Invitation to FOSDEM 2015

Friends, FOSDEM this weekend! Expected at the ReactOS booth : Colin Finck, Pierre "HeisSpiter" Schweitzer, Giannis "smiley" Adamopoulos - see you first time (not only me, but the rest of the team have never met him before), and I, Alekesy "Fireball" Bragin - I am very pleased to be back at this wonderful event.

In general, FOSDEM is an exhibition / conference number 1 on free software on the European continent. The first time it took place in 2001, it was organized by Raphael Bauduin (I, by the way, have an invitation to FOSDEM signed by him personally) comrades. Now the event brings together more than 5 thousand free software developers from around the world.

An interesting fact: in the original, the name was OSDEM (you might think that this is a conference on operating systems, but this is only the Open Source Developers European Meeting), but the omnipresent Richard Stallman here also attributed the word Free to the name. Well, at least GNU \ OSDEM

FOSDEM traditionally takes place in the buildings of the Free University of Brussels - ULB, founded, by the way, by Freemason Pierre-Theodore Verhaegen. The name is usually not translated, because there is not much in common with freedom in its current understandings.
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The monument to the founder stands at the main building of the university (something reminds me of GZ MSTU and the monument to Bauman). In general, this is an old and very reputable non-state educational institution.

For FOSDEM, everything is already assembled and we are starting to catch up to the place of our meeting. I got there by plane, the Germans are traveling by train, and Giannis from Greece is supposed to be there. Another good man named Nuno told me about another small open source event that will take place today. This is the FLOSS Community Metrics Meeting . There will be a discussion of various open source metrics and tools for these metrics. I also applied for participation, let's see if I can tell you something about ReactOS. If you have interesting ideas - say in the comments.

Alexey Bragin

Bonus video on how it was 6 years ago.





UPD Photos from the scene.