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Zeeshan Ali
- Open Source Geolocation: The story & challenges ahead
+ Open Source Geolocation: The story & challenges ahead
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In this talk, Zeeshan will share his story of development of Geoclue, the open source geolocation service for Linux. He'll talk about the challenges and setbacks faced during these years in developing a framework designed to provide a simple API to application developers while also addressing the privacy issues related to giving out users' location to random applications. Also presented will be the current big problems faced by the project and possible solutions to them.
Developer, helicopter pilot and cat lover.
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Mikey Ariel
- Docs or it didn't happen!
+ Docs or it didn't happen!
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If you ever skimmed through a README, tried to follow a quickstart tutorial, attempted to decipher an error message, or typed '--help' in your console, congratulations -- you have encountered documentation!
Long gone are the days of massive books with never-ending stories about your software. Today's users are smarter and less patient, which means that we no longer need to document *all the things*, as long as what we do document is clear, concise, helpful, and accessible. And that's where the real work starts.
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Sam Bellen
- Knock knock, who's there? Authenticating your single page apps using JSON Web Tokens.
+ Knock knock, who's there? Authenticating your single page apps using JSON Web Tokens.
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When it comes to writing code, there’s nothing we take more serious than authentication and security. Modern single page applications bring along new challenges. By using solutions like the OpenID Connect protocol and JSON Web Tokens we can improve the user experience when authenticating with your apps, providing a seamless authentication process.
In this talk I will try to explain in depth, the way JSON Web Tokens work and can be used to secure your single page apps. I will explain the difference between using opaque tokens and JWTs. The talks will also give an overview of a modern authentication flow and a step by step breakdown of how it works exactly. No specific previous knowledge is required, but it helps the audience has some experience with authenticating users.
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Agustín Benito
- Embracing FLOSS as a shortcut towards agility
+ Embracing FLOSS as a shortcut towards agility
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Many organizations are going nowadays through transformation processes at scale toward agility. Agustin will explain why embracing Open Source is a great way to increase the chances any organization has to succeed in such complex processes, which key challenges would be easier to face and why.
The talk targets those developers and managers interested in Open Source and Agile/DevOps at scale.
- Agustin Benito Bethencourt runs http://www.toscalix.com. He works as a consultant at Codethink Ltd.
+ Agustín is currently Principal Consultant at Codethink Ltd. He has 20+ years of experience in different management and executive roles, 15+ of them in the software industry, specially in distributed, Open Source software organizations. This experience allows him nowadays to help automotive and embedded companies to improve processes and practices associated to design, develop, but specially to deliver and maintain software products, systems, technologies and tools. Agustín has been contributing to a variety of FLOSS community projects, like KDE. Further information about him is available at http://www.toscalix.com.
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+ Molly de Blanc
+ Insecure connections: Love and mental health in our digital lives
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+ Molly de Blanc is a free software activist. She works at the Free Software Foundation as the campaigns manager, organizing and educating around free software issues. She serves as a director on the Open Source Initiative board of directors and is a contributor to the Debian project.
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Mirko Boehm
- Open Source, Standards Development and Patents in Europe
+ Open Source, Standards Development and Patents in Europe
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The standards community develops specifications. The FOSS community implements standards. The FOSS community also develops industry standards. How does this the interaction function? And is it working well? How do policy makers interact with the FOSS community to set safety standards and other requirements? What is the relationship between standards-essential patents and FOSS? What comes first, specification or implementation? Where does innovation happen, and what is the platform to develop consensus on technical standards in a market segment? Based on research work at TU Berlin and for the Joint Research Center of the European Commission and the work of the Open Invention Network to protect key FOSS projects from patent litigation, the presentation will discuss the current state of the debate at the European and international level, and provide an outlook on how the roles and functions of standards-development organisations and the wider FOSS community are converging. No live demos, unfortunately.
Free and Open Source Software contributor. Founder, Endocode. Director, Linux System Definition, Open Invention Network. KDE contributor since 1997 (including several years on the KDE e.V. board). Visiting lecturer and researcher at the Technical University of Berlin. FSFE Team Germany. Qt-certified specialist and trainer. Openforum Academy fellow. Berlin, Germany.
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+ Carol Chen
+ Manage a community like conducting an orchestra - with a lot of hand waving
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+ Carol Chen is a Community Architect at Red Hat, supporting several upstream communities such as Ansible and ManageIQ. She has been actively involved in open source communities while working for Jolla and Nokia previously. In addition, she also has experiences in software development/integration in her 12 years in the mobile industry. On a personal note, Carol plays the Timpani in an orchestra in Tampere, Finland, where she now calls home.
