Let's meet at FOSDEM 2024

We are looking forward to go toFOSDEM 2024 and we hope to see you there. We'll havea stand inhall K level 2 where you can find us throughout the event. We'll bring a fresh batch of 120.000hexagon stickers so come by to pick up a few and have a chat. We love to hear your questions, remarks, ideas and plans.

FOSDEM is the world’s largest gathering of free and open source software enthusiasts and open to everyone and free of charge. You don't even need to register. It takes place in at the ULB Solbosch Campus in Brussels in the weekend of February 3-4, 2024.

Bird of a feather & office hour

We've booked a room on Saturday morning for anetwork meetup (in the form of a so calledBirds of a feather session. We have a room to ourselves for 1.5 hours, so if you feel like it: come and join us inAW1.121 on Saturday from 10:30 to 12:00h. Or visit theoffice hour on Sunday morning from 10:00 to 11:00, if you have a burning question to ask. And you're also very welcome at theZero Grantees Feedback session at OFFDEM.

Overview of NGI0 & NLnet related presentations

We're happy to see many presentations of projects that were funded by theNGI0 research and development grants. Here is an overview:

(Note: The times listed may be off due to schedule changes or errors on our side. You can check the genesis FOSDEM schedule by clicking on the event's title.)

Saturday

• 10.30NGI Zero network meetup

  Come and mingle with other folks interested in NGI Zero

• 11.25Cryptographic Algorithm Vectorization for Mortals —Sadoon Albader (Libre-SOC-HPC)
• 11:50Bridging Open Protocols: XMPP and ActivityPub Gateway via Libervia —Jérôme Poisson (Goffi) (XMPP-ActivityPub gateway)
• 11.55Linux Distribution Porting for Architecture Subsets —Sadoon Albader (Libre-SOC-HPC)
• 12.00Securely collaborate with CryptPad —Fabrice Mouhartem (CryptPad)
• 12.00Modern Email BoF, creating email-compat-data & more —Mechiel Lukkien (Mox)
• 12:20Verilog-AMS in Gnucap —Felix andAl Davis (Verilog-AMS in Gnucap)
• 12:30Collabora Online: WASM —Thorsten Behrens (LibreOffice-CRDT and other projects)
• 12.40Advanced Simple-V: Data-dependent Fail-First —Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton andShriya Sharma (Libre-RISCV and other projects)
• 13:30An introduction to Formal Verification of Digital Circuits —Cesar Strauss (Libre-SOC, Coriolis2 ASIC Layout Collaboration)
• 13:55Transportr: the Past, the Present and the Future —Mikolai Gütschow (Briar-beyond-Android)
• 14:00Using the ECP5 for Libre-SOC prototyping —Tobias Platen (Libre-RISCV and other projects)
• 14:15The Small Device C Compiler (SDCC) —Philipp K. Krause (SDCC)
• 14:45Updating open data standards —Sara Petti (Frictionless Standards (v2))
• 15:05Debug your stage-1 systemd with GDB and the NixOS test framework —Ryan Lahfa,Julien Malka andLinus Heckemodosmann (UEFI Secure Boot support for NixOS,Mangaki,NixOS/Clevis)
• 16:20Using elliptic curve cryptography for the purposes of identity —Yarmo Mackenbach (Keyoxide Mobile)
• 16:30Bad UX is Bad Security: Adventures in Qubes OS UX Design —Marta Marczykowska-Górecka (Accessible Qubes)
• 16:40Cristal: a new Wiki UI to rule them all —Ludovic Dubost, andManuel Leduc (Cryptpad and other projects.)
• 16:45Embedding Servo in Rust projects —Rakhi Sharma (Servo)
• 17:00AlekSIS - What are the needs of a free school information system? —Jonathan Weth (AlekSIS)
• 17:30Advances in Garage, the low-tech storage platform for geo-distributed clusters —Alex Auvolat (Garage)
• 18.30The first 13 years of blockchain name systems —Eyal Ron (Neiman) (Namecoin)

Sunday

• 9:0020 Years of Open Source building XWiki and CryptPad —Ludovic Dubost (Cryptpad and other projects.)
• 09:00Welcome to the Open Hardware devroom —Seth Hillbrand(KiCad)
• 09.00Welcome to Nix! —Guillaume Desforges (Genealogos )
• 09.20[Protocols] An introduction to IMAP, type-driven development, and imap-codec —Damian Poddebniak (imap-codec library )
• 09.45FOSS for FOSS: DejaCode is your new FOSS control center for SBOMs —Philippe Ombredanne (Free Software Vulnerability Database )
• 10.00NLnet office hour

  Have questions? Let's short circuit delays, and come and ask the people from NLnet in person.

