See you at FOSDEM?
Join NLnet Foundation at FOSDEM 2023 in Brussels (4–5 February 2023), meet up with representatives from interesting projects in person and check out interesting presentations of various projects funded by our grants.
After finding refuge in the virtual realm for its past two editions, the world’s largest gathering of free and open source software enthusiasts is back in Brussels! As always, this two day event is completely free for everyone to join, and you can come even at the last minute — no registration is required.
NLnet Foundation will be there — and we are happy to meet, listen and learn from you! Come join us for a drink and a chat during our NGI0 FOSDEM Meetup on Saturday February 4th at 14:00h in our Birds of a Feather session in UB2.147. Or ask us any questions you may want to ask during our NLnet FOSDEM office hour on Sunday February 5th at 11:00h (same location, UB2.147).
NLnet is proud to see many presentations of projects that were recently funded by its Next Generation Internet research and development grants. Here an overview:
Saturday
- 11:00: Writing a convergent application in 2023 with Kirigami — Carl Schwan (Neochat)
- 12:00: Bringing RISC-V to Guix's bootstrap: What's done and what we need to do — Ekaitz Zarraga (GNU Mes RISC-V)
- 12:30: Ondev2: Distro-Independent Installer For Linux Mobile — Oliver Smith (postmarketOS)
- 14:30: Where do we go from here? The future of Linux on Mobile could be exciting, scary, or both! — Clayton Craft (postmarketOS)
- 14:00: Come and meet us during the NGI0 FOSDEM Meetup - Birds of a Feather session in UB 2147
- 15:25: How Replicant, a 100% free software Android distribution, uses (or doesn't use) Guix — Denis Carikli (GNUtoo) (Replicant)
- 15:45: The Importance of Collaborative Applications for European Digital Sovereignty: Progress and challenges of alternatives facing the BigTechs — Ludovic Dubost (CryptPad & XWiki)
- 16:20: Connectbyname and the Proxy Control option — Philip Homburg (Connect By Name)
- 17:00: News from the ODF Toolkit: Quick overview: Intro, use cases & updates from the past months and likely future! — Svante Schubert (In-document search)
- 18:00: Updates from the LibreOffice WASM port Come to see what progress we made since LibOCon — Thorsten Behrens (LibreOffice P2P)
Sunday
- 9:30: Parsing binary formats with Kaitai Struct — Petr Pucil (Kaitai Struct)
- 9:45: Open Source Firmware status on AMD platforms 2023 - 4th edition — Michał Żygowski (Alder Lake Desktop)
- 10:00: Literate Storytelling: Interpreting Syntaxes for Explorers: Demonstration of the use of syntaxes to facilitate the search of information — Jonathan McHugh (Icebreaker)
- 10:20: Porting RISC-V to GNU Guix: A year in review — Efraim Flashner (Porting Guix to Riscv64)
- 10:25: Heads - status update! — Thierry Laurion (Heads-OpenPGP)
- 11:00: NLnet Office hour - Ask us anything! Birds of a Feather session in UB 2147
- 11:35: Trustworthy Platform Module: An attempt to create open-source firmware for TPM — Maciej Pijanowski (TwPM)
- 13:00: Podcasting 2.0: it's all about Interoperability: How Podcasting 2.0 will save the Open Internet — Benjamin Bellamy (Castopod & Castopod Mobile)
- 13:20: Keyoxide: verifying online identity with cryptography: A novel approach to secure decentralized online identity — Yarmo Mackenbach (Keyoxide & Keyoxide v2)
- 14:40: Libre-SOC: From architecture and simulation to test silicon, and beyond: A design for a fully documented and transparent hybrid CPU-GPU-VPU core, for a family of System-on-Chip products — Cesar Strauss (Libre-SOC, Coriolis2 ASIC Layout Collaboration & Libre-SOC & The Libre-SOC Gigabit Router & Libre-SOC Formal Correctness Proofs & Libre-SOC Formal Standards Development & Wishbone Streaming)
- 15:55: P4 in Nix: Bringing hardware accelerated network to the masses! — Gauvain Roussel-Tarbouriech (p4-nix)
- 16:05: Modernizing Authentication and Authorization in XMPP: It's time to forget your password... — Matthew Wild (Prosody IM)
- 16:15: Towards Secure Boot for NixOS — Julian Stecklina (UEFI Secure Boot support for NixOS)
If you are also a grantee and your talk is missing, let us know and we will happily add it!
Parallel to FOSDEM the OFFDEM unconference will be held at VSP. OFFDEM is an intersectional festival about collective practices and free technologies production with different types of activities. The event starts informally on Friday February 3rd and you can help tear down on Monday — and it includes live radio, working groups, nice food, music and plenty of party. And of course lots of time to meet each other and share transversal perspectives. NGI0 mentors APC, CCT and Petites Singularités are representing NGI Zero on site to answer any questions you may have about grant possibilities. More information about OFFDEM, including location, can be found on the OFFDEM Programme.
Coming to Brussels and want to have an early start? There are also events in the FOSDEM Fringe organised by or featuring projects we support, like the FOSS license and security compliance tools developers and users workshop organised by AboutCode, and the GUIX Days.
You can download a snapshot of the above list as iCalendar file (but best check the fosdem website for the up-to-date schedule).
