Lightning lightning talks 2
Janson | Day 2 | 16:00 - 16:50 | Speakers: Richard "RichiH" Hartmann, Jelle van der Waa, Salve J. Nilsen, Benjamin Henrion, Piotr P. Karwasz, Runxi Yu, Mayuresh Bagayatkar, Ruud van Asseldonk, Martin Randa, Twinkle, dextero, Dieter Plaetinck, Aki
Abstract
The regular FOSDEM lightning talk track isn't chaotic enough, so this year we're doubling down on Lightning Lightning Talks (now with added lightning!).
Thought of a last minute topic you want to share? Got your interesting talk rejected? Has something exciting happened in the last few weeks you want to talk about?
This is the second of two sessions for participants to speak about subjects which are interesting, amusing, or just something the FOSDEM audience would appreciate.
Selected speakers line up and present in one continuous automated stream, with an SLO of 99% talk uptime.
Presenters who attempt to speak for longer than 256 seconds risk being swept off the stage by our Lightning Lightning Talk Cleanup Crew.
Featuring:
- Salve J. Nilsen & Piotr P. Karwasz (CONTRIBUTING.yaml)
- Aki (Falsehoods FOSDEM attendees believe about the CRA)
- Richard "RichiH" Hartmann (Gitify your life - 14 years later)
- Twinkle (Dumb Guide to Smart TVs - watch your TV before it watches you)
- Dieter Plaetinck (body.build personal fitness)
- Mayuresh Bagayatkar (PostgreSQL Compatibility Index)
- Jelle van der Waa (Sharing your pacman cache on the LAN)
- Benjamin Henrion (EU Software Patents v3.0 via the Unified Patent Court)
- dextero (GUI vs TUI - why not both?)
- Martin Randa (My Grandma Needed a New Computer?)
- Runxi Yu (Symig: a more Unixy way of dealing with mail, in Git)
- Ruud van Asseldonk (The RCL configuration language and json query tool)
Attachments
- CONTRIBUTING.yaml
- Falsehoods FOSDEM attendees believe about the CRA
- Gitify your life - 14 years later
- Dumb Guide to Smart TVs - watch your TV before it watches you
- body.build personal fitness
- PostgreSQL Compatibility Index
- Sharing your pacman cache on the LAN
- EU Software Patents v3.0 via the Unified Patent Court
- GUI vs TUI - why not both?
- My Grandma Needed a New Computer?
- Symig: a more Unixy way of dealing with mail, in Git
- The RCL configuration language and json query tool
Speakers
Richard "RichiH" Hartmann is the Director of Community at Grafana Labs, a member of the Office of the CTO of Grafana Labs, Prometheus team member, OpenMetrics founder, OpenTelemetry member, CNCF Technical Oversight Committee member, CNCF Governing Board member, and more. He also leads, organizes, or helps run various conferences from hundreds to 18,000 attendess, including KubeCon, PromCon, FOSDEM, DENOG, DebConf, and Chaos Communication Congress. In the past, he made mainframe databases work, ISP backbones run, kept the largest IRC network on Earth running, and designed and built a datacenter from scratch. Go through his talks, podcasts, interviews, and articles at https://github.com/RichiH/talks or follow him on Mastodon at https://chaos.social/@RichiH for musings on the intersection of technology and society.
Arch Linux Developer
Salve J. Nilsen has been a community organizer and speaker in the Perl, CPAN and Raku communities for more than two decades, organizing conferences, meetups, hackathons and much more. Usually he speaks of community-related topics, but has recently spent his attention ("tuits") on the CPAN Security Group, focusing on package metadata, policy, compliance, governance and sustainability. He is the initiator of the CONTRIBUTING.yaml spec, currently being standardized under the ECMA TC54-TG4 track. Salve is also a contributor to the Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group's exploration of the Cyber Resilience Act, with special interest in the OSS Steward role, and it's implications. Salve is based in Oslo, Norway.
Benjamin is also the president of the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII.org), an he has been fighting software patents since 1999, from the beginning of the european debate till now. He has launched several popular campaigns on the internet, such as the August 2003 and June 2005 webdemonstrations against software patents (400.000 signatures), or the campaign against Microsoft's Office standardisation at ISO (NoOOXML.org) (100.000 signatures).
He currently works as a Devops and Kubernetes consultant.
His interests lies in computer science, politics, and mountain biking.
His personal website is available at http://www.zoobab.com
Piotr has contributed to Open Source since 2002, progressing from forum support to coding and project maintenance. After Log4Shell he joined Apache Logging Services and became a full-time maintainer in 2023. He works on ECMA TC54 and other security initiatives, applying them to Apache Commons, Log4j, and the wider OSS community.
I’m a DBA with 15 years of experience, started with Oracle but now PostgreSQL is my "ikigai". Based in the beautiful city of Prague, I work at Veeam and actively participate in the local Postgres scene as an assistant organizer of Prague Postgresql meetup. I am the creator of pgscorecard.com, a FOSS project about PostgreSQL compatibility index, and a hobbyist extension developer. Additionally, I am pioneering the genre of "database comedy" blending technical expertise with memes to popularize Postgres, see my work at drunkdba.medium.com.
Martin Randa is a data scientist specializing in time series forecasting and interactive visualizations, with a Master's degree in Financial Markets and Data Analysis from Charles University in Prague. Outside of work, Martin enjoys exploring open source technologies. He is also interested in online privacy and likes to unwind with activities such as rock climbing or ballroom dancing.
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