International conference of developers
and users of free / open source software

Reception of applications for LVEE 2011 is opened

April 26, 2011 21:35

7th Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe, the international conference of FOSS developers and users, will be held on June 30 – July 03, 2011 near Grodno.

Reception of reports and applications for participation is opened, sponsors are welcome.

The annual conference of developers and users of free / open source software taking place in Belarus inevitably gathers specialists from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, the European Union countries.

Official conference languages are Russian, Belorussian and English. In Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe the professional exchange of experience is combined with three-day informal communication on the landscape. The conference format includes oral presentations, lightning talks, workshops and round tables. The spectrum of topics is traditionally wide — from a report on new free / open technologies, software products and practice of their usage to the analysis of legal and economic aspects of free licensing.

To participate in LVEE 2011 it is necessary to pass registration on the conference site, http://lvee.org. The site contains a lot of information about the conference, including history of the project, abstracts guidelines, information on delivery and accommodation of participants, on-line materials of previous conferences.

Participation requests are accepted till June 12. This date is also a deadline for abstracts submission.

Organization board invites sponsors. The event is traditionally supported by the IT companies interested in cooperation with qualified specialists in the field of free / open source software and in in support of the FOSS social phenomenon. Participation in LVEE-2011 gives them exclusive possibility to work directly with the audience consisting of the most active developers and users of free / open source projects.

By now SaM Solutions, Promwad, EPAM Systems companies have already announced their support of LVEE-2011, as far as hoster.by and it-job.by resources.

Author: Dmitriy Kostiuk

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