https://fosdem.org/ FOSDEM 2020 News Feed 2020-01-28 00:00:00 +0000 2020-01-28 00:00:00 +0000 1800 https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2020-01-28-last-set-of-speaker-interviews/ 2020-01-28 00:00:00 +0000 https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2020-01-28-last-set-of-speaker-interviews/ We proudly present the last set of speaker interviews. See you at FOSDEM this weekend! 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 James Bottomley and Mike Rapoport: Address Space Isolation in the Linux Kernel 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. Mateusz Kowalski and Kamila Součková: SCION. Future internet that you can use舰 https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2020-01-26-keysigning-list-published/ 2020-01-26 00:00:00 +0000 https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2020-01-26-keysigning-list-published/ Submission has closed for the PGP keysigning event. The list of all submitted keys is now published. The annual PGP keysigning event at FOSDEM is one of the largest of its kind. With more than one hundred participants every year, it is an excellent opportunity to strengthen the web of trust. If you are participating in the PGP keysigning, you must now: Download the list of keys; Verify that your key fingerprint is correct; Optionally, verify the integrity of the file using the detached signature; Print the list of keys on paper; Calculate the checksums, as detailed in the舰 https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2020-01-18-second-set-of-speaker-interviews/ 2020-01-18 00:00:00 +0000 https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2020-01-18-second-set-of-speaker-interviews/ We have just published the second set of interviews with our main track and keynote speakers. The following interviews give you a lot of interesting reading material about various topics, from the forgotten history of early Unix to the next technological shift of computing: Daniel Riek: How Containers and Kubernetes re-defined the GNU/Linux Operating System. A Greybeard's Worst Nightmare David Stewart: Improving protections against speculative execution side channel James Bottomley: The Selfish Contributor Explained 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舰 https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2020-01-12-sightseeing/ 2020-01-12 00:00:00 +0000 https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2020-01-12-sightseeing/ 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. Like previous years, FOSDEM is organising sightseeing tours. https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2020-01-10-first-speaker-interviews/ 2020-01-10 00:00:00 +0000 https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2020-01-10-first-speaker-interviews/ We have performed some interviews with main track speakers from various tracks. To get up to speed with the topics discussed in the main track talks, you can start reading the following interviews: Amanda Brock: United Nations Technology and Innovation Labs. Open Source isn't just eating the world, it's changing it Daniel Stenberg: HTTP/3 for everyone. The next generation HTTP is coming Free Ekanayaka: dqlite: High-availability SQLite. An embeddable, distributed and fault tolerant SQL engine Geir Høydalsvik: MySQL Goes to 8! James Shubin: Over Twenty Years Of Automation Joe Conway: SECCOMP your PostgreSQL Ludovic Courtès: Guix: Unifying provisioning, deployment, and舰 https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2019-12-31-call-for-volunteers/ 2019-12-31 00:00:00 +0000 https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2019-12-31-call-for-volunteers/ With FOSDEM just around the corner, it is time for us to enlist your help. 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. Would you like to be part of the team that makes FOSDEM tick? Sign up here! You舰 https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2019-12-23-keysigning-submit-your-keys/ 2019-12-23 00:00:00 +0000 https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2019-12-23-keysigning-submit-your-keys/ Our keyserver is now accepting submissions for the FOSDEM 2020 keysigning event. The annual PGP keysigning event at FOSDEM is one of the largest of its kind. With more than one hundred participants every year, it is an excellent opportunity to strengthen the web of trust. For instructions on how to participate in this event, see the keysigning page. Key submissions close on Wednesday 22 January, to give us some time to generate and distribute the list of participants. Remember to bring a printed copy of this list to FOSDEM. https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2019-11-19-accepted-stands/ 2019-11-19 00:00:00 +0000 https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2019-11-19-accepted-stands/ It took a little longer than expected, but we are happy to announce the list of accepted stands for FOSDEM 2020. New this year is that some stands will switch between Saturday and Sunday, so we can give more projects the opportunity to present themselves to the community. There will be stands in the K, H and AW building, but who will be where will be announced closer to the event. We hope to see you all in February! Entire Conference Stand CentOS Debian Gentoo Linux FreeBSD Fedora Project openSUSE openMandriva illumos Automative Grade Linux Coreboot + Flashrom +舰 https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2019-10-01-accepted-developer-rooms/ 2019-10-01 00:00:00 +0000 https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2019-10-01-accepted-developer-rooms/ We are pleased to announce the developer rooms that will be organised at FOSDEM 2020. Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work together on open source projects, to discuss topics relevant to a broader subset of the community, etc. The individual developer room organisers will issue their calls for participation in the next few days. Saturday 1 February 2020 Topic Call for Participation CfP deadline Ada announcement 2019-11-25 Backup and Recovery announcement 2019-11-29 Coding for Language Communities announcement 2019-12-01 Collaborative Information and Content Management Applications announcement 2019-12-09 Containers announcement 2019-11-29 Dependency Management announcement 2019-12-04 DNS announcement 2019-12-01舰 https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2019-08-13-call-for-participation/ 2019-08-13 00:00:00 +0000 https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2019-08-13-call-for-participation/ We now invite proposals for main track presentations, developer rooms, stands and lightning talks. FOSDEM offers open source and free software developers a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Renowned for being highly developer-oriented, the event brings together some 8000+ geeks from all over the world. The twentieth edition will take place on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd February 2020 at the usual location: ULB Campus Solbosch in Brussels. We will record and stream all main tracks, devrooms and lightning talks live. The recordings will be published under the same licence as all FOSDEM content (CC-BY). If, exceptionally,舰