foss-north 2020
2020-03-22..2020-04-01
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[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]
[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 2017, Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2019, Embedded Linux Conference + OpenIoT Summit North America 2017]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Develop better software with usability testing | Andreas Nilsson | 12m |
Usability testing finds real problems quickly by having an outsider try tasks while a moderator stays silent and a dev team observes; run tests remotely over a… | ||
| Running Android on the Raspberry Pi | Chris Simmonds | 13m |
Raspberry Pi 3 runs Android well enough for demos but not production: quad‑core Cortex‑A53 1.4GHz with 1GB RAM is demo quality only. Building AOSP takes 1–5… | ||
| The Yocto Project 10 minute quick-start guide | Ron Munitz | 15m |
Lightning talk from foss-north 2020
https://foss-north.se/2020/speakers-and-talks.html#lt-rmunitz | ||
| Getting started with your smart, connected, vehicle project | Dimitris Platis | 12m |
A compact open hardware and software robot platform built around an ESP32 provides Wi Fi and Bluetooth plus optional RTOS features and runs as an Arduino… | ||
| Seven years in Tibet^W^Wat Home | Kristoffer Grönlund | 14m |
Practical tips from seven years of remote work: start the day dressed, simulate a commute with a walk or exercise, eat proper meals, write a fresh to‑do list… | ||
| Linux on RISC-V | Drew Fustini | 14m |
Team loads a RISC‑V soft core into a Lattice ECP5 FPGA using LiteX on ECP5 and the open‑source toolchain, adds a 32 MB SDRAM expansion to overcome the badge’s… | ||
| Singularity container platform | Anders Björklund | 11m |
A Linux container platform optimized for HPC that packages an entire image as a single-file SIF executable which can be signed by admins and stored on shared… | ||
| Introducing Rook | Kristoffer Grönlund | 55m |
Rook automates running Ceph inside Kubernetes by deploying an operator plus node agents to manage OSDs, monitors (typically 3 monitors), gateways and MDS… | ||
| FOSS Virtual & Augmented Reality | Jakob Bornecrantz | 43m |
Monado implements OpenXR on Linux as a runtime and compositor with drivers for PlayStation Move, Index, Vive, North Star and an experimental Arduino driver… | ||
| Understanding, Building and Researching Minimal (and not so minimal) Linux Systems | Ron Munitz | 01h 08m |
Builds a bootable minimal Linux by compiling kernel 5.6.37, producing a tiny vmLinux and a static BusyBox static binary, assembling an initramfs cpio+gzip… | ||
| Why the GPL Is Great for Business | Frank Karlitschek | 59m |
Argument: copyleft licenses let companies monetize while keeping ecosystems healthy. Examples: Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription sells support and updates… | ||
| Functional Programming with JavaScript | Simon Painter | 56m |
Explains how JavaScript uses Ramda to make functional patterns practical: shows a CSV parser that extracts titles from 1963 Doctor Who data, a curried… | ||
| Building Open Container Initiative images based on Freedesktop SDK | Valentin David | 43m |
Demonstrates turning the Freedesktop SDK into OCI/Docker images by using BuildStream (BST) with an OCI plugin that emits layered images per element, reusing… | ||
| Privacy-preserving statistical analyses | Elisabet Lobo-Vesga | 27m |
Explains using differential privacy implemented as a Haskell library called Pella that lets analysts write SQL-like queries, symbolically estimate accuracy on… | ||
| curl better | Daniel Stenberg | 56m |
curl supports 24 transfer protocols, about 230+ command-line options, and ~2,200 contributors; it ships in macOS (since 2001) and Windows (since 2018)… | ||
| Effective Documentation: The Key to Open Source Growth | Bolaji Ayodeji | 56m |
Argues that clear, persona-driven docs directly increase adoption and contributor flow, shows concrete tactics: use Markdown on GitHub, publish QuickStart… | ||
| Keeping Time | Patrik Fältström | 41m |
Operates a national time service using PTP and NTP, running cesium ensembles in Stockholm, Malmö, Gothenburg and a node coming in Luleå; swapping rubidium for… | ||
| Debian or Yocto Project? Which is the best for your Embedded Linux project? | Chris Simmonds | 34m |
Comparison shows Debian boots fastest for proofs of concept and single-board use, using apt and prebuilt .deb packages and allowing on-device compilation but… | ||
| KDE Free Qt Foundation | Adriaan de Groot | 30m |
KDE Free Qt Foundation holds a contract that forces Qt to stay usable as free software: if no new free-source Qt release appears for 12 month no-release window… | ||
| How to run Linux on RISC-V (with open hardware and open source FPGA tools) | Drew Fustini | 01h 00m |
Demonstrates that Linux boots on a soft RISC‑V core loaded into an ECP5 FPGA using VexRiscv, LiteX, Migen and the open toolchain from Project Trellis; team… | ||
| Robotic Process Automation based on OpenSource | Ashley Raiteri | 22m |
Argues that RPA can be built on existing open source test tools rather than closed suites, using Selenium and Appium as core engines, with a commercial… | ||
| REUSE: Making Free Software Licensing Easier For All | Gabriel Ku Wei Bin | 33m |
Project prescribes adding a short comment header with an SPDX license identifier and copyright contact to every source file, supplies a reuse-helper that… | ||
| Managing the risk and growth of using Open Source Software | Jason Hammond | 41m |
Companies find 60–80% OSS in typical apps and a 250‑app scan shows evaluators know only ~50% of their usage; ~90% of apps have at least one vulnerability and… | ||
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