Sebastian Bergmann

The second edition of the annual Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon) will take place on August 25-26 2007 at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin, Germany near the cities of Bonn and Cologne.

FrOSCon is a two day conference that revolves around a rich schedule of talks, highlighting current topics in Free Software and Open Source. Moreover, developers will be offered space to organize their own meetings or subconferences.

If you are interested in sponsoring this great event, do not hesitate to contact me!

Last night I gave an introductory talk on Gentoo Linux at the Linux / UNIX Usergroup Sankt Augustin in Bonn.

Lars Weiler and Marc Hildebrand from the Gentoo Development Team attended the meeting, too, and we used the opportunity to talk about Gentoo after my talk.

The slides I used for the presentation can be found on my Talks page.

Following Derick's example I am posting this list of venues that I will attend in the months to come:

• Linux/UNIX Usergroup Sankt Augustin in Bonn, Germany on February, 24th,
  
• Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM) in Brussels, Belgium on February, 26th,
  
• PHP Usergroup Köln/Bonn in Köln, Germany on March, 4th,
  
• Linux/UNIX Usergroup Sankt Augustin in Bonn, Germany on March, 10th,
  
• CeBIT and the Heise CeBIT Party in Hannover, Germany on March, 11th,
  
• International PHP Conference 2005 - Spring Edition on May 3rd and 4th in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  

Although the PHP Usergroup Köln/Bonn meets up every month I am mentioning its March meeting specifically above because that meeting is special. We (the usergroup) have been invited by O'Reilly Germany to their offices where we will have a couple of sessions (I will present PHPUnit, for instance) over a bowl of soup.

I will also be at LinuxTag in June in Karlsruhe, Germany and maybe at the GNOME User and Developer European Conference (GUADEC) in May in Stuttgart, Germany.

Garvin has been invited by the Linux/UNIX Usergroup Sankt Augustin to present a session on Serendipity.

Since I wanted to attend a LUUSA meeting for a while I will join Garvin on February, 24th in the Netzladen in Bonn.