====== Events related to Xfce in 2009 ======

===== FOSDEM (Brussels, February 7th-8th) =====

We're currently planning the participation of Xfce at FOSDEM 2009. If we can motivate enough developers to attend and can get a developer room, there will be talks and sessions held during the weekend.

  * **Update (2008-11-17):** Developer room request was submitted today.
  * **Update (2008-12-01):** Unfortunately, the developer room request has been rejected.
  * **Update (2008-12-31):** We'll probably be able to have 1-2 talks on Sunday as part of the Cross Desktop room. 
  * **Update (2009-01-14):** The Cross Desktop room schedule [[http://live.gnome.org/Brussels2009/Devroom#head-78b5ac62dae0ea72bae22fa0e09ebd50be90db24|has been published]]. Stephan and Jannis are both going to speak on Sunday!

==== Attendees ====

  * Christian Dywan
  * Jannis Pohlmann
  * Jean-François Wauthy
  * Jens Luedicke
  * Nick Schermer
  * Olivier Fourdan
  * Stephan Arts
  * Yves-Alexis Perez
  * Maximilian Schleiss



==== Talks ====

=== Xfce 4.6 and then? ===

This talk will be about the new Xfce release and it will also try to 
answer what comes after 4.6. Some of the new features of Xfce 4.6 will
be presented and explained, the release process will be evaluated. 
Finally, we will give a feature preview for Xfce 4.8.

Speaker: Jannis Pohlmann is a 23-year-old computer science student 
living in Lübeck, Germany. He invests much of his free time into 
playing several instruments and Xfce, where he has contributed to a 
number of components over the years. He's also the Xubuntu Xfce 
Liaison and a Lunar Linux contributor.

== Slides ==

  * [[http://lunar-linux.org/~jannis/xfce/fosdem-2009/fosdem-2009-xfce4.6-and-then.pdf|Download as PDF]]
  * [[http://lunar-linux.org/~jannis/xfce/fosdem-2009/fosdem-2009-xfce4.6-and-then.tar.bz2|Download LaTeX and image sources]]

=== Xfce as a Platform ===

Our second talk is especially targeted to software developers, 
distributions and other software vendors. It will cover the APIs and 
infrastructure provided by the Xfce project. We will explain libraries 
and tools, how they work together and how you can use them for your 
own software project or distribution. Special focus will be put on 
Xfconf and ways to extend Xfce.

Speaker: Stephan Arts is a 23-year-old IT professional living in The 
Netherlands. Stephan is practicing aikido and ballroom dancing besides 
developing on various components for Xfce in his spare time.