About the conference

The 9th International conference of developers and users of free / open source software “Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe” (LVEE 2013) will take place on June 27 – 30. The event combines both communication and rest of the enthusiasts of free software, including GNU/Linux platform, but not limited to it.

LVEE 2013 is organized by Minsk Linux Users Group with support of the open source community active members from other cities. Recommended Conference languages are Russian, Belarusian and English.

June, 10 is a deadline for both participation request and abstracts submission.

Conference format mainly includes oral presentations and lightning talks, while round table discussions, workshops, and code-sprints are also possible. Speakers will be provided with a conference hall with all necessary equipment. Printed abstracts digest of the conference will be published before its beginning. Presentations subjects include development and maintenance of free / libre software, adoption and administrating of FOSS-based solutions, peculiarities of free licenses usage. The Conference covers a wide range of platforms – from workstations and servers to embedded systems and mobile devices.

Authors of presentations, sponsors representatives and press are free from paying the organization fee.

List of IT companies, announced their support for LVEE 2013 includes SaM Solutions, Promwad, EPAM Systems, WORLD of TANKS team, hoster.by, empathy.by.

Our information and technical partners are Linux Magazine, Root@UA, and IT Business Week, Kompiuternye vesti journals, as far as Linux.BY, IT-JOB.BY, IT-Event.Ru, USABILITY.BY, RABOTA.TUT.BY, [mega-admin], sCommunityBY, Weblancer, DEV.by, IT.TUT.BY, UkrDev, SMS-ассистент, TECHlabs and ePoint System portals and projects.

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