https://fosdem.org/FOSDEM 20172017-03-19T23:00:00ZFOSDEM teamhttps://fosdem.orgtag:fosdem.org,2017-03-20:/2017/news/2017-03-20-videos-almost-finished/Video work almost finished2017-03-19T23:00:00Z2017-03-19T23:00:00Z<p>Almost all of the video recordings from FOSDEM 2017 have
been cut, transcoded, and released.</p>
<p>There are a handful of talks left to fix up, which will happen no later than
next weekend. The weekend after that, we plan to shut down this year's
video-processing infrastructure, unless something important pops up.</p>
<p>Videos are linked from the individual schedule pages for the talks and the
<a href="/2017/schedule/events/">full schedule</a> page. They are mirrored from
<a href="http://video.fosdem.org/2017/">video.fosdem.org</a>.</p>
<p>While all videos have been reviewed by a human before they were
released, it remains possible that one or more issues fell through the
cracks. Therefore, if you notice any issues with any video you care
about, now is the time to tell us. Once the infrastructure has been shut
down, fixing issues will no longer be possible.</p>
<p>To report any issues, you can contact us via:</p>
<ul><li>IRC: #fosdem-video on freenode</li>
<li>email: <a href="mailto:video@fosdem.org?subject=recording issues">video@fosdem.org</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Thank you to all the volunteers, devroom managers, speakers and video
team members who helped recording and reviewing, and who made this
possible.</p><p>Almost all of the video recordings from FOSDEM 2017 have
been cut, transcoded, and released.</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2017-02-05:/2017/news/2017-02-05-videos-transcoding/Videos are being transcoded and uploaded2017-02-04T23:00:00Z2017-02-04T23:00:00Z<p>
FOSDEM isn't finished yet, but the first videos are already being
transcoded and uploaded to our <a href="http://video.fosdem.org/2017">video archive</a>.</p>
<p>As of this writing, 43 videos have been released, with 7 more being
transcoded. Speakers who had a talk on Saturday <em>should</em> have
received an invitation by email to review their talks on our <a href="https://review.video.fosdem.org/">review system</a>; if you had a
talk yesterday and haven't checked your email yet, please do so that we
can release videos as soon as possible.</p>
<p>Those interested in the state of a particular talk can check out the
<a href="https://review.video.fosdem.org/overview">overview page</a> for
up-to-date information.</p><p>
FOSDEM isn't finished yet, but the first videos are already being
transcoded and uploaded to our <a
href='http://video.fosdem.org/2017'>video archive</a>.</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2017-02-05:/2017/news/2017-02-05-important-security-notice/Important security notice about the conference internet2017-02-04T23:00:00Z2017-02-04T23:00:00Z<p>
FOSDEM was informed of possible attempts, at several FOSDEM locations, to harvest usernames and passwords.
</p><p> The official network names (SSIDs) on the campus during FOSDEM were
"FOSDEM" and "FOSDEM-ancient".</p>
<p>FOSDEM has not provided any other internet access.</p>
<p>The official FOSDEM wireless network did NOT ask for any credentials.<br />
E.g. the use of the network name (SSID) "FOSDEM FreeWifi by Google" was neither
authorised nor condoned by FOSDEM. This network presented a login page
resembling a login page of Google.</p>
<p> FOSDEM is taking action regarding these incidents.</p>
<p>If you think you might be affected we advise you to take all the steps you deem necessary.</p>
<p> For Google's Gmail security tips please read <a href="https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7036019">https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7036019</a>.</p>
<p>If you need to contact us regarding this matter, please use the FOSDEM
security email address: <a href="mailto:security@fosdem.org">security@fosdem.org</a> with GPG key fingerprint: C466 DBD8 A2B3 30C9 5B09 30D9 705D 2457 B530 8FA0.</p><p>
FOSDEM was informed of possible attempts, at several FOSDEM locations, to harvest usernames and passwords.
