponsors (special thanks to O'Reilly), we're *very* careful of keeping that
event a place "by the community, for the community" and don't accept vendor/marketing talks like
those you get to see at other big Linux events. We don't want to have this event spoiled. And that's
what makes FOSDEM so unique. Last but not least: Brussels is a very nice place, not only for the beer ;)
What's a bit "special" about the openSUSE devroom is that all the talks are submitted and held by
the SUSE staff. The reason is pretty simple: noone has proposed something here ;)
And it's quite understandable: openSUSE is just getting started, involving us community members
takes some time and is going to gain a lot of speed with the release of the Build Server
infrastructure (which will probably be the main topic in the openSUSE devroom).
The next years at FOSDEM, I'm sure we'll have much more of a mix of talks held by SUSE staff _and_
by members of the openSUSE community. At the very least, that will be a good measuring point for the
health of the community (or the involvement thereof) of the openSUSE project.
Hope to see you at FOSDEM 2006 (we have a big room for openSUSE ;))
cheers
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Op zaterdag 14 januari 2006 01:27, schreef Pascal Bleser:
I don't have the numbers for this year's edition as I don't have all the schedules yet (I manage the devrooms & booths at FOSDEM), but last year we had 140 (!!) talks in the various devrooms alone, throughout the weekend (1.5 days actually).
Hello Pascal, is there already some more information available about the individual presentations? There are quite a list of presentations on the fosdem site announced, butno schedule. An overall schedule would be nice as well, like at sunday 11:00 hours, this, this, this and this is happening. Is it possible to provide this information? -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
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Op zaterdag 14 januari 2006 01:27, schreef Pascal Bleser:
I don't have the numbers for this year's edition as I don't have all the schedules yet (I manage the devrooms & booths at FOSDEM), but last year we had 140 (!!) talks in the various devrooms alone, throughout the weekend (1.5 days actually).
Hello Pascal,
is there already some more information available about the individual presentations? There are quite a list of presentations on the fosdem site announced, butno schedule. An overall schedule would be nice as well, like
Schedule will be on the website tomorrow or monday.
at sunday 11:00 hours, this, this, this and this is happening. Is it possible to provide this information?
Yes, I'm working on it, I hope I have it finished by tomorrow.
I'll post a mail about it.
cheers
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Hello, Am Freitag, 13. Januar 2006 19:49 schrieb Christoph Thiel:
the sixth Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (commonly known as FOSDEM, http://www.fosdem.org/) will take place during the last week-end (25&26) of February 2006 in the city of Brussels, Belgium.
The list of talks sounds *very* interesting. Unfortunately I won't be able to come to FOSDOM. Is it possible for you to record the talks and provide them as OGG files (or even videos / screen cam)? I guess many people would be interested in that... Regards, Christian Boltz -- Schön, wenn dein Mailprogramm Tango tanzen kann - die RFCs sagen ganz klar, daß ein Mailprogramm keinen Tango zu tanzen hat, und aus die Musik. [Ratti in suse-linux]
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Christian Boltz wrote:
the sixth Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (commonly known as FOSDEM, http://www.fosdem.org/) will take place during the last week-end (25&26) of February 2006 in the city of Brussels, Belgium.
The list of talks sounds *very* interesting.
Unfortunately I won't be able to come to FOSDOM.
Is it possible for you to record the talks and provide them as OGG files (or even videos / screen cam)? I guess many people would be interested in that...
I'll check that out on Monday. Stay tuned. Regards Christoph
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Christoph Thiel wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Christian Boltz wrote:
the sixth Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (commonly known as FOSDEM, http://www.fosdem.org/) will take place during the last week-end (25&26) of February 2006 in the city of Brussels, Belgium.
The list of talks sounds *very* interesting.
Unfortunately I won't be able to come to FOSDOM.
Is it possible for you to record the talks and provide them as OGG files (or even videos / screen cam)? I guess many people would be interested in that...
I'll check that out on Monday. Stay tuned.
We will try to make it work somehow -- either by audio recording or video. Regards Christoph
Hello, Am Montag, 16. Januar 2006 15:38 schrieb Christoph Thiel:
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Christoph Thiel wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Christian Boltz wrote:
Meeting (commonly known as FOSDEM, http://www.fosdem.org/) will
Is it possible for you to record the talks and provide them as OGG files (or even videos / screen cam)? I guess many people would be interested in that...
We will try to make it work somehow -- either by audio recording or video.
