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Google’s innovative search technologies connect millions of people around theworld with information every day.Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Googletoday is a top web property in all major global markets.Google’s targeted advertising program, which is the largest and fastest growingin the industry, provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, whileenhancing the overall web experience for users.Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout North America,Europe, and Asia.

For more information, visithttp://www.google.com/.

Google supports the event financially.

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source software solutions, usinga community-powered approach to reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux,middleware, storage and virtualization technologies.Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and consulting services.As the connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and opensource communities, Red Hat helps create relevant, innovative technologies thatliberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the future of IT.Learn more athttp://www.redhat.com/.

Red Hat supports the event financially.

For over 12 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s mostcomprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 125fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking,analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence(AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual andaugmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development,deployment, and management from 60 Availability Zones (AZs) within 20geographic regions, spanning the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada,China, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore,Sweden, and the UK.

AWS services are trusted by millions of active customers around theworld - including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises,and leading government agencies—to power their infrastructure, makethem more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visithttps://aws.amazon.com.

Amazon Web Services supports the event financially.

Arm technology is at the heart of a computing and connectivity revolutionthat is transforming the way people live and businesses operate. Ouradvanced, energy-efficient processor designs have enabled intelligentcomputing in more than 125 billion chips. Over 70% of the world’spopulation are using Arm technology, which is securely powering productsfrom the sensor to the smartphone to the supercomputer. This technologycombined with our IoT software and device management platform enablescustomers to derive real business value from their connected devices.Together with our 1,000+ technology partners we are at the forefront ofdesigning, securing and managing all areas of compute from the chip tothe cloud.

Arm supports the event financially.

Founded in 2014, Back Market is the number one European marketplace(soon to be worldwide!) exclusively dedicated to give electronicproducts a second life.

Our mission is simple: build a consumer alternative to the purchase ofnew electrical and electronic devices. And work against plannedobsolescence and the exponential production of electronic waste.

As a growing tech company, most of our product relies on open sourcetechnologies and tools (Django, Vue.js, Go and many more). For us,promoting and contributing back to an open source community is onestep closer to our ideal of society.

Back Market supports the event financially.

Cisco enables people to make powerful connections - whether in business,education, philanthropy, or creativity.Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internetsolutions that make networks possible - providing easy access to informationanywhere, at any time.

Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from StanfordUniversity. Since the company’s inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders inthe development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies.

Today, with more than 67,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovationcontinues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company’s coredevelopment areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologiessuch as Application Networking, Data Center, Digital Media, IPICS, Mobility,Security, Storage Networking, TelePresence, Unified Communications, Video andVirtualization

Cisco provides all of our WLAN hardware and helps us setting up the wirelessnetwork.

Codethink specialises in system-level software engineering to enableadvanced technical applications, working across a range of industriesincluding finance, automotive, telecoms and medical. As experts in Freeand Open Source Software, they help customers take maximum advantage ofthe knowledge and technologies developed by the Open Source community.Their customers are international-scale organizations who seekcompetitive edge through design of enterprise appliances and embeddedsystems which are faster, smaller, more secure, more up-to-date, or moreadvanced than their competitors.

Codethink supports the event financially.

Colt provides network, voice, and data centre services to thousands ofbusinesses around the world, allowing them to focus on delivering theirbusiness goals instead of the underlying infrastructure. Customers include 18of the top 25 banks and diversified financial groups and 19 out of the top 25companies in both global media and telecoms industries (Forbes 2000 list,2014). In addition, Colt works with over 50 exchange venues and 13 Europeancentral banks.

Colt operates across Europe, Asia and North America with connections into over200 cities globally. It completed the acquisition of KVH in 2014, anintegrated managed communications and IT infrastructure services business,with headquarters in Tokyo and operations in Hong Kong, Seoul and Singapore.

Colt sponsors the internet uplink at FOSDEM.

draw.io is an open source, browser based diagrammingapplication that can be consumed online, as a desktop app, or deployed locallyin a variety of formats. The core of the product started in 2005 and powersdiagramming across a range of visualization solutions in some of the world’slargest companies. Today, the free online version is used by 3 million peopleevery month and enjoys the community support afforded by making both the sourcecode and project development open to all.

For more information visithttps://github.com/jgraph/drawio.

draw.io supports the event financially.

At Facebook, we believe in the value of open source to achieve a shared goal ofimproving technology for all to use. From machine learning to mobile, developertools to blockchain, we use and support open source to both innovate and buildstrong communities.

Facebook supports the event financially.

GitHub is how people build software. Millions of individuals andorganizations around the world use GitHub to discover, share, andcollaborate on software—from games and experiments to popularframeworks and leading applications. Together, we’re defining howsoftware is built today.

Whether you use GitHub.com or GitHub Enterprise on your own servers,you can access one of the world’s largest developer communities tobuild software in the way that works best for you. Choose yourdeployment option and integrate your favorite third party tools intoa powerful, collaborative workflow.

GitHub supports the event financially.

As a key hosting service in Europe for 25 years, Infomaniak is one of the maindevelopers of web hosting technologies and is the pioneer of ecological hosting.The company manages two data centres, more than one million e-mail addresses and400,000 domain names and employs more than 130 members of staff in Switzerland.Its position at the high end of the market and its location in the heart ofEurope make it a long-standing partner of major media companies and brands,international institutions and global groups. Infomaniak recently launchedSwissTransfer.com, an advertising-free alternativeto WeTransfer that allows you to share up to 50 GB for free. The hosting companywill soon be offering a complete alternative to Gmail and Dropbox, developed andhosted entirely in Switzerland.

Website and blog:infomaniak.com |news.infomaniak.com.

Infomaniak supports the event financially.

We are OpenTAP. A growing community of test developers dedicated to effortlessautomation.

The core of OpenTAP is an open-source test sequencer, and our community iscontinuously adding plugins and solutions that support faster development,execution and optimization of test and measurement software that excels — now,and next time.

Join us as we contribute, collaborate and create — together.

OpenTAP supports the event financially.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is an open sourcesoftware foundation dedicated to making cloud native computinguniversal and sustainable. Cloud native computing uses an opensource software stack to deploy applications as microservices,packaging each part into its own container, and dynamicallyorchestrating those containers to optimize resource utilization.We host and nurture components of cloud native softwarestacks, including Kubernetes, Envoy and Prometheus.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) supports the event financially.

The Université Libre de Bruxelles (or ULB) is a French-speaking university in Brussels, Belgium.It has about 20,000 students.The ULB very substantially supports the event by providing us with thelocation as well as infrastructure on-site.

The “Cercle Informatique ULB” is a group of students who help us book ULB roomsfor use during FOSDEM.They also provide part of the catering during the event, the proceeds of whichgo towards funding their own academic activities.