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Fre e and Ope n source Softw are De ve lope rs '
Europe an M e e ting
FOSDEM
2006
SPO NSO RED BY:
Fosdem 2006
DONATIONS
FOSDEM is an event created by th e com m unity and for th e com m unity.
Cons e q uently, w e th ink it is im portant to k e ep th e acce s s to th e event fre e .
H ow ever, organizing such an event re q uire s a h uge am ount of m oney. Re -
m em ber th at it is organized by volunteers w h o do not get paid and do not
h ave com m ercial intere sts in th e event.
In order to k e ep it fre e , w e th ink th at th e be st w ay is to fund th e event by
as k ing for support from th e Fre e and O pen Source softw are com m unity on
a voluntary bas is . You can h elp by m ak ing a voluntary donation. W e w ant
to th ank our donators . Th ey don't just support th e 2006 edition, th ey are
m ak ing sure th at future editions can be organis ed. To expre s s our th ank s ,
w e give back som e goodie s w e got from our sponsors .
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Fosdem 2006
INFODESK
Th e volunteers at th e Infode s k are h appy to answ er all your q ue stions and
provide us eful inform ation about FOSDEM . In th is broch ure you w ill find
all you ne ed to k now regarding th e talk s , devroom s , tutorials, m aps , ...
Th e m ain Infode s k is located in building H and is indicated clearly
th rough out th e cam pus . Just follow th e arrow s . Specific inform ation about
th e sch edule is also available at th e sm all Infode s k , building A.
In case of em ergency you can reach th e Infodesk
at teleph one num ber: 02 788 74 74.
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over to th e m ain Infode s k , som eone
m igh t h ave found it and brough t it
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available at th e m ain Infode s k . Put
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FIRST AID
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im m ediately go to th e m ain In-
fode s k w h e re a First Aid k it is avail-
able as w ell as contact num bers for
a doctor on call and th e neare st h os -
pital.
TRANSPORTATION
We recom m end you us e Taxi Ve rt.
Ph one num ber: 02 349 49 49 .
A good pick up point is : ULB Cam -
pus Solbosch , at th e Frank lin
Roos evelt Road (s e e m ap)
EQUIPM ENT
In cas e you ne ed som e extra
ch airs , tables , netw ork or pow er
cables : W e h ave a ve ry lim ited sup-
ply at th e m ain Infode s k .
NETWORK
A w irele s s netw ork is available
around both th e developer-room s
and th e conference -room s . Th e net-
w ork can be recognis ed by th e
ESSID: "FOSDEM ".
Is som e devroom s you'll also be
able to us e w ired netw ork ing, but
th is is not supported by th e netw ork
team .
CATERING
Follow th e Cafetaria arrow s (or
s e e m ap) and you w ill find a h eated
place w h e re you can buy drink s (cof-
fe e , be e r, softdrink s ,...) and food
(sandw ich e s , h ot-dog, crisps ,
candy,...)
Fosdem 2006
SPEAK ERS
DESKTOP
Jon Trow bridge - Beagle
... is a long-tim e GNOM E h ack er and
advocate for fre e softw are . H e h as re -
cently joined Google, w h e re h e w ill
be part of th e O pen Source Program
O ffice .
M ich ael M ee k s - OpenOf-
fice .org
M ich ael is a Ch ristian and enth us iast-
ic believer in Fre e softw are . H e very
m uch enjoys w ork ing for Novell
w h ere as a m em ber of th e De s k top re -
s earch team h e h as w ork ed on
de s k top infrastructure and applica-
tions , particularly th e CO RBA,
Bonobo, Nautilus and acce s s ibility,
am ongst oth er intere sting th ings . H e
now w ork s full tim e developing O pen-
O ffice .org. Prior to th is h e w ork ed for
Quantel gaining expertis e in real tim e
AV editing and playback ach ieved
w ith h igh perform ance focus ed h ard-
w are / softw are solutions .
DEVELOPM ENT
David Roundy - Darcs
... is a ph ys icist currently w ork ing as
a postdoctoral re s earch e r at Cornell
Univers ity in th e field of Condens ed
M atter Th eory. H e created darcs in
2002 after becom ing intere sted in th e
problem of h ow to de scribe and m anip-
ulate ch ange s . Around th e sam e tim e ,
David learned th e H as k ell language,
and h asn't be en th e sam e s ince . W h ile
not w ork ing on darcs or ph ys ics , Dav-
id enjoys reading, k nitting, croch eting
and playing h arm onica, but not all at
th e sam e tim e .