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Kalyan Dikshit
- Common Voice - Building Multilingual Voice Datasets
+ Common Voice - Building Multilingual Voice Datasets
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Voice recognition technology is revolutionising the way we interact with machines, but the currently available systems are expensive and proprietary. Common Voice is a massive global database of donated voices that lets anyone quickly and easily train voice-enabled apps in potentially every language. And offer developers and technologists multilingual datasets to train machine-learning models which enable them to build a wave of innovative products and services.
Kalyan Dikshit is a Mozilla Tech Speaker, Representative, and part of its Hyderabad Community, India. He spoke at the Internet Freedom Festival 2017, 2018, Still Hacking Anyway (SHA), All Systems Go! 2017, Shift DEV 2018. He recently gave a talk at “Full Stack Fest 2018” happened in Barcelona. As a volunteer he localizes software for Mozilla, Tor, Orfox, Orbot, GlobaLeaks, Signal and OONIProbe. He currently also devotes his time with ICRISAT where he works, with drones to develop and trial techniques, to connect farmers. Founder of the “JAVA 1.X Hyderabad Chapter” & Co-founder of “Duck Duck Go Hyderabad Chapter”. «Developer by Day, Hacker by Night»
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Adam Dunkels
- Saving the Day by Stack Smashing a Hundred Streetlights before Sunrise
+ Saving the Day by Stack Smashing a Hundred Streetlights before Sunrise
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Hours before an important customer demo, one hundred streetlights are running a pre-release software version with a critical bug that prevents them from working properly. What's worse, the bug also causes the remote-update mechanism to fail. Fortunately, a recent update had introduced an off-by-one bug that allowed us to create a stack smash attack that could inject a patch into each light and fix the lamps just in time before sunrise.
Adam Dunkels is the CEO and co-founder Thingsquare and an award-winning Internet of Things pioneer, named a top 35 innovator in the world by the MIT Technology Review for having created the minimal wireless networking protocols that allow almost any device to communicate over the Internet. Most of today's Internet of Things products are powered by software he created.
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Kristoffer Grönlund
- Let's Lisp like it's 1959
+ Let's Lisp like it's 1959
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One of my favorite papers in computer science is the original LISP paper by John McCarthy. Written in 1959, it describes something mind-bending: The interpreter for a language in the language that it interprets. If you understand this paper, you understand how computation works.
A few years ago, I decided to implement the interpreter described in the paper, and this project turned out to be surprisingly popular. In this presentation, I'll show how to implement the original LISP interpreter in C, and together we will marvel at its elegance.
Kristoffer lärde sig programmera på en Commodore 64 med drömmar om att en dag bli spelutvecklare. Efter att ha levt drömmen på Massive i Malmö i ett antal år växte intresset för fri mjukvara, och numera jobbar han på SUSE där han hackar på diverse projekt relaterade till High Availability.
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+ Magnus Hagander
+ PostgreSQL gotchas for app developers
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+ Magnus Hagander is a member of the PostgreSQL Core Team and a developer and code committer in the PostgreSQL Global Development Group.
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+ Magnus is one of the original developers of the Windows port of PostgreSQL. These days, he mostly works on other parts of the PostgreSQL backend, recently with a focus on security features, monitoring and backup/replication interfaces and tools.
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+ He is also one of the core members of the postgresql.org infrastructure team, maintaining the servers that power the project, and one of the maintainers of the postgresql.org website. He also contributes to pgAdmin and other related projects.
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+ He's been a PostgreSQL user since version 6 (with some non-serious use of Postgres 95 before that), and currently serves on the Core Team and as President of the Board for PostgreSQL Europe.
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+ To pay the bills, he is a PostgreSQL and open source software consultant at Redpill Linpro in Stockholm, Sweden, where he works on consulting, support and training services, as well as custom development work.
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+ Daniel Hansson
+ The NextCloud VM
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Alexander Hultnér
- Test faster, fix more
+ Test faster, fix more
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Did you ever miss that corner case bug? Maybe it was a negative integer, strange timezone conversion behaviour, off by one error or something entirely else. These subtle bugs are often hard to catch and are easily missed in test cases. You like me have probably ran into plenty of code utilising only happy path testing, only to later discover subtle bugs which are easily fixed once pointed out.
This is where property based testing comes into the picture. In this talk I will focus on a wonderful Python library called Hypothesis but the concepts apply to other languages as well. Hypethesis is based on the same concept as the famous QuickCheck library for Haskell, which in turn have been ported a large number of languages. Hypothesis uses a wide range of input to find edge cases that you could otherwise easily miss, once it finds these cases it narrows down the input to the minimal breaking example to provide failures which are easier to understand.
