foss north 2017 Keynote Session
summary
Wikidata is presented as a large collaboratively curated knowledge base with tens of millions of items and SPARQL as the way to query facts for use in articles and apps, with concrete dataset examples and live query results. The IoT section covers shipping devices built on open hardware and common stacks (message brokers, Linux), highlighting security and reproducible builds. A startup segment lists measurable business benefits—faster adoption, hiring advantages, and funding signals—that reduce time to market for products that embed open source.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:44Historical context
- 10:03Free software role
- 20:39Personal experiences
- 30:58Future of free software
- 40:50Closing remarks
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