Greg Ste in - Subvers ion
... is an engine ering m anager at
Google, w ork ing on th e ir open source
efforts . Prior to th at, Greg w as a dir-
ector of engine ering at CollabNet
w h e re h e m anaged th e Subvers ion
project and releas e s of th e ir Collab-
Net Enterpris e Edition product. H e
also w ork ed at M icrosoft as a Devel-
opm ent M anager, in th e Com m erce
Server and Site Server groups . Greg
w as a co-founder and th e Corporate
Tech nologist of eSh op, one of th e
first electronic com m erce softw are
com panie s , before its acq uis ition by
M icrosoft. In Greg's spare tim e , h e
w ork s on m any open source projects ,
such as Subvers ion, W ebDAV, and Py-
th on. H e also w ork s on Apach e pro-
jects and is th e current Ch airm an of
th e Apach e Softw are Foundation.
Julian Sew ard - Valgrind
... is a recycled com piler h ack e r. H e
founded th e Valgrind project in 2000
and is th e project lead and a full tim e
developer. H e 's also th e auth or of
bzip2, a data com pre s s ion program .
Julian's back ground is in exotic com -
piler tech nology. H e w ork ed for s ever-
al years on and w ith th e Glasgow
H as k ell Com piler, an open source
com piler for th e functional language
H as k ell, w ith earlier postdoctoral
w ork on com pilation of a h ybrid func-
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SPEAK ERS
tional/OO language . M ore recently h e
led a sm all group developing a vector-
izing code generator for SIM D arch i-
tecture s . Julian live s w ith h is w ife
Donna and tw o cats in Cam bridge ,
UK. In h is m inim al spare tim e h e en-
joys dancing w ith th e various folk
dance groups in Cam bridge .
SECURITY
Crispin Cow an - AppArm or
... w as th e CTO and founder of Im -
m unix, Inc., recently acq uired by Nov-
ell. Dr. Cow an now w ork s as a
s ecurity arch itect for Novell w ith re -
spect to s ecurity for th e Linux plat-
form and applications th at Novell
offers for Linux, and w ith particular at-
tention to th e AppArm or product th at
cam e w ith th e Im m unix acq uis ition.
Dr. Cow an developed s everal h ost s e -
curity/survivability tech nologie s un-
der DARPA funding, including
prom inent tech nologie s lik e th e Stack -
Guard com piler defens e against buf-
fer overflow s . Dr. Cow an also
co-invented th e "tim e -to-patch " m eth -
od of as s e s s ing w h en it is safe to ap-
ply a s ecurity patch . Prior to founding
Im m unix, h e w as a profe s sor w ith th e
O regon Graduate Institute, Depart-
m ent of Com puter Science and Engin-
e e ring. H e h olds a Ph .D. from th e
Univers ity of W e stern O ntario and a
M asters of M ath em atics from th e Uni-
vers ity of Waterloo.
Mas s im iliano Pala - OpenCA
... h olds an M .S. Degre e in Com puter
Engine ering. H e is attending Ph D
cours e at th e Politecnico di Torino in
PKI and Security area, currently h e is
vis iting Ph D at Dartm outh College .
H e started th e O penCA project in
19 9 8 and still continue s its develop-
m ent and m anagem ent. H is re s earch
intere sts are in th e field of new s ecur-
ity arch itecture s and protocols devel-
opm ent, Peer-to-Peer tech nologie s for
PKIs and e -Governm ent projects .
Th om as z Kojm - Clam AV
... is a com puter scientist from Po-
land. H e h as be en an open source de -
veloper s ince 2000. In 2002 h e started
th e Clam AV project w h ich is now de -
veloped w orldw ide . Clam AV is a
GPL licens ed anti-virus toolk it for
Unix, w idely us ed as a s e rver-s ide e -
m ail virus scanner. It's k now n for its
q uick re spons e tim e to new th reats
and a big num ber of 3rd party applica-
tions .
SYSTEM S
Ian Pratt - Xen
... is th e leader and ch ief arch itect of
th e Xen project, w h ich h e founded in
2001 w ith th e aim of m ak ing virtualiz-
ation ubiq uitous on com m odity h ard-
w are . Ian h as played a k ey role in
both th e arch itecture of Xen and form -
ation of industry partners h ips th at led
to th e em ergence of Xen as th e O pen
Source virtualization tech nology. Ian
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is a m em ber of Senior faculty at th e
Com puter Laboratory of Cam bridge
Univers ity, UK, w h e re h e h as led Sys -
tem s Re s earch for 8 years . H e h olds a
Ph D in Com puter Science , and w as
elected a Fellow of Kings College in
19 9 6.
