Jimbo Wales speaking at FOSDEM 2005

Since 2001, the Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (commonly known as FOSDEM) is an annual 2-day event hosting talks, tutorials, and stalls for the free software community. It is organised by volunteers at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium every year at the end of February. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (3504x2336, 2447 KB) Jimbo Wales speaking at FOSDEM 2005 in Brussels, Belgium. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (3504x2336, 2447 KB) Jimbo Wales speaking at FOSDEM 2005 in Brussels, Belgium. ... Jimmy Donal Wales, also known as Jimbo Wales, (b. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... // The free software community is also called the open source community or the Linux community. ... One Brick volunteers help at a soup kitchen. ... A building on the ULBs main campus The Université Libre de Bruxelles (or ULB) is a French-speaking university in Brussels, Belgium. ...

Access to all parts of FOSDEM is free, but donations and sponsors are requested to help fund the event. In 2004 it was attended by 2500 people. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In addition to the main schedule, rooms are provided for individual projects to hold discussions.

It has been the venue for the Free Software Foundation's Award for the Advancement of Free Software since 2001 although 2006 was an exception. Richard Stallman has given one of the keynotes nearly every year. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit corporation founded in October 1985 by Richard Stallman to support the free software movement (free as in freedom), and in particular the GNU project. ... The Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software is annually presented to a person who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software, through activities that accord with the spirit of free software. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Richard Matthew Stallman (nickname RMS) (born March 16, 1953) is an acclaimed software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer. ...

The event in 2001 was Open Source Developers European Meeting. Its current name was adopted in 2002. 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

2005

Tim O'Reilly opened the event with a talk about online privacy. Richard Stallman gave the follow-up keynote talking about Copyright vs. Community in the age of Computer Networks. Alan Cox and Jimmy Wales also gave well attended talks. Tim OReilly at the MIX06 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada Tim OReilly (born 1954, Cork, Ireland) is the founder of OReilly Media (formerly OReilly & Associates) and supporter of the free software and open source movements. ... Alan Cox, wearing a red hat, with two Gentoo users at the LinuxWorld Expo 2005 Alan Cox (born 1968) is a computer programmer heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel since its early days (1991). ... Jimmy Donal Wales, also known as Jimbo Wales, (b. ...

2006

Richard Stallman did the opening with a speech about software patents, followed by some comments about the aim of the GPLv3. Richard Matthew Stallman (nickname RMS) (born March 16, 1953) is an acclaimed software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer. ... Software patent does not have a universally accepted definition. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ...

Uriel M. Pereira gave a speech about Plan 9 from Bell Labs. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Jeff Waugh closed the event with a speech about Free Software and the GNU/Linux Desktop. Jeff Waugh (known as jdub) is an Australian free software and open source software developer. ...

2007

Official FOSDEM 2007 website logo.

This year, FOSDEM holds on February 24th and 25th in the usual venue. Image File history File links FOSDEM2007Logo. ... Image File history File links FOSDEM2007Logo. ...

As the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting, this FOSDEM 2007 could not have started better. After a short and amusing staff's introduction, Pieter Hinjens informed us an half hour long about software patents in Europe. A challenging and heavy background for the next.

This FOSDEM 2007 is still well organized and interesting this year. With multiple good scheduled speeches and presentations, developer's room and an openminded atmosphere, the FOSDEM 2007 continues to offer to the public an excellent point of view on the whole free and open source community with rich content and public-friendly activities.

External links

Free software Portal

• FOSDEM official site
• Collection of videos from FOSDEM 2005 and 2006
• official fosdem wiki:reports about fosdem 2006
• official fosdem wiki:pictures about fosdem 2006
• A transcript of Richard Stallman's talk on GPLv3 from FOSDEM 2006
• wiki page about fosdem 2006