https://fosdem.org/FOSDEM 20182018-04-19T22:00:00ZFOSDEM teamhttps://fosdem.orgtag:fosdem.org,2018-04-20:/2018/news/2018-04-20-video-infra-shutdown/Video infrastructure to be shut down2018-04-19T22:00:00Z2018-04-19T22:00:00Z<p>It's several months after FOSDEM by now, but our video transcoding
infrastructure is still up and running, in order to deal with the long
tail of videos with issues that was still outstanding. This will change
next week.</p>
<p>Currently, 644 videos have been signed off on, while 25 are marked as
needing some kind of intervention or further investigation. These mostly
require us to read data from our backups.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, due to various complications, it turns out that
getting data from those backups is more involved than we initially
thought. Now, almost three months after the event, it is not valuable
anymore to invest much time in rescuing those files. Therefore, we will
be shutting down the transcoding infrastructure some time next week.</p>
<p>If you were a speaker at FOSDEM 2018, you might want to verify that
your video was released correctly, by going to the page of your talk(s)
on <a href="../../schedule/">the schedule</a> and watching the video. If
your video contains errors, now is the time to let us know. If the video
is not released and you thought it would have been, it is not yet too
late. If your video is marked as "broken" or some other similar state on
<a href="https://review.video.fosdem.org/">the review interface</a>, and
you think it is better to release it in its current state than not to
release it at all, inform us now.</p>
<p>If we do not hear about any major issues, we will shut down the
transcoding infrastructure some time during the next week.</p>
<p>You can reach us by mail on video@fosdem.org, or via IRC on
freenode, channel #fosdem-video.</p><p>It's several months after FOSDEM by now, but our video transcoding
infrastructure is still up and running, in order to deal with the long
tail of videos with issues that was still outstanding. This will change
next week.</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2018-04-11:/2018/news/2018-04-11-fosdemx-0/Introducing FOSDEMx2018-04-10T22:00:00Z2018-04-10T22:00:00Z<p>
FOSDEMx is a small scale spin-off of FOSDEM, combining a workshop
track geared towards students and anyone interested in the topic,
with a main track for a broader audience.
</p>
<p>
FOSDEMx 0 will take place on Thursday the 3rd of May 2018 at ULB
Campus de la Plaine from 16:00 onward. This first edition will
introduce attendees to the Python ecosystem.
</p>
<p>
As this is a smaller event and seats for the workshops are limited,
we ask attendees to register upfront. The main track sessions will
be open to anyone. Attendance is free of charge for all sessions.
</p>
<p>
Head over to the <a href="https://x.fosdem.org/0/">FOSDEMx 0</a>
website for more information.
</p><p>
FOSDEMx is a small scale spin-off of FOSDEM, combining a workshop
track geared towards students and anyone interested in the topic,
with a main track for a broader audience.
</p>
<p>
FOSDEMx 0 will take place on Thursday the 3rd of May 2018 at ULB
Campus de la Plaine from 16:00 onward. This first edition will
introduce attendees to the Python ecosystem.
</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2018-03-30:/2018/news/2018-03-30-dates-fosdem-2019/Next FOSDEM: 2 & 3 February 20192018-03-29T22:00:00Z2018-03-29T22:00:00Z<p>
FOSDEM 2019 will take place at ULB Campus Solbosch on Saturday 2 and
Sunday 3 February 2019.
</p>
<p>
Further details and calls for participation will be announced in the coming
months.
</p><p>
FOSDEM 2019 will take place at ULB Campus Solbosch on Saturday 2 and
Sunday 3 February 2019.
