Speaker Interviews
Every edition of FOSDEM, we conduct a short interview with the main track and keynote speakers.
2015
- Alex Bradbury: lowRISC. The path to an open-source SoC
- Antti Kantee: What is wrong with Operating Systems. (and how do we make things better)
- Benjamin Berg: SDAPS. Surveying Made Easy
- Dana Jacobsen: Design and Implementation of a Perl Number Theory Module
- David Chisnall: The CHERI CPU. RISC in the age of risk
- Federico Vaga and Matthieu Cattin: A GPS watch made of free software and hardware
- George Neville-Neil: Computers, Clocks and Network Time. Everything you never wanted to know about time.
- Gilles Van Assche, Joan Daemen and Michaël Peeters: Keccak and SHA-3: code and standard updates. From the Keccak Code Package to a wide range of cryptographic applications
- Giulio Eulisse: IgProf. The Ignominous Profiler
- Harlan Stenn: NTF's General Timestamp API and Library. Current timestamps suck. We can do much better.
- Holger Levsen: Stretching out for trustworthy reproducible builds. The status of reproducing byte-for-byte identical binary packages from a given source
- James Pallister: Superoptimization. How fast can your code go?
- Jonas Öberg: Automating Attribution. Giving credit where credit is due
- Jonathan Woodruff: BERI. An open RISC softcore for research and experimentation
- Karen Sandler: Identity Crisis: Are we who we say we are?
- Larry Wall: Get ready to party!
- Lukas Berk: Ubiquitous Performance Analysis and System Introspection. An introduction to Performance Co-Pilot and Systemtap
- Martin Burnicki: Technical Aspects of Leap Second Propagation and Evaluation
- Pepijn Noltes: Modularizing C software with Apache Celix
- Poul-Henning Kamp: Ntimed an NTPD replacement
- Ryan MacDonald: Living on Mars: A Beginner's Guide. Can we Open Source a society?
- Simon Cozens: Introducing SILE: A New Typesetting System
- Stefan Marr: Building High-Performance Language Implementations With Low Effort
- Steve Klabnik: The Story of Rust
- Sylvestre Ledru and Lukas Blakk: A new version of Firefox is available. Releasing Quality Firefox Products
- Till Tantau: Algorithmic Graph Drawing in TikZ
- Tom Van Baak: Precise time: from CPU clocks to hacking the Universe. Adventures of a time nut
- Yorik van Havre: FreeCAD. a hackable design platform