FOSDEM 2009
13 Feb 09 at 12:24 | 
fosdem, gentoo, lxde
Last Saturday I was at FOSDEM, the yearly European meeting of Free Software developers in Brussels. It was very nice to meet fellow devs, especially those from the Gentoo KDE team, as I chat with them on a daily basis in the #gentoo-kde IRC channel.
I also met up with Mario Behling and Christoph Wickert, from the LXDE project, which seems to be gaining a lot of momentum (several distros such as the famous Knoppix liveCD now offer LXDE as default desktop or lightweight option). They had a so called “Lightning Talk” with a 15 minute slideshow presentation. I spoke to them after the talk about the recent developments in LXDE, the growth of the community, and the need for some talented volunteers to work on offering more themes. LXDE themes would be a combined package of a matching Openbox theme and GTK2 theme, possibly with an iconset added. A wiki page is in the making, and there may be a contest later.
All in all, FOSDEM was a success, especially the social aspect. I hope to go for the whole weekend next year. What about you? Did you enjoy FOSDEM this year? And are you planning to go next year?
