 Let me start off by saying welcome. Welcome to FOSDEM 2011. Yeah, so I Hope you know why you're here and what this conference is about. So this is FOSDEM, the free and open source developers here being meeting This year we have more than 300 talks. I counted yesterday 326 to be precise. That's a lot With more than 300 speakers 204 I think so that's exciting FOSDEM itself is organized entirely by volunteers, which makes it quite unique It's also free of course and well It started out on February 2001 and this is the 11th edition. Last year we celebrated our 10 years Now what what does our schedule look like? Well, we have three keynotes namely even Moglen Chris Latner and Jonathan Corbett-Johnton will talk tomorrow and even and Chris are after this welcome talk And we have six main tracks They will also happen here and in the other room about system and browsing and these are all invited talks But that's not all we also have 25 developer rooms spread over the two days So lots of projects and talks and 32 lightning talks. Now if we sum this up Then then this amounts to 201 hours and 10 minutes of talks. That's totally amazing But luckily it's spread over two days. So it's only 100 hours today Now Actually, I would especially like to thank the speakers and Mark told me that I couldn't fit all of the 304 speakers on the slide. So I decided to prove him wrong and If you want you can even verify it Okay Now the booklet. This is the booklet You can get it at the info desk. It contains lots of practical information about this conference So the first thing is of course general information the necessary things of live network and food and also some other things The second thing is maps. So if you get lost Well, then it's too late But before you get lost get a booklet there maps on it And it also indicates the important things like food and the bar and foobar and all that stuff Okay, the schedule of course is also in it. That's actually most of it and and there's more now For those that already who already has a booklet. Can you raise your hand? Okay, nice Well, I do have some bad news. It's it's kind of static Which means that some some part of the schedule already changed as you can see there most notably there's a web bruising track talk added now What I'd like to ask especially is who has got one of those smartphones. Can you raise your hand if you have a smartphone? all right Because we of course a schedule is also online Maybe even more practical forms more elaborate forms It contains the descriptions and everything and there are plenty of ways to go to to get the schedule namely Just go to the website with any device. We also have a mobile version m.phosem.org and then plenty of applications for all sorts of Smartphones so if you just go to the website you should be set and have the very latest schedule all the time with you okay now Some localization perhaps well, that's not localization. Anyway, you're here. This is the Jean-Sol building Mark and The main tracks will be happening here, but also in Chavan, which is where the other arrow points to it's a conveniently located far away from here So that you do some exercise Now the the dev rooms and the stands they will they are in the in the H building and the AW building They double you building again a short walk, but that's to keep you fresh now The dev rooms there's something I need to tell you about the dev rooms. The dev rooms will be full It's true. I guaranteed you they will be full so if There's this fantastic dog that you're in and you say like I still have two minutes to go to this other talk in this other room and you You know you run or Then you'll probably encounter this sign Every every room has one and if this sign is shown then please do not enter the room So every room has a certain capacity if we if we Go over it by too far then the security gets angry at us and they kick us out of not only that room But this entire facility and Fossum will be over So we don't take this lightly and if if you would see somebody that is so rude as to ignore this sign Then don't hesitate to be rude back to him, right? on the other hand if You plan your schedule in whatever way ahead of time and you arrive When it's still when it's not full yet, then of course you're free to enter okay Now onto something lighter or well perhaps heavier Food Belgian fries the second best reason to come to Fossum and Belgium in general The first best reason we will see later But so there of course will be plenty of Belgian fries and also sandwiches hamburgers pizza and pasta the last two are new additions this year Where can you find them? Here in the back of this building. There's you can get sandwiches there and then When the other arrow points to there will be the fries and the pizza fans now as you can see they haven't arrived yet But by lunchtime they will Can you go back? Of course, they're also local shops around so if you if you follow the arrow upwards There's also a map in the booklet then you will find restaurants and shops and all that you want yes the very best reason to come to Fossum and Belgium the beer of course and beer and beer and Beer and you might have been at the beer event yesterday So there's more here There's a you can get it again very close to