Call for volunteers
FOSDEM 2012 is almost upon us, and we're looking for motivated people to help us make it a success again. If you've visited FOSDEM in the past, you've probably seen our enthusiastic army of volunteers that helped us make FOSDEM a pleasant experience for all our visitors. If you want to be a part of this great team, here's your chance to sign up!
Initial schedule
A first batch of confirmed sessions (main tracks and keynotes) are now online in the schedule section of the site.
Betagroup Coworking invitation
there have been some requests from people attending FOSDEM that would like to go to the Betagroup Coworking to work on Friday and Monday. So they thought that it would be a good idea to host as many partcipants as they could... for
free!
Please see details and signup info here:
http://coworking.betagroup.be/hosting-the-fosdem-participants/ Space is limited and signup will be disabled when they reach their limit.
Third batch of FOSDEM 2012 speaker interviews
Here is the third batch of interviews with our main track speakers:
The FOSDEM venue grows
This year the ULB has kindly offered us the use of an additional new building on their campus. It's the K building and it's located on the other side of the parking from the Jason Lecture hall.
Second batch of FOSDEM 2012 speaker interviews
Here is the second batch of interviews with our main track speakers:
Meeting Rooms
This year, we will provide two meeting rooms (aka "BoF rooms") in the AW building. The idea here is that they are provided for unplanned or, rather, spontaneously planned and brief meetups.
Certification exams at FOSDEM 2012
LPI, BSDCG and TYPO3 will again provide FOSDEM attendees with the possibility of taking their respective certification exams.
Head over to this page for further details.
Keysigning
Web of Trust
PGP public key identification is based on multiple (the more the better) people doing an identification check against official identity documents such as driving permits, passports, national identity cards, etc.: the Web of Trustworthy. The Web of Trust is a reciprocal process: people identify themselves to each other.
The "keysigning party" is essential to strengthen the Web of Trust and keep the security technique open and freely available.
Like previous years, there will be a PGP key signing party at FOSDEM 2012, as well as a CAcert assurance party.
Video streaming
Not coming to FOSDEM? Want to participate anyway? Do not despair! This year, the FOSDEM team is proud to announce the availability of streaming video from a select number of our rooms, in cooperation with the DebConf video team.
Thanks to the support of Fluendo, we'll be able to provide you with Ogg Theora and WebM versions of our streams.
Details on where and how to access these streams will be posted later as FOSDEM draws nearer. Watch this space!
