I use to joke that the last week before foss-north is the worst – everything is done, all that is left is the stress. This year, we have the broadest program yet. 25 speakers talking about everything from community policies, GPU isolation, blockchain, historical KDE software, retro computers, IoT, Android, SailfishOS, bug triaging, crowd funding, […]
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foss-north approaching
TL;DR; Tickets including food are sold until April 9 – get yours now! Organizing a conference means going through multiple stages. The first parts are the most difficult – signing up for a venue, looking for the initial speakers, finding the initial sponsors. Basically, building something out of nothing. This becomes easier over the years, […]
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foss-north – the count down
This is the last day left of the Call for Papers for foss-north 2018. With the help of our great sponsors we have the opportunity to transport you to our conference if you are selected to speak. Make sure to make your submission before March 11 and you are in the race. Why should you […]
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foss-north – the count down
Every year we try to seed the foss-north event with a set of key speakers. This year, one of our seed speakers is Steven Goldfarb from the ATLAS project at CERN. He will take us on a journey from the vastness of the universe, to the tiniest particles we can observe – all possible through […]
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foss-north – the count down
Some people likes to talk at conferences, other dread it. At foss-north, we welcome both new and experienced speakers and work hard to make the experience pleasant to all. We are looking for contents on a wide variety of subjects. Here are some topic ideas to encourage you to submit a talk proposal: Teach us […]
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Flashback time! At last year’s foss-north we had a great talk by Jeff Campbell from Scrum Beers and Brewing Agile. He spoke about actionable agile tools – i.e. how to improve the way your agile team works. You can see the recording right here (you might have to click the link if your aggregator hides […]
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Flashback time! At last year’s foss-north we had a great talk by the Zifra team. They spoke about their encryption solution, enabling journalists and other people having to handle sensitive data to make their digital information inaccessible while in an exposed location. You can see the recording right here (you might have to click the […]
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foss-north – the count down
Every year we try to seed the foss-north event with a set of key speakers. This year, one of our seed speakers is Patricia Aas from the Vivaldi Browser. She will be speaking about isolating GPU access in its own process. “Chromium’s process architecture has graphics access restricted to a separate GPU-process. There are several […]
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foss-north – the count down
Every year we try to seed the foss-north event with a set of key speakers. This year, one of our seed speakers is Carsten Munk known from Jolla, libhybris, Meego, Maemo and more. This year he will speak about his new endevour Zipper – bringing blockchain technology to mobile devices. “Zipper is an Ethereum based […]
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Flashback time! At last year’s foss-north we had a great talk by Chris Lamb about reproducible builds. You can see the recording right here (you might have to click the link if your aggregator hides YouTube contents) foss-north strives to gather the best speakers, the best audience at the best location (Gothenburg) for one day each […]
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