Jon H aslam - DTrace
... in th e Perform ance and Availability
engine ering group at Sun. Over th e
years h e h as developed an unnatural
obs e s s ion w ith obs e rving th e com plex
interactions th at exist w ith in todays
softw are subsystem s . Jon w as h eavily
involved in th e DTrace project s ince
early on in its developm ent cycle and
counts h im s elf privileged to h ave
be en involved in th e obs e rvability re -
volution th at is DTrace .
Uriel M . Pere ira - Plan 9
... is a fre elance h ack e r w ith over ten
years of experience . Alw ays look ing
for tools to figh t com plexity, becam e
intere sted in Unix and it's tradition.
H as be en involved w ith th e Plan 9
com m unity s ince it's O pen Source
releas e . Since th en h as be en busy
developing Plan 9 and spreading th e
ideas of Plan 9 to oth er system s .
VO IP
Jan Janak - SER (SIP Ex-
pre s s Router)
... is a ch ief softw are arch itect at ipte -
lorg Gm bH , th e SIP deploym ent com -
pany. Th ere , h is re spons ibilitie s
include de s ign and im plem entation of
SIP solutions for large scale internet
teleph ony s e rvice providers . Previ-
ously, Jan w as re s earch e r at
Fraunh ofer institute FOKUS, w ork ing
on th e de s ign and im plem entation of
th e SIP Expre s s Router, h igh ly scal-
able fre e SIP s e rver. Jan is advisory
board m em ber of Telio AS, th e faste st
grow ing Nordic internet teleph ony
s e rvice provider.
Jean-M arc Valin - Speex
... h as a Ph D, a m aster's degre e and a
bach elor's degre e in electrical engin-
e e ring from th e Univers ity of
Sh erbrook e . H is Ph D th e s is focus e s
on bringing h earing capabilitie s to a
m obile robotics platform , including
sound source localization and s epara-
tion. H is oth e r re s earch intere sts cov-
er spe ech coding and h e h as
developed th e Speex codec, aim ed at
low bitrate spe ech com m unications .
H e is a m em ber of th e IEEE Signal
Proce s s ing Society.
Mark Spencer - Asteris k
... founded Linux Support Service s in
19 9 9 w h ile still a Com puter Engine er-
ing student at Auburn Univers ity.
W h en faced w ith th e h igh cost of buy-
ing a PBX, M ark s im ply us ed h is
Linux PC and k now ledge of C code
to w rite h is ow n! Th is w as th e begin-
ning of th e w orld-w ide ph enom enon
k now n as Asteris k , th e open source
PBX, and caus ed M ark to s h ift h is
bus ine s s focus from Linux support to
supporting Asteris k and opening up
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Speak ers
th e telecom m ark et. Linux Support Ser-
vice s is now k now n as Digium , and is
bringing open source to th e telecom
m ark et w h ile gaining a footh old in
th e telecom industry. M ark strongly be -
lieve s th at every tech nology h e cre -
ate s s h ould be given back to th e
com m unity. Th is is w h y Asteris k is
fully open source . Today th at m odel
h as allow ed Asteris k to rem ain avail-
able fre e of ch arge , w h ile it h as be -
com e as robust as th e leading and
m ost-expens ive PBXs. M ark Spencer
h olds a degre e in Com puter Engine er-
ing from Auburn Univers ity, and is
now pre s ident of Digium , Inc. H e h as
also led th e creation of s everal Linux-
bas ed open source applications , m ost
notably Asteris k , th e O pen Source
PBX, and Gaim Instant M e s s enger.
W EB DEVELOPM ENT
Alex Ru s s el - Th e Dojo Toolk it
... is Project Lead for th e Dojo
Toolk it, Pre s ident of th e Dojo Founda-
tion, and a Sr. Softw are Engine er at
JotSpot -- th e Application-W ik i com -
pany. Alex h as be en figh ting brow s ers
s ince th e late 9 0's and togeth e r w ith a
grow ing group of contributors is h elp-
ing to build th e Dojo Toolk it into th e
preferred w ay to engine er dynam ic
w eb application interface s .
