Mozilla@FOSDEM2009
Photo: Teemu Mäntynen
FOSDEM 2009 finished last week. Although I didn't attend FOSDEM, I got a feel for what was going on through blogs and photos on Flickr. FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting) is the largest event for free/open source developers in Europe. It covers various open source projects and can be compared with OSCON (O'Reilly Open Source Convention), held in the US.
The following projects had their own sessions:
KDE, GNOME, Mozilla, X.org, Fedora+CentOS, OpenSUSE, BSD+PostgreSQL, GNUStep, Jabber, Debian, Ada, Free Java, OpenOffice, Drupal, Ruby & Rails, MySQL, and Linux Kernel.
In addition, there were sessions for other projects such as OpenMoko, Maemo, CMake, WebKit, Xfce, and OLPC.
In particular, there were Mozilla-related sessions as follows:
- Mozilla Europe
- Mozilla Foundation
- Mozilla and Universities
- What's after Firefox 3.1
- Community Sites Project
- Building XUL communities
- SeaMonkey
- Overview of Mozilla QA
- Oni
- Rising to the Sun(bird)
- Thunderbird 3
- Prism
- Fennec
- Embedding
- Mozilla headless back-end
- Events/EduCamp@FOSDEM2009
Photo: Teemu Mäntynen (An old woman wears a Firefox t-shirt. It's lovely.)
For your information, you can find session videos of FOSDEM. The 2009 videos have not been released yet, but you can find session videos from 2008 and 2007.
I hope to attend FOSDEM next year.