Videos are online

We are glad to announce, that the videos from FOSS Aalborg 2008 are available at:

http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/blivklogere/foss_aalborg/2008/

The videos are encoded in h264, and should be streamable from a 2 Mb/s connection.
Please notice that the resolution of the videos is rather high (1920x1080), Depending on your monitors screen resolution you may want to downscale it a bit or go into full screen mode. Unfortunately we had som problems with the recordings of Peter Hansteens Talk. Therefore, for now, only the first half is available.

Thank you for a good conference. If you are interested in helping to organise next year's conference, please send an e-mail to staff@foss-aalborg.dk.

When & where

The FOSS-Aalborg takes place: 

Wednesday June 4th 2008, from 8.00 to 18.00.

Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre
Europaplads 4
9000 Aalborg
www.akkc.dk

See it on a map (findvej.dk).

Transportation:

Arrival by train or bus:
Go to the tunnel below the train station (the stairs are on the platform) and go to the direction away from the station building. Go through the park and turn right, and the conference centre is on your right hand side. (You can see where to walk on this map.)

Arrival by car:
Parking is plentiful at the conference centre.

Programme

Unfortunately Dan Klein could not make it to the conference, but we have found another speaker and rearranged the program a bit.
8.00
8.40
 Arrival
Arrival and registration. There will be served coffee, tee and rolls.
8.45
9.00
 Welcome and presentation
A short introduction to the conference and the program is presented.
9.00






9.45
 Bryan Østergaard - A linux distribution is born
Open source software and linux distributions in particular are rarely very innovative. In this talk you'll hear about a new, primarily danish, linux distribution that's trying to change that. We'll take a short look at the reasons for starting this project, how the project is managed and finally a deeper look at how we make it easier to control services as well as the bootup and shutdown process.
Bryan Østergaard works as a developer on financial applications and spends the evenings as an active open source developer and a member of the board of SSLUG.
10.00





10.45
 Peter N. M. Hansteen - Effective spam and malware countermeasures
In most networks, spam and malware are constant annoyances. This talk is about studying miscreants' behavior (yes, you will see some actual empirical data) and using free tools to turn it against them. In the process we build a better network and rediscover how to have fun while doing it.
Peter N. M. Hansteen is a consultant, sysadmin and writer, who wrote The Book of PF about his favorite firewall solution.
11.00







11.45
 Troels L. Bentsen - The software development process with open source tools
Through the years of open source development, a number of software projects have developed tools for aiding and improving the development process of their software. Much of this software, can be applied in general, to software development processes, to improve quality and productivity. This talk will look at some of the most widely used tools, from SCM systems (Subversion, Git, etc.), issue tracking (Redmine, Trac), automated testing and other tools that aid the development process.
Troels is a student/consultant with at keen interest in software development processes based on Open Source tools.
12.00 




12.45
 Martin von Haller Grønbæk - Legal aspects of reverse engineering
When are you allowed to reverse engineer a protocol, a piece of software or hardware, and how may you use the obtained knowledge? Martin tries to clarify the aspects of reverse engineering from a legal point of view.
Martin is a lawyer at the law firm Bender von Haller Dragsted, and has specialized in IT and open source.
12.45

13.40
 Lunch
A delicious lunch buffet at restaurant Papegøjehaven.
The lunch is included in the admittance fee.
13.45




14.30
 Knut Yrvin - Cross platform development
If you want to develop applications for multiple platforms, resources can be spared by using QT. QT is a cross-platform application development framework and can be used for both development of GUI programs and non-GUI programs such as console tools and servers.
Knut is community manager at Trolltech.
14.45




15.30
 Ole Tange - Dealing with free software licenses in a software developing company
When developing software free software offers you some advantages. However, if you want to mix software under different licenses, you will have to be careful: Some licenses are not compatible and some licenses requires modifications to be distributed under the same license. We will have a look at different licenses and see what they offer.
Ole Tange is a developer at Ange Optimization.
15.30

 Coffee break
There will be served coffee, tee and cake.
16.00



16.45
 Poul-Henning Kamp - Efficient programming for modern computers
In the last decade, fundamental properties of computers, has changes drastically, however the mindset of programmers in general has not. People are still programming computer based on assumptions that no longer hold for modern computers.
Poul-Henning is danish core developer of the FreeBSD project.
17.00





17.45
 Rasmus Lerdorf - Open source collaboration
PHP is among the most widely used scripting languages for dynamic web pages. It has spawned numerous companies around the world, that base their entire business on PHP for web hosting. Rasmus will talk about the collaboration that has let to this incredible success.
Rasmus is infrastructure architect at Yahoo, and the creator of the PHP programming language.

Sign up

You can sign up at the sign up pages (last sign up date: 1/6):
If you are a member of IDA: Sign up page (ida.dk) .
If you are a member of PROSA: Sign up page (prosa.dk) .

If you are not a member of either IDA or PROSA, that is not a problem, the price then 900 dkr. You may also register by just sending an e-mail to Helle: hek@ida.dk (Please include the following information in your e-mail. For each person: Name, company (if any), address, e-mail and phone number.). NB: IDA has support for EAN (electronic invoice).

Prices:
Members of IDA or PROSA:   600 dkr.
Student members of IDA or PROSA: 200 dkr.
Eksternal student*: 200 dkr.
Non-members of IDA or PROSA:  900 dkr.


The price includes a lunch buffet from 12.45 - 13.40.
A total of 300 tickets are for sale, with a maximum of 100 student tickets.
Tickets will also be sold June 4th at the entrance, however, we can not guarantee that this will include lunch buffet.

*) External students are students that are not able to join IDA or PROSA. External student tickets are sold by IDA.

If you have problems with the sign up pages, or have any questions, please contact us at staff@foss-aalborg.dk.



Conference map

Overview of the konference area.

The conference is held at Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre (hall: Europahallen). A map of Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre is located here.

Sign up for the FOSS Aalborg conference here.

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