FOSDEM 2011

FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting) 2011 is happening this week-end (5-6 february) in Brussels as usual. I'm not living there anymore but I'm going to FOSDEM this year again.

This meeting is really open source developer oriented, several communities are meeting there (debian, mozilla, kde, enlightenment…) and I'm unfortunately not involved in any of this, so lots of tracks are too specific for me. Nonetheless some of them are more "general" and sound interesting.

Last year I was wondering how to contribute a bit to the open source community, the only thing I did was small piece of software (called pwad) to download picasa albums sent by friends. I can do better than that.

Anyway, FOSDEM is a great event, if you are in Brussels at that time, you should definitely go there and at least have a look of what's happening. Last year I learned very interesting stuff and ideas that I hope will be nicely integrated in mainstream software/operating systems.