FSCONS 2008/Summary
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summary and key facts
Conference Tag line
FSCONS 2008 is the first among many Free Society conferences that bridges the gap between free software and cultural freedom. Co-arranged by Free Software Foundation Europe, Creative Commons and Wikimedia Sverige, FSCONS 2008 is already a landmark event in bringing the different movements working for digital freedom together. Freedom Tunnel Photo by Colin Mutchler More than just a series of presentations, FSCONS 2008 is a cross-cultural meeting place where grass root organisations, companies, academics, cultural workers and hackers come together in a united effort to discuss and liberate all aspects of digital culture.
Dates
FSCONS 2008 was held October 24th - 26th in Gothenburg, Sweden
Themes/Tracks
Keynotes
- Oscar Swartz
- Smári McCarthy
- Dr. Ansgar Bernardi
Speakers
- Andreas Ericsson
- David Cuartielles
- Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
- Frank Schulenburg
- Fredrik "DXter" Jonsson
- Henrik Moltke
- Christian Lanng
- Inge Wallin
- Johan Eklund
- John Buckman
- Katja Henttonen
- Lars Aronsson
- Mike Linksvayer
- Nicklas Lundblad
- Niclas Nilsson
- Peter Stuge
- Rasmus Fleischer
- Tham Wickenberg
- Victor Stone
- Bengt Gördén
- Jan Szczepanski
- Stefan Larsson
- Håkan Hydén
- Henri Bergius
Henri Bergius is a former Viking based in the Nordic country of Finland. When he is not exploring the cave cities of Georgia or running with bulls in Pamplona, Bergie works on web services built on top of the Midgard toolkit. His company Nemein provides web solutions for several major companies in Finland and abroad....
- Johan Thelin
Interview with Johan here: http://blog.fscons.org/?p=405
Topics/Talks/Presentations
Free Culture
Why Google is just second best for open access information - Jan Szczepanski
Why Google is just second best for open access information - Jan Szczepanski
The darling conceptions of your time - Stefan Larsson & Håkan Hydén
The darling conceptions of your time - Stefan Larsson & Håkan Hydén
Book chapter from Freebeer: http://swepub.kb.se/bib/swepub:oai:lup.lub.lu.se:1507999?tab2=abs&language=en
Ten facts you should know about Wikipedia - Frank Schulenburg
Ten facts you should know about Wikipedia - Frank Schulenburg
Development
Towards 10Gbps open-source routing - Bengt Gördén
Towards 10Gbps open-source routing - Bengt Gördén
Slides: http://www.bag.org/bengt_gorden_fscons2008.pdf
Midgard - Henri Bergius
Midgard - Henri Bergius
Midgard, a venerable open source content management system is now renewing itself to a new architecture. The plan is to provide a data management framework that can extend from web services to replicated mobile applications. This talk describes the approach taken by the Midgard community and showcases the developer possibilities provided.
Henri Bergius is a former Viking based in the Nordic country of Finland. When he is not exploring the cave cities of Georgia or running with bulls in Pamplona, Bergie works on web services built on top of the Midgard toolkit. His company Nemein provides web solutions for several major companies in Finland and abroad....
Video:
Henri's blog post: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/learn_more_about_midgard_in_fscons/
Qt for Embedded Linux - Johan Thelin
Interview with Johan Thelin here: http://blog.fscons.org/?p=405
Number of visitors
- Number of visitors: 194
- from Sweden: 152
- from the Nordic countries: 18
- from Europe: 16
- from outside of Europe: 8
Sponsors
- Imendio
- PrimeKey Solutions
- Rejås Datakonsult
- Nokia Qt
- Linux Magazine
- GGS-Data
Videos
Photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/fscons08/
Slides
- http://www.slideshare.net/bergie/midgard-2-the-cloud-you-can-control-presentation
- http://www.bag.org/bengt_gorden_fscons2008.pdf
- http://jaromil.dyne.org/journal/fscons_2008.pdf
- http://fscons.org/files/slides/FOSS-AndTheDanishPublicSector-FSCONS-081026.pdf
- http://aronsson.se/greatchanges.pdf
Press mentions FSCONS 2008
ComputerSweden
- "Android är hetast"
- 2008-10-08 03:57
- Swedish
Other
Conference Book: Freebeer
Old conference web site
- FSCONS 2008 Video blog posts http://blog.fscons.org/?cat=7
- FSCONS 2008 Blog posts http://blog.fscons.org/?cat=3