foss-north 2025
2025-04-14..2025-04-15
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]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Anonymity Loves Resilience: The Case of Tor | Alexander Hansen Færøy, Georg Koppen | 54m |
Tor describes an operational picture: Tor Browser has 2–8 million monthly users, onion services power secure drop and project sites, and the network runs ~9–10… | ||
| AI for Everyone: Unleashing the Power of Open Source Tools | Sakshi Nasha | 31m |
A concrete pipeline is described: a Flask resume parser uploads PDFs, extracts text, cleans it with regex, and pulls name/location/skills/experience/projects… | ||
| Automating dependency selection with open-source tools at scale | Roman Zhukov | 01h 01m |
Automates dependency selection by running OpenSSF Scorecard as a CLI, GitHub Action or CI job to produce 0–10 scores (scores >7 are “good”), and by using… | ||
| An engineer's guide to Linux Kernel upgrades | Ignat Korchagin | 53m |
Linux kernel patch releases arrive weekly and a recent 6.6 branch shows 87 weekly patch releases with ~20% containing over 100 fixes, ~33% over 200 and eight… | ||
| What is Linux kernel keystore and why you should use it in your next application | Ignat Korchagin | 53m |
Explains that Linux’s kernel key retention service stores keys as kernel objects (use keyctl and request_key) so cryptographic material never sits long in a… | ||
| Our path to open-source routers | Michal Hrusecky | 57m |
A Czech domain registry builds an open‑source home router as a deployable security probe that forwards traffic, runs local honeypots (HTTP, Telnet, SMTP, FTP… | ||
| Driving Open Source | Tomas Carlfalk | 19m |
Linux already runs in 100 million vehicles and most cars contain hundreds of millions of lines of code, yet less than 5% SDVs today; estimate rises to 40–60%… | ||
| Faster Linux Kernel Testing with Linaro's Open-Source Tools and LKFT Automation | Anders Roxell | 27m |
Linaro’s kernel testing stack uses tax-make and tax-run plus Lava and PLA to turn YAML “plans” into reproducible builds and device jobs that run locally or in… | ||
| Maintaining an Open Source project without burning out | Natanael Copa | 52m |
Alpine Linux survives 20 years by making maintenance sustainable: replace single-owner control with a three-person council and a simple constitution, reduce… | ||
| Open source should have an answer to Teams | Jos Poortvliet | 25m |
Nextcloud Talk positions itself as an on‑premises open source replacement for Microsoft Teams, combining chat, video, webinars, whiteboard and AI features into… | ||
| Microcontrollers and Machine Learning with MicroPython and emlearn | Jon | 27m |
Shows a $20 ESP32-class board running MicroPython plus emlearn C modules to do on-device inference, not just demos. Pure Python filter for 128 ms audio takes… | ||
| Authz as a dev workflow | Dan Maher | 29m |
Argues that authorization belongs in the developer workflow as declarative policies backed by external decision points, not scattered imperative checks; shows… | ||
| Reviving PortSentry: A Modern Approach to Network Security Monitoring | Marcus Hufvudsson | 29m |
PortSentry is modernized: two and a half years of fixes and rewrites produce an imminent v2.0 with libpcap/eBPF capture, IPv6 support, and Docker image on… | ||
| Interoperable Infrastructure for Universities, Enterprises and the Public Sector | Echzell, Sylvarnes | 30m |
Manual Erasmus paperwork spawns thousands of emails; a concrete alternative uses Matrix federation for Slack-like messaging, Open Cloud Mesh (Nextcloud et al.)… | ||
| Centrally managed Multi Factor Authentication with privacyIDEA | Cornelius Kölbel | 51m |
Central on‑prem MFA with privacyIDEA installs on a single server or redundant SQL cluster, is a Python web app exposing a REST API and SPA UI, and supports… | ||
| Towards declaring crypto algorithms in SBOMs: crypto_algorithms_open_dataset | Matias Daloia | 23m |
A publicly released dataset provides YAML definitions per algorithm (name, ID, category, strength) and reference code including a crypto_detect.py scanner that… | ||
| The Generalist Advantage: Your Superpower | Jimmy Sjölund | 45m |
Argues that being a generalist produces concrete results: helped design and implement the DAISY standard for digital audiobooks, produced the very first DAISY… | ||
| How to talk your lawyer about FOSS | Jimmy Ahlberg | 50m |
Explains how legal and engineering align using concrete numbers and tools: Ericsson reports 32,000 new components last year and around 80% of product code is… | ||
| Forking QEMU to emulate and secure the Tillitis TKey | Michael Cardell Widerkrantz | 50m |
A working QEMU-based emulator is forked QEMU to run the RISC‑V RV32 device model, attach GDB, load real device bins and exercise firmware and client apps; this… | ||
| Tabletop games heart FOSS | Åke Forslund | 28m |
Two small boxed games released since 2018 (Shaded Duoles and Pearles) get designed, prototyped and produced end-to-end using free tools: Inkscape, Scribus and… | ||
| From Private to InnerSource to Public: IKEA's journey to Open Source | S. Manoharan, S. Chitale | 29m |
IKEA documents a concrete path: adopt inner source practices, run an inner source hackathon and an inner source maturity model, then open specific repos after… | ||
| Taking Python beyond scripting | Mirza Krak | 51m |
Argues that shipping Python as a product needs tool chains not just scripts: recommends static analysis (use Ruff (Rust backed, ~800 rules, auto‑fix) alongside… | ||
| Hubzilla pioneering a safer, more resilient fediverse | Harald Eilertsen | 22m |
Hubzilla presents an extensible server with a fine‑grained permission system for per‑channel controls (who can view, comment, like, send posts), multi‑channel… | ||
| Embracing FOSS in Embedded Development: From Proprietary to Modular and Collaborative | B. Lindqvist | 31m |
Small consultancy runs 20 active IoT projects (11 people, 4 in manufacture) and says there is 0% chance they could deliver without open source. They prototype… | ||
| Building Agents in JavaScript | Daniel Madalitso Phiri | 59m |
A JavaScript agent is built that retrieves vectorized Wikipedia snippets, composes a five‑fact email about the Olympics, and sends it successfully via an… | ||
| Making AI transparent with RAG on your own data | Robert Silén | 43m |
Pilot uses RAG on a scanned book (Edgot Parti) to generate source-backed Wikipedia edits by vectorizing chunks, running NER with spaCy, storing vectors in… | ||
| Embedded Development Made Easy: A Guide to FOSS Platforms and Maxing product value | Bassem Nomany | 36m |
Compares two concrete stacks: Yocto + BitBake targets Cortex‑A/x86, builds with recipes and layers via repo, produces RPM/Deb packages and SBOMs; Zephyr + west… | ||
| What comes after world domination? | Daniel Stenberg | 57m |
Open source starts in 1998 and now underpins almost everything: 96% of codebases include OSS, 10 million packages with about 1.66 million contributors, and… | ||
| The Limits of Mikado Method | Olof Bjarnason | 30m |
Mikado Method replaces big redesigns with a drawn change graph of small reversible steps, using short cycles and a defined green state to know when nothing is… | ||
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