</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2018-02-04:/2018/news/2018-02-04-first-videos-online/First videos already live!2018-02-03T23:00:00Z2018-02-03T23:00:00Z<p>Our video recording and transcoding pipeline has been streamlined
over the past few years; the first video to be released this year was
available for viewers yesterday in the afternoon.</p>
<p>As of this writing, there are 54 videos already released to our <a href="https://video.fosdem.org/2018">video site</a>, linked to from the
various talks in the <a href="/2018/schedule">schedule</a>, and (for
those who prefer it) also available on our <a href="https://youtube.com/fosdemtalks">YouTube channel</a>. For an
overview of what's available, what's on the way, and what still needs to
be done, please see the <a href="https://review.video.fosdem.org/overview">overview page of our
review infrastructure</a>.</p>
<p>If you are a speaker and did a talk on saturday, please help us
stress-test our review infrastructure by reviewing your talk ASAP! As an
added bonus, that also releases your talk to the viewing public so much
sooner. If there's a particular talk that has been recorded but which is
not public yet, please do not hesitate to ask the speaker to review it
as soon as possible.</p><p>Our video recording and transcoding pipeline has been streamlined
over the past few years; the first video to be released this year was
available for viewers yesterday in the afternoon.</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2018-01-31:/2018/news/2018-01-31-last-set-of-speaker-interviews/Last set of speaker interviews2018-01-30T23:00:00Z2018-01-30T23:00:00Z<p>We proudly present the last set of speaker interviews. See you at FOSDEM this weekend!</p>
<ul>
<li>Jon Masters: <a href="/2018/interviews/jon-masters/">Exploiting modern microarchitectures. Meltdown, Spectre, and other hardware attacks</a></li>
<li>Michael Downey: <a href="/2018/interviews/michael-downey/">Sustainability of Open Source in International Development. A new approach from the United Nations Foundation</a></li>
<li>Nikos Roussos: <a href="/2018/interviews/nikos-roussos/">SatNOGS: Crowd-sourced satellite operations. Satellite Open Source Ground Station Network</a></li>
<li>Palmer Dabbelt: <a href="/2018/interviews/palmer-dabbelt/">Igniting the Open Hardware Ecosystem with RISC-V. SiFive's Freedom U500 is the World's First Linux-capable Open Source SoC Platform</a></li>
<li>Pierros Papadeas: <a href="/2018/interviews/pierros-papadeas/">The story of UPSat. Building the first open source software and hardware satellite</a></li>
<li>Stef Walter: <a href="/2018/interviews/stef-walter/">Cyborg Teams. Training machines to be Open Source contributors</a></li>
<li>Victor Stinner: <a href="/2018/interviews/victor-stinner/">Python 3: 10 years later. Looking back at Python evolutions of the last 10 years</a></li>
</ul>
<p>If you haven't read our previous <a href="/2018/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,2018-01-28:/2018/news/2018-01-28-sightseeing/Guided sightseeing tours2018-01-27T23:00:00Z2018-01-27T23:00:00Z<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="/2018/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,2018-01-24:/2018/news/2018-01-24-third-set-of-speaker-interviews/Third set of speaker interviews2018-01-23T23:00:00Z2018-01-23T23:00:00Z<p>With only ten days left until FOSDEM 2018, we have added some new interviews with our main track speakers, varying from a keynote talk about 20 years of Open Source Initiative through a speaker who forked his own project and the Next Generation Internet initiative to using TPM 2.0 as a secure keystore:</p>
<ul>
<li>Dimitri Staessens and Sander Vrijders: <a href="/2018/interviews/dimitri-staessens-sander-vrijders/">IPC in 1-2-3. Everything you always wanted from a network, but were afraid to ask</a></li>
<li>Frank Karlitschek: <a href="/2018/interviews/frank-karlitschek/">Why I forked my own project and my own company. ownCloud to Nextcloud</a></li>
<li>James Bottomley: <a href="/2018/interviews/james-bottomley/">Using TPM 2.0 As a Secure Keystore on your Laptop. It's not as difficult as you think!</a></li>
<li>Jan Tobias Muehlberg: <a href="/2018/interviews/jan-tobias-muehlberg/">Sancus 2.0: Open-Source Trusted Computing for the IoT</a></li>
<li>Lars Geyer-Blaumeiser: <a href="/2018/interviews/lars-geyer-blaumeiser/">OpenADx – xcelerate your Automated Driving development. Leveraging open collaboration and open source to accelerate development of Automated Driving</a></li>
<li>Markus Feilner: <a href="/2018/interviews/markus-feilner/">Security Theatre. The (mostly) unknown OSI Layer 8</a></li>
<li>Markus Raab: <a href="/2018/interviews/markus-raab/">Configuration Revolution. Why it Needed 13 Years and How it Will be Done</a></li>
<li>Michiel Leenaars: <a href="/2018/interviews/michiel-leenaars-rob-van-kranenburg/">Next Generation Internet Initiative. An opportunity to fix the internet</a></li>
<li>Riccardo Bernardini: <a href="/2018/interviews/riccardo-bernardini/">Terra Bruciata. where bugs cannot survive </a></li>
