Excited for FOSDEM 2017? FOSDEM, or the Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting, is held every year in late January or early February. This year, FOSDEM is taking place on February 4th and 5th. At this year’s conference, an estimated 8,000 or more attendees are expected. As one of the largest open source conferences in Europe, there are many Fedora Project developers and representatives attending the event. In addition to our community stand, you will find 24 speakers from the community giving talks over the weekend. This post gives a quick way for you to find out who is speaking and where to find them in FOSDEM!

Find Fedora speakers at FOSDEM 2017

You can find information for all of our speakers at FOSDEM below. This information is pulled from this ticket. If you notice any mistakes, please let us know! Special thanks to Alberto Rodriguez Sanchez, Dhanesh Sabane, and others for working on this.

• Justin W. Flory (jflory7)
  • Talk title: What open source and J.K. Rowling have in common (Importance of storytelling in open source projects)
    • Track: Documentation
    • Date/Time: Sunday, 12:00-12:50
    • Location: K.1.105 (La Fontaine)
• Tom Callaway (spot)
  • Talk title: A discussion of Fedora’s Legal state (This is why I drink.)
    • Track: Legal and Policy Issues devroom
    • Date/Time: Saturday, 17:05-17:30
    • Location: H.1301 (Cornil)
• Bhagyashree (Bee) Padalkar (bee2502)
  • Talk title: Making Wiki Gardening Tasks Easier Using Big Data and NLP
    • Track: HPC, Big Data and Data Science devroom
    • Date/Time: Saturday, 14:45-14:55
    • Location: H.2213
  • Talk title: I contributed ! But what now ? (This talk will be about methods to improve contributor retention rates in your FOSS community.)
    • Track: Community devroom
    • Date/Time: Sunday, 13:05-13:40
    • Location: AW1.124
• Peter Robinson (pbrobinson)
  • Talk title: Using a generic distro to redefine IoT
    • Track: Distributions devroom
    • Date/Time: Saturday, 18:30-18:55
    • Location: K.4.601
• Adam Samalik (asamalik) and Petr Šabata (psabata)
  • Talk title: Modularity & Generational Core, The future of Fedora?
    • Track: Distributions devroom
    • Date/Time: Saturday, 14:30-15:20
    • Location: K.4.601
•  Mickael Scherer (misc)
  • Talk title: Desktop security, keeping the key to the castle safe
    • Track: Security devroom
    • Date/Time: Sunday, 9:30-9:55
    • Location: H.1308 (Rolin)
  • Talk title: Replacing Dockerfiles with Ansible-container
    • Track: Config management devroom
    • Date/Time: Saturday, 12:00-12:50
    • Location: UA2.220 (Guillissen)
  • Talk title: When configuration management meet SDN
    • Track: SDN and NFV devroom
    • Date/Time: Saturday, 16:30-17:00
    • Location: UA2.114 (Baudoux)
  • Talk title: Privacy in practice for self hosting
    • Track: Decentralised Internet devroom
    • Date/Time: Sunday, 13:30-14:00
    • Location: AW1.125
• Daniel Pocock (pocock)
  • Talk title: SDR, Ham Radio and the Debian Hams project
    • Track: Software Defined Radio devroom
    • Date/Time: Saturday, 11:30-12:00
    • Location: AW1.120
  • Talk title: Fundraising and Crowdfunding for FreeRTC (Helping developers who work on RTC full time)
    • Track: Real Time Communications devroom
    • Date/Time: Saturday, 18:10-18:30
    • Location: K.3.401
• Lalatendu Mohanty (lalatendu)
  • Talk title: The Easiest Way to Start Developing with Openshift
    • Track: Linux Containers and Microservices devroom
    • Date/Time: Sunday, 12:45-12:50
    • Location: UA2.220 (Guillissen)
• Elio Qoshi (elioqoshi)
  • Talk title: Mozilla Open Design (What we learned in 2016)
    • Track: Open Source Design devroom
    • Date/Time: Sunday, 10:00-10:20
    • Location: AW1.121
• Christoph Wickert (cwickert)
  • Talk title: Writing Open Source Documentation for Open Source Projects (How SUSE is documented and what we can learn from it)
