Fosdem videos

Videos from the Fosdem conference in Brussels

Mar. 1, 2006

For people who couldn't go to the 2006 edition of Fosdem, one of the 2 most popular worldwide meetings for Free Software developers, or who couldn't attend all the presentations they were interested in, Free Electrons is happy to share the below 12 videos from this event:

• Software patents, by Richard Stallman (Free Software Foundation)
• SETR LiveCD, live tool for embedded development, by Hector Oron
• Optimizing the Linux kernel and applications, by Michael Opdenacker
• Lock-Free Data Exchange for Real-time applications, by Peter Soetens (Flander's Mechatronics Technology Center, Leuven)
• Alsa SoC layer, by Liam Girdwood (Wolfson Microelectronics)
• Building and supporting distributions with OpenEmbedded, by Koen Kooi (Familiar release manager)
• Towards a common embedded power management solution, by David Weinehall and Sampsa Fabritius (both from Nokia)
• Real-time patches for Linux, by Klaas van Gend (MontaVista)
• 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)
• The challenge of the GNU/Linux desktop, by Jeff Waugh (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 downloaded from our conference videos page. Enjoy them!

These videos are encoded in the open, royalty-free Vorbis/Theora audio/video codecs, and are available under the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike 2.5 license.

Many other videos from Fosdem can be found here.