Speaker Interviews
Every edition of FOSDEM, we conduct a short interview with the main track and keynote speakers.
2019
- Allan Jude: ELI5: ZFS Caching. Explain Like I'm 5: How the ZFS Adaptive Replacement Cache works
- Bradley M. Kuhn and Karen Sandler: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?. Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software
- Chris Brind: Open Source at DuckDuckGo. Raising the Standard of Trust Online
- Corey Hulen: Mattermost’s Approach to Layered Extensibility in Open Source
- Daniel Stenberg: DNS over HTTPS - the good, the bad and the ugly. Why, how, when and who gets to control how names are resolved
- Deb Nicholson: Blockchain: The Ethical Considerations
- Denis Roio (Jaromil): Algorithmic Sovereignty and the state of community-driven open source development. Is there a radical interface pedagogy for algorithmic governementality?
- Drew Moseley: Mender - an open source OTA software update manager for IoT
- Duarte Nunes: Raft in Scylla. Consensus in an eventually consistent database
- Fernando Laudares: Hugepages and databases. working with abundant memory in modern servers
- Guido Trotter and Dylan Reid: Crostini: A Linux Desktop on ChromeOS
- Hong Phuc Dang: SUSI.AI: An Open Source Platform for Conversational Web
- Jasper Nuyens: Tesla Hacking to FreedomEV!. Bringing Freedom to electric vehicle software
- Jeremie Galarneau: Fine-grained Distributed Application Monitoring Using LTTng
- Joe Conway: PostgreSQL Goes to 11!
- John Garbutt: Square Kilometre Array and its Software Defined Supercomputer. ... and a very fast parallel file system
- Jon 'maddog' Hall: 2019 - Fifty years of Unix and Linux advances
- Jonathan Looney: Netflix and FreeBSD. Using Open Source to Deliver Streaming Video
- Juan Linietsky: Making the next blockbuster game with FOSS tools. Using Free Software tools to achieve high quality game visuals.
- Kyle Rankin: The Cloud is Just Another Sun
- Lorenzo Fontana: eBPF powered Distributed Kubernetes performance analysis
- Matthew Hodgson: Matrix in the French State. What happens when a government adopts open source & open standards for all its internal communication?
- Michael Cheng: SSPL, Confluent License, CockroachDB License and the Commons Clause. Is it freedom to choose to be less free?
- Philip Tricca: The TPM2 software community. Getting started as a user, becoming a contributor
- Richard Jones: Better loop mounts with NBD. Take your loop mounts to the next level with nbdkit
- Roger Dingledine: The Current and Future Tor Project. Updates from the Tor Project
- Ron Evans: Go on Microcontrollers: Small Is Going Big. TinyGo takes the Go programming language to the "final frontier" where we could not go before... running directly on microcontrollers.
- Ruben Verborgh: Solid: taking back the Web through decentralization. App development as we know it will radically change
- Sage Weil: AMENDMENT Data services in a hybrid cloud world with Ceph. Making data as portable as your stateless microservices
- Scott Hanselman: Open Source C#, .NET, and Blazor - everywhere PLUS WebAssembly
- Tomas Vondra: PostgreSQL vs. fsync. How is it possible that PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years, and what we'll do about it.
- Will the Chill Braswell: Perl 11. The Future of Saint Larry's Language