The Conference

Winter session of the international conference of FOSS developers and users, the Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe, will be held on February 10-12, 2012. The event combines both communication and rest of the enthusiasts of free software, including GNU/Linux platform, but not limited to it.

LVEE Winter 2012 is organized by Minsk Linux Users Group with support of the open source community active members from cities of Belarus. Recommended Conference languages are Russian, Belarusian and English.

February, 6 is a deadline for both participation request and abstracts submission.

Conference format includes oral presentations, lightning talks, round table discussions, and code-sprints. Speakers will be provided with a conference hall with all necessary equipment.

A cascade publication is provided for presentation materials of LVEE Winter 2012. It includes placing abstracts in public access before the conference with following additions of multimedia materials (slides and video of presentations), as far as later publishing in printed book of LVEE 2012.

Presentations subjects include development and maintenance of free software, adoption and administrating of FOSS-based solutions, making business based on open technologies, 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 Winter 2012 includes SaM Solutions, Promwad, EPAM Systems, World of Tanks team of wargaming.net, Ciklum, hoster.by and empathy.by.

Our constant information and technical partners are Linux Magazine, Root@UA, and IT Business Week, Kompiuternye vesti journals, as far as it-job.by, IT-Event.Ru, usability.by, RABOTA.TUT.BY, mega-admin, SEF.by, sCommunityBY, ePointSystem, and PBXWare.ru portals and projects.

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