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foss-north 2020 take ii made virtual

2020-09-16 10:00:00

The foss-north 2020 take ii event will be a virtual event in light of the current COVID-19 situation.

This spring we were hoping to be able to enjoy a physical event the autumn of 2020, but things are still not back to normal. In light of this, the foss-north 2020 event will be held as a one day virtual event taking place on November 1.

We are still looking forward to having you all over …

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Polished site and new pod cast

2020-08-10 22:00:00

Today we're happy to launch a slightly updated site, combined with a pod cast. The pod is derived from our Copyright and Licensing YouTube series and already consists of 15 episodes. Subscribe to the RSS feed and enjoy your FOSS news, info and interviews!

We know that there are some rough edges - if you bump into anything - give us a shout and we will try to fix it asap.

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New Infrastructure

2019-07-15 09:00:00

Today we launch the new foss-north infrastructure. In the past years we've gone from a single day event with 100 visitors, to a four day chaos with 260 visitors, 35+ speakers, numerous workshops, and two training sessions. The web site has slowly progressed from a handmade static site with dynamic parts outsourced to google forms and Eventbrite, to a Jekyll-based site, but still outsourced services.

The new system is based on the pgeu's conference system. …

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