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Next weekend on Sunday, February 7, we'll have a full day of Drupal talks at the 10th edition of FOSDEM, Europe's biggest, free-est and open-est software conference.

FOSDEM, is a free and non-commercial event organized by the community, for the community. Its goal is to provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet. The Drupal project was granted a developer room at FOSDEM to do exactly that: to share knowledge about Drupal.

The presentations schedule for the devroom was published a week ago on http://groups.drupal.org/fosdem. It features interesting speakers such as Robert Douglass, Károly Négyesi, Roel de Meester and Kristof van
Tomme and even more interesting subjects as mobile device design, AHAH, eID and Views 3. Everyone is invited to attend the presentations.

On Friday the giantesque beer event kicks off the conference. For Drupalistas there is a sprint on Saturday in Zaventem.

Please join, I have been to a couple of FOSDEM's and if you ever attended an Oreilly or Gartner con, you are in for a surprise :-)

FOSDEM takes place at ULB Campus Solbosch in Brussels.

I finnaly moved this website from my 15 year old pentium 166 with a load over 20 to some better iron, some decent 3 year old hardware. The new machine had a newer PHP version and my /ancient/ Drupal install was fine with that. However, I was unable to log in. Took me some time to see if this was caching or Cookie related but found it, adding
register_shutdown_function('session_write_close');
to the sessions.inc did the trick

So this website should be more stable now, and faster. I will get a new ADSL line in a couple of week upgrading to 20Mb so should be even faster in some time. With some downtime however, I will get a new IP address as well and need to change my zones when I know what this address will be.

Thank you bas for giving me "havenmeester" (aka tug) 5 years ago. Even at that time dated hardware but served me well. It is just that the fan of the CPU makes an enormous amount of noise now.

shutdown -h now.

We salute you Tug, the oldest webserver on the net :-)

What do Apache, Perl, Drupal, the Linux operating system, Google, Novell, Acquia and Joost have in common?

Leaders of these companies / Open Source projects are now all on the advisory council of the OSUOSL as you can read on the advisory page at OSUOSL and Oregonlive.com

OSUOSL is -for those who don't know- the hosting and housing party of many open source projects, such as Linux (the kernel), MythTV, Mozilla, Apache, Gnome and yes... Drupal!

Dries on the advisory council is great recognition of his talents but more, important for Drupal. We -the Drupal community- now have a more direct line towards the OSUOSL, more the "just" on the operational level we now have a line towards a more tactical / strategical level. That and Dries (and thereby the Drupal community) now has an even better connection towards Apache, Perl, the Linux operating system, Google, Novell and Joost.

I have been in datacentre and Internet routing for a bigger part of my career and the service we get from OSUOSL is worth a couple of k's per month, and we get that for free! So you might want to sponsor rack 2 of OSUOSL and thereby getting even closure to Drupal!

Congrats to Dries (well deserved) and good news for Drupal as well!

Gratis iPhone? Sure! Als je een PHP nerd kent die wil werken bij de grootste Open Source software implementator (en de leukste!) in Nederland, geef hem dan aan om te gaan solliciteren bij Dutch Open Projects en krijg gratis een iPhone.

Moet de nerd(in) wel aangenomen worden en door zijn proeftijd komen, maar dat is voor een echte PHP freak die graag met Symfony en/of Drupal werkt geen probleem. Grote klanten, mooie vila, leuke collega's en dito werk.

Kom maar op, de iPhone staat klaar voor je, kom maar op!

I wrote about the OLPC before when I wanted you to donate one. But now I am writing to the Drupal community to help ship the OLPC with Drupal on it installed by deafult. If Drupal would be on the OLPC, young users could easy write and share news, videos or photo's with each other. If you care (about Open Source, Drupal and a better world for all), please help us make this happen.

For starters, edit the wiki page on groups.drupal.org/drupal-olpc and add what you will do!

Come on, even if you dont code, you help in many wys here. Write documentation for young people, test a profiler install and dozen of other ways. Doing so will help Drupal, OLPC , yourself by feeling better but most of all, it will help us all to spread information, wellness and access to knowledge better around the world. Help now!

Be sure to read also:
wiki.laptop.org, OLPCnews, developmenseed

UPDATE: I just got a mail from teh devel list from laptop.org saying

Drupal would potentially be very useful on the School Server, which is a
much more appropriate platform. The current prototypes of the school
server are configured to run Moodle. You will have to make a case that
Drupal is a sensible counterpart to Moodle, can be integrated with it,
or should replace it.

I still think having Drupal on an OLPC is good, even if only for having people experiment with the code or use a meshed network distribution where users can post from their own laptop and synchronize to the central school server.