Dries Buytaert

FOSDEM 2008 pictures

I spent a lot of time talking in the conference hallways at FOSDEM last Sunday, so I only took a handful of pictures of what went on in the Drupal developer room.

Drupal and MySQL hIgh-availability

While I invited Kris Buytaert to present at the Drupal developer room at FOSDEM, I couldn't make it to his presentation as it was scheduled for the last presentation of the day. Oops! Fortunately, Luc Van Braekel recorded almost all Drupal presentations at FOSDEM so I'm sharing the video of Kris's presentation to make up for it. It's is well worth a look, and no, we are not family.

Drupal schedule for FOSDEM 2008

On Sunday, February 24, we'll have a Drupal day at FOSDEM, Europe's biggest Free and Open Source software conference.

FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organized by the community, for the community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet. The Drupal project was granted a developer room at FOSDEM to do exactly that: to brainstorm, to discuss and to share about Drupal.

Joeri Poesen, the Drupal devroom schedule wrestler, made the schedule for the Drupal developer room available on the FOSDEM website this week. As you can see in the summary below, it is packed with interested talks. Everyone is invited to stop by and to take part!

Time	Presentation
09:15-09:30	Welcome to the Drupal devroom (Joeri Poesen)
09:30-10:30	What's new in Drupal 6 (Gabor Hojtsy, Dries Buytaert)
10:30-11:30	Drupal Theming (Morten Heide, Bèr Kessel)
11:30-12:30	Usability and Drupal (Thomas Moseler)
12:30-13:00	Combining Amazon Web Services with Drupal (Thomas Bonte)
13:00-13:30	Asset Management in Drupal using the Asset Module (Wim Mostrey)
13:30-14:30	Introducing the Apache Solr Module (Robert Douglass)
14:30-15:30	Implementing Drupal for the Public Sector (Michel van de Ven, Frank Schaap)
15:30-16:30	Challenges for the CMS of Tomorrow and its Developers (Wouter Van den Bosch, Tanguy Coenen)
16:30-17:00	Web Service Development for Managers (Mixel Kiemen)
17:00-17:45	Drupal and MySQL High Availability (Kris Buytaert)

FOSDEM 2008: call for speakers

Mark your agendas because the Drupal project got a 200-person developer room at FOSDEM on Sunday, February 24th. FOSDEM, which stands for Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting, is a yearly free and non-commercial event for the open source community, held in Brussels (Belgium). With more than 3,000 attendees coming from all over the world, FOSDEM is the biggest open source event in Europe.

We will use the developer room to meet, discuss, and talk about Drupal. Right now, we're looking for speakers so let us know in the comments if you want to give a presentation. Alternatively, feel free to request presentation topics as well. Joeri Poesen from Krimson is the lead schedule wrestler.

FOSDEM using Drupal

While on the subject of FOSDEM, the FOSDEM 2008 site is built with Drupal. The FOSDEM site's Drupal theme was created and contributed by Netlash.

FOSDEM 2008: Drupal developer room?

FOSDEM, which stands for Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting, is a yearly free and non-commercial event for the open source community, held in Brussels (Belgium).

Each year FOSDEM sets up developer rooms where teams can meet, discuss, hack and present the latest developments about their project. Joeri Poesen from Krimson, a Belgian Drupal company, is taking the lead in trying to secure and organize a Drupal developer room at FOSDEM this year. Thanks Joeri!

(I co-organized a Drupal developer room in 2005 and can attest that it is a fun and rewarding experience.)

In order to qualify for a room, we need a number of people who are willing to present about Drupal. If you're interested, let us known in the comments or reply to Joeri's call for action or add your thoughts to the wiki. Drupal users unite!

Firefox lady at FOSDEM