Geert Bevin - RIFE
... is th e CEO of Uw yn, a sm all cus -
tom application developm ent com -
pany w ith a strong focus on w eb
applications , open source , Java and
rich internet tech nologie s . H e is th e
founder of th e RIFE project w h ich
provide s a full-stack Java w eb applica-
tion fram ew ork for q uick ly building
m aintainable applications w ith sustain-
able developer productivity. H e also
started or contributed to projects lik e
Bla-bla List, O penLaszlo, Drone,
Bam boo, Eleph ant, RelativeLayers ,
and Gentoo Linux.
Jason H uggins - Selenium
... is a s enior developer at Th ough t-
Work s , Inc. H e s e rve s as tech nical
lead for Th ough tWork s ' custom intern-
al system s , from w h ich th e Selenium
project w as born. Prior to Th ough t-
Work s , Jason w as a tech nology con-
sultant at PeopleSoft (now O racle).
H e h olds a Bach elor of Bus ine s s Ad-
m inistration in M anagem ent Inform a-
tion System s from th e Univers ity of
Notre Dam e . H e w ork s and plays in
Ch icago, Illinois w ith h is w ife , Kelly,
and 2 year old son, Finley.
Fosdem 2006
DEV ROOMS
RO O M H 1301 - KDE
14:00 Kubuntu
(Jonath an R idde ll)
15:00 O pen DevRoom
(e ve ryone )
16:00 Roadm ap to World Dom ination:
M ark eting KDE
(Se bastian Kügle r)
RO O M H 1302 - O PENSUSE
13:00 openSUSE - M otivations , Goals
and O pportunitie s
(Sonja Kraus e -H arde r, M ich ae l Loe ffle r)
14:00 Introducing th e openSUSE Build
Service
(Adrian Sch roe te r, Corne lius Sch um ach e r,
Andre as Baue r)
15:00 SUSE Linux Pow er M anagem ent -
O ne step ah ead!
(Tim o H oe nig, H olge r M ach t)
16:00 SUSE Linux 10.2 - Quo vadis?
(M ich ae l Loe ffle r, Ch ristoph Th ie l)
17:00 Q & A
(e ve ryone )
RO O M H 1308 - EM BEDDED
13:30 SETR LiveCD: a live tool for
em bedded developm ent
(H e ctor Oron)
14:30 O ptim izing th e Linux k e rnel and
applications for spe ed, space , ram , pow er
and cost
(M ich ae l Opde nack e r)
15:30 Lock -fre e Data Exch ange for Real-
Tim e applications
(Pe te r Soe te ns)
16:30 ALSA SoC layer
(Liam Girdw ood)
RO O M H 1309 - M O Z ILLA
13:00 O pening and Introduction
(Axe l H e ch t)
13:45 M ozilla Foundation
(Ge rvas e M ark h am )
14:30 M ozilla Europe
(Tristan Nitot)
15:15 Th e SeaM onk ey Project
(Robe rt Kais e r)
16:00 Flock
(Z bignie w Branie ck i)
16:45 M ozilla Project BOF
(e ve ryone )
RO O M H 2111 -
O PENGRO UPW ARE + GNUSTEP
13:00 GORM , StepTalk
(Nicolas Roard)
14:00 CoreData
(Saso Kis e lk ov)
15:00 W eb Applications w ith SOPE
(M arcus M ue lle r)
16:00 GNUstep on th e Z aurus PDA
(Nicolaus Sch alle r)
RO O M H 2214 - LPI
13:00 LPI Exam Se s s ion #1
15:00 LPI Exam Se s s ion #2
RO O M AW 1.105 - TCL/TK
14:00 Intro to Tcl/Tk
(Clif Flynt)
15:00 GUI for ASIC Verification
(Kare l Nijs)
16:00 H ecl - Scripting for m obile ph one s
(David N. W e lton)
SAT DAY
Fosdem 2006
DEV ROOMS
RO O M AW 1.115 - JABBER
14:00 O pen discus s ion
(e ve ryone )
15:00 Jabber Introduction
(Ralph M e ije r, Boris M ann)
16:00 Pub-sub & Applications
(Ralph M e ije r)
17:00 O pen discus s ion
(e ve ryone )
RO O M AW 1.120 - GNU
CLASSPATH & FRIENDS
14:10 Putting th e 'Fre e ' into JFreeCh art
(Dave Gilbe rt)
15:10 Us ing Eclips e for GNU Clas spath
Developm ent
(Tom Trom e y)
16:00 Sh ow your app/H ack your app !
