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In the coming weeks I’ll be giving three talks at free software-related events in Europe:

• At the LinuxDays.lu on February 20th in Luxemburg
  The talk, titled Getting one million to know Linux: why it matters and how we do it, will be one of the two footnote talks of the event. It will cover the main activities of GNU/Linux Matters and give a few insights on marketing for free software developers.
• At FOSDEM on February 24th in Brussels, Belgium
  This will be the same talk as in the Linuxdays.lu – it’s not part of the main schedule but will be given in the room shared by the Fedora and CentOS communities.
• At the Chemnitzer Linux Tage on March 1st in Chemnitz, Germany
  This is a new talk, Good code just didn’t cut it: Projekte für die nächste Million User neu durchdenken (in German). I’ll spend much less time than usual on the overall market position of free software; and focus instead on what really matters to developers. I think of it as the 24C3 talk, with a lot less strategy, and a lot more practical application.

If you turn up at any of these events, don’t hesitate to come by and have a chat!
Olivier.

The 24th Chaos Communication Congress (24C3) closed its doors last Sunday in Berlin. Olivier gave a talk there and otherwise thoroughly enjoyed the event ;-)

The conference was the last edition of “Overtaking Proprietary Software Without Writing Code“. The video recording (100MB, mkv¹) is of excellent quality and features legible slides, clear audio, and video mixing. The talk slides (ODT or PDF) are also available separately. Finally, a two-page-excerpt has been published in the Congress Proceedings – all are available under a CC-BY-SA license.

Some very special thanks go to the CCC crew who participated towards travel costs and did such a superb job organising and running the congress.

We’re now heading to various other events in Europe with other conferences to come. See you there!

1. the video format is OGG Theora inside a Matroska container. It can be read using the VLC program. Alternatively, an mpeg-4 (mp4) version is available. [↩]

I am back from Extremadura, Spain, where I attended for four days to the 10th HispaLinux International Congress. It was a wonderful event, well-organized by Iniciativa Focus, HispaLinux and the Government of Extremadura, who made an excellent job, by the way.

I met many people from several countries, who work in Free Software-related organizations as well. I also gave a conference titled “La importancia de los usuarios no informáticos en el triunfo del software libre” (The Importance of Non-Technical Users for Free Software to Win), whose slides are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Spain License.

The conference was recorded by Iniciativa Focus, and should be online soon; I will update this post when I know it’s been released.

I thank the organizers for supporting us, helping us to make our projects known within the Free Software community (and beyond) and, especially, for the excellent treatment I received for the last four days.

PS: There’s also a PDF edition of the slides.

PPS: As of Jan 21st, 2008, the video of the conference has not been published, yet.