https://fosdem.org/ FOSDEM 2019 News Feed 2019-01-31 00:00:00 +0100 2019-01-31 00:00:00 +0100 1800 https://fosdem.org/2019/news/2019-01-31-last-set-of-speaker-interviews/ 2019-01-31 00:00:00 +0100 https://fosdem.org/2019/news/2019-01-31-last-set-of-speaker-interviews/ We proudly present the last set of speaker interviews. See you at FOSDEM this weekend! Corey Hulen: Mattermost’s Approach to Layered Extensibility in Open Source Denis Roio (Jaromil): Algorithmic Sovereignty and the state of community-driven open source development. Is there a radical interface pedagogy for algorithmic governementality? John Garbutt: Square Kilometre Array and its Software Defined Supercomputer. ... and a very fast parallel file system Jon 'maddog' Hall: 2019 - Fifty years of Unix and Linux advances Roger Dingledine: The Current and Future Tor Project. Updates from the Tor Project Ron Evans: Go on Microcontrollers: Small Is Going Big. TinyGo舰 https://fosdem.org/2019/news/2019-01-26-third-set-of-speaker-interviews/ 2019-01-26 00:00:00 +0100 https://fosdem.org/2019/news/2019-01-26-third-set-of-speaker-interviews/ With only one week left until FOSDEM 2019, we have added some new interviews with our main track and keynote speakers, varying from a keynote talk about the dangers of the cloud to the use of Matrix in the French state and the inner workings of the ZFS Adaptive Replacement Cache: Allan Jude: ELI5: ZFS Caching. Explain Like I'm 5: How the ZFS Adaptive Replacement Cache works Guido Trotter and Dylan Reid: Crostini: A Linux Desktop on ChromeOS Kyle Rankin: The Cloud is Just Another Sun Lorenzo Fontana: eBPF powered Distributed Kubernetes performance analysis Matthew Hodgson: Matrix in the French舰 https://fosdem.org/2019/news/2019-01-25-low-emission-zone/ 2019-01-25 00:00:00 +0100 https://fosdem.org/2019/news/2019-01-25-low-emission-zone/ As of the end of 2018, the ULB campus Solbosch is located within the Brussels Low Emission Zone (LEZ). Drivers of cars registered abroad are required to register before entering the LEZ, or risk being fined. Registration is free of charge. More information can be found here. https://fosdem.org/2019/news/2019-01-23-sightseeing/ 2019-01-23 00:00:00 +0100 https://fosdem.org/2019/news/2019-01-23-sightseeing/ If your non-geek partner and/or kids are joining you to FOSDEM, they may be interested in spending some time exploring Brussels while you attend the conference. Like previous years, FOSDEM is organising sightseeing tours. https://fosdem.org/2019/news/2019-01-19-second-set-of-speaker-interviews/ 2019-01-19 00:00:00 +0100 https://fosdem.org/2019/news/2019-01-19-second-set-of-speaker-interviews/ We have just published the second set of interviews with our main track and keynote speakers. The following interviews give you a lot of interesting reading material about various topics, from ethics to databases and AI systems: Bradley M. Kuhn and Karen Sandler: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?. Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software Deb Nicholson: Blockchain: The Ethical Considerations Drew Moseley: Mender - an open source OTA software update manager for IoT Duarte Nunes: Raft in Scylla. Consensus in an eventually consistent database Fernando Laudares: Hugepages and databases. working with abundant舰 https://fosdem.org/2019/news/2019-01-10-first-speaker-interviews/ 2019-01-10 00:00:00 +0100 https://fosdem.org/2019/news/2019-01-10-first-speaker-interviews/ During the holidays we have performed some interviews with main track speakers from various tracks. To get up to speed with the topics discussed in the main track talks, you can start reading the following interviews: Chris Brind: Open Source at DuckDuckGo. Raising the Standard of Trust Online Daniel Stenberg: DNS over HTTPS - the good, the bad and the ugly. Why, how, when and who gets to control how names are resolved Joe Conway: PostgreSQL Goes to 11! Juan Linietsky: Making the next blockbuster game with FOSS tools. Using Free Software tools to achieve high quality game visuals. Richard舰 https://fosdem.org/2019/news/2019-01-10-call-for-volunteers/ 2019-01-10 00:00:00 +0100 https://fosdem.org/2019/news/2019-01-10-call-for-volunteers/ With FOSDEM just around the corner, it is time for us to enlist your help. Every year, an enthusiastic band of volunteers make FOSDEM happen and make it a fun and safe place for all our attendees. We could not do this without you. This year we again need as many hands as possible, especially for heralding during the conference, during the buildup (starting Friday at noon) and teardown (Sunday evening). No need to worry about missing lunch. Food will be provided. Would you like to be part of the team that makes FOSDEM tick? Sign up here! You舰 https://fosdem.org/2019/news/2019-01-02-keysigning-submit-your-keys/ 2019-01-02 00:00:00 +0100 https://fosdem.org/2019/news/2019-01-02-keysigning-submit-your-keys/ Our keyserver is now accepting submissions for the FOSDEM 2019 keysigning event. The annual PGP keysigning event at FOSDEM is one of the largest of its kind. With more than one hundred participants every year, it is an excellent opportunity to strengthen the web of trust. For instructions on how to participate in this event, see the keysigning page. Key submissions on Wednesday 23 January, to give us some time to generate and distribute the list of participants. Remember to bring a printed copy of this list to FOSDEM. https://fosdem.org/2019/news/2018-10-14-accepted-developer-rooms/ 2018-10-14 00:00:00 +0200 https://fosdem.org/2019/news/2018-10-14-accepted-developer-rooms/ We are pleased to announce the developer rooms that will be organised at FOSDEM 2019. Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work together on open source projects, to discuss topics relevant to a broader subset of the community, etc. The individual developer room organisers will issue their calls for participation in the next few days. We will update this table with links to the calls for participation. Saturday 2 February 2019 Topic Call for Participation CfP deadline .NET and TypeScript announcement 2018-12-03 Ada announcement 2018-12-01 BSD announcement 2018-12-10 Collaborative Information and Content Management Applications announcement 2018-12-10 Decentralized舰 https://fosdem.org/2019/news/2018-08-10-call-for-participation/ 2018-08-10 00:00:00 +0200 https://fosdem.org/2019/news/2018-08-10-call-for-participation/ We now invite proposals for main track presentations, developer rooms, stands and lightning talks. FOSDEM offers open source and free software developers a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Renowned for being highly developer-oriented, the event brings together some 8000+ geeks from all over the world. The nineteenth edition will take place on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd February 2019 at the usual location: ULB Campus Solbosch in Brussels. We will record and stream all main tracks, devrooms and lightning talks live. The recordings will be published under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). If, exceptionally,舰