(e ve ryone )
RO O M AW 1.121 - X.O RG
14:00 H igh ligh ts from th e Santa Clara
XDevConf
(Stuart Kre itm an)
15:00 Coordinate transform redirection
for com pos ited w indow environm ents
(K e ith Pack ard)
16:00 Xgl, th e current future of X
(M atth ias H opf)
RO O M AW 1.124 - GNO M E
14:00 W elcom e
(e ve ryone )
14:15 Gnom eM eeting/Ek iga
(Dam ie n Sandras)
14:45 Gtk m m /Glom
(M urray Cum m ing)
15:30 W riting W in32-friendly GNOM E
libs/apps
(Tor Lillqvist)
16:15 GO bjects and De s ign Patterns
(Ph ilip VanH oof)
17:00 Clos ing talk s
(e ve ryone )
RO O M AW 1.125 - DEBIAN
14:00 Governing Debian: From Scud
launch to im pact
(Je roe n van Wolffe laar)
15:00 (em pty for k ey s igning)
16:30 Im proving w ork flow in Debian
th rough proce s s integration
(M artin F. Krafft)
17:15 Nobody expects th e Finnis h
Inq uis ition: Confe s s ion of a pack age
torturer
(Lars W irze nius)
RO O M AW 1.126 - CALIBRE
13:00 Em pirical softw are engine ering
re s earch on libre softw are
(Je sus M . Gonzale z-Barah ona)
13:45 Quality Is sue s in Fre e Softw are
Projects
(M artin M ich lm ayr)
14:30 M easuring developer activity -
som e approach e s
(Juan Jos e Am or-Igle s ias)
15:15 Participation of Independent
Softw are Vendors in fre e and open source
softw are projects
(H e rw ig M annae rt, Kris Ve n and Jan
Ve re lst)
16:00 A m ath em atical m odel for guiding
refactoring efforts
(Andre a Capiluppi)
16:45 M orfeo: creating a new open
source com m unity
(Tom as Aguado)
SAT DAY
Fosdem 2006
MAIN TRACK S
Saturday
Feb 25th
JANSO N CH AVANNE H 2215
Tutorials
10:30 - 12:00
W ELCO M E O F VISITO RS FO LLO W ED BY
R ICH ARD M STALLM AN'S KEYNO TE (Janson)
12:00 - 13:00 GPLV3 DISCUSSIO N (Janson)
13:00 - 14:00
DTRACE
Jon H aslam
14:00 - 15:00
DTRACE
Jon H aslam
SER
Jan Janak
15:00 - 16:00
PLAN9
Urie l M . Pe re ira
ASTER ISK
M ark Spe nce r
KEYSIGNING
16:00 - 17:00
XEN
Ian Pratt
SPEEX
Je an-M arc Valin
ASTER ISK
M ark Spe nce r
17:15 - 17:30
FO SDEM R ETURN O PERATIO N,
DRAW S FO R DO NATO RS (Janson)
Keys igning Party
Th e Key Signing Party h as now
becom e a tradition at FOSDEM .
Next to th e usual GnuPG stuff w e
w ill introduce you, if you did not
k now it yet, to th e CACert
As surance Program . You w ill th us
be able to s ign th e CACert papers
in com pany w ith your FOSDEM -
fellow s .
LPI Exam s
For tim e s and place of th e exam s
w e refer to th e Developers ' Room
Sch edule. Anoth er im portant th ing:
th e price w ill be s et at 50 €, w h ich
is le s s th an th e norm al price .
People intere sted in tak ing th e s e
exam s ne ed an LPI ID (s e e LPI
w ebs ite).
Fosdem 2006
SCH EDULE
Sunday
Feb 26th
JANSO N CH AVANNE H 2215
Tutorials
10:00 - 11:00
R IFE
Ge e rt Be vin
DARCS
David Roundy
11:00 - 12:00
SELENIUM
Jason H uggins
SVN
Gre g Ste in
12:00 - 13:00
DO JO
Ale x Rus s e l
VALGRIND
Julian Se w ard
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 - 15:00
APPARM O R
Crispon Cow an
BEAGLE
Jon Trow bridge
O PENCA
M as s im iliano Pala
15:00 - 16:00
CLAM AV
Tom asz Kojm
O PENO FFICE
M ich ae l M e e k s
16:00 - 17:00
O PENCA
M as s im iliano Pala
XUL
Axe l H e ch t
O PENO FFICE
M ich ae l M e e k s
17:00 - 18:00
TH E CH ALLENGE O F TH E GNU/LINUX DESKTO P
Je ff Waugh
H ack er Room
Are you expecting m ail? Can't
live w ith out your ch at or irc? Need
to do som e system -adm inistration?
