Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe 2009: registration started

The 5th International conference of developers and users of free / open
source software "Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe" (LVEE 2009) will take
place on July 02-05 near Grodno (Belarus). The event combines both
communication and rest of the enthusiasts of free software, including
GNU/Linux platform, but not limited to it.

LVEE 2009 is organized by Minsk Linux Users Group with support of the
open source community active members from Grodno and Brest.

Recommended Conference languages are Russian, Belarusian and English.

Participation requests submission deadline is June, 12. Abstracts
submission deadline is May, 24.

Conference format includes reports, workshops, and round tables.
Speakers will be provided with a conference hall, a projector and sound.
An abstracts digest will be published before the Conference beginning.
Presentations subjects include development and maintenance of free
software, adoption and administrating of FOSS-based solutions,
peculiarities of free licenses usage. LVEE covers a wide range of
platforms ? from workstations and servers to embedded systems and mobile
devices.

The "Himik" tourist camp near Grodno, Belarus was once again chosen as a
place of the Conference. In case if the amount of participation requests
exceeds the "Himik" capacity (as it had happened in some of previous
years), there will be a contest-based requests approval with priority
given to the Conference speakers and free / open source software
contributors.

Authors of reports, sponsors representatives and press are free from
paying the organization fee. Also a prize for the best report is handed
after the audience voting.

List of the Conference sponsors is still to be detailed. For today it
includes SaM Solutions, Promwad, and Lokalnye seti companies.

Please visit the www.lvee.org website to find additional information and
to register as a participant or as a speaker of the Conference.