FOSDEM 2010

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'''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]]
'''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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Join the [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=356121 Talk discussion thread]
Join the [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=356121 Talk discussion thread]
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== Key dates ==
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== Tracks ==
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From the FOSDEM website:
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There will be Maemo content in three different tracks this year, reflecting the nature of the project as both a contributor to upstream projects and an entire distribution.
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* 2009-11-22: Deadline for main track talk requests
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Here you will find information about Maemo content in each of the tracks.
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* 2009-11-22: Deadline for stand requests
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* 2009-11-29: Acceptance notification of stands and main tracks
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* 2009-12-20: Deadline for lightning talk requests
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* 2009-12-28: Acceptance notification of lightning talks
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* 2010-01-03: Deadline for KDE, cross-desktop and cross-distro devroom
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* 2010-01-05: Deadline for mobile/embedded devroom
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* 2010-01-08: Deadline for GNOME devroom
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* 2010-02-06 to 2009-02-07: FOSDEM 2010
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== ToDo ==
 
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First things first. What is the kind of participation we want to have? Think big (but with your feet on the floor). There is always time to cut down. http://fosdem.org/2010/call_for_participation
 
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=== Stand? ===
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=== [http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/devrooms/embedded Embedded] ===
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http://fosdem.org/2010/call_for_stands
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== Tracks ==
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The biggest contingent of Maemo-related content will be in the Embedded track.
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Maemo is closely aligned to four of the tracks in FOSDEM this year (not counting cross-desktop, which is an intersection of GNOME and KDE tracks).
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Here you will find information about each of the tracks, including links to calls for papers and instructions to submit, and proposals that have been made for each track so far.
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=== Mobile/Embedded ===
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; Track chair
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: Philippe de Swert
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; Description
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: 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.
: 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.
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.
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: See [[/Mobile and Embebbed call for papers | the call for papers]] for submission details
 
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=== KDE ===
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Maemo related content:
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* '''[http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/emb_seriesfinale SeriesFinale, a TV show tracker for Maemo 5]''': Joaquim Rocha
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: KDE is an international community that creates Free Software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE's products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, and comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites. KDE offers hundreds of software titles in many categories including web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development.
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*: Sunday 10:30 - 11:00
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: [http://www.kdenews.org/2009/12/15/speakers-wanted-fosdem-2010 Announcement]
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* '''[http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/emb_ofono Ofono and how to use the Nokia modem plugin]''': Aki Niemi
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: [http://community.kde.org/Promo/Events/FOSDEM/2010 Call for papers]
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*: Sunday 11:30 - 12:00
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; Closing date for submissions
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: January 3rd, 2010
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=== GNOME ===
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=== [http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/devrooms/crossdesktop Cross-desktop] ===
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: Christophe Fergeau
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; Room
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: H.1309
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: The GNOME devroom will host talks about the GNOME Desktop Environment and its underlying technologies. Some of these talks will target developers wanting to learn about the latest happenings in GNOME, some others will be meant for a wider audience to present the latest evolutions of the GNOME desktop from a user point of view.
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: [http://live.gnome.org/Brussels2010/Devroom Submission details]
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; Closing date for submissions
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: January 10rd, 2010
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=== Cross-desktop ===
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'''Maemo related content'''
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; Track chair
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* [http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/xd_gupnp_rygel GUPnP & Rygel: Liberating Digital Living]: Zeeshan Ali
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: Kenny Duffus
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*: Sunday 10:15 - 11:00
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; Submission details:
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* [http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/xd_syncml SyncML]: Patrick Ohly
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: Submissions by email to [mailto:kenny@kde.org Kenny]
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*: Sunday 15:15 - 16:00
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=== Crossdistro Summit ===
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=== [http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/devrooms/distributions Crossdistro Summit] ===
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; Room
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: H.1302
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: We at FOSDEM want to push the envelope of our mission even further by organizing something along the lines of a "distribution summit" during FOSDEM 2010.
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: 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.
: 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.
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: [http://www.fosdem.org/2010/distrominiconf Call for participation]
 
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=== Devroom? ===
 
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fosdem.org says:
 
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''Our goal for the developer rooms is to stimulate developer collaboration and cross-pollination between projects.
 
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We are reworking the concept of devrooms a bit, to better achieve those goals using the room capacity we have.''
 
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=== Lightning talks ===
 
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15 minutes of fame: http://fosdem.org/2010/call_for_lightningtalks
 
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== FOSDEM is looking for Maemo developers ==
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'''Maemo related content'''
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See [http://fosdem.org/2010/news/android-iphone-and-maemo-developers-wanted Android, iPhone and maemo developers wanted]
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* '''[http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/dist_maemo_council The Maemo Council: A case study in governance]''': Dave Neary
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* '''[http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/dist_gnome Working with GNOME upstream]''': Vincent Untz
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*: A workshop on what can be done to make it easier to work with upstream projects like GNOME
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*: Saturday 17.30 - 18.15
==Attendees==
==Attendees==

Revision as of 18:41, 29 January 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


Join the Talk discussion thread

Contents

Tracks

There will be Maemo content in three 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.


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

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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