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Niclas Nilsson has been interviewed

Niclas Nilsson who’s talking about Agile and Scrum at FSCONS has been interviewed.


Interview: Johan Eklund and Tham Wickenberg

Interview with Tham Wickenberg and Johan Eklund of Primekey for the upcoming FSCONS 08 andtheir presentation: Secure communications with Open Source PKI

For a little background, can you describe the general topic of your presentation and tell us what is new in the last few months?

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Submitted by hesa on Fri, 10/17/2008 - 08:50

13 nominated for Nordic Free Software Award

13 people/projects have been nominated for the Nordic Free Software Award.

The winner will be presented October 25 at FSCONS.

The nomiations are:

  • Daniel Stenberg
  • Kristinehamn Kommune
  • Simon Josefsson
  • The EJBCA Project
  • Inge Wallin
  • IT-Political Association
  • Imendio
  • Patrik Wallström
  • Mats Östling
  • Daniel Nylander
  • Andreas Nilsson
  • Erik Josefsson
  • Heidi Grande Røys

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Submitted by hesa on Mon, 10/13/2008 - 10:27

Secure communications with Open Source PKI

PKI used to be reserved to 'Big Corp' and '.gov', but the open source tools have matured over the years and are now available for everyone.

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Submitted by hesa on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 11:27

Fredrik Jonsson interview on Ubuntu deployment

Fredrik, Jonsson who's presenting Ubuntu Deployment for Your Enterprise at FSCONS has been interviewed .

Ubuntu and Debian have a very tight relationship, probably more tightly than any other Debian based distribution has upstream

Ubuntu is a community driven distribution, no doubts about th

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Submitted by hesa on Mon, 10/06/2008 - 22:10

Interview: Magnus Hagander

Hagander, Magnus who is giving the presentation about PostgreSQL at FSCONS has been interviewed


Jeremiah Foster interviewed

We just finished the interview with Jeremiah C Foster .

Jeremiah speaks about Perl, Debian, Ubuntu, rpms, debs, his "favorite speakers to have a ts FSCONS " and tons of other stuff.


SOTD: The End of Free Communications?

Oscar Swartz teams up with the other speakers at FSCONS. Oscar will give a speech called The End of Free Communications?

I discuss initiatives to curtail free communications. I put the development in a broader cultural context where I see the Internet as undermining old authorities and hierarchies. The established powers respond by waging unwinnable wars against imagined enemies and ill-defined groups: "terrorists", "pirates" and "pedophiles".

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Submitted by hesa on Fri, 09/26/2008 - 11:44

SOTD: Squeezing the Evil out of the Music Industry

John Buckman is coming over to FSCONS to give a talk, Squeezing the Evil out of the Music Industry (how we should rethink record labels by using CC licensing)

John will talk about new models for music & the music business, which hinge on open licensing, transparency, and the new ways that music is actually consumed & shared

John Buckman is founder of Magnatune, a Berkeley, California-based record label he founded in 2003 and w

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Submitted by hesa on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 10:03

SOTD: Open Street Map

Inge Wallin is coming to FSCONS to speak about KDE and Open Street Map. Today we're focusing on the Open Street Map presentation.

The talk about OpenStreetMap (OSM) is an introduction to the subject of free maps in general and the OpenStreetMaps in particular. OpenStreetMap has in a very short time come up as one of the largest providers of free content anywhere.

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Submitted by hesa on Wed, 09/24/2008 - 14:05

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