the to where you are right now Close to the source and the other location is a bit further away But it's worth to go there because it's a lot larger there. It's more quiet. It's warm It's cozy. So if you need a break if it too many people then you can go to the other bar And and hang around there Okay so Of course the conference is more than just beer fries and talks What you also have is a cloakroom So if you have a big luggage and coats and everything then you can store them safely away It's also indicated in the booklet and indicated with arrows We have hacker rooms you can check your email there. There's also wired internet So for those that still don't have a decent driver for their wireless cart you can Should be should be very few though The key signing party that's on Sunday And then on Sunday, we also have a buff room That's a room in which you yourself can can schedule a part of it And the way to do this is that in the AW building on one of the walls on the left There's the schedule and you can just write down your name And so you can reserve 15 or 30 or 45 minutes of that room for your project So you can have a sit together and do some brainstorming or hacking And the last see there are also certification exams now again see the website or the booklet for more information Now networking I Don't think anybody disagrees that networking is an essential part of any conference So let's go in to do so more detail about it Right now what's special about our network? Mark is that the we have a one gigabit uplink and is provided for free by Belnet to us. That's Incredibly awesome and fast What's also incredibly nice is that the backbone is actually from the ulb So there's a university Libre de Bruxelles the guys owning everything of this and they they allow us to use their fibers and to use their access points and And the last part is that there are some guys from Cisco who are extremely helpful and They also for free they decided to come here and set up the wireless network entirely for us We're incredibly lucky to have them and if we go along in this direction To our official sponsors O'Reilly is our cornerstone sponsor and the ulb again. They provide us these facilities for free and Without that, I mean for them wouldn't be for free and this wouldn't be possible and Well the atmosphere and everything would just be totally different So a big thanks to them and also to our other all our other sponsors Now you Can also sponsor us because sponsors is only one part. I think about half of Of what what we use to run for them and the other parts are the donations Right so in the info desk at the in the age building You can donate and if you donate some money then you get stuff and you can win stuff The first three things is what you get Depending on on how much you donate and the last three things are what you can win If you donate and so the the draw for the donations draw will be in Sunday just before the closing talk Well, yeah, then of course there's One last thing especially if you've been to foster them before work, can you so There's this thing called The mythical foster dance it started out in 2006 as a It's a story between the the two guys that started for them And then every year more and more people Joined in to do the foster dance and last year we celebrated our 10th anniversary with everybody doing the foster dance together so Yeah, it was fun, but how how do we improve that? How can we do even better that? So one one of the remarks that we got is that you know, it's called the foster dance But it's not really a dance And they kind of have a point there so we're going to do something about it Of course, you cannot dance without music and that's where you guys are going to come in Okay, so let just follow me here. Let's let's try something Okay, I'm going to ask everybody to clap at the same time only only this part And you guys are coming in a minute. So everybody so when I clap you just join me. All right, I was going to say Okay, but no, that's just bad. Okay. Let's try again one one clap. Okay, we're going to try the same here All right, so one clap two claps Excellent now you guys Something different. Make sure that there's some space in front of you because there's this fantastic wooden Soundboard sitting in front of you, right? So if I do this then I'm going to ask you to just slam the Soundboard as hard as you can. All right, so That's why I'll do it store, right? Okay, now we're going to create a little bit more so when I do when I do this I want both sides to clap and when I do this I want the middle side to well to make all right. Are you ready? Okay, okay, so okay slight variation Light clap Perfect perfect. Oh, well not perfect, but really good Okay, I think that we have the bass set now So the music is there. I guess that leaves the Fossum them itself. So can I ask the the staff that's here to join us? So you will be providing the music and we will be doing a real Fossum dance now. They don't know what to do. So I'll shortly explain No, so the rhythm is going to be the same thing as as mark just demonstrated. Let's yeah do it again Okay, that's going to be the rhythm go go ahead. Yeah Okay, and what we do is left foot back Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait