foss-north 2021
2021-06-01..2021-06-02
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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]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction to | 01m | |
Opens by naming the conference sponsors in three tiers and partners: gold sponsors, silver sponsors, base sponsors, community partners. Points to the official… | ||
| Grow and manage your open source project with a proven way - The Apache Way | Swapnil M Mane | 01h 00m |
Apache recommends five concrete practices for running successful open source: prioritize community over code, build a merit path from user → contributor →… | ||
| The Future of Finance is Decentralization | Christo Peev | 57m |
Decentralized finance runs on Ethereum smart contracts and wallets like MetaMask and already holds about $60 billion in protocols; lending via MakerDAO loan… | ||
| Solving (team) dependencies - the Open Source way | Isabel Drost-Fromm | 39m |
Adopting InnerSource practices via the InnerSource Commons playbook, Slack channel and a documented learning path turns blocking waits into actionable patches… | ||
| Signing the Internet root zone | Anne-Marie Eklund-Löwinder | 43m |
The root zone is root zone signed 2010 using HSMs, smart‑cards, tamper‑evident packaging and dual US data centers; ceremonies run twice a year with seven… | ||
| Empowering users by asking them for money | Martin Owens | 40m |
Argues that users gain real freedom when they can pay for directed development and shows practical channels: bartering fixes, contracting, and… | ||
| zbus: Why oh why? also how? | Zeeshan Ali | 52m |
Reimplements D-Bus from scratch in Rust to remove the C dependency and reduce crashes, shipping a literal rewrote D-Bus stack in Rust with a dedicated zvariant… | ||
| The Business of Community: Strategic Open Source Engagement for Vertical Markets | Leslie Hawthorn | 58m |
Red Hat’s vertical community playbook focuses on three pillars — software projects, software foundations, and industry consortia — and five engagement modes… | ||
| Helping public organizations collectively develop and maintain public code | Jan Ainali | 25m |
Foundation for Public Code organizes collaborative development through a defined codebase stewardship model with four pillars: community, product, support and… | ||
| Fireside chat: Öppna skolplattformen | Christian Landgren | 26m |
City-published school system got a new open-source mobile front end that logs in with BankID and fetches the same data via the city's APIs, claiming better UX… | ||
| LibreOffice: Improving the Project Sustainability | Italo Vignoli | 01h 00m |
Project reports just over 200 million users with a 90/8/2 Windows/Mac/Linux split, and LibreOffice code development is 68% paid by ecosystem companies versus… | ||
| Into the Jungle - How to write a Linux kernel driver for any subsystem | Marta Rybczynska | 53m |
Shows how to pick a real example, vet it with license and checkpatch, and iterate until usable: an initial 13,000-line driver example is too big, a blog… | ||
| Building an Open-Source Eink Laptop | Alexander Soto | 21m |
Project builds a proof‑of‑concept laptop called Archer with an i.MX7 dual mainboard and a 10.3" Waveshare panel; boards have arrived and initial 3D‑printed… | ||
| Porting the Oberon system to the RISC-V instruction set architecture | Rikke Solbjørg | 24m |
Porting Oberon to RISC-V produces a working RV32IM system: the compiler and dynamic linker are rewritten, the build pipeline uses Project Nuribo and a modified… | ||
| Combat complexity - build your own open OS and hardware | Michael Engel | 54m |
Overview of concrete results and tools: demonstrates Smalltalk-80 on Raspberry Pi Zero by combining an ADVM hosted VM, Marco McCaffrey’s bare‑metal drivers and… | ||
| Prepping your Open Source Project for Multi-Platform | Javier Perez | 47m |
Most compilers and runtimes are already ported so the real work is testing dependencies, fixing endian issues and automating builds. Use public builders (SUSE… | ||
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