• FOSDEM 2018
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• Interviews

Every edition of FOSDEM, we conduct a short interview with the main track and keynote speakers.

2018

• Dimitri Staessens and Sander Vrijders: IPC in 1-2-3. Everything you always wanted from a network, but were afraid to ask
• Diomidis Spinellis: Unix Architecture Evolution from the 1970 PDP-7 to the 2018 FreeBSD. Important Milestones and Lessons Learned
• Frank Karlitschek: Why I forked my own project and my own company. ownCloud to Nextcloud
• Howard Chu: Inside Monero. The world's first fungible cryptocurrency
• James Bottomley: Using TPM 2.0 As a Secure Keystore on your Laptop. It's not as difficult as you think!
• Jan Tobias Muehlberg: Sancus 2.0: Open-Source Trusted Computing for the IoT
• Jon Masters: Exploiting modern microarchitectures. Meltdown, Spectre, and other hardware attacks
• Lars Geyer-Blaumeiser: OpenADx – xcelerate your Automated Driving development. Leveraging open collaboration and open source to accelerate development of Automated Driving
• Liam Proven: The circuit less traveled. Investigating some alternate histories of computing.
• Manoj Pillai, Krutika Dhananjay and Raghavendra Gowdappa: Optimizing Software Defined Storage for the Age of Flash
• Markus Feilner: Security Theatre. The (mostly) unknown OSI Layer 8
• Markus Raab: Configuration Revolution. Why it Needed 13 Years and How it Will be Done
• Mary Bennett: Reimagining EDSAC in open source. An valve computer reimplemented using FPGAs, Arduinos, 3D printing and discrete electronics
• Michael Downey: Sustainability of Open Source in International Development. A new approach from the United Nations Foundation
• Michael Meeks: Re-structuring a giant, ancient code-base for new platforms. Making LibreOffice work well everywhere.
• Michiel Leenaars: Next Generation Internet Initiative. An opportunity to fix the internet
• 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
• Nikos Roussos: SatNOGS: Crowd-sourced satellite operations. Satellite Open Source Ground Station Network
• 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
• Peter Zaitsev: MySQL: Scaling & High Availability Production experience for the last decade
• Philipp Krenn: Elasticsearch (R)Evolution. You Know, for Search...
• Pierros Papadeas: The story of UPSat. Building the first open source software and hardware satellite
• Riccardo Bernardini: Terra Bruciata. where bugs cannot survive
• Rob van Kranenburg: Next Generation Internet Initiative. An opportunity to fix the internet
• Robert Foss: Running Android on the Mainline Graphics Stack
• Serge Guelton (serge-sans-paille): Surviving in an Open Source Niche: the Pythran case. a compiler for scientific kernels written in Python, six years later
• Simon Phipps and Italo Vignoli: Consensus as a Service. Twenty Years of OSI Stewardship
• Stef Walter: Cyborg Teams. Training machines to be Open Source contributors
• Stefan Behnel: Lift your Speed Limits with Cython. Fast native code for Python
• Steven Goodwin: Digital Archaeology. Maintaining our digital heritage
• Tarek Ziade: Load testing web services at Mozilla with Molotov. http://molotov.readthedocs.io/
• Victor Stinner: Python 3: 10 years later. Looking back at Python evolutions of the last 10 years