A couple of weeks ago we had a great day of talks during the first Mono @ FOSDEM Developer Room. What's even more awesome is the fact that Andrius Bentkus took the effort to record all talks. Here they are, together with the slides (the ones I have). Enjoy!

09:15 - 10:00      MonoDevelop
Lluis Sanchez Gual | MP4 | YouTube | Slides

10:00 - 11:00      The Ruby and .NET love child
Ivan Porto Carrero | MP4 | YouTube | Slides

11:00 - 12:00      Mono Edge
Miguel De Icaza | MP4 | YouTube

12:45 - 13:15      The evolution of MonoTorrent
Alan McGovern | MP4 | YouTube | Slides

13:15 - 13:45      Image processing with Mono.Simd
Stéphane Delcroix | MP4 | YouTube

13:45 - 14:15      ParallelFx, bringing Mono applications in the multicore era
Jérémie Laval | MP4 | YouTube | Slides

14:30 - 15:30      Building The Virtual Babel: Mono In Second Life
Jim Purbrick | MP4 | YouTube | Slides

15:30 - 16:00      Moonlight and you
Andreia Gaita | MP4 | YouTube

16:00 - 16:30      OSCTool - learning C# and Mono by doing
Jo Shields | MP4 | YouTube | Slides

16:30 - 16:45      Smuxi - IRC in a modern environment
Mirco Bauer | MP4 | YouTube | Slides

Buy Andrius a drink if you happen to run into him. He deserves it.

Update: All videos are now on YouTube too. The MP4 ones are of much higher quality though.

Last weekend, during the tenth edition of FOSDEM, we had the joy of organizing the first ever Mono developer room. While there had been talks about Mono before (including Miguel's great presentation at FOSDEM 2007), it was still a rather underrepresented topic. For that reason, Stephane and I requested a developer room and gladly we got it.

I was very happy to see the response we got from the call for talks: a very nice selection of talks was submitted. Clearly there was great interest to present at FOSDEM. The big question though was whether we would draw a crowd or if the presenters would have to talk to an empty room.



It turned out that we had nothing to fear: we already had to close the room before 11:00 in the morning to avoid crowding. For the entire rest of the day, we had between 2/3 and full occupancy. Visitors were greeted by a nice selections of talks.



Not only did we have interesting talks, there was a good dialog going on in the room, which I enjoyed even more than the talks. There were some very interesting discussions going on and there was a general feeling of excitment.

Overall (and I think many share this feeling), we can say that the Mono room was a great succes, something we will certainly try to repeat next year. One more reason to attend FOSDEM!



An even nicer set of photos, made by Stephane Delcroix (the ones above are my photos), can be found over here: Picasa. Additionally, the awesome Andrius Bentkus took the effort to record all the talks. These videos should become available soon.

Hope to see you all next year!

Stuff to look forward to at FOSDEM 2010: The GNOME room and for the first time ever: the Mono room. And seeing everybody again, off-course. Can't wait!

I am happy to announce that the schedule for the Mono developer room at FOSDEM 2010 has been finalized. We have a lot of great talks lined up for you to enjoy:

09:00 - 09:15	Opening (Ruben Vermeersch, Stéphane Delcroix)
09:15 - 10:00	MonoDevelop (Lluis Sanchez Gual)
10:00 - 11:00	The Ruby and .NET love child (Ivan Porto Carrero)
11:00 - 12:00	Mono Edge (Miguel de Icaza)
Lunch Break
12:45 - 13:15	The evolution of MonoTorrent (Alan McGovern)
13:15 - 13:45	Image processing with Mono.Simd (Stéphane Delcroix)
13:45 - 14:15	ParallelFx, bringing Mono applications in the multicore era (Jérémie Laval)
Coffee Break
14:30 - 15:30	Building The Virtual Babel: Mono In Second Life (Jim Purbrick)
15:30 - 16:00	Moonlight and you (Andreia Gaita)
16:00 - 16:30	OSCTool - learning C# and Mono by doing (Jo Shields)
16:30 - 16:45	Smuxi - IRC in a modern environment (Mirco Bauer)
16:45 - 17:00	Closing (Ruben Vermeersch, Stéphane Delcroix)

Full abstracts should appear on the FOSDEM site soon. I am very happy with the line-up we managed to come up with, with a lot of good technical talks. Hope to see everybody there, come soon as the capacity of the room is limited!

Are you a developer hacking on or using Mono? Coming to FOSDEM 2010? Be sure to submit your talk for the developer room and do it quickly: the deadline is nearing!

More info.

I am very pleased to announce that in 2010, for the first time ever, we will have a Mono developer room at FOSDEM. This room is organized by Stephane and me, with the kind input of Andreia and many others.

As of now, you can submit your talk proposals! We want to make this a fun room and we want to accomodate all kinds of talks. For that reason, one thing we're experimenting with is having dynamic timeslots. Only want 15 minutes? That's okay! Need an hour? We'll see if we can squeeze it in! The most important factor is that it's interesting and fun.

So send in your proposals, be it large earth-shaking projects, or little hackery experiments that make you giggle with hacker joy, we want to hear it. We have the complete Sunday to schedule. Still have questions? Email me: ruben @ savanne be.

The submission form is here, go fill it in now! (Send in your proposals before December 20)

We hope to see you all in Brussels in 2010!

I recall people asking for pictures about it, but never saw one, so here it is:

Just returned from FOSDEM and it was a blast. All this energy is a huge source of motivation. The FOSS community (and the GNOME one in particular) is alive and kicking!

Nice seeing so many familiar faces again! Hope to see you all in GUADEC GCDS 2009!