FOSDEM is a very special kind of event, and the 2006 edition was no exception. It is organised at a university campus, it is free for attendees, and there is a massive amount of exhibitors that are involved in open source in one way or the other. It is the place to be for the open source community, no question about that.
Since there were no Java devroom at the conference this year, some dedicated members of the Java community met up at Bier Centraal on Saturday night. As always when we meet, there were some discussions and ideas coming out of it. Nobody will ever know if it is because fo the Belgian beer or not…
Among other things, we planned for how we can scramble to see if we can get the Java devroom back at FOSDEM next year.
True to tradition, Eclipse Foundation had a booth at FOSDEM. We were almost 20 present from the Foudation at FOSDEM this year, so the booth had excellent coverage from the various technologies and projects that are represented among the more than 400 projects at Eclipse Foundation. The spin-the-wheel-to-win-swag was extremely popular. As was the chance to win a Lego set in the raffle at the end of each day. FOSDEM is an excellent event for us to meet and talk to the open source community.
