We are super happy to welcome NetKnights and Tillitis as sponsors at foss-north 2026!
NetKnights develops privacyIDEA, a flexible open-source MFA software. They will be available with a booth during the conference, so chat them up!
Tillitis develops TKey, which is a compact USB-C device designed to provide a secure and isolated environment for specialized applications.
The schedule for foss-north 2026 is almost complete! Just three unconfirmed spots remain, hooray! Check it out at the schedule page
and many more! We are super happy to have so many great speakers coming to the conf!
The first speakers for foss-north 2026 have been confirmed! We are so excited to have them come join us in April, so naturally we need to tell the world.
We are super happy to announce that HaleyTek is on board as a silver sponsor, and Elektronikutvecklingsbyrån (EUB) joins as a base sponsor. EUB has also agreed to pay for infinite coffee availability at the conference. That's right, there will be coffee available all the time!
HaleyTek develops platform software for Android Automotive and is based on Lindholmen, Gothenburg. HaleyTek will be present with a booth during the conference, so make sure to chat …
The schedule for foss-north 2025 is now available and fully packed with talks! This year, one of the tracks on April 14th will be an AI/LLM focused track.
If you are interested in AI/LLMs, the 2025 GAIA conference is also happening in Gothenburg, on April 11th.
We're happy to announce that Daniel Stenberg will be speaking at foss-north 2025! Daniel is mainly known for his work on cURL, and is the founder of foss-sthlm, from which foss-gbg was modeled. This is what he plans to talk about:
Open Source has in many ways already won. It is used in every product by every company, to very a large degree. But we are not done. We …
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 …
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.
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. …