tag:fosdem.org,2017-02-01:/2017/news/2017-02-01-last-set-of-speaker-interviews/Last set of speaker interviews2017-01-31T23:00:00Z2017-01-31T23:00:00Z<p>We proudly present the last set of speaker interviews. See you at FOSDEM this weekend!</p>
<ul>
<li>Andrew Savchenko: <a href="/2017/interviews/andrew-savchenko/">Quantum computing and post-quantum cryptography. a gentle overview</a></li>
<li>Arun Thomas: <a href="/2017/interviews/arun-thomas/">RISC-V. Open Hardware for Your Open Source Software</a></li>
<li>Benjamin Henrion (zoobab): <a href="/2017/interviews/benjamin-henrion/">Pieter Hintjens In Memoriam. For ZeroMQ and all the rest</a></li>
<li>Bradley M. Kuhn: <a href="/2017/interviews/bradley-kuhn/">Understanding The Complexity of Copyleft Defense. After 25 Years of GPL Enforcement, Is Copyleft Succeeding?</a></li>
<li>Dwayne Bailey: <a href="/2017/interviews/dwayne-bailey/">Continuous Localisation using FOSS tools. Building a fast responsive localisation process using open source tools</a></li>
<li>Georg Greve: <a href="/2017/interviews/georg-greve/">Let's talk about hardware: The POWER of open.. How Open POWER is changing the game and why the Free Software Community should care.</a></li>
<li>Gerolf Ziegenhain: <a href="/2017/interviews/gerolf-ziegenhain/">Using Linux in Air Traffic Control. Hardware and Operating System Platforms</a></li>
<li>Justin W. Flory: <a href="/2017/interviews/justin-flory/">What open source and J.K. Rowling have in common. Importance of storytelling in open source projects</a></li>
<li>Leah Rowe: <a href="/2017/interviews/leah-rowe/">Libreboot. Free your BIOS today!</a></li>
<li>Matthew Hodgson: <a href="/2017/interviews/matthew-hodgson/">Encrypting Matrix. Building a universal end-to-end encrypted communication ecosystem with Matrix and Olm</a></li>
</ul>
<p>If you haven't read our previous <a href="/2017/interviews/">interviews</a> with main track speakers yet, take a look at them. It's for free and no registration necessary, just like the conference!</p><p>We proudly present the last set of speaker interviews. See you at FOSDEM this weekend!</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2017-01-27:/2017/news/2017-01-27-call-for-volunteers/Call for volunteers2017-01-26T23:00:00Z2017-01-26T23:00:00Z<p>With FOSDEM just around the corner, it is time for us to enlist your help.</p>
<p>Every year, an enthusiastic band of volunteers helps us make FOSDEM 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 during the buildup (starting Friday at noon) and teardown (Sunday evening). No need to worry about missing lunch. Food will be provided.</p>
<p>If you have some spare time during the weekend and would like to be a part of the team that makes FOSDEM tick... We need help with the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Build-up - Setting up the venue on Friday: this mostly involves carrying tables to their destinations and setting them up, putting up signage, covering the walls in brown paper... in short: transform the campus into a conference venue. We need as many volunteers as possible for this task.</li>
<li>Network - Deploying the network on Friday: rolling out, neatly securing and crimping UTP cables. People with experience rolling out networks and crimping cables are very welcome!</li>
<li>Infodesk - Available at the infodesk during the weekend: help out fellow attendees with their questions, sell t-shirts etc.. Proficiency in English is a must, but if you are proficient in other languages as well, it certainly wouldn't hurt.</li>
<li>Heralding - Briefly introduce the speakers and the topics of their talks, make sure all talks end on time by giving speakers cues near the end of their time slot. Keep an eye out on room safety and report potential issues such as overcrowded rooms before it becomes more than a "potential" issue.</li>
