Main Track Speaker Interviews
Every edition of FOSDEM, we conduct a short interview with the main track speakers.
FOSDEM 2012
- Carlos Sanchez (DevOps)
- David Chisnall (LLVM)
- Paolo Bonzini (KVM)
- Lars Wirzenius (distro development)
- Sasha Levin (native KVM tool)
- Sylvain Lebresne (Apache Cassandra)
- Michael Meeks (LibreOffice)
- Carsten Munk (mobile Linux)
- Kir Kolyshkin (OpenVZ)
- Robert Dewar (commercial success)
- Carsten Haitzler (EFL)
- Bdale Garbee (FreedomBox)
- Finne Boonen (healthy communities)
- Guido Trotter (Ganeti)
- Wim Godden (caching and tuning)
- Simon Phipps (OSI)
- Renzo Davoli (Internet of Threads)
- Garrett Serack (CoApp)
- Juan David Gonzalez Cobas and Javier Serrano (open hardware)
- Bryan Østergaard (community management)
- Ben Klang (Adhearsion)
- Soren Hansen (monitoring)
- Kristian Høgsberg (Wayland)
- Anil Madhavapeddy (UNIX I/O)
- Carl-Daniel Hailfinger (coreboot)
- Claire Corgnou (average Jane and Joe)
FOSDEM 2011
- Jonathan Corbet (Linux kernel)
- Eben Moglen (software freedom)
- James Turnbull (DevOps)
- Boudewijn Rempt (Calligra)
- Gratien D'haese (Rear)
- Martijn Dashorst (Wicket)
- David Fetter (PL/Parrot)
- Andrew Godwin (Django)
- Soren Hansen (OpenStack)
- Lennart Poettering (systemd)
- Spike Morelli (devops)
- Kenneth Rohde Christiansen (Qt WebKit)
- Manik Surtani (Infinispan)
- David Chisnall (Objective-C)
- Nicolas Spiegelberg (Facebook Messages)
- Chris Hofmann (Mozilla Firefox)
- Jos van den Oever (WebODF)
- Michael Meeks (LibreOffice)
- Chris Lattner (LLVM)
FOSDEM 2010
- David Fifield (Nmap)
- Greg Kroah-Hartman (Linux kernel)
- Richard Clayton (evil on the internet)
- Wim Remes (OSSEC)
- Sergey Petrunya (MariaDB)
- Brooks Davis (promoting open source methods at a large company)
- David Recordon (Scaling Facebook)
- Dylan Schiemann (Dojo Toolkit)
- Mark Wielaard (SystemTap)
- Isabel Drost (Apache Hadoop)
- Adrian Bowyer (RepRap)
- Christoph Pojer (MooTools)
- David Fetter (PostgreSQL)
- Philip Tellis (YUI-Flot)
- Bernard Li (Ganglia)
- Andrew Lewman (Tor)
- Andrew Tanenbaum (MINIX 3)
- Benoît Chesneau (CouchDB)
- Elena Reshetova (Maemo 6 security)
- Lindsay Holmwood (Flapjack)
- Evan Prodromou (StatusNet)
FOSDEM 2009
- Rob Savoye (Gnash)
- Martin Odersky (Scala)
- Pieter Hintjens (OpenAMQ)
- Victor Stinner (Fusil)
- Simo Sorce (FreeIPA v2)
- Max Spevack (Fedora Project)
- Leslie Hawthorn (Google Summer of Code)
- Brion Vibber (MediaWiki)
- Lenz Grimmer (MySQL High Availability Solutions)
- Scott James Remnant (Upstart)
- Mark Surman (freedom, openness and participation)
- H. Peter Anvin (Syslinux)
- Bdale Garbee (Debian)
- Bryan Østergaard (Exherbo)
- Theodore Ts'o (Ext4)
- Jasper Capel (Cobbler)
- Kris Kennaway (FreeBSD performance)
- Matteo Meucci (secure software development)
- Joe Brockmeier (openSUSE)
FOSDEM 2008
- Bill Hoffman (CMake)
- Robin Rowe (Linux in Hollywood)
- Kohsuke Kawaguchi (Hudson)
- Stéphane Magnenat (Globulation2)
- Patrick Michaud (Perl 6)
- Kurt Pfeifle ans Simon Peter (klik)
- Mark Finkle (Mozilla Prism)
- Matthias Rechenburg (openQRM)
- Andrei Zmievski (PHP6)
- Steven Knight (SCons)
- Pieter Hintjens (status of software patents)
- Ian Pratt (Xen)
- David White (Battle for Wesnoth)
- Garrett J. Woodworth (CakePHP)
- Charles Nutter (JRuby)
FOSDEM 2007
- 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 (Jabber)
- Kern Sibbald (Bacula)
- Andrew Morton (Linux kernel)
- Joe Hewitt (Firebug)
- Georg Greve (FSFE)
- Pieter Hintjens (FFII, software patents)
- Tom Baeyens (JBoss BPM)
- H. D. Moore (Metasploit)
- Simon Phipps (Sun Microsystems, Java)
- Jeremy Allison (Samba)
- Keith Packard (X.org)
- Miguel De Icaza (Mono)
- Paul Everitt (Plone)
- Pete Herzog (OSSTMM)