Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM)

See the following -

Open Advice Offers Guidance for New Open Source Contributors and the More Experienced

Ruth Suehle | opensource.com | February 13, 2012

A new book sharing the perspectives of 42 open source contributors launched this month at FOSDEM. Open Advice, edited by Lydia Pintscher, shares what those successful people wish they'd known when they got started with open source software.

Read More »

OSI Announces New Initiatives and Seeks Your Input

Simon Phipps | opensource.com | February 7, 2012

OSI is changing, and you can help! I spoke at FOSDEM in Brussels on Saturday on behalf of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), where I serve as a director. My noon keynote covered a little of the rationale behind OSI and a quick synopsis of its last decade from my own perspective and then announcements on OSI's behalf about the work we’re doing to make OSI strong and relevant for a new decade.

Read More »

The First FOSDEM Legal Issues DevRoom

Richard Fontana | opensource.com | February 9, 2012

For FOSDEM 2012, held last weekend in Brussels, I had the privilege of co-organizing (with Tom Marble, Karen Sandler, and Bradley Kuhn) the first-ever DevRoom track devoted to discussion of legal issues relating to free/libre/open source software. With several thousand attendees and hundreds of sessions, FOSDEM is one of the largest FLOSS conferences in the world, and surely the largest in Europe. This makes it all the more remarkable that FOSDEM is a free-admission, non-commercial community event, organized and administered entirely by volunteers.

Read More »