FOSDEM is an event with conferences and meetings about open-source, it takes places in bruxelles.

This page is a report for 2006.

Contents 1 Presentation and conferences 2006 1.1 Schedule 1.1.1 Opening talks 1.1.2 Closing talk,saturday 1.1.3 Closing talk,sunday 1.1.4 Ada 1.1.5 Calibre 1.1.6 Debian 1.1.7 Desktop 1.1.8 Devel 1.1.9 Embedded 1.1.10 Gentoo 1.1.11 Gnome 1.1.12 GNU Classpath 1.1.13 Hackers rooms 1.1.13.1 H2213 1.1.13.2 AW1.117 1.1.14 Jabber 1.1.15 Kde 1.1.16 Linux on laptops 1.1.17 LPI Exams 1.1.18 Mozilla 1.1.19 Open Groupware + GNUstep 1.1.20 Open suze 1.1.21 Security 1.1.22 Stands 1.1.23 Systems 1.1.24 TCL/TK 1.1.25 Tutorials 1.1.26 Web 2.0 1.1.27 X.ORG 2 Review 2.1 Debian 2.1.1 SLIND 2.2 Gentoo 2.2.1 Libconf 2.2.2 Quality assurance 2.2.3 LDAP 2.3 Stands 2.3.1 Gnustep 3 Resources 3.1 Videos 3.2 Project specific fosdem pages 3.3 Slides 3.4 Photos 3.5 Interviews 3.6 Howto help 4 Links 5 Reviews

Presentation and conferences 2006Edit

ScheduleEdit

Opening talksEdit

Opening Talks (10:00->13:00) saturday 25th february
Time	room	Conference	speaker	brief explanations	review	Video	Photos	Slides	Interviews
10:00	jason	welcome speach	???	about fosdem organisation		1
10:30	jason	Keynote	Richard M. Stallman	about software patents problems		1
12:00	jason	GPL v3 Discussion	Richard M. Stallman			1

Closing talk,saturdayEdit

Closing talk,sundayEdit

AdaEdit

CalibreEdit

DebianEdit

Debian , saturday 25th february
Time	room	Conference	speaker	brief explanations	review	Video	Photos	Slides	Interviews
14:00->14:45	AW 1.125	Governing Debian From scud launch to impact	J.Van Wolffelaar
	AW 1.125	Improoving workflow in debian trough process integration	Martin f Krafft
	AW 1.125	Confession of a package torture	Lars Wirzenius					here

Debian , sunday 26th february
Time	room	Conference	speaker	brief explanations	review	Video	Photos	Slides	Interviews
10:00->10:45	AW 1.125	Womans in Free Software:findings from FLOSSPOL	Hannah M.Wallach
11:00->11:45	AW 1.125	The Debian GNU/kFreeBSD port	Aurelien Jarno
12:00->12:45	AW 1.125	SLIND:Small Debian Based Linux Distribution for embedded systems	Benjamin Collar	About a linux distribution(by an internal siemens consulting group) ment for beeing easely instaled on any target(from medical hardware,to ipaqs or test bords)		here
13:30->	AW 1.125	Debian Volatiles behind the scenes	M.Zobel-Helas
	AW 1.125	Debtags and what you can do with it today	Enrico Zini					odt pdf
	AW 1.125	Debian Installer internals	Frans J. Pop
	AW 1.125	Inside the Debian menu system	Bill Allombert

DesktopEdit

DevelEdit

EmbeddedEdit

GentooEdit

Gentoo , sunday 26th february
Time	room	Conference	speaker	explanation	review	Video	Photos	Slides	Interviews
9:00->9:45	h2214	keynote	jochen maes
	h2214	Towards a european Gentoo foundation	Ulrich Plate
	h2214	Gentoo across the globe
	h2214	closed session	-	developers only(was not public(so they were more eficient,no newbee questions...)):developers talking between them
	h2214	libconf	Damien Krotkine	about an api that permit the understanding of configuration files by programs	here			old slides
	h2214	Quality Assurance in gentoo("fixing gentoo")	Patrick Lauer	About Quality assurance in gentoo with a small number of people,tools,and comon problems(bad bugreports...) in a source distribution that mooves very fast(new packages...)
	h2214	Gentoo Project structure	Sven Vermeulen					here
	h2214	Release engineering and catalyst	Chris Gianelloni	catalyst is a tool that permit to make easely a livecd and they use it for the installation cd(that is a livecd)
	h2214	Migrating gentoo infrastructure to ldap	Andrea Barisani	about the (optional) ldap integration in gentoo: what was done(all bugfixes),what work and what doesn't(what to use) ,presentation of ldap and how to use it (apps(what apps can use ldap),structure(how ldap works),ldap syntax...)				old slides ???

