Let's meet at FOSDEM 2024
We are looking forward to go to FOSDEM 2024 and we hope to see you there. We'll have a stand in hall K level 2 where you can find us throughout the event. We'll bring a fresh batch of 120.000 hexagon stickers so come by to pick up a few and have a chat. We love to hear your questions, remarks, ideas and plans.
FOSDEM is the world’s largest gathering of free and open source software enthusiasts and open to everyone and free of charge. You don't even need to register. It takes place in at the ULB Solbosch Campus in Brussels in the weekend of February 3-4, 2024.
Bird of a feather & office hour
We've booked a room on Saturday morning for a network meetup (in the form of a so called Birds of a feather session. We have a room to ourselves for 1.5 hours, so if you feel like it: come and join us in AW1.121 on Saturday from 10:30 to 12:00h. Or visit the office hour on Sunday morning from 10:00 to 11:00, if you have a burning question to ask. And you're also very welcome at the Zero Grantees Feedback session at OFFDEM.
Overview of NGI0 & NLnet related presentations
We're happy to see many presentations of projects that were funded by the NGI0 research and development grants. Here is an overview:
(Note: The times listed may be off due to schedule changes or errors on our side. You can check the genesis FOSDEM schedule by clicking on the event's title.)
Saturday
- 10.30 NGI Zero network meetup
Come and mingle with other folks interested in NGI Zero
- 11.25 Cryptographic Algorithm Vectorization for Mortals — Sadoon Albader (Libre-SOC-HPC)
- 11:50 Bridging Open Protocols: XMPP and ActivityPub Gateway via Libervia — Jérôme Poisson (Goffi) (XMPP-ActivityPub gateway)
- 11.55 Linux Distribution Porting for Architecture Subsets — Sadoon Albader (Libre-SOC-HPC)
- 12.00 Securely collaborate with CryptPad — Fabrice Mouhartem (CryptPad)
- 12.00 Modern Email BoF, creating email-compat-data & more — Mechiel Lukkien (Mox)
- 12:20 Verilog-AMS in Gnucap — Felix and Al Davis (Verilog-AMS in Gnucap)
- 12:30 Collabora Online: WASM — Thorsten Behrens (LibreOffice-CRDT and other projects)
- 12.40 Advanced Simple-V: Data-dependent Fail-First — Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton and Shriya Sharma (Libre-RISCV and other projects)
- 13:30 An introduction to Formal Verification of Digital Circuits — Cesar Strauss (Libre-SOC, Coriolis2 ASIC Layout Collaboration)
- 13:55 Transportr: the Past, the Present and the Future — Mikolai Gütschow (Briar-beyond-Android)
- 14:00 Using the ECP5 for Libre-SOC prototyping — Tobias Platen (Libre-RISCV and other projects)
- 14:15 The Small Device C Compiler (SDCC) — Philipp K. Krause (SDCC)
- 14:45 Updating open data standards — Sara Petti (Frictionless Standards (v2))
- 15:05 Debug your stage-1 systemd with GDB and the NixOS test framework — Ryan Lahfa, Julien Malka and Linus Heckemodosmann (UEFI Secure Boot support for NixOS, Mangaki, NixOS/Clevis)
- 16:20 Using elliptic curve cryptography for the purposes of identity — Yarmo Mackenbach (Keyoxide Mobile)
- 16:30 Bad UX is Bad Security: Adventures in Qubes OS UX Design — Marta Marczykowska-Górecka (Accessible Qubes)
- 16:40 Cristal: a new Wiki UI to rule them all — Ludovic Dubost, and Manuel Leduc (Cryptpad and other projects.)
- 16:45 Embedding Servo in Rust projects — Rakhi Sharma (Servo)
- 17:00 AlekSIS - What are the needs of a free school information system? — Jonathan Weth (AlekSIS)
- 17:30 Advances in Garage, the low-tech storage platform for geo-distributed clusters — Alex Auvolat (Garage)
- 18.30 The first 13 years of blockchain name systems — Eyal Ron (Neiman) (Namecoin)
Sunday
- 9:00 20 Years of Open Source building XWiki and CryptPad — Ludovic Dubost (Cryptpad and other projects.)
- 09:00 Welcome to the Open Hardware devroom — Seth Hillbrand(KiCad)
- 09.00 Welcome to Nix! — Guillaume Desforges (Genealogos )
- 09.20 [Protocols] An introduction to IMAP, type-driven development, and imap-codec — Damian Poddebniak (imap-codec library )
- 09.45 FOSS for FOSS: DejaCode is your new FOSS control center for SBOMs — Philippe Ombredanne (Free Software Vulnerability Database )
- 10.00 NLnet office hour
Have questions? Let's short circuit delays, and come and ask the people from NLnet in person.
