Author Archives: Johan Thelin

foss-north: Enablement Talks

By Johan Thelin | Published: 2020-05-29

During foss-north 2020 we had a group of talks related to using free and open source in various settings. I call them enablement talks. Someone with a more salesy mind might have said success stories. This year we had tree such talks. One from about SVT’s (the Swedish public TV broadcaster) video streaming platform by […]

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Photoframe Hack

By Johan Thelin | Published: 2020-05-26

Sometimes you just want to get something done. Something for yourself. You do not intend it to be reused, or even pretty. You build a tool. My tool was a photoframe with some basic overlays. I wanted the family calendar, some weather information (current temperature + forecast), time, and the next bus heading for the […]

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The Cost of no Architecture

By Johan Thelin | Published: 2020-04-19

Like many others, I enjoy various reverse engineering and tear-down stories. Personally, I mean things like iFixit tear-downs and Ken Shirriff’s blog, so I started following this tweet thread by foone. I'm trying to get this Logitech Harmony 900 remote working, but it keeps telling me the battery level is extremely low… pic.twitter.com/v3CRE2BUD9 — foone […]

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The Internet Talks

By Johan Thelin | Published: 2020-04-16

I’ve previously written about the licensing and embedded talks of foss-north 2020. This time around, I’d like to share the recordings of the Internet related talks. Internet is a very broad topic, so it is hard to classify talks as not being Internet related these days, but the following three talks stand out. The first […]

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The Embedded Talks

By Johan Thelin | Published: 2020-04-12

The foss-north conference strives to have an assortment of various talks. The point is that visitors should see something unexpected and that the conference should attract all types of visitors to ensure that we as a community can meet across various industries and problem spaces. This time I’ve selected three talks about embedded systems from […]

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What a License Track!

By Johan Thelin | Published: 2020-04-07

The foss-north 2020 videos are rolling out. This year we’re doing a small experiment, so everything is available at once over at conf.tube, while we roll the videos out gradually at YouTube in an attempt to feed the algorithm (like and subscribe!). This year we had a great set of licensing related talks, and I’d […]

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foss-north – or doing many things at once

By Johan Thelin | Published: 2020-03-24

When placing this year’s foss-north event over a quarter break I knew that I would be busy both at work and at the conference. Little did I know what was beyond the horizon ;-) As a consequence of the COVID-19 situation, the event has to be converted from a physical meeting to a virtual event. […]

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foss-north 2020 virtual lightning talks

By Johan Thelin | Published: 2020-03-18

On Sunday March 22 foss-north 2020 will go virtual with a set of lightning talks. This will be the dress rehersal before the big virtual event March 29 – April 1. Join us and enjoy the fun!

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foss-north

By Johan Thelin | Published: 2020-03-13

It is with great regret that I have to announce that foss-north 2020 has been postponed due to the COVID-19 situation. It will be replaced by a virtual event during the planned dates (March 30-31), and a physical event during the fall. We regret any inconvenience that this causes our guests and sponsors. At the […]

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foss-north 2020 Training Day

By Johan Thelin | Published: 2020-03-09

Let’s talk about the foss-north 2020 training day! Every year we invite interesting speakers for the conference. Some of them are also teachers, and some of them are willing to hold a heavily discounted open enrollment training the day after the conference. This year we offer three trainings: Fast track to OpenEmbedded and Yocto Project […]

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