    • Track: Distributions devroom
    • Date/Time: Saturday, 12:30-13:20
    • Location: K.4.601
• Colin Charles (byte)
  • Talk title: The Proxy Wars – MySQL Router, ProxySQL, MariaDB MaxScale
    • Track: MySQL and Friends devroom
    • Date/Time: Saturday, 14:05-14:25
    • Location: H.1309 (Van Rijn)
  • Talk title: Distributions from the view of a package
    • Track: Distributions devroom
    • Date/Time: Saturday, 17:30-17:55
    • Location: K.4.601
• Gratien D’haese (gdha)
  • Talk title: Relax-and-Recover Automated Testing
    • Track: Backup and Disaster Recovery devroom
    • Date/Time: Saturday, 15:45-16:10
    • Location: AW1.121
  • Talk title: Future ideas for ReaR, DRLM, and Bareos
    • Track: Backup and Disaster Recovery devroom
    • Date/Time: Saturday, 17:45-18:40
    • Location: AW1.121
• Roman Mohr (rfenkhuber)
  • Talk title: Pet-VMs and Containers united?
    • Track: Virtualisation and IaaS devroom
    • Date/Time: Saturday, 12:30-13:10
    • Location: UB2.252A (Lameere)
• Brian Bouterse (bmbouter)
  • Talk title: Debugging Hung Python Processes with GDB
    • Track: Python devroom
    • Date/Time: Sunday, 13:30-14:00
    • Location: UD2.120 (Chavanne)
• Kaushal M. (kshlm)
  • Talk title: GlusterD-2.0 (The next generation of GlusterFS management)
    • Track: Software Defined Storage devroom
    • Date/Time: Sunday, 9:00-9:45
    • Location: UA2.114 (Baudoux)
• Mark Wielaard (mjw)
  • Talk title: fortification vs memcheck (Making gcc/glibc fortification and valgrind memcheck work better together)
    • Track: Valgrind devroom
    • Date/Time: Saturday, 13:30-14:30
    • Location: AW1.124
  • Talk title: Valgrind BoF and Hackathon (Open discussion of ideas for Valgrind – and then we hack!)
    • Track: Valgrind devroom
    • Date/Time: Saturday, 17:30-19:00
    • Location: AW1.124
• Daiki Ueno (ueno)
  • Talk title: Smart card forwarding
    • Track: Security devroom
    • Date/Time: Sunday, 14:00-14:25
    • Location: H.1308 (Rolin)
• Peter Czanik (czanik)
  • Talk title: Scaling your logging infrastructure (using syslog-ng)
    • Track: Lightning Talks
    • Date/Time: Saturday, 17:20-17:35
    • Location: H.2215 (Ferrer)
  • Talk title: Get the most out of your security logs (using syslog-ng)
    • Track: Security devroom
    • Date/Time: Sunday, 16:00-16:25
    • Location: H.1308 (Rolin)
• Martin Sivák (msivak)
  • Talk title: VM: Hey VM, can I share a host with you? (Affinity rules in a virtual cluster)
    • Track: Virtualisation and IaaS devroom
    • Date/Time: Saturday, 17:00-17:40
    • Location: UB2.252A (Lameere)
• Emmanuel Seyman (eseyman)
  • Talk title: Schema (Database Documentation Through Introspection)
    • Track: Perl devroom
    • Date/Time: Sunday, 9:05-9:25
    • Location: K.4.201
• Ratnadeep Debnath (rtnpro)
  • Talk title: Taking containers from development to production
    • Track: Linux Containers and Microservices devroom
    • Date/Time: UA2.220 (Guillissen)
    • Location: Sunday, 9:50-10:35
• Nikolai Kondrashov (nkondras)
  • Talk title: User Session Recording for the Enterprise (An Open-Source Effort by Red Hat)
    • Track: Miscellaneous
    • Date/Time: Sunday, 16:00-16:50
    • Location: K.1.105 (La Fontaine)
• Brian Proffitt (bkp)
  • Talk title: Mentoring 101 (How to be a great community mentor)
    • Track: Community devroom
    • Date/Time: Sunday, 11:20-11:55
    • Location: AW1.124
• Josh Berkus (jberkus)
  • Talk title: Kubernetes 101 (Orchestration doesn’t have to be difficult)
    • Track: Linux Containers and Microservices devroom
    • Date/Time: Sunday, 9:00-9:50
    • Location: UA2.220 (Guillissen)

Come find us!

There’s a large diversity in the number of talks being offered by various Fedora speakers. Be sure to check out and visit their talks during the weekend!