Feel fre e to h ave a s eat in H 2213,
th e h ack e r room .
Spe ak ing is s ilve r, s ile nce is gold...
Donations
FOSDEM is an event created by
th e com m unity and for th e com -
m unity. Cons e q uently, w e th ink it
is im portant to k e ep th e acce s s to
th e event fre e . H ow ever, organiz-
ing such an event re q uire s a h uge
am ount of m oney.
W e th us invite you to read th e
donations inform ation on th e first
page of th is book let.
Fosdem 2006
SURROUNDINGS
Fosdem 2006
Dev Rooms
SUNDAY
RO O M H 1301 - KDE
10:00 O pen DevRoom
(e ve ryone )
11:00 KO ffice in enterpris e environm ents
(Raph ae l Lange nh orst)
12:00 O pen DevRoom
(e ve ryone )
14:00 Krita: Painting your Dream s
(Bart Coppe ns)
15:00 O pen DevRoom
(e ve ryone )
RO O M H 1302 - O PENSUSE
09 :00 Developer Break fast
(e ve ryone )
10:00 Pack aging Tutorial - Th e brick s w e
build w ith
(H e ndrik Voge lsang, M arcus Rue ck e rt)
11:00 Cros s -D istribution Building w ith
th e openSUSE Build Service
(M ich ae l Sch roe de r)
12:00 Speed Talk s (various topics)
(various)
12:30 W riting your ow n YaST M odule in
a few h ours
(Ste fan H undh am m e r)
14:00 Th e SUSE Security Proce s s
(M arcus M e is sne r)
15:00 SUSE Linux LiveCD Tutorial
(Ste ffe n W inte rfe ldt)
16:00 Q & A
(e ve ryone )
RO O M H 1308 - EM BEDDED
09 :30 Linux@ New tec (em bedded Linux
cas e study)
(Kristof Ge ile nk otte n)
10:30 Building and supporting
distributions w ith openEm bedded
(Koe n Kooi)
11:30 Tow ards a com m on em bedded
pow er m anagem ent solution
(David W e ine h all, Sam psa Fabritius)
14:00 Real-tim e Patch e s for Linux
(Klaas van Ge nd)
15:00 Device Tre e s for em bedded system s
(David Gibson)
16:00 Printing on em bedded system s
(Till Kam ppe te r)
RO O M H 1309 - M O Z ILLA
09 :00 W elcom e
(Tristan Nitot)
09 :15 XULRunner
(Brian King)
10:00 Reflow (Refactoring)
(David Baron)
10:45 Flock ing th e M ozilla Codebas e
(NN)
11:30 Z ap - th e M ozilla SIP client
(Ale x Fritze )
12:15 Developm ent BOF
(e ve ryone )
14:00 Localizing M ozilla products and
projects
(e ve ryone )
RO O M H 2111 - LINUX O N
LAPTO PS
10:00 Saving Pow er w ith Laptop M ode
(Bart Sam w e l)
10:30 ACPI
(M atth e w Garre tt)
11:00 User Space Pow er M anagem ent /
Apple Pow er M anagem ent
(M atth ias Grim m )
11:30 O pen Discus s ion: Th e Future of
User Space Pow er M anagem ent
(e ve ryone )
Fosdem 2006
Dev RoomS
SUNDAY
RO O M H 2111 -
O PENGRO UPW ARE + GNUSTEP
12:00 GroupDAV M eeting
(H e lge H e s s)
13:00 W indow s Developm ent w ith
GNUstep
(Rich ard Frith -M acdonald, W im
Ouds h oorn)
14:00 O penGroupw are .org Project and
Applications
(H e lge H e s s)
15:00 Etoile De s k top Environm ent
(Que ntin M ath e )
16:00 Project M anager IDE
(Saso Kis e lk ov)
RO O M H 2215 - LPI
10:00 LPI Exam Se s s ion #3
12:00 LPI Exam Se s s ion #4
RO O M H 2214 - GENTO O
09 :00 Keynote
(Joch e n M ae s)
10:00 Tow ards a european Gentoo
foundation
(Ulrich Plate )
10:45 Gentoo acros s th e globe
(pane l discus s ion)
