FOSDEM 2010

FOSDEM is a yearly free and non-commercial event in Brussels, from February 5th till February 7th 2010. It's organized by the community, for the community. Its goal is to provide free and open source developers a place to meet. This page is to coordinate Maemo participation. See also the Maemo activity on FOSDEM 2009


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Contents

Tracks

There will be Maemo content in four different tracks this year, reflecting the nature of the project as both a contributor to upstream projects and an entire distribution.

Here you will find information about Maemo content in each of the tracks.

Security - main track

Embedded

The biggest contingent of Maemo-related content will be in the Embedded track.

Room
Lameer
Description
The embedded/mobile room is the place to be for people with an interest in everything small, hidden, with different CPU's and/or a gadget or mobile device.

Here we discuss and present things like hacking your phone, PDA or router and everything about cross-compiling. The people that gather here are usually doing tons of cool stuff with small low-powered devices, from playing music to controlling big and complex systems.

Maemo related content:

Cross-desktop

Room
H.1309

Maemo related content

Crossdistro Summit

Room
H.1302
Description
The FOSDEM organisers want to push the envelope of their mission even further by organizing something along the lines of a "distribution summit" during FOSDEM 2010.
The idea is that rather than having several distributions with their own respective and individual Developer Room, we will host mixed conference rooms where talks and sessions will be organized by topic, with contributors from all distributions attending and participating. Any linux distribution can participate.

Maemo related content

Saturday evening

Unless anyone has a better idea, let's meet up in la Porte Noir from 19h30 on (or later), where the GNOME hackers are meeting. Apparently they have a great collection of beers. Address: La Porte Noir, 67 rue des Alexiens, Bruxelles

Attendees

Please keep the list in alphabetical order by first name.

Name Nick Attendance Friday Beer Event? Maemo Dinner? More?
Andrea Borgia aboaboit Confirmed Probably Probably
Andre Klapper andre Yeah Sure I'd love to
Arnim Sauerbier arnims Hotel Booked Yes Yes Will bring n900 with fun things
Chris Phillips chrisp7 Possibly, depends on costs/time off If Im going, definitely ditto
Dave Neary dneary Probably Probably not
David Greaves lbt Planned - talk, man stand, anything really :) Maybe Sure
David King amigadave Confirmed Maybe Sure
Ekaterina Gerasimova kittykat Confirmed Maybe Sure
Gerard Braad gbraad Planned, not confirmed  ? Probably
Jeremiah C. Foster Jeremiah Almost definitely, haven't bought tickets yet. Also going to spend time in the debian room Most likely will show up, won't get drunk though. Let's make this happen. :)
Kasper Souren guaka Definitely. Likely Possibly can host!
Kees Jongenburger keesj YUP, Can help man a stand Perhaps Yes
Lucas Maneos lma Confirmed Probably Probably
Marc Blumenfrucht realitygaps Planned, not confirmed Yes Probably
Michael Hasselmann mikhas Confirmed Confirmed OK!
Per Wille wille Confirmed Yes Probably
Randall Arnold Texrat Willing to attend in council/help capacity if needed Yes Yes
Robin Burchell w00t Planned, not confirmed Possibly, depending on travel arrangements Probably
Quim Gil qgil Planned, not confirmed  ?  ?
Martin Dengler mdengler Travel booked, hotel not so much Yes Yes Will bring n900
Peter De Schrijver p2mate Confirmed Yes Maybe

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