<li>Simon Phipps and Italo Vignoli: <a href="/2018/interviews/simon-phipps-italo-vignoli/">Consensus as a Service. Twenty Years of OSI Stewardship</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Our <a href="/2018/interviews/">interviews</a> page is already filling up nicely with a diverse set of main track speakers. Stay tuned for some more next week.</p><p>With only ten days left until FOSDEM 2018, we have added some new interviews with our main track speakers, varying from a keynote talk about 20 years of Open Source Initiative through a speaker who forked his own project and the Next Generation Internet initiative to using TPM 2.0 as a secure keystore:</p>
tag:fosdem.org,2018-01-17:/2018/news/2018-01-17-second-set-of-speaker-interviews/Second set of speaker interviews2018-01-16T23:00:00Z2018-01-16T23:00:00Z<p>We have just published the second set of interviews with our main track speakers.</p>
<p>The following <a href="/2018/interviews/">interviews</a> give you a lot of interesting reading material about various topics:</p>
<ul>
<li>Howard Chu: <a href="/2018/interviews/howard-chu/">Inside Monero. The world's first fungible cryptocurrency</a></li>
<li>Liam Proven: <a href="/2018/interviews/liam-proven/">The circuit less traveled. Investigating some alternate histories of computing.</a></li>
<li>Manoj Pillai, Krutika Dhananjay and Raghavendra Gowdappa: <a href="/2018/interviews/manoj-pillai-krutika-dhananjay-raghavendra-gowdappa/">Optimizing Software Defined Storage for the Age of Flash</a></li>
<li>Michael Meeks: <a href="/2018/interviews/michael-meeks/">Re-structuring a giant, ancient code-base for new platforms. Making LibreOffice work well everywhere.</a></li>
<li>Milan Broz: <a href="/2018/interviews/milan-broz/">Data integrity protection with cryptsetup tools. what is the Linux dm-integrity module and why we extended dm-crypt to use authenticated encryption</a></li>
<li>Peter Zaitsev: <a href="/2018/interviews/peter-zaitsev/">MySQL: Scaling & High Availability Production experience for the last decade</a></li>
<li>Philipp Krenn: <a href="/2018/interviews/philipp-krenn/">Elasticsearch (R)Evolution. You Know, for Search...</a></li>
<li>Rob van Kranenburg and Michiel Leenaars: <a href="/2018/interviews/rob-van-kranenburg-michiel-leenaars/">Next Generation Internet Initiative. An opportunity to fix the internet</a></li>
<li>Serge Guelton (serge-sans-paille): <a href="/2018/interviews/serge-guelton/">Surviving in an Open Source Niche: the Pythran case. a compiler for scientific kernels written in Python, six years later</a></li>
<li>Tarek Ziade: <a href="/2018/interviews/tarek-ziade/">Load testing web services at Mozilla with Molotov. http://molotov.readthedocs.io/</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Last week, we already published our <a href="/2018/news/2018-01-08-first-speaker-interviews/">first set of speaker interviews</a>. If you can't wait for FOSDEM 2018, 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>
tag:fosdem.org,2018-01-14:/2018/news/2018-01-14-call-for-volunteers/Call for volunteers2018-01-13T23:00:00Z2018-01-13T23:00:00Z<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 make FOSDEM happen and make it 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 for heralding during the conference, during the buildup (starting Friday at noon) and teardown (Sunday evening). No need to worry about missing lunch. Food will be provided.</p>
<p>Would you like to be part of the team that makes FOSDEM tick? <a href="https://volunteers.fosdem.org">Sign up here!</a> You could really help us out with the following:</p>
<ul>
<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>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>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>
<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>Video - Capturing and recording video. Ensure the livestreams to thousands are up and running and all talks are recorded. This year we're also doing subtitling.</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>
</ul>
<p>For more information, please have a look at <a href="https://volunteers.fosdem.org/faq/">our 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,2018-01-08:/2018/news/2018-01-08-first-speaker-interviews/First speaker interviews2018-01-07T23:00:00Z2018-01-07T23:00:00Z<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="/2018/interviews/">interviews</a>:</p>
<ul>
<li>Diomidis Spinellis: <a href="/2018/interviews/diomidis-spinellis/">Unix Architecture Evolution from the 1970 PDP-7 to the 2017 FreeBSD. Important Milestones and Lessons Learned</a></li>
<li>Mary Bennett: <a href="/2018/interviews/mary-bennett/">Reimagining EDSAC in open source. An valve computer reimplemented using FPGAs, Arduinos, 3D printing and discrete electronics</a></li>
<li>Robert Foss: <a href="/2018/interviews/robert-foss/">Running Android on the Mainline Graphics Stack</a></li>
<li>Stefan Behnel: <a href="/2018/interviews/stefan-behnel/">Lift your Speed Limits with Cython. Fast native code for Python</a></li>
<li>Steven Goodwin: <a href="/2018/interviews/steven-goodwin/">Digital Archaeology. Maintaining our digital heritage</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>