MyKolab.com was originally announced for FOSDEM 2013 and saw great response from many people in the community. Planned as an enterprise platform for SMEs as well as collaboration platform for people who prefer to be customers, not products, its focus saw a dramatic shift when Edward Snowden released the PRISM revelations. Georg Greve will share the story on what's behind MyKolab, how it is part of the Free Software ecosystem by design, and how the...

In this presentation, I want to show little-known mechanisms to add hardware support to the kernel at runtime, i.e. without recompiling. After this presentation, the Linux kernel will have gained support for a previously unsupported USB device (without having to write any code). Not everyone is interested in becoming a kernel developer or being able to write device drivers from scratch. Yet, there are a number of people who would like to help the kernel...

Do you need a copyleft license to build a community? Answering this ten years ago, the answer may have been yes, primarily driven by the contractual obligation to contribute back to the project. However, looking at the question now, open source has grown such that a vibrant, active community may be built with a permissive licensing model. Come hear some thoughts about how licensing models affect building an open source community and how their use...

Throughout its 20-year history, Debian had to face a number of legal issues, in all fields of the so (improperly) called "Intellectual Property". From trademarks to patents, from copyright to export control and embargoes, Debian didn't miss a single pesky issue. In this talk we review some of the most relevant legal issues that Debian has faced in recent years and how the project has responded to them. Doing so is a chance not only...

Discussion of Intel BayTrail SoC architecture from a graphics perspective, including overview of render engine, display engine, memory architecture characteristics, and current status in Linux. Hopefully the presenter will have some sample platforms for people to play with after the talk. The Intel BayTrail platform incorporates a new, out of order Atom CPU, an Intel HD graphics engine, and various IP blocks to support both tablet and notebook platforms. This talk will give an overview...

This international event, which takes place every four years, will bring together scientists and researchers in all fields related to plant breeding. Participants will present and discuss their research findings and their visions for meeting the great challenges of plant breeding in coming decades. Plant breeding has always been considered to be an art and a science. The development of new tools and the rapid technological development of plant genomics, bioinformatics and phenomics, to name...

This international event, which takes place every four years, will bring together scientists and researchers in all fields related to plant breeding. Participants will present and discuss their research findings and their visions for meeting the great challenges of plant breeding in coming decades. Plant breeding has always been considered to be an art and a science. The development of new tools and the rapid technological development of plant genomics, bioinformatics and phenomics, to name...

This international event, which takes place every four years, will bring together scientists and researchers in all fields related to plant breeding. Participants will present and discuss their research findings and their visions for meeting the great challenges of plant breeding in coming decades. Plant breeding has always been considered to be an art and a science. The development of new tools and the rapid technological development of plant genomics, bioinformatics and phenomics, to name...

After four years of advocacy and lobbying to enshrine net neutrality principles in law in Europe, we can now examine the first full year of enforcement of the new rules. We will compare the enforcment of net neutrality in the individual EU member states, showcase a few of the more creative net neutrality violations and demonstrate what civil society can do to keep the Internet neutral. Enforcing net neutrality also requires network measurement tools that...

International commitment to the appropriately ambitious Paris climate agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 has pulled into the limelight the urgent need for major scientific progress in understanding and modelling the Anthropocene, the tightly intertwined social-techno-ecological planetary system that humanity now inhabits. The Anthropocene qualitatively differs from previous eras in Earth’s history in three key characteristics: (1) There is planetary-scale human agency. (2) There are social and economic networks of teleconnections...

New or unknown Ganeti functionality. We will discuss: - monitoring daemon - confd - network management - ext storage Ganeti is an open source cluster virtualization manager that's been presented at FOSDEM previously. This talk will discuss what's new in the Ganeti codebase since last year, and also focus on less widely known features that might make life easier for current and future adopters. We will also provide hints into what's coming soon, in the...

Foreman is a complete lifecycle management tool for virtual, cloud, and physical servers. Through deep integration with configuration management, infrastructure services, and PXE and Image-based unattended installations, Foreman manages every stage of the lifecycle of your servers. Foreman provides comprehensive, auditable interaction facilities including a web frontend and robust, RESTful API. Managing what actually runs on your instances could at times be tricky in large dynamic environments, in this talk, we'll introduce Foreman which can...

Ero.Coli retraces the journey of a nano-robot in its quest of ensuring the balance and prosperity of their living world. This project is a single-player 2D top-down adventure game where the hero, a tiny nano-robot, has to explore a living world, collect, and combine functional DNA fragments in order to engineer and control the abilities of his bacterium companion and face obstacles and dangers. This project is based on three main axes: - This game...

TMA 2010 - April 7, Traffic Monitoring and Analysis Workshop PAM 2010 - April 8-9, Passive and Active Measurement Conference

TMA 2010 - April 7, Traffic Monitoring and Analysis Workshop PAM 2010 - April 8-9, Passive and Active Measurement Conference

TMA 2010 - April 7, Traffic Monitoring and Analysis Workshop PAM 2010 - April 8-9, Passive and Active Measurement Conference

The key to building and maintaining users' confidence in long running applications is fault tolerance. Not just a data and connectivity concern - fault tolerance should be considered at every level of your application. A fault tolerant application clearly conveys its state to users throughout its interface, allows users to remain as productive as possible in any particular state, and ideally works behind the scenes to recover from faults. This talk will cover UX patterns...

Ember allows us to design highly adaptive, extendable, and fast web apps, but with those possibilities comes greater responsibility. Successfully leveraging the characteristics that make the technology worth while requires a myriad of methods, principles, and patterns that aren’t readily obvious to those breaking into single page application design. In this talk I’ll hone in on those requirements with relevant examples and give the audience a starting point to make their next Ember.js product design...

In diesem Video wird erklärt, was man unter einer Gewichteten Verschneidung versteht und was bei deren Anwendung beachtet werden muss.

Dieser Podcast stellt die charakteristischen Eigenschaften von Datenbankmodellen vor (relational, objektorientiert und objekt-relational).

In the dark ages of web development, designing a beautiful user experience meant having to constantly fight with the DOM to get it to do what you want, when you want. With Ember, we no longer have to struggle with managing DOM state, and we are free to put the user experience first with reactive UI. In this talk, we'll discuss the ways in which Ember makes it easy to build delightful and reactive user...

Der IgNobelpreis ist eine Auszeichnung, um wissenschaftliche Leistungen zu ehren, die „Menschen zuerst zum Lachen, dann zum Nachdenken bringen“ („to honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think“). Wir erklären die Preisträger 2017 in gewohnter Minkorrekt-Manier.

Backing up private keys in a secure manner is not straightforward. Once a backup has been compromised you need to refresh all your key material. For example, the disclosure of a private key of a Bitcoin wallet gives access to the coins inside. This makes it unattractive to store a complete backup of your private key(s) with your bank or your spouse. The better option would be to split the key into multiple parts. The...