<li>Safety - Keep an eye out for hazardous situations such as patches of ice that could trip people up, overcrowded rooms etc.. This also involves barring entrance to rooms that are at full capacity so we can keep the conference safe for everyone. This can be combined with moderation.</li>
<li>Video - Capturing and recording video. Ensure the livestreams to thousands are up and running and all talks are recorded.</li>
<li>Tear-down - (and cleanup) on Sunday evening: collecting beer bottles, tearing down the network, pulling brown paper off the walls, taking down the signage, stacking the rental tables in neat heaps, broom the floors etc.. Basically, make sure we're welcome again next year.</li>
</ul>
<p>For more information, please have a look at <a href="https://volunteers.fosdem.org/faq/">our updated volunteer FAQ</a></p>
<p>If any or all of these sound like your kind of gig, pick your task(s) at <a href="https://volunteers.fosdem.org">our volunteer tool</a>, subscribe to <a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/volunteers">the volunteers mailing list</a> and keep an eye on #fosdem-volunteers on <a href="https://freenode.net/">freenode</a> (also available <a href="https://webchat.freenode.net?channels=fosdem-volunteers">via webchat</a>). Feel free to shout out and introduce yourself!</p><p>With FOSDEM just around the corner, it is time for us to enlist your help.</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2017-01-21:/2017/news/2017-01-21-third-set-of-speaker-interviews/Third set of speaker interviews2017-01-20T23:00:00Z2017-01-20T23:00:00Z<p>With only two weeks left until FOSDEM 2017, we have added some new interviews with our main track speakers, varying from a keynote talk about Kubernetes through cryptographic functions based on Keccak and the application delivery controller Tempesta FW to ethics in network measurements:</p>
<ul>
<li>Alexander Krizhanovsky: <a href="/2017/interviews/alexander-krizhanovsky/">Tempesta FW. Linux Application Delivery Controller</a></li>
<li>Brandon Philips: <a href="/2017/interviews/brandon-philips/">Kubernetes on the road to GIFEE</a></li>
<li>Deb Nicholson and Molly de Blanc: <a href="/2017/interviews/deb-nicholson-molly-de-blanc/">All Ages: How to Build a Movement</a></li>
<li>Gilles Van Assche: <a href="/2017/interviews/gilles-van-assche/">Portfolio of optimized cryptographic functions based on Keccak</a></li>
<li>Jason A. Donenfeld: <a href="/2017/interviews/jason-a-donenfeld/">WireGuard: Next Generation Secure Kernel Network Tunnel. Cutting edge crypto, shrewd kernel design, and networking meet in a surprisingly simple combination</a></li>
<li>Robert Kratky: <a href="/2017/interviews/robert-kratky/">Bridging the Gap between Legacy Docs and Modular Content</a></li>
<li>Vesna Manojlovic: <a href="/2017/interviews/vesna-manojlovic/">Ethics in Network Measurements . Moral obligations of engineers, scientists and hackers, based on example of RIPE Atlas </a></li>
</ul>
<p>Our <a href="/2017/interviews/">interviews</a> page is already filling up nicely with a diverse set of main track speakers. Stay tuned for more next week.</p><p>With only two weeks left until FOSDEM 2017, we have added some new interviews with our main track speakers, varying from a keynote talk about Kubernetes through cryptographic functions based on Keccak and the application delivery controller Tempesta FW to ethics in network measurements:</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2017-01-16:/2017/news/2017-01-16-sightseeing/Guided sightseeing tours2017-01-15T23:00:00Z2017-01-15T23:00:00Z<p>
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.
</p>
<p>
Like previous years, FOSDEM is organising
<a href="/2017/sightseeing/">sightseeing tours</a>.
</p><p>
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.
