page_title: FOSDEM
section_title: Conference history
hierarchical_section_title: FOSDEM / History / Conference history
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: FOSDEM Keynote 2017 in Raum J(-anson) während der Keynote von Brandon Philips English: FOSDEM 2017 in Room J during Keynote of Brandon Philips
context_page_description: Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting is a non-commercial, volunteer-organized European event centered on free and open-source software development. It is aimed at developers and anyone interested in the free and open-source software movement. It aims to enable developers to meet and to promote the awareness and use of free and open-source software.
  FOSDEM is held annually, usually during the first weekend of February, at the Université Libre de Bruxelles Solbosch campus in the southeast of Brussels, Belgium.
context_section_description: 2001 – Event named OSDEM, started by a team of five people.  Organized in two months.
  2002 – Event renamed to FOSDEM, at the request of Richard Stallman.  Attendance grew to a few thousand.
  2003
  Keynotes: The History of Free Software (Jon 'Maddog' Hall), FSF (Richard Stallman)
  Tracks: databases, desktop, education, multimedia, security, toolkit, tutorials
  Developer rooms: embedded software, gnome developers, GNUstep, KDE, Mozilla, PostgreSQL
  2004
  Keynotes:  The open source paradigm shift (Tim O'Reilly), FSF (Richard Stallman)
  Tracks: accessibility, Java, Linux kernel, Scripting languages, security, X&Co
  Developer rooms: Debian, Java, OpenMosix, MySQL, Embedded software, KDE, Mozilla, Tcl
  Tutorials, unofficial talks served as a platform for ad hoc talks.
  2005
  Keynotes: Wikipedia (Jimmy Wales), FSF (Richard Stallman)
  Tracks: Desktop, Development tools, GRID/Clusters, Linux kernel, Packaging tools, security
  Developer rooms: Calibre, Clustering, Dokeos, Embedded software, Gnome, GNU Hurd, KDE, Opengroupware, PHP/Pear, GNU Classpath, Debian, Drupal, Gentoo, GNUstep, Jabber, Mozilla, Perl, Tcl
  Unofficial talks were again present.
  2006
  Keynotes: Richard Stallman, GPLv3 discussion
  Tracks: Desktop, Development, Security, Systems, Voice over IP, Web 2.0
  Developer rooms: Ada, GNU Classpath, Embedded software, Gnome, Jabber, Linux on Laptops, Opengroupware, Tcl/Tk, Calibre, Debian, Gentoo, GNUstep, KDE, Mozilla, openSUSE, X.org
  2007
  Keynotes: OLPC (Jim Gettys), Liberating Java (Simon Phipps)
  Tracks:
  main tracks: Opening/closing talks, Security, Desktop applications, Development and languages, Kernel, Web, Internet Services
  side tracks: Lightning Talks, Key signing party
  Developer rooms: CrossDesktop, KDE, Gnome, openSUSE, Mozilla, GNU Classpath+OpenJDK DevJam, CentOS+Fedora, Jabber, OpenGroupware+GNUstep, Python, Research Room, X.org, Gentoo, Debian, Embedded
  2008
  Keynotes: "Tux with Shades, Linux in Hollywood" (Robin Rowe), How a large scale opensource project works (Robert Watson), Status update of Software Patents (Pieter Hintjens)
  Tracks: Opening/Closing talks, Languages, Build Systems, Games, Packaging, Virtualization, Web
  Developer rooms: BSD+PostgreSQL, CentOS+Fedora, CrossDesktop, Debian, Drupal, Embedded, Free Java, GNOME, JBoss, Mozilla, OpenOffice.org, openSUSE, Research Room, Ruby on Rails, X.org
  There were lightning talks about miscellaneous subjects.
  2009
  Keynotes: "Free. Open. Future?" (Mark Surman), Debian (Bdale Garbee), Google Summer of Code: A behind the scenes look at a large scale community (Leslie Hawthorn)
  Tracks: Distributions, Languages, Security, Systems, Collaboration, Kernel
  Developer rooms: Ada, BSD+PostgreSQL, CentOS+Fedora, CrossDesktop, Debian, Drupal, Embedded, Free Java, GNOME, GNUStep+Groupware, Jabber+XMPP, KDE, Mozilla, OpenOffice.org, openSUSE, Ruby on Rails, X.org
  There were lightning talks about miscellaneous subjects.
  Various activities: Key Signing Party, Open Source Initiative special session, etc.
  2011
  Keynotes: "Why Political Liberty Depends on Software Freedom More Than Ever" (Eben Moglen), "LLVM and Clang" (Chris Lattner), "How kernel development goes wrong and why you should be a part of it anyway" (Jonathan Corbet)
  Tracks: Systems, Web browsing, Cloud, Languages, Office, Web frameworks
  Developer rooms: Crossdesktop, Data analytics, Cross distro, Embedded, Free Java, GNU, Jabber & XMPP, Mono, Mozilla, MySQL & friends, Security & hardware crypto, World of GNUstep, Accessibility, Configuration & Systems management, LibreOffice, New challenges in virtualization, Open source telephony, Perl, PostgreSQL
  There were lightning talks about miscellaneous subjects.
  Various activities: PGP key signing, certifications, beer drinking, etc.
  2012
  Keynotes: "Free Software: A viable model for Commercial Success" (Robert Dewar), "A new OSI for a new decade" (Simon Phipps), "Re-thinking system and distro development" (Lars Wirzenius), "Freedom, out of the box!" (Bdale Garbee)
  Tracks: Future of UI, Hypervisors, Network and IO, System, Community, Development
  Developer rooms: Ada, CrossDesktop, CrossDistribu
caption: FOSDEM 2017
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