Some practical information for the FOSDEM trip:
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Saturday
we gather at 9h25 at platform 21 at Antwerpen-Central! The train leaves at 9h38 !
Joachim Ganseman will be responsible for distributing the tickets on Saturday, he’ll be waiting at platform 21!
Just look for a bunch of computer scientists grouped together, this can’t be that hard!
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Sunday
we gather one hour earlier, namely at 8u25 at platform 21 at Antwerpen-Central! The train leaves at 8:38!
Nathan Samson will be responsible for distributing the tickets on Sunday, he’ll be waiting at platform 21!
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Also keep in mind that you can still pick up your ticket in advance, tomorrow (Friday 31/01) at Joachim Ganseman’s office 10-18h (except 12-13h), at CDE room N119 .
This might be helpful if you plan to depart from a different station or want to go at a different time.

I wish you all a great time at FOSDEM and a lot of cool free goodies!

kind regards,
Daan Janssens

The weekend of Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 February, we go to FOSDEM!! (short for: Free and Open Source Software Developer’s European Meeting)

FOSDEM is a pretty big European conference in Brussels where lots of people from the open source community give talks about all new and upcoming stuff. The program and more information about FOSDEM can be found on their website: https://fosdem.org.

To get there, we go by train.

The train tickets will be paid by the University of Antwerp, so you don’t have to buy any!
(Keep in mind that we got a limited amount of sponsering, which means a limited amount of free tickets, so register fast(FIFO will be used)!).
The deadline for registering is Wednesday 29/01 !

On Saturday, we leave at 09:38 from Antwerp Central Station. (this means we’ll assemble at approx. 9:20)
For Sunday, the time will be discussed the day before as not everyone is willing to get up this early 2 days in a row. The exact time will be communicated to those who wish to join on Sunday.

Joachim Ganseman will be responsible for the distribution of the tickets! You can pick up your ticket at his office (CDE N119) this thursday and friday, in case you plan to go on your(different time or different start station).

If you want to come along, please fill in the form below. This way, we know how many people we can expect.

Best regards,

Daan Janssens
Chairman ACM Antwerp Student Chapter 2013-2014

The registration form:

On November 19, Christophe van Gysel, Daan Janssens and Glenn de Jonghe organised a tech talk where they presented Google Summer of Code and discussed our experiences.
They gave an overview of the program where they discussed the goals and ideals of the program, followed by an informal question and answer session.

Around thirty university students attended the session, both graduate as undergraduate students. All of them participated actively in the session.
At the end we summarised the talk and received positive feedback.

We were thrilled to see such a great turn-out. We’d like to thank everyone who made Google Summer of Code possible and we hope to see an increased participation rate from the University of Antwerp during the next edition.

Daan Janssens

Pictures taken at the event:

Dear ACM Antwerp enthusiasts,

We’re back! This year, we’ll start very similar, namely: a short introduction of the ACM Antwerp Student Chapter (for new people) and an in-depth talk about Google Summer of Code (GSoC) will be given.

Christophe van Gysel (Drupal), Daan Janssens (Ryzom Core) and Glenn de Jonghe (SuperTuxKart) will talk about their experiences, mentoring organizations and GSOC in general. Also topics like “how to singup for GSOC 2014″ will be handled!

We will provide free food for all and Google goodies for the early birds! Just make sure that you sign up below!

This first session takes place on November 19, 2013 from 18h
at campus Middelheim, room G.005.

Register Here