foss-north 2023
2023-04-24..2023-04-25
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]
who it's for
open source maintainers, community managers, software engineers, security engineers, devops engineers, embedded systems engineers, data engineers, public sector IT officers
topics
Argon2 in WebAssembly; Ansible community governance; reproducible builds practices; D-Bus in Rust (zbus/zvariant); packaging Rust for Debian; RISC-V baremetal testing with QEMU; FPGA USB auth token (iCE40/PicoRV32); Avro to Parquet conversion; Delta Lake event ingestion; ISO 5230 license compliance standard; Interoperable Europe Act and public code
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Speaking Up For FOSS Now Everyone Uses It | Simon Phipps | 54m |
Open source now underpins about 80% of software and drives 100 billion euros of EU GDP yet that economic weight depends on a fragile legal certainty called… | ||
| Scaling new heights in 2023 with the Ansible Community | Carol Chen | 29m |
Ansible Community reports over 50,000 indexed PRs and review comments across 376 repos, with about 57% of code contributions from staff showing both scale and… | ||
| Clipaha: a free software library to move password hashing to the client | Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera | 50m |
Clipaha is a free-software JS + WebAssembly library that moves memory‑hard password hashing (Argon2‑style) into the browser, producing a server‑storeable… | ||
| Baremetal Software ❤ FOSS | Florian Wagner | 24m |
Builds a bare‑metal RISC‑V firmware, produces two artifacts (BIN and ELF), and boots it in QEMU to validate placement of ROM vs RAM data via linker scripts and… | ||
| Interoperable Europe Act: A real game changer? | Lina Ceballos | 55m |
Overview of the proposed Interoperable Europe Act: it creates an interoperability board and community, a single-entry interoperable Europe portal and requires… | ||
| D-Bus Oxidized | Zeeshan Ali Khan | 50m |
Rust reimplementation moves geolocation service geoclue and the D‑Bus broker out of C: zvariant implements the wire encoding/decoding and supports G variant… | ||
| Reproducible Builds, the first ten years | Holger Levsen | 56m |
Project documents a decade of practical wins and remaining debt for bit-for-bit verification of binaries. Key inventions are SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH and buildinfo… | ||
| How The LF Standards For License Compliance And Security Will Fix Your Supply Chain | Shane Martin Coughlan | 54m |
Linux Foundation creates simple, open, free process standards — ISO 5230 for license compliance and a de facto/soon-to-be ISO security assurance standard —… | ||
| How to transform AVRO (IDL) data to multiple PARQUET files | Ramón Soto Mathiesen | 58m |
A library that converts Avro IDL events into multiple Parquet extension tables and fact/dimension (star/snowflake) schemas, automating flattening of deeply… | ||
| Tillitis TKey - a radically open auth platform that fits in your pocket | Joachim Strömbergson | 43m |
An open-source USB auth token built as an FPGA system image that is personalized per device: an iCE40 UltraPlus FPGA with a PicoRV32 CPU, 4 KB firmware, ~1.8… | ||
| The Shocking Link Between Privacy and Progress: What You Need to Know About AI | Daphne Muller | 51m |
Nextcloud adopts an ethical AI framework that requires training code, finished model and training data to be open and the model runnable locally; translation… | ||
| Packaging Rust for Debian | Alexander Kjäll | 56m |
Maintains roughly ~100 packages and describes using Cargo offline mode to satisfy Debian’s build-on-an-island promise, producing Debian source packages from… | ||
| Towards open gov't through OSS for web analytics: the case of Matomo | Jonas Gamalielsson | 20m |
Study of 253 Swedish government authorities finds 79/253 use Google Analytics, 36 proprietary solutions total and 16 use Matomo (6 only Matomo); deployment… | ||
| Municipal collaboration on open source software - Why is it so hard? | Johan Linåker, Per Persson | 32m |
Municipal projects often ship code but not governance: the Opening platform is released under an APDL-like license yet accumulates crippling technical debt… | ||
| Arbetsförmedlingen's experiences with JobTech and open source: Sharing 400 repos | Jonas Södergren | 01h 22m |
Public employment service publishes code and data widely: 400 repositories on GitLab with ~40 active contributors, ~1,000 organizations and ~400–500 daily API… | ||
| Empowering weather-satellite data users with FOSS: the Pytroll case | Martin Raspaud | 25m |
A suite of Python packages for earth observation data processing that supports >90 satellite formats and reads remote files so users extract just the needed… | ||
| License compliance with AI assisted coding | Julian Coccia | 24m |
Shows that AI assistants sometimes output verbatim copyrighted code — one example reaches a carbon copy after 11 regenerations including original comments —… | ||
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