The 6th International conference of developers and users
of free / open source software

About the Conference

A regular international meeting and a conference named “Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe” is carried out for the fifth year in Belarus, combining both communication and rest of the enthusiasts of free software. in common and Linux in particular.

LVEE has the goal of experience sharing between the specialists at design, development, maintenance and adoption of open source solutions, attracting more wide subset of the IT community to the public dialog about the free software abilities, problems of its integration and ways of their solving.

The International conference of developers and users of free / open source software is the central part of LVEE. Its format includes reports, workshops, and round tables. Speakers will be provided with a conference hall, a projector and sound. An abstracts digest of the Conference will be published before its beginning.

Tasks of the Conference are to give participants the ability of the experience exchange, to organize discussions on most urgent evolution directions and tendencies in the branch and calculated practical knowledge. Meeting is aimed to help in setting necessary contacts, providing development to the ideas, acquiring support of the open source community.

The Conference covers a wide range of platforms – from workstations and servers, including virtualization-based ones, to embedded systems and mobile devices. The subjects traditionally include following directions:

  • development and testing of free software,
  • administrating systems based on it,
  • training specialists in free software technologies,
  • adaption experience of the open source solutions,
  • legal and organizational peculiarities of the free software usage.

All other directions related to free / open source software are welcome to extend listed subjects.

Recommended Conference languages are Russian, Belarusian and English.

This year the event will take place on July 01-04 near Grodno city.

LVEE 2010 is organized by Minsk Linux Users Group with support of Grodno and Brest activists.

The list of last year’s conference sponsors included "SaM Solutions":http://www.sam-solutions.by, "EPAM Systems":http://www.epam.com, "Alatys":http://www.alatys.com, "Promwad":http://www.promwad.com, "BLRSoft":http://www.abaxia.com and "Onliner":http://www.onliner.by/ companies.
Organization fee is about $67 (200 000 BYR) per person for four days. A reduced two-day form (weekend) of participation is also possible and organization fee is near $47 (140 000 BYR). In case of any other participation schedule fee should be settled individually. The sum includes expenses for accommodation and meal (breakfast, dinner and supper), transportation from Grodno to the Conference place and backward, as far as additional LVEE attribution. Authors of reports, sponsors representatives and the press are free from paying listed fee.

Participation requests deadline is June, 12. Abstracts submission deadline is May, 24.

Authors are encouraged to get acquaintance with details of abstracts design and submission and to look through previous LVEE proceedings. See Presentations section to find this information.