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FOSDEM 2014 – First videos are online

78 points by babawere 13y ago

amirmc 13y ago
I went to my first FOSDEM this year. It was quite an experience with hoards of people and loads of interesting sessions. I was impressed that wifi held up hopefully the videos mean I can catch up on the sessions that filled up. If you're in Europe and can get to Brussels for the weekend (next year), I really recommend it.
- ruiseal 13y ago
  I think it's outgrown the university though. It's practically impossible to get into the developer rooms unless you arrive early and camp there all day.
  - ocharles 13y ago
    I agree. It was my first FOSDEM, but I was a little frustrated that I caught maybe 20% of the talks I actually wanted to see. I didn't even get into the PostgreSQL room, despite turning up 15 minutes early for one of the talks. That said, just complaining about a free conference on Hacker News won't help. I'd like to do my part and help by donating, but only accepting wire transfers is a lot more friction that it should be :(
    - justincormack 13y ago
      They take cash there in person I think.
  - jcla1 13y ago
    Yeah, when I was trying to get out of the Go dev room on Sun, I was nearly pushed back in by the hoards that were trying to get into it.
- pjmlp 13y ago
  Brussels is around 3h train travel from here I live. I have attended a few ones already, sadly this year it wasn't possible. I was looking forward to attend the D and ART sessions, as well as the usual Java and X Windows ones I tend to attend. Thanks to the live streaming this year, I could at least watch some parts of them. The ART one is still not available, though.
ama729 13y ago
Can anybody make a recommendation for interesting talks this year? Thanks
- eLobato 13y ago
  Foreman integration with Chef - Marek Hulan ProxySQL - Rene Cannao Automation in the Foreman infrastructure, A story of success. Greg Sutcliffe Software Archaeology for Beginners - James Turnbull
- scrollaway 13y ago
  Currently available, not much, but the interesting stuff is coming up. One of the best talks of FOSDEM was the closing Sunday keynote by phk about the NSA (it's not up yet) There were several very good talks in the Desktops devroom as well (H1308), none of which are up yet either. That includes Lennart Poettering's talk on kdbus, which is the same one he gave at linux.conf.au (http://lwn.net/Articles/580194/ http://lwn.net/Articles/580194/). Web developers will like the mozilla room, watch them all! http://video.fosdem.org/2014/UD2218A/Saturday/ http://video.fosdem.org/2014/UD2218A/Saturday/
- lifty 13y ago
  There were loads of interesting talks and of course it depends on ones personal preferences. I personally found the following talks very interesting, hinting at the continued commoditization and programmability of the infrastructure: https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/virtiaas05/ https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/virtiaas05/ - SDN's https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/virtiaas99/ https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/virtiaas99/ - OSv(cloud/paas operating system) https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/virtiaas11/ https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/virtiaas11/ - high throughput packet processing OS based on Xen, for replacing expensive middle boxes in the network(firewalls, IDS's etc)
- dochtman 13y ago
  I thought bradfitz's Camlistore talk was interesting (from the Go devroom), so was the Servo talk (Mozilla), as well as the Mailpile alpha announcement.
0x09 13y ago
Some of the slides from the LLVM track have been uploaded separately on llvm.org also http://llvm.org/devmtg/2014-02/ http://llvm.org/devmtg/2014-02/
agumonkey 13y ago
was highly interested on http://video.fosdem.org/2014/H1302_Depage/Saturday/Reproducible_Builds_for_Debian.webm http://video.fosdem.org/2014/H1302_Depage/Saturday/Reproduci... but alas no sound, anyone has the same issue ?

78 points by babawere 13y ago

I went to my first FOSDEM this year. It was quite an experience with hoards of people and loads of interesting sessions. I was impressed that wifi held up hopefully the videos mean I can catch up on the sessions that filled up. If you're in Europe and can get to Brussels for the weekend (next year), I really recommend it.

ruiseal 13y ago
I think it's outgrown the university though. It's practically impossible to get into the developer rooms unless you arrive early and camp there all day.
- ocharles 13y ago
  I agree. It was my first FOSDEM, but I was a little frustrated that I caught maybe 20% of the talks I actually wanted to see. I didn't even get into the PostgreSQL room, despite turning up 15 minutes early for one of the talks. That said, just complaining about a free conference on Hacker News won't help. I'd like to do my part and help by donating, but only accepting wire transfers is a lot more friction that it should be :(
  - justincormack 13y ago
    They take cash there in person I think.
- jcla1 13y ago
  Yeah, when I was trying to get out of the Go dev room on Sun, I was nearly pushed back in by the hoards that were trying to get into it.
pjmlp 13y ago
Brussels is around 3h train travel from here I live. I have attended a few ones already, sadly this year it wasn't possible. I was looking forward to attend the D and ART sessions, as well as the usual Java and X Windows ones I tend to attend. Thanks to the live streaming this year, I could at least watch some parts of them. The ART one is still not available, though.

ama729 13y ago

Can anybody make a recommendation for interesting talks this year? Thanks

eLobato 13y ago
Foreman integration with Chef - Marek Hulan ProxySQL - Rene Cannao Automation in the Foreman infrastructure, A story of success. Greg Sutcliffe Software Archaeology for Beginners - James Turnbull
scrollaway 13y ago
Currently available, not much, but the interesting stuff is coming up. One of the best talks of FOSDEM was the closing Sunday keynote by phk about the NSA (it's not up yet) There were several very good talks in the Desktops devroom as well (H1308), none of which are up yet either. That includes Lennart Poettering's talk on kdbus, which is the same one he gave at linux.conf.au (http://lwn.net/Articles/580194/ http://lwn.net/Articles/580194/). Web developers will like the mozilla room, watch them all! http://video.fosdem.org/2014/UD2218A/Saturday/ http://video.fosdem.org/2014/UD2218A/Saturday/
lifty 13y ago
There were loads of interesting talks and of course it depends on ones personal preferences. I personally found the following talks very interesting, hinting at the continued commoditization and programmability of the infrastructure: https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/virtiaas05/ https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/virtiaas05/ - SDN's https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/virtiaas99/ https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/virtiaas99/ - OSv(cloud/paas operating system) https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/virtiaas11/ https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/virtiaas11/ - high throughput packet processing OS based on Xen, for replacing expensive middle boxes in the network(firewalls, IDS's etc)
dochtman 13y ago
I thought bradfitz's Camlistore talk was interesting (from the Go devroom), so was the Servo talk (Mozilla), as well as the Mailpile alpha announcement.

0x09 13y ago

Some of the slides from the LLVM track have been uploaded separately on llvm.org also http://llvm.org/devmtg/2014-02/ http://llvm.org/devmtg/2014-02/

agumonkey 13y ago

was highly interested on http://video.fosdem.org/2014/H1302_Depage/Saturday/Reproducible_Builds_for_Debian.webm http://video.fosdem.org/2014/H1302_Depage/Saturday/Reproduci... but alas no sound, anyone has the same issue ?