Category Archives: Linux

foss-north 2019: Community Day

By Johan Thelin | Published: 2019-03-21

I don’t dare to count the days until foss-north 2019, but it is very soon. One of the changes to this year is that we expand the conference with an additional community day. The idea with the community day here is that we arrange for conference rooms all across town and invite open source projects […]

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QML Weather

By Johan Thelin | Published: 2018-10-08

I recently took some time to develop a photo frame style home automation control panel. The idea is to control some common tasks of my home assistant setup from a panel instead of having to rely on the phone. To hide the panel, it currently act as a photo frame until touched. The build is […]

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D-Link and the GPL

By Johan Thelin | Published: 2018-07-05

Recently my router died and to get netflix flowing again, I went out and got the cheapest router I could find in the vicinity. I ended up with a D-Link DIR-842 on discount for 499 SEK. In the box, I discovered this: It tells me to go to D-Link’s page for GPL licensed software to […]

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Five days left

By Johan Thelin | Published: 2018-04-18

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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Linux and Qt in Automotive? Let’s meet up!

By Johan Thelin | Published: 2018-01-19

For anyone around the Gothenburg area on Feb 1st, you are most welcome to the Automotive MeetUp held at the Pelagicore and Luxoft offices. There will be talks about Qt/QML, our embedded Linux platform PELUX and some ramblings about open source in automotive by yours truly ;-) If you want to come, please register here.

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Building Qt on Debian

By Johan Thelin | Published: 2017-08-21

I recently followed the advice of @sehurlburt to offer help to other developers. As I work with Qt and embedded Linux on a daily basis, I offered to help. (You should do the same!) As it is easy to run out of words on Twitter, so here comes a slightly more lengthy explanation on how […]

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foss-north 2017 follow-up

By Johan Thelin | Published: 2017-05-08

On the morning of April 26 I arrived at our venue, preparing for around 120 people to fill the rooms at foss-north 2017. I’m still in the post-event cleaning up phase, so the visitor questionnaire has not yet been sent out, but the feeling is positive. This year we expanded changed venue and moved from one to […]

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Five days and counting

By Johan Thelin | Published: 2017-04-21

It is five days left until foss-north 2017, so it is high time to get your ticket! Please notice that tickets can be bought all the way until the night of the 25th (Tuesday), but catering is only included is you get your ticket on the 24th (Monday), so help a poor organizer and get […]

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foss-north speaker line-up

By Johan Thelin | Published: 2017-03-25

I am extremely pleased to have confirmed the entire speaker line-up for foss north 2017. This will be a really good year! Trying to put together something like this is really hard – you want the best speakers, but you also want a mix of local and international, various technologies, various viewpoints and much, much […]

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Just three days left…

By Johan Thelin | Published: 2017-03-10

The call for papers for foss-north 2017 ends on Sunday. That means that you only have three days to… … get a chance to visit Gothenburg, Sweden, the most sociable city in the world! … speak in front of a great audience of 220 people (if we sell all the tickets – get your’s here). […]

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