Keynotes

Welcome to FOSDEM 2020

Janson
FOSDEM Staff
FOSDEM welcome and opening talk.
Welcome to FOSDEM 2020!

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2/1/20
Community and Ethics
Danese Cooper
K.1.105 (La Fontaine)
Free and Open Source software has revolutionized the Software Industry and nearly all other areas of human endeavor, but until now its reach into actual governance at the municipal citizen level has not been very deep. Initiatives like Code for America have encountered challenges driving acceptance for FOSS alternatives to proprietary software for citizen governance. At the same time the gap between citizen need and cities’ capabilities as widened. But several new projects are aiming to change ...
2/1/20
Keynotes
Thorsten Leemhuis
Janson
Today's Linux kernel and the ones from the early FOSDEM days still have some things in common, but in the end are totally different beasts. This talk will take a closer look at how the Linux kernel and its development during those twenty years evolved and adapted to new expectations.
2/1/20
DNS
H.1309 (Van Rijn)
Welcome to the DNS DevRoom
2/1/20
Ada
AW1.125
Welcome to the Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2020, which is organized by Ada-Belgium in cooperation with Ada-Europe.
2/1/20
Legal and Policy Issues
Tom Marble
UA2.220 (Guillissen)
Welcome to the Legal & Policy Issues DevRoom including and overview of how the new Collaboration and Debate sessions will work.
2/1/20
Hardware-aided Trusted Computing
Vasily A. Sartakov
K.4.601
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2/1/20
Game Development
K.3.201
Welcome to FOSDEM game development devroom! We'll present what this is all about and invite you to participate.