GnomeEdit

GNU ClasspathEdit

Hackers roomsEdit

H2213Edit

AW1.117Edit

JabberEdit

KdeEdit

Linux on laptopsEdit

LPI ExamsEdit

MozillaEdit

Open Groupware + GNUstepEdit

Open suzeEdit

SecurityEdit

Security , sunday 26th february
Time	room	Conference	speaker	explanation	review	Video	Photos	Slides	Interviews
14:00-	janson	AppArmor	Crispin Cowan	similar to selinux but more easely configurable and doesn't need recompilation or filesystem labeling		1
15:00-	janson	Clamav	Tomasz kojm
16:00	janson	OpenCa	M.Pala					here

StandsEdit

SystemsEdit

Systems , saturday 25th february
Time	room	Conference	speaker	explanation	review	Video	Photos	Slides	Interviews
14:00->14:45	janson	Plan 9	Uriel M. Pereira			1		here
15:00->15:45	janson	Dtrace	Jon Haslam	presentation and demo of dtrace				here
16:00->16:45	janson	Xen	Ian Pratt	Presentation of xen,in depth features and future developement		1

TCL/TKEdit

TutorialsEdit

Web 2.0Edit

Web 2.0 , sunday 26th february
Time	room	Conference	speaker	brief explanations	review	Video	Photos	Slides	Interviews
10:00	jason	RIFE	Geert Bevin
11:00	jason	Selenium	Jason R. Huggins
12:00	jason	Dojo	Alex Russel			1		here

X.ORGEdit

ReviewEdit

DebianEdit

SLINDEdit

GentooEdit

LibconfEdit

Gentoo as many distribution wanted to have a tool that permit the understanding of configuration files

The presenter who is the creator of libconf studied some others' approach to this problem (for example yum) and reached the conclusion that they were specific to certain configuration files or they were making some errors and in a long term vision the distributions gained problems because of this. This issue is particulary critical in gentoo because they can never re-install and always upgrade...

So he decided to code an api that can understand configuration files so there would be no errors and at the same time wouldn't be file specific...

Practically speaking this api makes the use of classement and has the help of template, that render possible this understanding and keep comment, and abolish the order of the lines and keeps only the information...see the slide for more information...see the example and the lines of code...

This technology is used by some projects including mandravia(ex mandrake) that used it with a configuration wizard for samba.

But not a lot of persons use it despite the fact that it can be used in many programming languages(C/C++,python...).

It's programmed in perl, maybe because such data handling is easy to do in pearl(that's not a troll:all programming languages have advantages(such as rendering particular things easy to do, speed, portability, correctness...) and weaknesses (particular things hard to do, speed, portability, uncorectness, possibilities limitations...) but certain particular things are easier to do in certain languages...)

Quality assuranceEdit

LDAPEdit

StandsEdit

GnustepEdit

Basically it's gnustep library on top of linux...but this offers the possibility, with a recompilation to run mac-osX programs.

ResourcesEdit

VideosEdit

• general and embedded videos(including some of others conferences)
• generalistic fosdem 2005 and 2006 videos

Project specific fosdem pagesEdit

• gnustep

SlidesEdit

• http://www.fosdem.org/2006/index/speakers/slides

PhotosEdit

InterviewsEdit

Howto helpEdit

• complete the schedule with the help of the pdf here
• add the videos to the schedules
• add the presentation of people to the people's name
• review a conference or add explanation about a conference or subject explaining what it is about(for example what is AppArmor)

LinksEdit

• linux devices

ReviewsEdit

• a review of fosdem 2006 in french