Query results: Conferences

Of course this is a presumptuous title, given that only three talks were given – but it’s fun to pretend that we’re a large organization “touring” events in Europe.

I just completed three talks, two in the Benelux and one in eastern Germany. The first two talks announced our ambitions for 2008 (more to appear here soon) and the third focused more on developers, explaining how to rethink projects to find an extra million users. It’s been a thoroughly enjoyable experience, also very exhausting because of the enormous time spent preparing, traveling, and wrapping-up.

For this reason there will likely be no more talks until the summer, when we will (hopefully) speak at the French RMLL (Libre Software Meeting) in Southern France. We’ve got plenty of things to work on before then, so there will be no time to fall asleep.

The slides for Linuxdays.lu are now online (those of FOSDEM were nearly identical), as are those of the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage conference (I am told an audio recording is on the way). They are licensed as CC-BY-SA.

In the coming weeks I’ll be giving three talks at free software-related events in Europe:

• At the LinuxDays.lu on February 20th in Luxemburg
  The talk, titled Getting one million to know Linux: why it matters and how we do it, will be one of the two footnote talks of the event. It will cover the main activities of GNU/Linux Matters and give a few insights on marketing for free software developers.
• At FOSDEM on February 24th in Brussels, Belgium
  This will be the same talk as in the Linuxdays.lu – it’s not part of the main schedule but will be given in the room shared by the Fedora and CentOS communities.
• At the Chemnitzer Linux Tage on March 1st in Chemnitz, Germany
  This is a new talk, Good code just didn’t cut it: Projekte für die nächste Million User neu durchdenken (in German). I’ll spend much less time than usual on the overall market position of free software; and focus instead on what really matters to developers. I think of it as the 24C3 talk, with a lot less strategy, and a lot more practical application.

If you turn up at any of these events, don’t hesitate to come by and have a chat!
Olivier.

The 24th Chaos Communication Congress (24C3) closed its doors last Sunday in Berlin. Olivier gave a talk there and otherwise thoroughly enjoyed the event ;-)

The conference was the last edition of “Overtaking Proprietary Software Without Writing Code“. The video recording (100MB, mkv¹) is of excellent quality and features legible slides, clear audio, and video mixing. The talk slides (ODT or PDF) are also available separately. Finally, a two-page-excerpt has been published in the Congress Proceedings – all are available under a CC-BY-SA license.

Some very special thanks go to the CCC crew who participated towards travel costs and did such a superb job organising and running the congress.

We’re now heading to various other events in Europe with other conferences to come. See you there!

1. the video format is OGG Theora inside a Matroska container. It can be read using the VLC program. Alternatively, an mpeg-4 (mp4) version is available. [↩]