https://laforge.gnumonks.org/Conferences (mostly Free Software related)enThu, 24 Oct 2024 20:08:49 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20170211-fosdem/Harald Welte<p>Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending <a class="reference external" href="https://fosdem.org/2017/">FOSDEM 2017</a>. For many years, it is probably the most exciting event exclusively on Free Software to attend every year.</p> <p>My personal highlights (next to meeting plenty of old and new friends) in terms of the talks were:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/iaas_20yealin/">20 Years of Linux Virtual Memory</a> by MM-Guru Andrea Arcangeli</p></li> <li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/gpupfb/">GPU-Enabled Polyphase Filterbanks</a> by Jan Kraemer</p></li> <li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/multiantenna/">Virtual multi-antenna arrays for estimating the bearing of radio transmitters</a> by Francois Quitin</p></li> <li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/microkernel_microkernel_for_embedded_devices/">Secure Microkernel for Deeply Embedded Devices</a> by Jim "jserv" Huang</p></li> <li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/fedoras_legal_state/">A discussion of Fedora's Legal state</a> by Tom Callaway</p></li> <li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/radio_lockdown_directive/">Radio Lockdown Directive</a> by Max Mehl</p></li> </ul> <p>I was attending but not so excited by <a class="reference external" href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/open_power/">Georg Greve's OpenPOWER</a> talk. It was a great talk, and it is an important topic, but the engineer in me would have hoped for some actual beefy technical stuff. But well, I was just not the right audience. I had heard about OpenPOWER quite some time ago and have been following it from a distance.</p> <p>The <a class="reference external" href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/lorawan/">LoRaWAN talk</a> couldn't have been any less technical, despite stating <em>technical, political and cultural</em> in the topic. But then, well, just recently 33C3 had the most exciting <a class="reference external" href="https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7945-decoding_the_lora_phy">LoRa PHY Reverse Engineering Talk by Matt Knight</a>.</p> <p>Other talks whose recordings I still want to watch one of these days:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/smartcard_forwarding/">Smart Card Forwarding</a></p></li> <li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/af_ktls/">AF_KTLS - TLS/DTLS Linux kernel module</a></p></li> <li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/grinspector/">Overview of gr-inspector</a></p></li> <li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/iot_frosted/">Frosted Embedded POSIX OS</a></p></li> </ul>linuxsdrhttps://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20170211-fosdem/Fri, 10 Feb 2017 16:00:00 GMT