Saturday

• 11:45 to 12:30 Evil On the Internet
  

  This talk will show you live examples of these sites, explain how they work, and tell you what we currently know about the criminals who operate them.
  There’s a lot of evil things on the Internet if you know where to look for them. Phishing websites collect banking credentials; mule recruitment websites entice people into money laundering; fake escrow sites defraud the winners of online auctions; fake banks hold the cash for fake African dictators; and there are even Ponzi scheme websites where (almost) everyone knows that they’re a scam. This talk will show you live examples of these sites, explain how they work, and tell you what we currently know about the criminals who operate them.

• 13:15 to 13:45 Mozilla Europe
  

  General Introduction followed by an update on the work of Mozilla in Europe.

• 13:45 to 14:00 Mozilla Foundation
  

  Latest MoFo news and projects.

• 15:30 to 16:30 HTML5
• 17:00 to 17:15 csync: Roaming Home Directories
  

  his talk will be about a file synchronizer designed for the normal user. I will tell you how it and works and how you can use it to synchronize your music collection or set it up for Roaming Home Directories.
  csync is a lightweight utility to synchronize files between two directories on a system or between multiple systems.
  It synchronizes bidirectionally and allows the user to keep two copies of files and directories in sync. csync uses widely adopted protocols, such as smb or sftp, so that there is no need for a server component. It is a user-level program which means you don’t need to be a superuser or administrator.
  Together with a Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM), the intent is to provide Roaming Home Directories for Linux.

• 16:45 to 17:45 Mozilla Sync/Weave
  

  How Weave and in particular sync is going to integrate with Firefox through 2010 and Firefox 4.
  There will be some discussion on how add-on authors can integrate with Weave starting now, and directions being made to surface this data in the browser.

• 18:00 to 18:15 SyncEvolution: From the SyncML Protocol to Free and Open Implementations
  

  Data synchronization is still mostly a missing piece in the free desktop puzzle: solutions that are reliable and ready for the mythical Average User just aren’t available. This talk presents the SyncML protocol, introduces the Synthesis SyncML engine (developed since 2000, open sourced 2009) and outlines how SyncEvolution is used as the synchronization solution in Moblin, GNOME and other Linux desktop systems – stay tuned for more news about this.
  SyncEvolution is meant to be a cross-platform solution, therefore this talk would be suitable for the cross-desktop developer room.
  Direct synchronization with other mobile devices is the main new feature in the upcoming Moblin 1.0 release. It will be covered in this talk for the first time.
  SyncEvolution is a tool that synchronizes personal information management (PIM) data like contacts, calenders, tasks, and memos using the SyncML information synchronization standard. SyncEvolution compiled for GNOME’s Evolution supports all of these data items. Compiled for Nokia 770/800/810 Internet Tablets, Mac OS X and the iPhone (only 0.7), it supports synchronizing the system address book. The command-line tool ‘syncevolution’ (compiled separately for each of these platforms) executes the synchronization. In addition, there is the GTK “sync-UI”. The external Genesis is a graphical frontend for SyncEvolution written in PyGTK. The GUIs make SyncEvolution accessible without having to use a command line and provides graphical feedback of transaction results.
  SyncEvolution was written to have a small, reliable solution for Evolution PIM data synchronization without reinventing the wheel. SyncML is the established industry standard and Funambol has kindly provided their source code under the GPL, so there was already an existing code base for client and server development. During SyncEvolution’s development special attention was paid to automated testing and coverage of corner cases of the SyncML, vCard and iCalendar standards to ensure that no data gets lost or mangled.
  The focus right now is to deliver the best possible SyncML client for Moblin and Linux. With the switch to the Synthesis SyncML Engine it will be easier to also implement a server mode and direct device-to-device synchronization – this is already working in the 1.0 alpha release.

• 18:20 to 18:35 GeeXboX: An Introduction to Enna Media Center
  

  Enna is GeeXboX’s next generation Media Center interface, built upon Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL). It allows you to listen to your music files, watch your favorite movies, TV shows and photos across your network. It relies on libplayer multimedia A/V abstraction framework to control your preferred player and libvalhalla, a fast media scanner API that will grab metadata (covers, fan arts, song lyrics and so many more) from your multimedia contents.
  GeeXboX is a free embedded Linux distribution which aims at turning your computer into a so called HTPC (Home Theater PC) or Media Center. The GeeXboX project features both a LiveCD distribution and a standalone media center application (Enna); the project developed also several libraries (libplayer, libvalhalla) to enhance the multimedia experience under GNU/Linux.

Sunday

• 11:00 to 11:45 Tor: Building, Growing, and Extending Online Anonymity
  

  A review and update on Tor, how open source solutions work well worldwide, where we’re headed, and where we need help from developers like you.
  Tor is a tool to protect your online privacy and anonymity. We rely on thousands of volunteers to run our network, review our code, and help enhance the experience for all.

I’m still not sure if I’ll make it for the Friday evening beer event.
It all depends on whether I find a place to stay for the night.
But I’ll be at the Ubuntu Dinner on Saturday evening!

Hope to see you there.

Interesting links:
Fosdem Homepage
Ubuntu @ Fosdem Wiki Page
Fosdem Mailinglist
Flickr Fosdem 2010 Pictures and foto’s
Press & Promotional material

On the 9th of may, there will be a Jaunty release party in Ghent! (free entrance)

The goal(s):

• to provide general information on Ubuntu, Linux & FOSS, and show them you don’t need to be a pro to start using it
• guiding people trough the sea of alternatives for proprietary software such as MS Office, Live Messenger, Photoshop, Publisher, Windows Media Player, Picture managers,…
• help people getting Ubuntu installed on their laptop if they bring one along
• show each-other nice tweaks you’ve got up your sleeves or admire the work of others
• demo’s on how to use Ubuntu in an efficient way
• introducing people to the Ubuntu-be LoCo-team! Let them know what we do, how they benefit & help.
• hand out Ubuntu cd’s

The Audience:

• Everybody is welcome! Young people, old people, Dutch people, French people and of course all the other people, yes that means YOU!
  The talks will be kept easy to understand and not-technical so it will be a nice place to get in touch with Ubuntu, even for computer illiterates.
• We’ll expect at least 25 people, and I personally hope on a 40 to 50 people to show up.

Where?

This event will take place in the Curieuze Neuze.
This is a resto/pub with on the upper floor a room that’s used as a showroom for artists.

Price?

This event is totally free of charge!!!!!!!!
You only have to pay for the drinks & food.
We’ll even provide the Ubuntu CD’s for free!

Yes there will be food!

It’s possible to get some delicious fresh food! It’s appreciated if you let us know what you would like 5 days in advance.
But this sure is not required. You can still order it on the spot. (it’s just to make it a little easier for the owner).
You can find the Menu & prices (except for the dish of the day) here.

Subscription!
Subscription is not needed but please let us know if you come or not. By doing this we can take the necessairy steps to make it a more comfortable evening for everyone.

Subscribe now!

We still need:

• people eager to show some cool and not too technically advanced stuff
• someone to talk about how they integrate(d) Ubuntu, Linux and FOSS in a successful business model
• as many people as we can to promote this event on the work-floor, family, school, social networking sites, forums, etc…
• people to let us know what they expect.

More info:

• Ubuntu-nl Forum
• Ubuntu-be Wiki BelgianTeam/ReleaseParty/Jaunty/Ghent
• wiki.ubuntu.com
• Releaseparty.eu
• ubuntu-party.be
• Mailinglist [subscribe here]
• On IRC: #ubuntu-be @ Freenode or use the webchat

I’ll hope to see you there!