 hello world is this is this thing on yeah oh good hi I'd like to welcome you to the 8th edition of FOSDEM and yeah well as you see we are still here I'd like to say a couple of words about the pink elephants event yesterday some of you might recognize this little street here with a couple of bars or maybe not because there were about 400 geeks crowding are there any survivors any amazing amazing that's good I think this year's beer event was a success compared to last year's disaster I have a number of statistics for you there were more than 400 geeks I was handing out these these pointers and I ran out so there were more than 400 of you the total bill was well over 5000 euro I think it was actually over 8000 but I lost count somewhere along the way I gave up at midnight and when I got home I started counting what I had left in my pockets and I found 1600 euro so thank you for these contributions they will contribute to the next edition of FOSDEM and then there's another little thing if you see this guy he started this fantastic little event and he decided to go and do something different like organize another conference we would like to invite him to our little FOSDEM dance for all-time sake rough don't run away if you see him walking around here return him to the info stand so we can try to give him a staff t-shirts and put him back to work because you know other conferences FOSDEM is the only conference of course now I will hand over my lovely microphone to Pascal who has a lot of practical information as opposed to impractical information thank you so probably everyone knows more or less what FOSDEM is but for those who haven't been here and are lucky to be here today I hope so it's the key part is that it's a conference which is organized by the community for the community so they're definitely events where you know booth are shiniers and whatever but it's organized by volunteers and only by volunteers we don't get paid for doing this and which is really important it works especially because of the community so it's not just as is also the many people who come here of course and the people organized developer rooms and stuff like this so it's really the community event we think so we broke we broke our record again in terms of numbers of speakers and numbers of talks again so last year we had 214 talks and we have roughly 230 this year okay the complaint we hear most is that you have so much talks to see at the same time all the time that's a complaint we can live with I guess so I think everyone should have four or five interesting talks on your focus at any times so that's better than being bored I guess right and the number of speakers around 270 that's a new record as well if we count the developer rooms and that's quite quite a lot indeed so to give you an overview of the different activities we host at first them first of all we have the main tracks and the keynotes which we are going to enjoy in a minute as soon as we are finished with this with the boring part now with the main tracks we pick six topics and we invite three speakers for for each topic and this year it's going to be programming languages games build systems virtualization web and packaging those talks are distributed across this afternoon and tomorrow morning and tomorrow afternoon in this room and shavan which is a room in another building but we're going to have a look quick look at the map in a second other activities are developer rooms we've got 15 of them for developer rooms we provide resources to open source free and open source projects who request them unfortunately we have to pick because we get a lot more demands than we have rooms it's hard to say no but we have to I guess and the projects themselves organized the schedule inside the rooms themselves so we are not responsible for that and they do the hard work on the deaf rooms actually a lot of interesting talks happening there they'll develop rooms both in the age building a lot and also a lot in the AW building so make sure to have a look over there as well stands are present in the age and the AW as well what's really important about stands is the people are there for you to talk with them so don't don't be shy if you see an interesting project or someone would like to talk to or about contributing about saying what nice project it is or do some bashing or whatever just take the occasion and go meet them they are sitting there because of that lighting talks are in the room that is near the info desk and the age and those are quick 15 minute talks where we'd like to give some presents to projects who don't have enough time or resources to organize a whole day room so they can introduce it to their project it's a rather appreciated part of the event as well on Sunday we have a key signing party for PGP and CSR which takes place at from 12 to 2 o'clock and the room near the info desk and finally there are exams for LPI and BSDA take part in two rooms two specific rooms this afternoon tomorrow morning and Sunday morning we'll have you can see the schedule which is hanging everywhere or is going to be hanging everyone but in a few minutes to have the schedule of the of the exam sessions if you haven't registered online before it doesn't matter if you still want to do it you can go there and be present register the half hour between each session so you can go there have your ID with you and you can register on site so a quick look at the map we are in the J building right now this room is Jawsong which is the largest of our conference rooms it's 1400 seats and this is going to host the keynote going to happen in a few minutes and the some of the main track talks the other half of the main track talks are going to be held in Shavan Shavan being in the U building at the top and the U building also hosts the LPI and the SDA exams now the H building hosts dev rooms and stands and the main info desk and the AW which is the red brick building on the corner don't miss don't miss it because there are a lot of developer rooms a lot of stands happening over there as well and I'm going to hand over to Christoph for the next boring part thank you thank you the boring parts like Pascal says is something that keeps fosdam alive thanks to all the donations of many visitors we can continue the non-commercial parts of fosdam we heard that a lot of people like this way we are here to talk about technical things and not about commercial things when you give a donation you can get some returns for the nation of 25 euros by example you get a free t-shirts for other amounts you get even chances to win Nokia and 810 tablets Sunworks stations magazine subscriptions etc so don't hesitate donations are done at the info desk in the H building we also have some sponsors we have the three main sponsors that's O'Reilly novel and Sun and then we have smaller sponsors that also support us very much sponsors don't only give us money but they also support us by paying travels of speakers paying hotels of speakers giving other logical and practical things so we would also like to thank them some practical information for you the info desk that's the place for all questions you can get a little booklet with the schedule etc for those with the computer we have we should have a working wireless network and cable network in some rooms the SSIDs should start with fosdam in some haker rooms there's also a wires concerning foods in the back of the Jean-Saint there is bar when you can get some cold foods and breakfasts breakfast this morning and breakfast on Sunday outside we will you will be able to have a hot food like french fries hamburgers etc if you get bottles at the bar please bring them back it's really annoying for the staff to take them by yourself everywhere and it also helps the nature we also have as usual blind visitors if you see them lost don't hesitate to help them in the information brochure there is there is also feedback form thanks to that feedback form we can make the conference better so don't hesitate to fill it in and bring it's around the info desk it should also come online in a few hours so for digital people you can do it online before we start the first real talk we have something special that every visitor should know that is the fosdam dance of course well I wanted to thank people who are organizing for them now I completely left the organization and I trust the organization the team completely and it's a big pleasure to be here as a visitor and even get the opportunity to get to do the first dance so it's really great thank you