</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2017-01-12:/2017/news/2017-01-12-second-set-of-speaker-interviews/Second set of speaker interviews2017-01-11T23:00:00Z2017-01-11T23:00:00Z<p>We have just published the second set of interviews with our main track speakers.</p>
<p>The following <a href="/2017/interviews/">interviews</a> give you a lot of interesting reading material about various topics:</p>
<ul>
<li>Benedict Gaster (cuberoo_): <a href="/2017/interviews/benedict-gaster/">LoRaWAN for exploring the Internet of Things . Talk Hard: A technical, political, and cultural look at LoRaWAN for IoT</a></li>
<li>Brooks Davis: <a href="/2017/interviews/brooks-davis/">Everything You Always Wanted to Know About "Hello, World"*. (*But Were Afraid To Ask)</a></li>
<li>Daniel Stenberg: <a href="/2017/interviews/daniel-stenberg/">You know what's cool? Running on billions of devices. curl from A to Z</a></li>
<li>Keith Packard: <a href="/2017/interviews/keith-packard/">Free Software For The Machine</a></li>
<li>Klaus Aehlig: <a href="/2017/interviews/klaus-aehlig/">Bazel. How to build at Google scale?</a></li>
<li>Rich Bowen: <a href="/2017/interviews/rich-bowen/">Write a Better FM. Read The F* Manual? Maybe you need to write a better f* manual</a></li>
<li>Richard Brown: <a href="/2017/interviews/richard-brown/">Resurrecting dinosaurs, what can possibly go wrong?. How Containerised Applications could eat our users.</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Last week, we already published our <a href="/2017/news/2017-01-04-first-speaker-interviews/">first set of speaker interviews</a>. If you can't wait for FOSDEM 2017, get a glimpse of the talks in all these interviews. More are coming during the next weeks.</p><p>We have just published the second set of interviews with our main track speakers.</p>
<p>The following <a href="page:/interviews">interviews</a> give you a lot of interesting reading material about various topics:</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2017-01-04:/2017/news/2017-01-04-first-speaker-interviews/First speaker interviews2017-01-03T23:00:00Z2017-01-03T23:00:00Z<p>During the holidays we have performed some interviews with main track speakers from various tracks.</p>
<p>To get up to speed with the topics discussed in the main track talks, you can start reading the following <a href="/2017/interviews/">interviews</a>:</p>
<ul>
<li>Benjamin Kampmann: <a href="/2017/interviews/benjamin-kampmann/">It's time to SAFE the Internet. Introducing SAFE, the decentralised privacy-first storage and communication network</a></li>
<li>Dominik George and Eike Jesinghaus: <a href="/2017/interviews/dominik-george-eike-jesinghaus/">The Veripeditus AR Game Framework. Enabling everyone to freely create Augmented Reality Games</a></li>
<li>Ed Schouten: <a href="/2017/interviews/ed-schouten/">CloudABI: easily develop sandboxed apps for UNIX</a></li>
<li>Martin Pitt: <a href="/2017/interviews/martin-pitt/">Continuous Integration at a Distribution Level. Shepherding 30.000 packages to never break</a></li>
<li>Mathieu Stephan: <a href="/2017/interviews/mathieu-stephan/">The Making of a Secure Open Source Password Keeper. From the Electronics to the High Level Software...</a></li>
<li>Nikolai Kondrashov: <a href="/2017/interviews/nikolai-kondrashov/">User Session Recording for the Enterprise. An Open-Source Effort by Red Hat</a></li>
<li>Peter Baumann: <a href="/2017/interviews/peter-baumann/">Datacubes on Steroids with ISO Array SQL. Open Source, Open Standards, Open Terabytes</a></li>
<li>Roberto Di cosmo and Stefano Zacchiroli: <a href="/2017/interviews/roberto-di-cosmo-stefano-zacchiroli/">Software Heritage: Preserving the Free Software Commons</a></li>
</ul>
Stay tuned for more interviews in the next weeks.<p>During the holidays we have performed some interviews with main track speakers from various tracks.</p>
<p>To get up to speed with the topics discussed in the main track talks, you can start reading the following <a href="page:/interviews">interviews</a>:</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2016-12-12:/2017/news/2016-12-12-certification-exams/Certification exams2016-12-11T23:00:00Z2016-12-11T23:00:00Z<p>
The <a href="https://lpi.org/">Linux Professional Institute</a>, the <a href="http://bsdcertification.org/">BSD Certification Group</a> and
<a href="https://www.documentfoundation.org/">The Document Foundation</a> will
offer exam sessions at FOSDEM 2017.
</p>
<p>
Interested candidates can now register for exams with the respective
organisations.
</p>
<p>
Further details are available on the <a href="/2017/certification/">certification page</a>.
</p><p>
The <a href="https://lpi.org/">Linux Professional Institute</a>, the <a
href="http://bsdcertification.org/">BSD Certification Group</a> and
<a href="https://www.documentfoundation.org/">The Document Foundation</a> will
offer exam sessions at FOSDEM 2017.
</p>