• 10:00For Want of Anneal: Examining The Unseen Changes Concerning Changes To VCS Assets and The Need For More Graph Centric Approaches —Jonathan McHugh (Icebreaker)
• 10:00Panel discussion: Software Naming —Alexios Zavras (zvr),Philippe Ombredanne,Aeva Black andKate Stewart
• 11:35FOSS policy engagement: The impact of the NGI Open Source projects on EU policy and values,Jean-Luc Dorel &Clementine Valayer.
• 10:50KiCad Status Update —Wayne Stambaugh (KiCad)
• 11:00A slow migration from Django templates to Vue+GraphQL —Dominik George andJonathan Weth (AlekSIS)
• 11:20RISC-V Bootstrapping in Guix and Live-Bootstrap —Ekaitz (GNU Mes RISC-V and other projects)
• 11:30Running NLnet on NixOS —Jos van den Oever (NLnet)
• 11:30LibrePCB Status Update —Urban Bruhin (LibrePCB)
• 11:35[Servers] Aerogramme, a multi-region IMAP server —Quentin Dufour (Aerogramme)
• 11:35FOSS policy engagement: The impact of the NGI Open Source projects on EU policy and valuesl,Jean-Luc Dorel &Clementine Valayer and others.
• 11:55FOSS policy engagement: panel,Jean-Luc Dorel &Clementine Valayer and others.
• 12:00Spritely, Guile, Guix: a unified vision for user security —Christine Lemmer-Webber (Spritely)
• 12.00Clevis/Tang: unattended boot of an encrypted NixOS system —Julien Malka andCamille Mondon (NixOS/Clevis)
• 12.15Mox: a modern full-featured mail server —Mechiel Lukkien (Mox)
• 12:35Modos: Building an Ecosystem of Open-Hardware E Ink Devices —Alexander Soto (Modos)
• 13:50Own your CI with Nix —Théophane Hufschmitt ( NixOS Foundation)
• 14:15Modern chat-mail for security-sensitive helplines —Holga,Xenia (DeltaChat/WebXDC)
• 14.30Supporting architecture psABIs with GNU Guix —Efraim Flashner (Guix-Riscv64,GNUMes-RISCV-bootstrap )
• 16:10[StructuredEmail] Structured Vacation Notices and Structured Email for Roundcube —Hans-Jörg Happel (StructuredEmail)
• 16:30How I've Built a Web Frontend for a Federated Communication Tool with Brython —Jérôme Poisson (Goffi) (XMPP-ActivityPub gateway)
• 16:55Open Source Firmware, BMC and Bootloader devroom — outro —Piotr Król(AlderLake)

Talk: Running NLnet on NixOS

Our very ownJos van den Oever will givea talk on the administration system he designed and wrote that enables the NLnet team to handle the hundreds of proposals and projects. NLnet runs mostly on Free Software. In the last years we have moved most of our systems to NixOS and keep our system setups in a single git repository handled with nixos-rebuild. In this presentation, Jos will explain how and why we do so.

Devrooms

While of course you should be in all dev rooms simultaneously for a total information overload, the density of NGI Zero related talks in the following rooms might be higher than elsewhere.

• 10:30-14:30Libre-SOC, FPGA and VLSI devroom

• 09:00-12:45Open Source In The European Legislative Landscape devroom
• 09:00-12:45Declarative and Minimalistic Computing devroom
• 09:00-12:25Nix and NixOS devroom
• 09:00-17:00Modern Email devroom
• 09.00-17.00Software Bill of Materials devroom

If you are also a grantee and your talk is missing,let us know and we will happily add it!

Stands

During FOSDEM the university is filled to the brim with stands where you can meet the people behind many FOSS organisations, communities and projects (and collect stickers). Here is FOSDEM'soverview of all the stands and their place on the map. Below is an overview of NGI0 related stands, grouped by the categories as assigned by FOSDEM.

• coreboot / flashrom / EDKII / OpenBMC
• Free Software Foundation
• NLnet
• ISRG — Let's Encrypt, Prossimo & Divvi Up

• Codeberg

• LibreOffice
• Nextcloud

• Mastodon

• KDE

• Linux on Mobile (Mobian, Sailfish OS, PureOS, UBports, MNT Research, postmarketOS) + Ubports
• CalyxOS
• Nix and NixOS

OFFDEM

TheOFFDEM unconference will be held parallel to FOSDEM. OFFDEM is an intersectional festival about collective practices and free technologies production with different types of activities. It's a greatprogram that already starts on Friday. There will be a table forpetites singularités showing cooperation work, publications and Jeu VidéA and a session byAPC.

NGI Zero Grantees Feedback at OFFDEM

Come to theNGI Zero Grantees Feedforth session. If you received NGI funding, come talk to NGI Zero mentors! They’re eager to gather your feedforth. It’s an opportunity for free software developers and open-source hardware engineers to ask them anything, and for grantees to share their experience and feedback with their peers and mentors.

FOSDEM Fringe

Coming to Brussels and want to have an early start? There are also events in theFOSDEM Fringe organised by or featuring projects we support, like theFOSS license and security compliance tools developers and users workshop organised byAboutCode, and theGUIX Days.