What?

foss-north is a free / open source conference covering both software and hardware from the technical perspective. Hosted in Gothenburg between Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm with an international airport, we provide a meeting place for the Nordic foss communities and will bring together great speakers with a great audience.

Tickets are available from the tickets page.

Speakers and Events

We are happy to have the following speakers at foss-north 2018.

Patricia Aas
Isolating GPU access in its own process

Steven Goldfarb
Hidden Pieces: The LHC and our Dark Universe

Carsten Munk
Zipper - an open source out of box experience for the blockchain world

Paul Adams
The Art of the Pull Request

Nicolas Seyvet
Monitor everything from physical hardware to application functionality

Jakob Bornecrantz
VR: Open Source and Standards

Helio Chissini de Castro
Reviving Old Software - How bring KDE 1 to run on modern systems teached lessons on software backporting

Hassan Elmir
Integrify Sweden

Joakim Fernstad
What do I need for my IoT Cloud platform?

Robert Foss
Running Android on the Mainline Graphics Stack

Adriaan de Groot
Governance in Open Source - KDE's model

James Noori
Building downloadable Sailfish OS and next steps of Jolla with Sailfish 3

Vesa-Matti Hartikainen
Building downloadable Sailfish OS and next steps of Jolla with Sailfish 3

Emma Humphries
Avoiding the Petard: Triage at Scale in Firefox Quantum

Patricia Ilin
Crowdfunding, open source and communities

Dimitris Platis
Crowdfunding, open source and communities

Mirza Krak
The ultimate guide to software updates on embedded Linux devices

Chris Lamb
Can your diff(1) do this?! Improving software review and QA with diffoscope

Alberto Mardegan
Speculo: shared memory made easy

Gordan Markuš
I heart the Yocto Project

Andreas Nilsson
Are you only testing your design in production?

Jeena Paradies
Automate your home with Home Assistant

Vincent Rivière
Atari ST Free Operating Systems

Istvan Szmozsanszky
Mozilla and AV1 - using the browser to develop a royalty-free, open-source video codec

Nordic Free Software Award
Nominate your candidate for the Nordic Free Software Award 2018

The entire program is available from the schedule page.

When and Where?

foss-north 2018 will be hosted at Chalmers Gibraltargatan, Gothenburg on April 22-23.
We plan one and a half days, starting 13:00 - 17:00 on Sunday followed by a full day, 8:00 - 17:00, on Monday.

Hotel

Gothenburg is known for the many events in the city and there are plenty of hotels available. We have arranged for a block of discounted rooms at Scandic Rubinen at the heart of the city. Details can be found on the tickets page.

Sponsors

We would like to thank our sponsors for helping us making this possible.
If you want to help out by sponsoring us, please visit our Call for Sponsors for more information.

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Partners

We would like to thank our partners for helping us making this possible.