FOSDEM concluded in Brussels this month. The weather took a strange turn and just the day before it started to snow heavily here in Brussels. It was freezing cold. The colorful city of Brussels turned white. The venue was only 6km away from our house so we drove through the snow.

Brussels before snow	Brussels after snow

openSUSE At FOSDEM 2012: Cheers! Prost!
openSUSE team was high at FOSDEM. There were selling beer for a Euro per bottle which went as a donation towards FORDEM.

They were also selling openSUSE hats (we bought 2). I was going back to get more openSUSE beer, as I missed German beer once I moved to Brussels. They were also selling openSUSE T-shirts, but they were not my size.

Jennifer wearing openSUSE hat	Jos Poortvliet showing me KDE tablet

The team was giving an amazing demo of Gnome Shell 3, KDE and Plasma Active running on touch-based devices. I played with a tablet running KDE Active Plasma and loved it.

The openSUSE team was also giving out stickers and DVDs which you can use to install any DE of your choice.

Ubuntu
Next to the openSUSE booth was the Ubuntu booth with three dudes giving a great demo of Ubuntu Unity. Yes, they were also giving out Ubuntu and Kubuntu CDs.

Ubuntu LoCo Team @ FOSDEM	Ubuntu @ FOSDEM

Exclusive Interviews
Miguel de Icaza
I met and interviewed Miguel de Icaza, the creator of Gnome and Mono, and discussed various topics including his opinion about Gnome Shell 3 and also cleared some doubts around Mono. The interview will be published soon.

Swapnil Bhartiya with Miguel de Icaza

Simon Phipps

Simon Phipps and Swapnil Bhartiya

Simon Phipps

Italo Vignoli (LibreOffice/The Document Foundation)

Frank Karlitschek (ownCloud founder)

Philip Hands (creator of Debian kilt)

We will leave you with some random images, you can see entire collection on Flickr. These images are available under a creative commons licence, so you are free to download and use.

Dave Neary, Jan Wildeboer and Swapnil Bhartiya