Have you been to FOSDEM? It’s a yearly two-day megaconference in Brussels, every first weekend of February. Thousands of software and hardware hackers from all across Europe come here each year, make ...

Every year, on the first weekend of February, a certain Brussels university campus livens up. There, you will find enthusiasts of open-source software and hardware alike, arriving from different ...

FOSDEM got its start in 2000 as the "Open Source Developers of Europe Meeting" (OSDEM). It added "Free" to the mix in 2001, at the request of Richard Stallman, according to the conference's about page ...

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In his talk at FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting) 2012 in Brussels, Kristian Høgsberg gave an overview of the Wayland display system, where it comes from and how the ...

Since its first version, originally called "Babykit" by Kay Sievers and Lennart Poettering after the Linux Plumbers Conference 2009, Systemd has become one of the more important projects around Linux.