- 10:00 For Want of Anneal: Examining The Unseen Changes Concerning Changes To VCS Assets and The Need For More Graph Centric Approaches — Jonathan McHugh (Icebreaker)
- 10:00 Panel discussion: Software Naming — Alexios Zavras (zvr), Philippe Ombredanne, Aeva Black and Kate Stewart
- 11:35 FOSS policy engagement: The impact of the NGI Open Source projects on EU policy and values, Jean-Luc Dorel & Clementine Valayer.
- 10:50 KiCad Status Update — Wayne Stambaugh (KiCad)
- 11:00 A slow migration from Django templates to Vue+GraphQL — Dominik George and Jonathan Weth (AlekSIS)
- 11:20 RISC-V Bootstrapping in Guix and Live-Bootstrap — Ekaitz (GNU Mes RISC-V and other projects)
- 11:30 Running NLnet on NixOS — Jos van den Oever (NLnet)
- 11:30 LibrePCB Status Update — Urban Bruhin (LibrePCB)
- 11:35 [Servers] Aerogramme, a multi-region IMAP server — Quentin Dufour (Aerogramme)
- 11:35 FOSS policy engagement: The impact of the NGI Open Source projects on EU policy and valuesl, Jean-Luc Dorel & Clementine Valayer and others.
- 11:55 FOSS policy engagement: panel, Jean-Luc Dorel & Clementine Valayer and others.
- 12:00 Spritely, Guile, Guix: a unified vision for user security — Christine Lemmer-Webber (Spritely)
- 12.00 Clevis/Tang: unattended boot of an encrypted NixOS system — Julien Malka and Camille Mondon (NixOS/Clevis)
- 12.15 Mox: a modern full-featured mail server — Mechiel Lukkien (Mox)
- 12:35 Modos: Building an Ecosystem of Open-Hardware E Ink Devices — Alexander Soto (Modos)
- 13:50 Own your CI with Nix — Théophane Hufschmitt ( NixOS Foundation)
- 14:15 Modern chat-mail for security-sensitive helplines — Holga,Xenia (DeltaChat/WebXDC)
- 14.30 Supporting architecture psABIs with GNU Guix — Efraim Flashner (Guix-Riscv64, GNUMes-RISCV-bootstrap )
- 16:10 [StructuredEmail] Structured Vacation Notices and Structured Email for Roundcube — Hans-Jörg Happel (StructuredEmail)
- 16:30 How I've Built a Web Frontend for a Federated Communication Tool with Brython — Jérôme Poisson (Goffi) (XMPP-ActivityPub gateway)
- 16:55 Open Source Firmware, BMC and Bootloader devroom — outro — Piotr Król(AlderLake)
Talk: Running NLnet on NixOS
Our very own Jos van den Oever will give a talk on the administration system he designed and wrote that enables the NLnet team to handle the hundreds of proposals and projects. NLnet runs mostly on Free Software. In the last years we have moved most of our systems to NixOS and keep our system setups in a single git repository handled with nixos-rebuild. In this presentation, Jos will explain how and why we do so.
Devrooms
While of course you should be in all dev rooms simultaneously for a total information overload, the density of NGI Zero related talks in the following rooms might be higher than elsewhere.
- 10:30-14:30 Libre-SOC, FPGA and VLSI devroom
- 09:00-12:45 Open Source In The European Legislative Landscape devroom
- 09:00-12:45 Declarative and Minimalistic Computing devroom
- 09:00-12:25 Nix and NixOS devroom
- 09:00-17:00 Modern Email devroom
- 09.00-17.00 Software Bill of Materials devroom
If you are also a grantee and your talk is missing, let us know and we will happily add it!
Stands
During FOSDEM the university is filled to the brim with stands where you can meet the people behind many FOSS organisations, communities and projects (and collect stickers). Here is FOSDEM's overview of all the stands and their place on the map. Below is an overview of NGI0 related stands, grouped by the categories as assigned by FOSDEM.
- coreboot / flashrom / EDKII / OpenBMC
- Free Software Foundation
- NLnet
- ISRG — Let's Encrypt, Prossimo & Divvi Up
- Codeberg
- LibreOffice
- Nextcloud
- Mastodon
- KDE
- Linux on Mobile (Mobian, Sailfish OS, PureOS, UBports, MNT Research, postmarketOS) + Ubports
- CalyxOS
- Nix and NixOS
OFFDEM
The OFFDEM unconference will be held parallel to FOSDEM. OFFDEM is an intersectional festival about collective practices and free technologies production with different types of activities. It's a great program that already starts on Friday. There will be a table for petites singularités showing cooperation work, publications and Jeu VidéA and a session by APC.
NGI Zero Grantees Feedback at OFFDEM
Come to the NGI Zero Grantees Feedforth session. If you received NGI funding, come talk to NGI Zero mentors! They’re eager to gather your feedforth. It’s an opportunity for free software developers and open-source hardware engineers to ask them anything, and for grantees to share their experience and feedback with their peers and mentors.
FOSDEM Fringe
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.
