An impression of FOSDEM 2014

Sunday evening, 19:30, leaving Brussels by train, heading home.
48 hours earlier I arrived here for FOSDEM : another amazing weekend of Open Source, sharing knowledge, meeting people, getting new ideas, geekiness, and well, also a bit of beer.

Opening talk of FOSDEM 2014

With more than 500 talks and presentations spread over 2 days in 22 rooms held at the ULB in Brussels, with 5-10 thousand visitors, it is impossible to attend and see everything. Luckily, thanks to an amazing team of origanisers and volunteers everything went smoothly and all talks are recorded and the videos will be available soon.

Some highlights, some inspiration and some ideas to work on :

• There is a need for a Europe based umbrella org (fiscal sponsor).
• Drop support for IPv4, time to switch to IPv6 : start convincing your employer, ISP, school, ... and support IPv6 Only Day
• Use LanguageTool to check grammar of (translatable) strings in software.
• Sensors in Android
• Autoscaling best pratices 
• Memory Tuning Android for Low-RAM Devices
• The history of testing and quality control tools for PHP code by the author of phpUnit : 'Writing tests for your code makes you write better testable code.'
• F-droid : an open source app market for Android
• Governing an Open Source organisation based on Do-ocracy : if you want to get something done, do it.
• XPCC : an object oriented framework embedded controllers
• Making the Linux Kernel better (without coding) : On how to help increasing the number of supported USB devices in the linux kernel by linking USB IDs to the correct driver
• ...