The third edition of the fOSSa conference is coming soon!
26th, 27th and 28th October 2011, Lyon (France)
Thanks to the success of 2009 & 2010 editions, we are pleased to announce fOSSa conference 2011!
At fOSSa people discuss in an open-minded context about:
- what tech people are actually doing and innovating
- which are the upcoming issues & challenges in the open development context
- how open activities, collaboration and knowledge sharing is beneficial to academia, education & industry.
fOSSa 2011 program includes talks about Education, Online Community Management, New Innovating Development & Contribution Paradigm, Openness and OSS trends. Moreover, a special easy-to-go live demo session is scheduled: any OSS fan can present its project.
This year the conference welcomes various well-known free and opensource software figures such as
- Simon Phipps (ForgeRock, OSI board),
- Francois Elie (Adullact président),
- Adrian Bowyer (RepRap Open Hardware 3D Printers),
- Roberto Di Cosmo (IRILL),
- Francois Bancilhon (Open Data initiative),
- Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine (Oracle, Angel or Deamon?),
- Nicolas De Loof (CloudBees),
- Philippe Scoffoni (Consultant) and,
- Milo Casagrande (Ubuntu).
fOSSa 2011, sponsored by HP Open Source Division and Live Projects, is co-organized by INRIA, IRILL, INSA de Lyon (CITI Lab) and Engineering Group.
fOSSa conference is a joint effort of passionate people who believe in the openness as the way to create new meanings & tangible results with respect, trust, transparency & open collaboration. If you share our envision, support us!
fOSSa days are open to everyone, with free registration but with places being limited. We are waiting for you: registration are open!
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Dear All, First of all, thank you ever so much for participating in fOSSa 2011 and contributing to the successful outcomes of the event! It was a real nice and creative moment: THANKS! Special thanks go to all the speakers which have given their valuable contribution to the discussion [...]
Here are some pictures taken during the conference last week You can also look at them through flickr as well 
Here are Nancy White skecth notec taken during the fOSSa 2011 conference (low resolution but click on the picture to get the bigger version!).
No you don't dream! fOSSa members are taking the famous fOSSa tshirt all over the wortd and take pictures… Here the one takem from Spago/Enginnering Group (Andrea Gioia) in China!!!!
We have another surprise for you! Indeed, Dave Neary (Famous OSS contributor - Gnome, Gimp, Meego, MeeGo, Maemo & Openwengo projects) will be present on Friday 28th of October 2011 at fOSSa.. He will present a special talk about the future: Technology – Invisible or Ubiquitous? Science fiction films have [...]
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