Mozilla Developers from all over Europe will gather for a two-day conference in Brussels
17-02-2004
Organized by Mozilla Europe, this is a unique occasion for Mozilla contributors and enthusiasts to share knowledge about their favorite Web browser.
February 17, 2004 (the Internet) - Mozilla contributors from at least 8 countries have confirmed their presence, and will represent a wide array of Mozilla projects, including core development, localization, Web development, documentation and application building on top of the Mozilla platform.
This event, the fourth of its kind in Europe, has been organized by Mozilla Europe board member Axel Hecht and his colleagues in order to share their experience with the Mozilla open source project, both formally and informally, during technical talks and social events. Many topics will be covered, including the first Mozilla Europe presentation to the public and a Mozilla Foundation talk by one of its staff members, Gervase Markham.
The schedule covers the following topics:
- Mozilla Europe mission, by Tristan Nitot, Mozilla Europe founder and president;
- Mozilla Foundation discussion, by Gervase Markham, Foundation staff member;
- MozQuery, a code development set of tool to write and process RDF files content, by Daniel Fournier;
- NVU, a Web authoring system built on Gecko, by Daniel Glazman, Mozilla Composer module-owner;
- Application development using Mozilla as a platform, by Alex Fritze;
- Layout debugging and triaging, by Bernd Mielke;
- Efficient use of Mozilla's string API, by Axel Hecht;
- Mozilla localization, by Robert Kaiser.
These Mozilla developer days will be hosted by FOSDEM (Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting) and will be held on the 21st and 22nd of February, in Brussels, Belgium. For more information on FOSDEM, see http://www.fosdem.org/.
During the conference, the attendees will be able to register and become members of Mozilla Europe, getting a Mozilla Europe-branded T-shirt as part of the membership package.
Both FOSDEM and the Mozilla Developer days are open to the public, but registration is welcome.
ABOUT MOZILLA EUROPE
Established in January 2004 by long-time Mozilla contributors from several European countries, Mozilla Europe aims to promote, develop and contribute to the Mozilla open source software project. Mozilla Europe is based in Paris, FRANCE.
PRESS CONTACTS:
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email: press@mozilla-europe.org
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