History
LVEE 2005 – for the first time
The first meeting known as Linux Vacation/Eastern Europe, organized by Linux users group of Minsk and SaM Solutions company, took place in the environs of Grodno city. It gathered more than 80 developers, innovators and users of Linux and other free software from Belarus, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine.
A two-day conference held in the LVEE meeting was on a wide spectrum of topics, varying from the problems of applying and legal issues of free software to concrete technical aspects, such as home media centers, Linux-clustering and terminal networks, graphical user interface design, and so on.
LVEE 2006 – impossible done
The conference set the fashion of the whole communication on a meeting, while the most interesting topics were moved out of the conference-hall, and even the evening shashlik was accompanied with talks about network protocols and software development systems.
If speaking about reports, gained the most interest from the audience, one should mention the speech about the Internet access tarification system of MGTS by Eugen Kozhuhovski, the report about using the PHP5+SOAP combination in commercial projects by Iliya Martynov, and the report on a developed automatic system for building and support of specialized Linux distributions by Vitali Hil’ko from SaM Solutions. The last one was stated by the audience as the best report of the year in the after-all voting.
Lively conversations were also caused by speech on non-free Sun Studio 11 integrated development environment and continuation of the past-year report of the Mozilla team on XUL rapid application development platform for graphic interfaces, while the question of promoting free software to users, mass media and commercial structures formed two round tables and one report.
LVEE 2007 – results
As it was in previous years, the program of the meeting included the international conference related to different topics concerning free software. The conference program included two round tables, one on the topic of open source in education, and the other one about job market of free software specialists.
Reports covered very different areas – from legal peculiarities of free licenses to administrating complex corporative network infrastructures. Special attention was also paid to contemporary programming systems and collective development technologies.
A prize for the most interesting report was presented by the audience to the seminar on Agile development by Daniel Nad’ from Hungary.
Proceedings were published on a web site, and also the special edition of the “Setevye Resheniya” (Network Solutions) magazine with abstracts, articles, interviews and some additional information regarding LVEE had been published by the beginning of the conference.
LVEE 2008 – the conference proceeded
This time IT companies were active as never participating in a conference. Sponsor’s support was done by SaM Solutions, EPAM Systems, Alatys, Promwad, BLRSoft and Onliner companies. State institutions have also increased their interest to free / open source software. List of such organizations, sent their representatives to the conference included Information Technical Protection Research Institute, Ministry of Defense of Belarus, Belarusbank.
Conference presentations were thematically divided into sections, such as free / open source software usage in education, development and administrating on open platforms, development of embedded solutions based on GNU/Linux, perspective technologies of web-programming.
Firstly in Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe history there was a separate round table for arrangements, devoted to Debian project (a world largest GNU/Linux distribution, been developed by volunteers community).
LVEE 2009 – mission complete
About 150 users and developers of free software from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Moldova, Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, and Finland took part in the meeting.
This year the conference participants introduced a record number of presentations – about 30. Presentations covered a wide range of topics – from usage of free software in medicine, journalism and business to instruments of administration of software development, possibilities of virtualization technologies, specifics of development of software for portable devices. Also within the limits of the conference there was the round table “Usability and Open Source” carried out for the first time. And the Zyxel company presented a line of its devices with Linux firmware.
By decision of the audience the best presentation is the one by Maksim Litnitski (Moscow, Russian Federation) about free telecommunication platform Asterisk.
The conference was supported by such Belarusian companies as SaM Solutions, Promwad and Lokalnye Seti. The informational partners became the portals it-job.by, open.by, usability.by,
it-event.ru, root.ua, the Polish magazine Linux Magazine, and the Belarusian magazine Setevye Reshenia.
The Internet connection was provided by the MTS company.