Good news :-) Thanks in advance! Regards, Christian Boltz -- [...] bis zur Erwähnung des gesuchten Punktes sind es nur ein paar "Bild-down"s. Wenn Du mir erzählen willst, dass das schwer zu finden ist, mache ich ab Morgen eine Linux-Kindergarten-Mailingliste auf und lade Dich dazu ein. [Henning Hucke in suse-linux]
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Christoph Thiel wrote:
Is it possible for you to record the talks and provide them as OGG files (or even videos / screen cam)? I guess many people would be interested in that...
I'll check that out on Monday. Stay tuned.
We will try to make it work somehow -- either by audio recording or video.
I'm happy to affirm that we will produce audio as well as video recordings of our FOSDEM activities! Many thanks to Juergen <jw> for joing us on our FOSDEM trip and taking care of the recording. Regards Christoph
At 01:57 AM 4/02/2006, you wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Christoph Thiel wrote:
Is it possible for you to record the talks and provide them as OGG files (or even videos / screen cam)? I guess many people would be interested in that...
I'll check that out on Monday. Stay tuned.
We will try to make it work somehow -- either by audio recording or video.
I'm happy to affirm that we will produce audio as well as video recordings of our FOSDEM activities! Many thanks to Juergen <jw> for joing us on our FOSDEM trip and taking care of the recording.
YEAH, and many thanks to all involved from downunder scsijon
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Is it possible for you to record the talks and provide them as OGG files (or even videos / screen cam)? I guess many people would be interested in that...
We planned to try to record the talks in the main tracks at FOSDEM, but not in the Devrooms.
So if it is recorded, it has to be provided by SUSE ;)
cheers
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Op vrijdag 13 januari 2006 19:49, schreef Christoph Thiel:
Please note that this schedule isn't cast in stone in any way yet -- so if you would like to contribute to our DevRoom (e.g. by delivering a talk or by giving a tutorial), raise your hand NOW (or contact me off-list).
I miss a very important topic, but perhaps it will be mentioned during the build env talk. How is suse going to organize 3rd party packages repositories, similar to the apt repository at gwdg.de? This repository will of course be repodata formatted and I miss information about this too. As those 2 are very much related to each other it would be nice to see this being dealt with in 1 of the presentions. -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
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Op vrijdag 13 januari 2006 19:49, schreef Christoph Thiel:
Please note that this schedule isn't cast in stone in any way yet -- so if you would like to contribute to our DevRoom (e.g. by delivering a talk or by giving a tutorial), raise your hand NOW (or contact me off-list).
I miss a very important topic, but perhaps it will be mentioned during the build env talk. How is suse going to organize 3rd party packages repositories, similar to the apt repository at gwdg.de? This repository will of course be repodata formatted and I miss information about this too. As those 2 are very much related to each other it would be nice to see this being dealt with in 1 of the presentions.
That's actually part of the build service concept, as 3rd party packagers will be directly
integrated into the same build system as the core distribution and be able to interact with it.
Those are the kind of things we'll discuss in the devroom :)
cheers
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On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Pascal Bleser wrote:
Richard Bos wrote:
Op vrijdag 13 januari 2006 19:49, schreef Christoph Thiel:
Please note that this schedule isn't cast in stone in any way yet -- so if you would like to contribute to our DevRoom (e.g. by delivering a talk or by giving a tutorial), raise your hand NOW (or contact me off-list).
I miss a very important topic, but perhaps it will be mentioned during the build env talk. How is suse going to organize 3rd party packages repositories, similar to the apt repository at gwdg.de? This repository will of course be repodata formatted and I miss information about this too. As those 2 are very much related to each other it would be nice to see this being dealt with in 1 of the presentions.
That's actually part of the build service concept, as 3rd party packagers will be directly integrated into the same build system as the core distribution and be able to interact with it.
Those are the kind of things we'll discuss in the devroom :)
Exactly! ;) Regards Christoph
At 05:49 AM 14/01/2006, Christoph Thiel wrote:
Hello everyone,
the sixth Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (commonly known as FOSDEM, http://www.fosdem.org/) will take place during the last week-end (25&26) of February 2006 in the city of Brussels, Belgium. It's an annual 2-day event hosting talks, tutorials, and booths for the free software/open source community. It is organized by volunteers at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Access to all parts of FOSDEM is _free of charge_ (but donations and sponsors are welcome to help fund the event).
I suppose there is no possability to stream this online, or similar to be available as download after the conferance is closed. Something for next year? I'd even be willing to send them something for the access right to the cast, by birdmail (air-snailmail) with a return of a cd of notes and presentations. regards scsijon
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