• FOSDEM 2020
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• Interviews

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

2020

• Amanda Brock: CANCELLED United Nations Technology and Innovation Labs. Open Source isn't just eating the world, it's changing it
• Chris Aniszczyk, Max Sills and Michael Cheng: Open Source Under Attack. How we, the OSI and others can defend it
• Danese Cooper: How FOSS could revolutionize municipal government. with recent real-world examples
• Daniel Riek: How Containers and Kubernetes re-defined the GNU/Linux Operating System. A Greybeard's Worst Nightmare
• Daniel Stenberg: HTTP/3 for everyone. The next generation HTTP is coming
• David Stewart: Improving protections against speculative execution side channel
• Free Ekanayaka: dqlite: High-availability SQLite. An embeddable, distributed and fault tolerant SQL engine
• Geir Høydalsvik: MySQL Goes to 8!
• James Bottomley and Mike Rapoport: Address Space Isolation in the Linux Kernel
• James Bottomley: The Selfish Contributor Explained
• James Shubin: Over Twenty Years Of Automation
• Joe Conway: SECCOMP your PostgreSQL
• Jon 'maddog' Hall: FOSSH - 2000 to 2020 and beyond!. maddog continues to pontificate
• Justin W. Flory and Michael Nolan: Freedom and AI: Can Free Software include ethical AI systems?. Exploring the intersection of Free software and AI
• Kris Nova: Fixing the Kubernetes clusterfuck. Understanding security from the kernel up
• Krzysztof Daniel: Is the Open door closing?. Past 15 years review and a glimpse into the future.
• Liam Proven: Generation gaps
• Lubosz Sarnecki: The year of the virtual Linux desktop
• Ludovic Courtès: Guix: Unifying provisioning, deployment, and package management in the age of containers
• Mateusz Kowalski and Kamila Součková: SCION. Future internet that you can use today
• Matthew Hodgson: Making & Breaking Matrix's E2E encryption. In which we exercise the threat model for Matrix's E2E encrypted decentralised communication
• Matthias Kirschner: The core values of software freedom
• Merlijn B. W. Wajer and Bart Ribbers: Regaining control of your smartphone with postmarketOS and Maemo Leste. Status of Linux on the smartphone
• Michael Meeks: LibreOffice turns ten and what's next. Lots to learn, and get excited about
• Molly de Blanc: The Ethics Behind Your IoT
• Paul-Antoine Arras: SaBRe: Load-time selective binary rewriting
• Pili Guerra: State of the Onion. The Road to Mainstream Adoption and Improved Censorship Circumvention
• Steven Goodwin: FOSDEM@20 - A Celebration. The cliché of constant change
• Thierry Carrez: Why open infrastructure matters
• Thorsten Leemhuis: The Linux Kernel: We have to finish this thing one day ;). Solving big problems in small steps for more than two decades
• Ton Roosendaal: Blender, Coming of Age. 18 years of Blender open source projects
• Vladislav Shpilevoy: SWIM - Protocol to Build a Cluster. SWIM gossip protocol, its implementation, and improvements
• Warner Losh: The Hidden Early History of Unix. The Forgotten history of early Unix