Igalia goes to FOSDEM 2012

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"As has become tradition, Igalia will be present at FOSDEM, the biggest FLOSS developer event in..."

For the 6th consecutive year, Igalia will be present at FOSDEM, The Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting, a two-day event organised by volunteers in Brussels, Belgium this weekend (4 - 5 February).

Besides enjoying good beer, savouring delicious chocolate and snacking on tasty waffles, Igalians will be giving talks. Look for Igalians in the following sessions:

Guillaume Emont will explain how to take pictures of hippies from an aerial point of view with balloons and a bit of hacking in his lightning talk: Hacking in the real world: photography from above. Saturday 13.40 in room Ferrer.

Alejandro Piñeiro (API), one of our accessibility experts, will deliver a talk entitled GNOME 3.4 accessible: Status, news, future, in which he will explain the current status and future of accessibility in GNOME. Sunday at 9.15 in room H.1308 as part of the CrossDesktop Devroom.

Diego Pino, a long time hacker currently focused on the LibrePlan community, will deliver a lightning talk about LibrePlan on Sunday at 11.20, room Ferrer. Do not miss this opportunity to get to know more about a rising open alternative for project planning.

Mario Sánchez and Philippe Normand from our WebKit team will deliver a joint talk entitled: WebKitGTK+ status and roadmap to WebKit2. This will happen on Sunday at 15.00 in room H.1308 as part of the CrossDesktop Devroom.

Xan López, long time GNOME hacker, will conduct a talk entitled: Web Applications in GNOME. In which he will explain how to build applications with web technologies that will play well with the GNOME platform. Sunday at 16.20, also in room H.1308, CrossDesktop Devroom.

Apart from our speakers, many more Igalians are also travelling to FOSDEM to enjoy the event, meet friends and support the open source development community: Antía Puentes, Xabier Rodríguez, Joaquim Rocha, Adrián Pérez, Felipe Erias, Carlos López, Javier Muñoz and Andy Wingo, together with some students of our Master on Free Software, complete the Igalian expedition to FOSDEM 2012.

Be prepared for extreme cold and enjoy FOSDEM!