Conferences/FOSDEM 2014

= Introduction =

FOSDEM 2014 (the Free and Open Source Software Developers' Europe Meeting) will take place on Saturday, February 1 and Sunday, February 2, 2014 in Brussels, Belgium.

This year the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) will host the Realtime Lounge together with Jitsi. There will also be a few XMPP related talks in the IoT Dev room and Lightning Talks.

FOSDEM 2014 will be preceded by XMPP Summit 15. See there for details.

= Getting involved in FOSDEM 2014 =

The XSF needs your help to make FOSDEM a success!

IoT Dev room
The IoT Dev room will have at least one talk on XMPP and Internet of Things. Come and join discussions and show of devices based on XMPP

Help at the Realtime Lounge
This year, we will again have an enormous stand, together with Jitsi, called the Realtime Lounge. 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 volunteer to spend some time 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
We are planning to host demonstrations at the lounge. If you would like to present a demo, please list it below.


 * Iot devices: a few XMPP connected devices such as raspberries and alike (Joachim Lindborg)

Sponsor
It is traditional for the XSF to hold a dinner one evening during FOSDEM and the Summit. Details to follow.

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 any XSF Board Member

= Who will be there =

Please add your name if you plan to be there:


 * Dave Cridland
 * Joachim Lindborg
 * Ralph Meijer
 * Edwin Mons
 * Steffen Larsen
 * Simon Tennant
 * Lloyd Watkin
 * Winfried Tilanus
 * Stefan Strigler

= Related activities at FOSDEM =


 * On Sunday there will be a developer room for IoT things. Joachim will present XMPP in the world of IoT.
 * Emil Ivov will do a lightning talk on Jitsi.