FOSDEM videos available

[Posted March 1, 2006 by corbet]

From:		Michael Opdenacker <michael-AT-free-electrons.com>
To:		lwn-AT-lwn.net
Subject:		Fosdem videos: keynotes + embedded track
Date:		Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:20:23 +0100

Did you miss the 2006 edition of the Fosdem conference in Brussels? Or 
like many participants, and despite the availability of solutions like 
Xen or UML, you didn't manage to launch several virtual instances of 
yourself and missed some of the presentations you were interested in?

Michael Opdenacker, from Free Electrons, is happy to share the videos he 
managed to take:

    * Towards a common embedded power management solution, by David
      Weinehall and Sampsa Fabritius (both from Nokia)
    * Lock-Free Data Exchange for Real-time applications, by Peter
      Soetens (Flander's Mechatronics Technology Center, Leuven)
    * Real-time patches for Linux, by Klaas van Gend (MontaVista)
    * Alsa SoC layer, by Liam Girdwood (Wolfson Microelectronics)
    * Building and supporting distributions with OpenEmbedded, by Koen
      Kooi (Familiar release manager)
    * SLIND, a small Debian for embedded systems, by Benjamin Collar
      (Siemens)
    * Openocd, the Open On-Chip Debugger, by Dominic Rath (University of
      Applied Sciences, Augsburg)
    * SETR LiveCD, live tool for embedded development, by Hector Oron
    * Optimizing the Linux kernel and applications, by Michael Opdenacker
    * Software patents, by Richard Stallman (Free Software Foundation)
    * The challenge of the GNU/Linux desktop, by Jeff Vaugh (Ubuntu / Gnome)

Though most videos are related to the embedded topic, anyone could be be 
interested in Richard Stallman's arguments on Software Patents as well 
as in Jeff Vaugh's very entertaining keynote.

These videos can be freely downloaded from Free Electrons' conference 
videos page (http://free-electrons.com/community/videos/conferences). 
Enjoy them!

They have been encoded with the open, royalty-free Vorbis/Theora 
audio/video codecs, and are released under the terms of the Creative 
Commons Attribution - Share Alike 2.5 license 
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/).

Fosdem (http://www.fosdem.org/2006) is one of the 2 most popular 
meetings for free and open source software developers, and happens every 
year in Brussels, Belgium, usually in late February.

-- 
Michael Opdenacker
http://free-electrons.com

transcript of RMS's GPLv3 talk, and more videos

Posted Mar 1, 2006 18:51 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

There are also other videos from FOSDEM here:ftp.belnet.be/pub/mirror/FOSDEM/

I've made a transcript of Stallman's GPLv3 talk and put it here: www.ifso.ie/documents/rms-gplv3-2006-02-25.html

FOSDEM videos available

Posted Mar 8, 2006 13:15 UTC (Wed) by stock (guest, #5849) [Link]

Nice to see full coverage of FOSDEM. What stroke me as rather weird was
the observation that the moment the audience wanted to pose a couple of
_real_ interesting questions to the speakers, the FOSDEM staff, like
little jesuits, hurried quickly to remove the microphone from the
speaker, after posing the question "Are there any questions?"

I don't claim that every session was handled this way by FOSDEM staff,
But i myself found it very _UN_FOSDEM . The session of plan9 was handled
this way. I attended the Mozilla session, where i was making some notes.
The way the Mozilla speakers and developers reacted to that, surely was a
little frantic. I was asked : 'Are you from the press?" No i'm just a
"professional blogger" was my response. Also very _UN_FOSDEM.

Cheers,

Robert M. Stockmann