Conferences/FOSDEM 2012

Introduction

FOSDEM 2012 (the Free and Open Source Software Developers' Europe Meeting) will take place on Saturday, February 4 and Sunday, February 5, 2012 in Brussels, Belgium.

This year, as in previous years, the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) will have both a devroom and a promotional booth. Previous FOSDEM meetings have provided us with a good platform for raising the profile of XMPP and spreading knowledge of XMPP projects and initiatives throughout the open source community.

FOSDEM 2012 will be bracketed by Summit 11 on Friday, February 3 and Monday, February 6. This year, the Summit will be taking place just outside of Brussels at facilities kindly provided by Cisco. Head over to the Summit 11 page for more details.

Getting involved in FOSDEM 2012

The XSF needs your help to make FOSDEM a success. You can get involved in three ways:

Give a Devroom Talk

From 11:00 to 19:00 on Saturday (the 5th February) we'll have access to a devroom to host tutorials, demonstrations, presentations and "lightning talks". The XMPP devroom is usually very popular, attracting a large, technically literate audience (so no marketing fluff allowed!)...

If you want to see the sort of talks we've seen in the past, then head over the the pages for Summit 10/FOSDEM 2011, Summit 8/FOSDEM 2010 and Summit 6/FOSDEM 2009.

If you're interested in giving a talk, please introduce yourself on the summit mailing list.

As talk subjects are accepted they'll be inserted into a table below.

Speaker	Topic
Dave Cridland	Welcome to XMPP	11:00 - 11:15
Remko Tronçon, Peter Saint-Andre, Kevin Smith	Everything you ever wanted to know about XMPP but were afraid to ask	11:15 - 12:00
Winfried Tilanus	HelpIM - Building a Webchat? DON'T DO WHAT I DID!	12:00 - 12:30
Dave Cridland	Plastique	12:30 - 13:00
Stefan de Konink	PubSub in the Dutch Railways API	13:00 - 13:30
Simon Tennant	buddycloud: Open Social Networking	13:30 - 14:00
Dodo	See You on the Other Side: Building on XMPP and the web	14:00 - 14:30
Dominik Renzel	Interwidget Communication with XMPP and Apache Rave	14:30 - 15:00
Michiel de Jong	User Address Ownership in the Federated Social Web	15:00 - 15:30
Emil Ivov	Jingle, the Universe and Everything	15:30 - 16:00
Hiro Suzuki	Multi-User Jingle	16:00 - 16:30
Gunnar Hellstrom	Real-Time Text in XMPP	16:30 - 17:00
Hiro Suzuki	Event Visualization with XMPP in Emergency Call Systems	17:00 - 17:30
Hirotaka Sato	State of Internationalization Support in XMPP Servers	17:30 - 18:00
Peter Saint-Andre	XMPP Service Directories	18:00 - 18:30
Jérôme Poisson	Salut à Toi: a multi-frontend, multi-purpose XMPP client	18:30 - 18:45
Florian Zeitz and Jonathan Schleifer	XMPP Development in Objective-C	18:45 - 19:00

Help at the Real Time Lounge

This year, we have an enormous stand that needs filling with people! We're aiming to showcase exciting and inventive XMPP-based projects, and we need your help both to provide things to demo, and hang out answering questions from the crowd.

Also, please sign up for a shift at the lounge so that our hardworking volunteers can do things like eat lunch or catch some talks at the devroom! The lounge hours are 10:00-19:00 on Saturday and 10:00-17:00 on Sunday.

Demos

Here is a list of demo ideas:

• « Salut à Toi »: multi-frontends XMPP Client. About, contact: Jérôme Poisson aka Goffi (email: goffi@goffi.org, jid: goffi@jabber.fr). Note: I will be present at FOSDEM.

• Real-time encrypted video between the Lounge and the Jitsi booth.

• buddycloud: buddycloud is an open social network based on XMPP. We will be demoing the whole weekend and offering an install-a-thon on sunday. We will be hang out in the real time lounge the whole time, so just come by if you are interested or send us an email

• OpenOV In the past months we have integrated the Dutch Railways API into a PubSub. This resulted in a component (Python/SleekXMPP) where users can subscribe on and automatically receive events once there are changes on the track. For demonstration purposes we have build an HTTP frontend, so people could also use service discovery and getItems using REST if they prefer so. One of the webapps that was created was 42transit.com using BOSH and anonymous SASL login (eJabberd). More apps are being created, and the rail-only pubsub is now transformed in a multimodal, realtime transit API over XMPP. Contact: Stefan de Konink.

• Plastique is a proof of concept web browser that exposes a set of simple primitives to the running web application via a simple JavaScript API, including concepts such as a federated identity based on your jid, "web presence", and notifications that can survive the tab being closed - or even a different browser being used on a different machine. Contact is Dave Cridland, or Dave Cridland.

Saturday Volunteers

Time Slot	Volunteers
10:00 - 11:00	Peter Saint-Andre
11:00 - 12:00	Emil Ivov
12:00 - 13:00	Jérôme Poisson (Goffi)
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 - 15:00
15:00 - 16:00
16:00 - 17:00
17:00 - 18:00
18:00 - 19:00

Sunday Volunteers

Time Slot	Volunteers
10:00 - 11:00	Peter Saint-Andre
11:00 - 12:00	Emil Ivov
12:00 - 13:00	Peter Saint-Andre
13:00 - 14:00	Jérôme Poisson (Goffi)
14:00 - 15:00	Peter Saint-Andre
15:00 - 16:00
16:00 - 17:00	Peter Saint-Andre

Sponsor

It is traditional for the XSF to hold its annual dinner one evening after FOSDEM. This year, we've moved from Sunday to Saturday, and we'll have a bus leave from FOSDEM to take us. We always aim to make the dinner - including drinks - free to XSF members. Sponsorship from individuals or organisations to help reduce the costs to attendees is always appreciated. As sponsors step forward they'll be listed below.

If you or the organisations you work for would like to sponsor the dinner (no donation too small), then please contact XSF Board Member (and dinner organiser) Florian Jensen.

The location of the XSF Dinner is the usual place. Spaces are limited, so if you think you might be attending, please inform Florian Jensen as soon as possible.