FOSDEM
The FOSDEM ( F ree and O pen S ource software D evelopers ' E uropean M eeting ), originally OSDEM ( O pen S ource D evelopers' E uropean M eeting ), a two-day conference on " Free Software ", which has been Held annually on a weekend in February 2001 in Brussels , Belgium . Admission to all parts of FOSDEM is free; in 2013 it had more than 5000 participants. The organization is supported by volunteers, the financing comes from donations and sponsors.
In addition to the main program, rooms are also made available in which software developers can present their projects or give short lectures. In addition, an award was presented at the conference from 2002 to 2005, the FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software .
history
2005
Tim O'Reilly opened the meeting with a presentation on Internet privacy. There were also presentations by Alan Cox , Jimmy Wales and Richard Stallman .
2006
Richard Stallman gave a speech on the subject of software patents and then told something about the goals of GPLv3 .
2007
FOSDEM 2007 took place on February 24th and 25th, 2007.
The speakers were Jim Gettys (One Laptop Per Child), Aleksey Bragin ( ReactOS ), Federico Mena Quintero ( Gnome , Profiling desktop applications), Øyvind Kolås ( GEGL ), Kristian Høgsberg ( AIGLX ), Ronald G Minnich ( LinuxBIOS ), Peter Saint -Andre ( XMPP / Jabber ), Kern Sibbald ( Bacula ), Andrew Morton ( Linux kernel ), Joe Hewitt ( Firebug ), Georg Greve ( FSFE ), Pieter Hintjens ( FFII , software patents) and Tom Baeyens ( JBoss BPM), HD Moore ( Metasploit ) approved.
2008
FOSDEM 2008 took place on February 23 and 24, 2008.
After the opening, Gabrielle Pantera and Robin Rowe gave a speech on the use of Linux in film studios , Robert Watson explained how a large open source software project works using the example of FreeBSD , and Pieter Hintjens gave an overview of software patents in Europe.
2009
FOSDEM 2009 took place on February 7th and 8th, 2009.
Gave speeches u. a. the Ext4 file system developer Theodore Ts'o and the SYSLINUX administrator Hans Peter Anvin.
2010
FOSDEM 2010 took place on February 6th and 7th, 2010.
Computer science professor Andrew S. Tanenbaum gave a lecture on the advantages of his Minix 3 operating system over Linux. Elena Reshetova from Nokia presented the Maemo 6 Security Framework.
2011
FOSDEM 2011 took place on February 5th and 6th, 2011. Chris Lattner , director of the Low Level Tools for Apple reported on the progress of the LLVM project and the features of the Clang - compiler .
2012
FOSDEM 2012 took place on February 4th and 5th, 2012.
2013
The FOSDEM was held from February 2nd to 3rd, 2013.
2014
The FOSDEM took place from February 1st to 2nd, 2014.
Jolla developer Carsten Munk has explained the open source project libhybris in detail, which makes the bionic library used by Android readable for a Linux system based on the GNU library glibc. Jolla was able to use the existing hardware drivers from various manufacturers, which were originally written for Android.
2015
FOSDEM 2015 was held on January 31st and February 1st, 2015.
Keynotes :
- " Identity Crisis: Are we who we say we are? "( Karen Sandler )
- " What is wrong with Operating Systems (and how do we make things better) " (Antti Kantee)
- " Living on Mars: A Beginner's Guide (Can we Open Source a society) " (Ryan MacDonald)
2016
FOSDEM 2016 was held on January 30th and 31st, 2016.
Keynotes :
- " Systemd and Where We Want to Take the Basic Linux Userspace in 2016 " ( Lennart Poettering )
- " Ian Murdock - In Memoriam " (Martin Michlmayr)
- " Putting 8 Million People on the Map: Revolutionizing crisis response through open mapping tools " (Blake Girardot)
2017
FOSDEM 2017 was held on February 4th and 5th, 2017
Keynotes :
- " Kubernetes on the road to GIFEE " ( Brandon Philips )
- " Software Heritage " (Stefano Zacchiroli, Roberto Di Cosmo)
- " Understanding The Complexity of Copyleft Defense " (Bradley M. Kuhn)
- " Using Linux in Air Traffic Control " (Gerolf Ziegenhain)
2018
FOSDEM 2018 was held in Brussels on February 3rd and 4th, 2018.
Keynotes :
- " Consensus as a Service " (Simon Phipps, Italo Vignoli)
- " Next Generation Internet Initiative " (Rob van Kranenburg, Michiel Leenaars, Marietje Schaake, Georgios Tselentis)
- " Exploiting modern microarchitectures " (Jon Masters)
2019
FOSDEM 2019 was held on February 2nd and 3rd, 2019 in Brussels.
Keynotes :
- “ Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? "(Bradley M. Kuhn, Karen Sandler)
- " FLOSS, the Internet and the Future " (Mitchell Baker)
- " Blockchain: The Ethical Considerations " (Deb Nicholson)
- " The Cloud is Just Another Sun " (Kyle Rankin)
- " 2019 - Fifty years of Unix and Linux advances " (Jon 'maddog' Hall)
2020
The FOSDEM 2020 was held in Brussels on February 1st and 2nd, 2020.
Keynotes :
- " The Linux Kernel: We have to finish this thing one day;) - Solving big problems in small steps for more than two decades " (Thorsten Leemhuis)
- " FOSSH - 2000 to 2020 and beyond! - maddog continues to pontificate "(Jon 'maddog' Hall)
- " FOSDEM @ 20 - A Celebration - The cliché of constant change " (Steven Goodwin)
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Collection of videos from FOSDEM 2003 and 2005 to 2020 (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ FOSDEM 2009: Ext 4, developer get-together and partner program - Linux-Magazin , on February 3, 2009
- ↑ FOSDEM 2010: Andrew Tanenbaum is reliability prior performance - Linux Magazine , February 7, 2010
- ↑ Interview: Elena Reshetova ( Memento from August 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English) - FOSDEM 2010 ; last saved in the internet archive on August 5, 2014
- ↑ FOSDEM 2013 (English)
- ↑ FOSDEM 2014 (English)
- ↑ FOSDEM 2015 (English)
- ↑ FOSDEM 2016 (English)
- ↑ FOSDEM 2017 (English)
- ↑ FOSDEM 2018 (English)
- ↑ FOSDEM 2019 (English)
- ↑ FOSDEM 2020 (English)