11:30 Closed s e s s ion (general discus s ion,
k eys igning)
(inte rnal)
12:30 lunch break
(e ve ryone )
13:15 libconf
(Dam ie n Krotk ine )
13:45 QA: Fixing th e Gentoo
(Patrick Laue r)
14:30 Gentoo project structure
(Sve n Ve rm e ule n)
15:15 Releas e engine ering and catalyst
(Ch ris Giane lloni)
15:45 M igrating Gentoo infrastructure to
LDAP
(Andre a Barisani)
RO O M AW 1.105 - TCL/TK
10:00 O O in Tcl
(Donal Fe llow s)
11:00 Tk Te st
(Clif Flynt)
12:00 Tcl for Regre s s ion Te sting
(Arje n M ark us)
13:00 Lunch break , discus s ion
(e ve ryone )
14:00 W rite a gam e
(Clif Flynt)
16:00 W rapup and Review
(e ve ryone )
RO O M AW 1.115 - JABBER
10:00 O pen discus s ion & developm ent
(e ve ryone )
13:00 W h at's cool & new
(Ralph M e ije r)
14:00 Virtual Pre s ence
(H e ine r Wolf)
15:00 O pen discus s ion & developm ent
(e ve ryone )
RO O M AW 1.120 - GNU
CLASSPATH & FRIENDS
09 :10 Fre e Sw ing: past, pre s ent and future
(Rom an Ke nnk e )
10:10 Fre e Im plem entation of th e
CO RBA Standard
(Audrius M e s k aus k as)
11:10 Th e Jam VM Runtim e
(Robe rt Lough e r)
12:10 Integrating Vm gen-bas ed
Interpreters
(Ch ristian Th alinge r)
14:00 "Th e Future" - state of th e w orld,
beyond japi
(M ark W ie laard)
Fosdem 2006
DEV ROOMS
SUNDAY
RO O M AW 1.121 - X.O RG
09 :30 Autom ated Display Configuration
in th e Xorg W indow System
(Stuart Kre itm an)
10:30 X and m ode s etting, atroph y
illustrated
(Luc Ve rh ae ge n)
11:30 Dtracing th e Xorg Server
(Jay H obson)
13:30 Rew ork ing th e PCI subsystem on X
(Egbe rt Eich )
14:30 To be announced
15:30 To be announced
16:30 To be announced
RO O M AW 1.124 - ADA
10:00 Introduction to Ada
(Je an-Pie rre Ros e n)
11:00 Adacontrol
(Je an-Pie rre Ros e n)
12:00 Use of Fre e Softw are in European
Air Traffic Flow M anagem ent
(Ph ilippe Waroquie rs)
13:00 lunch break
(e ve ryone )
14:00 Ada in Debian
(Ludovic Bre nta)
15:00 AdaCore : Ada Academ ic Initiative
(Robe rt B.K. De w ar)
16:00 AdaCore : Th e PolyO RB
sch izoph renic m iddlew are
(Th om as Quinot)
RO O M AW 1.125 - DEBIAN
10:00 Wom en in Fre e Softw are : Findings
from FLOSSPOLS
(H annah M . Wallach )
11:00 Th e Debian GNU/k FreeBSD port
(Aure lie n Jarno)
12:00 SLIND: A sm all Debian-bas ed
linux distro for em bedded system s
(Be njam in Collar)
13:30 Debian-Volatile - be h ind th e scene s
(M artin Z obe l-H e las)
14:15 Debtags , and w h at you can do w ith
it today
(Enrico Z ini)
15:15 Debian-Installer internals
(Frans J. Pop)
16:15 Ins ide th e Debian m enu system
(Bill Allom be rt)
RO O M AW 1.126 - GNO M E
09 :00 W elcom e
(e ve ryone )
09 :30 m aem o
(Tom m i Kom ulaine n)
10:30 GNOM E advocacy, stuff lik e th at
(Je ff Waugh )
11:15 GNOM E/Ruby
(Pascal Te rjan)
12:00 lunch break
(e ve ryone )
13:00 Beagle
(Jon Trow bridge )
13:45 GScore and Cairo
(Se bastie n Tricaud)
14:30 Project Ridley - overview
(Kristian R ie tve ld)
15:15 PiTiVi video editor
(Edw ard H e rve y)
16:00 Clos ing
(e ve ryone )
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