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Claes Jakobsson
- The O in IoT should stand for Open
+ The O in IoT should stand for Open
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During the past years we’ve been developing the Botani.st platform for urban farming. Since we don’t want our customers to end up with a plastic brick when we go bust one design philosophy has been to open as much as possible from protocols to hardware to software. And since we rely on so much open source in the project itself it’s not more than fair.
This talk will cover how we’ve designed the platform and some of the choices needed to balance openess, price and usability.
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Jan Jongboom
- 17,000 contributions in 32K RAM
+ 17,000 contributions in 32K RAM
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The future of computing is tiny. Most computers are not desktop, laptops, tablets or mobile phones, but microcontrollers. Small, integrated systems with a few KB of RAM. And their presence is ever growing. Last year alone 31 billion (!) of them were shipped, up from 23 billion in 2015. And they get more capable every day. A modern embedded system has threads, can run Python or JavaScript, and use machine learning models. Why are you not developing for them yet?
In this talk you'll learn that microcontrollers are not scary, that there's no magic involved, and that working in very constrained systems is actually very fun! You'll also learn a thing or two about getting things to run for years on a battery, try that with a web app. In this talk we'll use Mbed OS, the largest open source Real-Time Operating System for microcontrollers. In 2018 over 17,000 commits were landed in the project, it has over 400 unique contributors, and is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.
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Michael Kerrisk
- Understanding user namespaces
+ Understanding user namespaces
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User namespaces are at the heart of many interesting technologies that allow isolation and sandboxing of applications, for example running containers without root privileges and sandboxes for web browser plug-ins. In this tutorial, we'll look in detail at user namespaces, building up a basic understanding of what a user namespace is and going on to questions such as: what does being “superuser inside a user namespace” allow you do (and what does it not allow); what is the relationship between user namespaces and other namespace types (PID, UTS, network, etc.); and what are the security implications of user namespaces? We'll also explore some simple shell commands that can be used for creating and experimenting with user namespaces in order to better understand how they work. Along the way, there will hopefully be time for a few live demos.
Michael Kerrisk is the author of the acclaimed book, “The Linux Programming Interface” ( http://man7.org/tlpi/), a guide and reference for system programming on Linux and UNIX. He contributes to the Linux kernel primarily via documentation, review, and testing of new kernel-user-space interfaces. He has contributed to the Linux man-pages project ( http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/) since 2000, and been the project maintainer since 2004. Michael is a trainer and consultant, living in Munich, Germany.
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Chris Lamb
- What can free software learn from classical music?
+ What can free software learn from classical music?
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Programming & composition share countless traits, including being puzzle-based methods of self-expression as well as the contradictions of being artistic yet technical, collaborative yet individualistic and both can never be "perfected".
It should therefore not be too surprising that that the old world of classical music has many things in common with the free software movement of today: not only did composers of the past freely remix the works of others every subsequent performance and recording day could be considered a "derived work"...
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Chris has spoken at numerous conferences including LinuxCon China, HKOSCon, linux.conf.au, DjangoCon Europe, LibrePlanet, OSCAL, All Things Open, SCALE, Software Freedom Kosovo, #freenode Live, DebConf, FOSS'ASIA, as well as given guest lectures at New York University Tandon School of Engineering and Cambridge University.
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+ Open Data - the City of Gothenburg
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Alberto Mardegan
- Using the blockchain to find the next prime number
+ Using the blockchain to find the next prime number
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The nature of blockchain-based algorithms make them suitable for solving almost any class of software problems, vastly expanding the field of what is achievable with network computing. At least, if you believe the Internet.
In this talk we'll take a critical approach to the blockchain (with a brief mention of cryptocurrencies), giving an overview of how they work and bringing forward some reasons why, after all, the blockchain might not be the best technology for your next project.
Alberto is a software engineer with a long development experience on Linux mobile devices. Formerly part of the Nokia Maemo team and Canonical Ubuntu phone efforts, he currently works in the automotive domain at Luxoft. His spare time is subdivided among innumerable hobbies and projects, among which a few programming ones concerning Qt, photography and the Ubports project.
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+ Open Data - Mimbly
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Anna Ossowski
- Flourishing FLOSS: Making Your Project Successful
+ Flourishing FLOSS: Making Your Project Successful
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You maintain an Open Source project with great code? Yet your project isn’t succeeding in the ways you want? Maybe you’re struggling with funding or documentation? Or you just can’t find new contributors and you’re drowning in issues and pull requests? Open Source is made up of many components and we are often better-trained in methods for writing good code, than in methods for succeeding in the other dimensions we want our project to grow. In this talk we’ll explore the different components of an Open Source project and how they work together. After this talk you’ll be well-equipped with a ideas and strategies for growing, cultivating, and nourishing your Open Source project.
For your project to succeed, all of its non-code components must be well-maintained. What are these different components and what methods can we learn to maintain them?
