FSCONS 2009/Summary

summary and key facts

Dates

6-7th of November 2010

Themes/Tracks

Tag line: The Road Ahead in the Nordic Countries

Free Software Track and Free Society Track.

Keynotes

• Christina Haralanova
• Erik Zachte

Speakers

• Erik Zachte
• Christina Haralanova
• Martin Gollowitzer
• Johan Thelin
• Amelia Andersdotter
• Krister Svanlund
• Jimmy Callin
• Kalle Vedin
• Henri Bergius
• Karin Kosina (vka kyrah)
• Mats Karlsson
• Matthias Kirschner
• Hannes Hauswedell
• Björn Lundell
• Jeremiah C. Foster
• Adriaan de Groot
• Edmund Harriss
• Daniel Stenberg
• Magnus Hagander
• Per Andersson
• Christina Haralanova
• Arwid Lund
• LeifJöran Olsson
• Karsten Gerloff
• Werner Koch
• Johan Söderberg
• Anders Kringstad
• Mikael Nordin
• Mattias Wecksten
• Mirko Lindner
• Christopher Kullenberg
• Øyvind Hanssen
• Anne Østergaard
• Ville Sundell
• Mathias Klang
• Ville Sundell
• Lennart Guldbrandsson
• Marcin Jakubowski
• Oscar Swartz
• Mattias Wecksten
• Carlos Garnacho
• David Tenser
• Øystein Jakobsen
• Teddy Hogeborn
• Björn Påhlsson
• Timo Jyrinki
• Ville Sundell
• Mazen Harake

Topics/Talks/Presentations

• Erik Zachte - Future of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation
• Martin Gollowitzer - FSFE: OpenPGP Card Workshop
• Johan Thelin - Workshop: Embedding Qt
• Amelia Andersdotter, Krister Svanlund, Jimmy Callin, Kalle Vedin - Young Pirate: Young people and hacktivism
• Henri Bergius - Midgard2: Content repository for your PHP application
• Karin Kosina (vka kyrah) - Hackerspaces FTW!
• Mats Karlsson - Free Communication - Your Email is Your Phone Number
• Matthias Kirschner and Hannes Hauswedell - FSFE: PDFReaders
• Ville Sundell - Workshop: How to write a Linux device driver
• Björn Lundell - Being Open about lock-in effects in the Swedish public sector: Taking Open Standards seriously
• Jeremiah C. Foster - The Maemo platform - or how to commercialize debian
• Adriaan de Groot - FSFE: Freedom Task Force
• FSFE - FSFE: Q&A and Closing
• Edmund Harriss - Street Maths
• Daniel Stenberg - Librarified SSH
• Serengeti - Debian Democracy
• Johan Thelin - Workshop: The Qt SDK - Using QtCreator
• Magnus Hagander - PostgreSQL
• Smári McCarthy - Building Societies - Lessons learned from the Internet
• Daniel Stenberg - The Rockbox Story
• Serengeti - Rabash Cooperative
• Karsten Gerloff - Free Software in Europe: Taking Stock of the Public Sector
• Serengeti - NGO Women
• Werner Koch - OpenPGP for your application
• Johan Söderberg - Darknets of Light - Homebrewed Free Space Optics in the Czech Wireless Community
• Anders Kringstad - From Norway to Brazil: Turning to Free Software for Education
• Serengeti - The Sun House (Solhuset) Open Project
• Per Andersson - Workshop: Debian packaging, and getting a package into the distribution
• Serengeti - JFS Accounting (Liberated Bookkeeping)
• Christina Haralanova - Free Software and Feminism
• Mikael Nordin - Cultural Transmission from an Archaeological Perspective
• Mattias Wecksten - eForensics: The traces we leave behind and how to find them
• Mirko Lindner - Redefining Freedom with Copyleft Hardware
• Anders Kringstad - Workshop: HOWTO Get Free Software in Schools
• Christopher Kullenberg - Citizen's Agenda: Net Neutrality, Surveillance and how to Re-build Politics
• Øyvind Hanssen - APRS - the amateur radio tracking system
• Anne Østergaard - Educating in Freedom - Free Access and Collaboration is the Key
• Ville Sundell - Workshop: Writing Jabber/XMPP Software
• Mathias Klang - Open Content Licensing
• Ville Sundell - Building a secure served based on OpenBSD
• Lennart Guldbrandsson, Unnamed Guest - The Hidden Treasures in the Archives and How to Share them with Everyone
• Per Andersson - Workshop: Git in Debian packaging
• Marcin Jakubowski - Transformative Economics via Open Source Product Development
• Jeremiah C. Foster - Perl6 - The last programming language
• Oscar Swartz - Maktvärk: Om det sociala näteländet
• Mattias Wecksten - Workshop: Invisible logging and the traces we leave behind
• Carlos Garnacho - GTK+ 3.0, Step by step
• David Tenser - Sumo @ Mozilla
• Øystein Jakobsen - The Genero System
• Lightning Talks
  • Teddy Hogeborn, Björn Påhlsson - Mandos
  • Timo Jyrinki - Kernel mode-setting on Neo FreeRunner
  • Ville Sundell - Zindium
• Mazen Harake - Erlang

Number of visitors

• Number of visitors: 275
  • from Sweden: 187
  • from the Nordic countries: 44
  • from Europe: 36
  • from outside of Europe: 8

Co-organizers

• FFKP - Föreningen fri kultur och programvara
• Free Software Foundation Europe Fellowship
• Serengeti
• Wikimedia Sverige
• Creative Commons Sverige
• FriBit

Sponsors

• Google
• Nordisk Kulturfond
• Mozilla Foundation Europe
• Linux Journal
• Linux Magazine
• Nokia Qt
• Rejås Datakonsult

Videos

FSCONS 2009 channel on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/channels/73996

Photos

• Flickr Wrote
• Flickr Tag fscons09

Slides

• Marcin Jakubowski - Transformative Economics via Open Source Product Development
• Johan Thelin Embedding Qt workshop
• Christina Haralanova - Free Software Feminism
• Mattias Wecksten - The Traces We Leave Behind
• Mats Karlsson - Free Communication - Your Email is Your Phone Number
• Mathias Klang - Open Content Licensing FSCONS 2009
• Henri Bergius - Midgard2 Content Repository
• Anders Kringstad - From Norway to Brazil: Turning to Free Software for Education
• Øyvind Hanssen - APRS - the amateur radio tracking system
• Karin Kosina kyrah Hackerspaces FTW!

Side-events and cooperations

• The Julia Group seminar on net neutrality, organised at FSCONS
• Free Film Festival, organised by Hagabion on the 7th of November
• GNU Hackers Meeting 2009, organised by the GNU Project, takes place the 11th-13th of November
• Nordic Free Software Award, presented during FSCONS
• malmo09 – 1st Popular European eGovernment Conference