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[linux-team] Au sujet d'un groupe national, voici ce que nos voisins ont fait




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Linux thrives in the Netherlands
[ Thanks to Erik Hensema for this report: ]


Tuesday October 10th, I went to linux2000, a two-day conference held in `de
Reehorst', Ede, the Netherlands. Keynote speaker was Eric Raymond (ESR).
 

 
The conference featured an exposition floor populated by many
Linux-related companies. Among them internationally famous firms such
as Redhat, Suse, IBM and Borland, but also typically dutch enterprises
like Stone-IT or Snow. Of course, the Dutch Linux Users Group,
NLLGG, had a booth of their own.  Each day five rounds of talks were
held; each round featured four speakers in parallel, so choices had to
be made on what session to attend.
 

 
Here are my impressions on the second day of linux2000:

 
The day was opened by Joost Helberg of Snow BV. He gave a short
introduction to Linux, its history and its future. He also pointed out
some aspects of Linux he thought could be improved.     


 
The second speaker was the keynote speaker of the event: Eric Raymond. He
started by asking the public what they wanted to hear. After a democratic
vote, we (the audience) decided we wanted to hear about effective advocacy
tactics. I think everybody in the audience agrees this man really has a clue
about advocacy...
 

 
After a short break, the 'smaller' presentations began. Personally I first
attended the presentation by Borland, "Linux in the real world". Though it
was mostly marketing-speak about their upcoming Kylix development system
and their other Linux-products, it was still an interesting presentation.
 

 
The second presentation I attended was titled "The Linux evolution,
IA64, e-services and beyond", by Hewlett-Packard. Personally I found
this presentation to be a disappointment, since it was mostly about HP
and their vision on the future of computing. It remained unclear what
role Linux plays in this vision.
 

After the lunch, we all gathered to listen to a presentation about Linux
certification given by Rudolf Tegelaar and Alan Belinger. They explained
why certification is important and what progress has been made in this
field.
 

 
Next, the smaller sessions continued. I decided I've heard enough
marketing-speak for the day, so I went to the more technically-oriented
presentations. So, I went to see the presentation "Real time Java, real
time Linux" by Jaap Schuttevaer of Turnkiek. He explained the advantages of
Linux over proprietary operating systems in realtime embedded systems and
the possibility of using realtime Java in embedded systems.
 

 From the small embedded systems, I went to the real processing power:
Armijn Hemel and Job Spijker of the UULug (UUlug Utrecht Linux User Group)
gave a presentation about the Beowulf Cluster they're going to build to
celebrate their LUG's first anniversary. Appropriately, they're assembling
a 365-node cluster which will run for two days.

 
The last presentation of the day was "Information Retrieval and Open
Source", by Hans Paijmans of Tilburg University. He
explained the fundamental models of information retrieval and why Linux
is the right tool to process large amounts of text. I think he was the only
speaker of the day without a formal degree or even much experience in computer
science (he has a PhD in information retrieval, though), so it was
interesting to hear why he choose to use Linux.
 

 
I was very impressed by the size of the Linux-movement in the Netherlands
and the professionalism of the event. I'm already looking forward to the
next big Linux event in Holland!
 

 
Note: most of the presentations were in Dutch, I've translated their titles
to English.                                                                                                                                                                        

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