fosdem.org - Speakers

Interview: Andrew Gerrand

florisla — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:53:09 +0000

Andrew Gerrand will present Practical Go Programming at FOSDEM 2011.

Could you briefly introduce yourself?

I'm an Engineer at Google Sydney working on the Go Programming Language. I have a long history as a programmer in the Internet industry, from billing systems to web start-ups, and I also have a keen interest in coding for old 8-bit platforms. My official title is Developer Advocate, and in practice I spend my time trying to make it easier for programmers to learn and use Go.

Last speaker interviews

koen — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:22:17 +0000

To finish our collection of informative interviews with the FOSDEM 2011 main track speakers, we proudly present:

Update: the last installment was just added as well:

Andrew Gerrand (Go)

See you at FOSDEM this weekend!

Interview: Chris Lattner

koen — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:14:30 +0000

Chris Lattner will give a talk about "LLVM and Clang" at FOSDEM 2011.

Interview: Michael Meeks

koen — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:42:41 +0000

Michael Meeks will give a talk about "Liberating Open Office Development " at FOSDEM 2011.

Interview: Jos van den Oever

koen — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:10:43 +0000

Jos van den Oever will give a talk about "WebODF: an office suite built on browser technology" at FOSDEM 2011.

Could you briefly introduce yourself?

My background is in molecular sciences and bioinformatics, however I've been a long time proponent of open standards and a Linux and Free Software user. Since 2006 I've also become a contributor in the KDE community, where I am the founder and maintainer of Strigi, which is a library and program for indexing and searching files. I have given a couple of Strigi talks at previous editions of FOSDEM.

Interview: Chris Hofmann

koen — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:50:19 +0000

Chris Hofmann will give a talk about "The life of a Firefox feature" at FOSDEM 2011.

Interview: Nicolas Spiegelberg

koen — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:29:29 +0000

Nicolas Spiegelberg will give a talk about "The Storage Technologies Behind Facebook Messages" at FOSDEM 2011.

Interview: David Chisnall

florisla — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:54:53 +0000

David Chisnall will speak about Objective-C at FOSDEM 2011.

Interview: Manik Surtani

florisla — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:53:09 +0000

Manik Surtani will speak about Infinispan at FOSDEM 2011.

Could you briefly introduce yourself?

My name is Manik Surtani, I'm an engineer at Red Hat working on JBoss middleware. I have a background in clustering Java middleware for high availability and scalability, and work on a distributed data grid/NoSQL project called Infinispan, which I founded a couple of years back.

Second batch of FOSDEM 2011 speaker interviews

koen — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:13:44 +0000

Here is the second batch of interviews with our main track speakers.

We hope this reading material will make you curious enough to attend the main track talks.