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Anders Roxell
- Continuously Integrating the Upstream Linux Kernel on Hardware
+ Continuously Integrating the Upstream Linux Kernel on Hardware
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The aim of this project is to continuously test one of the biggest open source projects on hardware and in qemu. The project started to continuously run functional tests on TS kernels. Tests that gets run are kselftest, ltp, and libhugetlbfs. Running tests on actual hardware isn’t as easy as you may think. Failing tests, hanging tests or flaky tests are some of the issues. The project that was going to run tests on real hardware is called Linux Kernel Functional Testing (LKFT). LKFT uses infrastructure software like Jenkins, LAVA, SQUAD and bugzilla for building, testing, displaying and tracking regressions of the LTS, mainline and next kernels.
LKFT was created in early summer 2017, and the project has helped to enable LTS kernels being supported for 6 years. KernelCI is also used to build and boot testing, and today kernelCI also implements functional tests.
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Chris Simmonds
- Reducing the boot time of Linux devices
+ Reducing the boot time of Linux devices
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We all want our devices to boot faster, but how much effort do you want to dedicate to optimizing and maintaining a custom kernel and apps? This presentation offers a graded list of things you can do to reduce boot time. They start with simple changes, such as adjusting the position of your main application the init sequence. Then there are the changes you can make to the kernel and bootloader configuration to speed things up, and finally, there are moderately advanced techniques such as using U-Boot in falcon mode.
All of this is done using standard configuration techniques, with the idea of being able to maintain these changes in the future. I will show the effect of each of these changes on typical a embedded dev board so that you can judge for yourself where on the journey you want to jump off.
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Fredrik Söderblom
- Modern Email Security
+ Modern Email Security
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In times when a major infection vector is email, it is relevant to use existing protection mechanisms (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, DNSSEC, STARTTLS etc) to protect your company and your company's customers. This presentaion by Fredrik Söderblom from StoredSafe will show how you can protect incoming and outgoing emails with relatively simple means, as well as run you through emerging techniques such as MTA-STS, TLS-RPT, ARC etc.
Fredrik has been working in the IT industry for more than 25 years, and has been involved with the Internet and security since 1992, when he designed and implemented the first firewall for Hewlett Packard in northern Europe.
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Daniel Stenberg
- Writing safe and secure code
+ Writing safe and secure code
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With experiences from the curl project, Daniel talks about how to write safe and secure code to run in every portable device on the planet.
Daniel is the lead developer of curl since over twenty years. One of the most widely used software components in the world.
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Joachim Strömbergson
- Cryptech - Open Hardware Security Modules for a safer, open world
+ Cryptech - Open Hardware Security Modules for a safer, open world
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The CrypTech Hardware Security Module (HSM) Project is an international project developing an open-source hardware cryptographic engine design that meets the needs of high assurance Internet infrastructure systems. Until today, HSMs used for CA certificate signing, DNSSEC and Tor, for example, were highly expensive, proprietary tamper protected black boxes. CrypTech is changing that, making HSMs open and available to everyone.
The goal of the CrypTech project is to create an open-source hardware cryptographic engine that can be built by anyone from public hardware specifications and open-source firmware and operated without fees of any kind. In the talk we will describe what the Cryptech Alpha HSM is, the status for the project, some of the experiences we’ve had designing open crypto hardware, PCBs and FPGAs.
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David Sundelius
- Technical agility - What, why and how?
+ Technical agility - What, why and how?
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Is it just a buzzword that forces you to stand up during your morning meetings? No! Agility for the developer, the organization and the business are all parts of getting a workplace that is motivating and continually learning. During this time the technical part of agile will be presented, and how it can affect the organization, product and people. Some hands-on ideas on how to increase your organizations technical agility are also promised.
David has experience with rendering techniques for lighting, programming language development and front end architecture for web applications, but is now working as a technical agile coach. He’s main focus is to help team to continuously improve their work situation through technology, ways of working and self organization.
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Niclas Zeising
- FreeBSD is not Linux
+ FreeBSD is not Linux
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FreeBSD is an advanced open source Unix-like operating system with roots in the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix originally distributed by the University of California, Berkeley. It is one of the oldest and largest open source projects in the world, having recently celebrated it's 25th birthday. FreeBSD is used to power modern servers, desktops and embedded system and its advanced networking, storage and security features makes it the platform of choice for many of the busiest web sites and most pervasive networking and storage devices. When sending a network packet across the Internet, there is a good chance it will touch a FreeBSD system along the way.
This presentation will give an overview of the FreeBSD operating system and the FreeBSD project community. We will walk through what FreeBSD is, and the community behind it. I will also talk about the various features in FreeBSD, such as jails, ZFS, networking and virtualization and some of the places where FreeBSD can be found.
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