FSCONS 2008/Summary

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

• Free Culture
• Development
• Free Software

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

• Video: http://www.miroguide.com/items/3503416

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
• Google
• Nokia Qt
• Linux Magazine
• GGS-Data

Videos

http://blog.fscons.org/?cat=7

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

Press mentions FSCONS 2008

ComputerSweden

• "Android är hetast"
• 2008-10-08 03:57
• Swedish

Other

Conference Book: Freebeer

• http://freebeer.fscons.org/index.html

Old conference web site

• http://fscons.org/2008/

Blog posts related to FSCONS 2008

• FSCONS 2008 Video blog posts http://blog.fscons.org/?cat=7
• FSCONS 2008 Blog posts http://blog.fscons.org/?cat=3