FOSDEM, which stands for Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting, is a free and non-commercial event for the open source community, held in Brussels (Belgium) on February 26-27. Each year (or at least the past three years), FOSDEM sets up developer rooms where teams can meet, discuss, hack and present the latest developments about their project. For more information about FOSDEM's developer rooms, read their Call for presence. For more information about FOSDEM in general, you might want to read this Linux Magazine article or check their website at http://fosdem.org/.

Should we try to organize a CMS developers room (or a Drupal developers room tout court)? If so, we need enough people attending and some people willing to give a presentation. If you are a CMS developer, and you want to represent an open source CMS project at FOSDEM'05, leave a note in the comments. Given enough interest, I'll point the FOSDEM organizers at this post/thread. Developer room or not, some of us will be at FOSDEM so if you are attending and you want to meet, let us know.

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Steven’s picture

I will be joining Dries at FOSDEM.

The audience at FOSDEM is pretty geeky, so we can pimp Drupal's codability pretty easily. I wouldn't mind giving a short presentation there.

robertDouglass’s picture

And I would be honored to present something.

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AliaK’s picture

I'm hoping to make it along if not away for work. I'm only a user of drupal not really a developer but the sessions look great so I'm looking forward to learning more. do u have to be a developer to attend.. I can read code much better than I can write it.
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killes@www.drop.org’s picture

You don't have to be a developer to come to listen to the talks. There will be a large auditorium and all the Drupaldevelopers in the world couldn't fill it half. So we need a large cheering crowd, too.
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Bèr Kessels’s picture

I will be there, and are very willing to present something.

Also, I think it would be a good idea to have a general aim or guideline for the conference. Something like "useability days" , or "file system". Something we can aim our developers arrows at thse days.

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killes@www.drop.org’s picture

I might come, but I am not sure yet.
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Jeroen’s picture

If only to see whether Damien and his girl are still together.

jvandyk’s picture

I will be there, and hope to present on a metadata-related subject.

matt westgate’s picture

I'm going, and willing to do a presentation on Drupal as an E-commerce system.

bertboerland’s picture

if dries will be handing out /selling some tshirts, I might come as well. :-)

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Dries’s picture

The t-shirts are for the wet t-shirt contest ... euh ... nevermind. ;-)

Stefan Nagtegaal’s picture

If there is a Miss Wet t-Shirt Competition there, i am also present at the party, including my camera's.. Maybe we can make some nice pictures for drupal.org? :-)

bertboerland’s picture

Despite the fact that the hotel was booked and both the drupal con ad the FOSDEM have a great program, I wont be able to make it due to the flue.

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robertDouglass’s picture

Assuming all of the people who posted here actually show up, have we reached the critical mass needed to go ahead and do this? I hope so - I'd like to meet you all!

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jvandyk’s picture

Yes, it's a go. More details will be available on drupal.org shortly.

bertboerland’s picture

But could someone post the news regarding the update?
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Dries’s picture

We're still busy compiling a list of presentations/speakers. Details and a preliminary program will be available shortly.

jvandyk’s picture

Details are now available.

bertboerland’s picture

if somone needs a ride from the area amsterdam / schipol airport saterday morning, get in contact with me.

groets,
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Mithrandir’s picture

We are a couple of guys coming from the XOOPS project. Corresponding Xoops.org Thread

Speaking on behalf of myself only, I think it would be great to do some partnering with Drupal and encourage you to contact either myself: mithrandir attie xoops dottie org or Herko: herko attie xoops dottie org

Bèr Kessels’s picture

Hi,

I thinnk we should maybe meet and talsk a little about conversion to and fro xoops/drupal. This would be nice to work on togehter.

But also, and maybe even much more interesting, is discussing a distributed authentication cross platform. So that people with xoops accounts can log on to drupal and vice versa. more info here http://drupal.org/node/312

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