foss-north 2018
2018-04-23
Gothenburg, Sweden
[foss-north 2017, foss-north 2018, foss-north 2019, foss-north 2020, foss-north 2020 take ii, foss-north 2021, foss-north 2022, foss-north 2023, foss-north 2024, foss-north 2025, foss-north 2026]
[FrOSCon 2015, Embedded Linux Conference + OpenIoT Summit North America 2018, Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference + OSPOCon 2021, Open Source Summit Europe & ELC + OpenIoT Summit Europe 2018, Open Source Summit Europe + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2019, Open Source Summit Europe + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2017]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Automate your home with Home Assistant | Jeena Paradies | 55m |
Home Assistant runs on a Raspberry Pi with a local MQTT broker and integrates 1000+ integrations (Yeelight, 433 MHz USB stick, ZigBee/Z‑Wave bridges, cameras… | ||
| Are you only testing your design in production? | Andreas Nilsson | 24m |
Practical recipe for catching design failures before deploy using simple sessions on a laptop not a lab. Uses Cockpit server console with a moderator… | ||
| Speculo: shared memory made easy | Alberto Mardegan | 33m |
Speculo is a ~2000-line C library that implements lockless IPC on POSIX shared memory with one writer many readers semantics and zero copy commits. It uses… | ||
| What do I need for my IoT Cloud platform? | Joakim Fernstad | 15m |
Claims that nine core verbs define a minimal IoT cloud and that there are already ~450 platforms worldwide. Concrete stack choices: Kubernetes or Mesos (or… | ||
| I heart the Yocto Project | Gordan Markuš | 40m |
Explains why Yocto wins for reproducible embedded builds by naming concrete pieces: bitbake as the build engine, OpenEmbedded recipes and meta layers for… | ||
| Mozilla and AV1 | István Szmozsánszky "Flaki" | 33m |
AV1 consolidates ideas from Daala, Thor and VP9 into a royalty‑free codec claiming roughly 30% compression gains over HEVC on early tests, with the finalized… | ||
| The ultimate guide to software updates on embedded Linux devices | Mirza Krak | 50m |
Compares concrete update systems (SWUpdate with an integrated web server, Mender with an open-source server and streaming updates, RAUC, aktualizr/libostree… | ||
| Crowdfunding, open source and communities | Patricia Ilin, Dimitris Platis | 21m |
Interviews of 13 campaigns reveal concrete patterns: niche hardware projects face fabrication costs and verification hurdles, so teams adopt hardware drives… | ||
| Atari ST Free Operating Systems | Vincent Rivière | 52m |
History and hands‑on details about reviving Atari ST ecosystems: how MiNT/FreeMiNT adds POSIX multitasking and MiNTLib translates calls at runtime, how a… | ||
| The Art of the Pull Request | Paul Adams | 23m |
Claim: treat pull requests as the basic unit of asynchronous collaboration not just post facto reviews. At Zalando scale—~15,000 employees, ~2,000 engineers… | ||
| Integrify Sweden | Hassan Elmir | 19m |
Integrify Sweden runs 3 cohorts of mixed-background developers with about 13 volunteers mentoring, placing immigrant software candidates on 3–6 month projects… | ||
| Running Android on the Mainline Graphics Stack | Robert Foss | 37m |
Mainline kernel gains DRM Atomic Modesetting and Explicit Synchronization (fences) plus userspace changes in drm_hwcomposer and Mesa, enabling Android’s… | ||
| Reviving Old Software | Helio Chissini de Castro | 50m |
Project revives KDE1 (and KDE2 work underway) to run unmodified on a modern Fedora system by compiling against current toolchains and adding small… | ||
| VR: Open Source and Standards | Jakob Bornecrantz | 25m |
Consumer VR originally ships without Linux support, so an open stack is built: OpenHMD provides user-space drivers and device bindings and is funded by two… | ||
| Monitor everything from physical hardware to application functionality | Nicolas Seyvet | 26m |
OP5 builds Project Omega to monitor everything from physical servers to apps by consolidating metrics, events and logs into one cloud-native stack. It runs in… | ||
| Hidden Pieces: The LHC and our Dark Universe | Steven Goldfarb | 01h 02m |
A collider built underground accelerates protons in opposite directions and collides ~100 billion protons per bunch to produce high-energy debris that… | ||
| Zipper - an open source out of box experience for the blockchain world | Carsten Munk | 40m |
Zipper is an Ethereum-based mobile platform that actually ships a usable wallet and identity layer running in an isolated compartment on Android and Sailfish… | ||
| Avoiding the Petard: Triage at Scale in Firefox Quantum | Emma Humphries | 35m |
Emergency triage handles 9,000 bugs in three months by splitting responsibility into component triage leads, contracting Softvision for frontline work, and… | ||
| Isolating GPU access in its own process | Patricia Aas | 01h 00m |
Chromium moves all GPU access into a separate process and implements an IPC-heavy client‑server system that serializes GL calls into a shared command buffer… | ||
| Building downloadable Sailfish OS and next steps of Jolla with Sailfish 3 | Vesa-Matti Hartikainen, James Noori | 52m |
Company builds a downloadable OS image called Sailfish X for Xperia X by using Sony’s Open Devices program, community ports and a small in-house team of ~50… | ||
| Governance in Open Source - KDE's model | Adriaan de Groot | 34m |
KDE runs governance as risk management: pick one of the big five licenses (CC0, BSD, Apache 2.0, LGPLv3, GPL) rather than inventing a new one; use an optional… | ||
| Can your diff(1) do this?! Improving software review and QA with diffoscope | Chris Lamb | 34m |
Tool called diffoscope recursively unpacks archives and converts many formats (tar, ISO, PDF, Word, SQLite, images, TCP dumps) into human-readable diffs so… | ||
| The Nordic Free Software Award Prize Ceremony 2018 | 04m | |
The Nordic Free Software Award returns after a gap since 2007 and in 2018 recognizes a single winner, Magnus Park, for ten years of foundational technical work… | ||
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