Announcing foss-north 2020

foss-north is a free / open source conference covering both software and hardware from the technical perspective. Hosted in Gothenburg between Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm, with an international airport, we provide a meeting place for the Nordic foss communities and will bring together great speakers with a great audience.

The event is be replaced by a virtual event March 22, and March 29 - April 1 - details below.

Join the free YouTube stream. Ask your questions on sli.do. See the schedule for the slots.

The physical event has been postponed until November 1-4 2020 and will take place at Chalmers Conference Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Virtual Talks

We offer virtual talks on the days of the planned conference, as well as on March 22. The sessions will be broadcasted live on YouTube.

[ March 22 | March 29 | March 30 | March 31 | April 1 ]

Sunday March 22

We have the following lightning talks lined up for you:

[ Videos and Slides ]

Sunday March 29

[ Schedule and Streams ]

Jakob Bornecrantz
FOSS Virtual & Augmented Reality

Kristoffer Grönlund
Introducing Rook

Ron Munitz
Understanding, Building and Researching Minimal (and not so minimal) Linux Systems

Monday March 30

[ Schedule and Streams ]

Valentin David
Building Open Container Initiative images based on Freedesktop SDK

Patrik Fältström
Keeping Time

Frank Karlitschek
Why the GPL is great for business

Elisabet Lobo-Vesga
Privacy-preserving statistical analyses

Simon Painter
Functional Programming with JavaScript

Daniel Stenberg
curl better

Tuesday March 31

[ Schedule and Streams ]

Adriaan de Groot
KDE Free Qt Foundation

Gustav Grusell
FOSS made us do it - How switching to open source tools enabled video innovation

Pavel Kopylov
Hacking the legal code of an open source license

Gabriel Ku Wei Bin
REUSE: Making Free Software Licensing Easier For All

Olof Lindman
FOSS made us do it - How switching to open source tools enabled video innovation

Johan Linåker
Opening up the Swedish Labour Market Through Cross-sector Collaboration

Dimitrios Platis
Using open source paradigms to teach system development

Ashley Raiteri
Robotic Process Automation based on OpenSource

Jonas Södergren
Opening up the Swedish Labour Market Through Cross-sector Collaboration

Wednesday April 1

[ Schedule and Streams ]

Bolaji Ayodeji
Effective Documentation: The Key to Open Source Growth

Drew Fustini
How to run Linux on RISC-V (with open hardware and open source FPGA tools)

Jason Hammond
Managing the risk and growth of using Open Source Software

Viktor Petersson
The history of how Screenly OSE became the most popular digital signage project on GitHub

Chris Simmonds
Debian or Yocto Project? Which is the best for your Embedded Linux project?

Sponsors

We would like to thank our sponsors for helping us making this possible.

If you want to help out by sponsoring us, please visit our Call for Sponsors for more information.

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Partners

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