About the conference

The winter session of the international conference for free/libre open source software developers and users, the Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe, will take place on 9—11 February 2018. The event offers a place for free software enthusiasts and professionals to meet and exchange ideas in a friendly informal setting. It is the biggest FOSS event in Belarus.

LVEE Winter 2018 is organised by the Minsk Linux Users Group with the help of the active members of the open source community from around the country. The conference’s official languages are Russian, Belarusian and English.

5rd February is the deadline for the registration and abstracts submission.

The conference format includes oral presentations and lightning talks, round table and panel discussions, workshops and and hacking sprints.

The presentation materials of LVEE Winter 2018 will be published in two steps. The abstracts will be put on-line before the conference, with multimedia materials (slides and video of presentations) following later on. The printed proceedings of LVEE to be published summer 2018 will include abstracts from both winter and summer conferences.

Presentations subjects include design, development and maintenance of free software, adoption and administration of FOSS-based solutions, making business based on open technologies, licensing, legal and policy issues. The conference covers a wide range of platforms, from workstations and servers to embedded systems and mobile devices.

Entry is free for the speakers, representatives of the sponsors and the press.

See the About page for more details.