After a quick overview of the semantic web landscape, we'll look into a practical application of Linked Data in the public sector: the Joinup platform of the European Commission.
Joinup makes use of Linked Data to harvest information from various sources into a knowledge base. We'll have a look at the various components that we needed to build (all Open Source) to make the CMS system (Drupal) 'Linked Data enabled'.
We'll look at the technical problems that needed to be solved and the solutions we came up with, as well as a the opportunities that this technology can bring to the CMS world.

• Speaker: Sander Van Dooren
• Track: Collaborative Information and Content Management Applications
• Room: AW1.120
• When: Saturday 1 February 2020, 10:30–10:55 (Brussels time)
• Schedule: FOSDEM 2020 event page

Slides & links

• CMS - Linked Data (slides)

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Belgium (CC BY 2.0 BE) (as stated in the FOSDEM video archive).

Attribution: “Building a distributed knowledge base with a Linked Data powered CMS” by Sander Van Dooren, FOSDEM 2020.

Original recording: 2020/AW1.120/cms_linked_data_knowledge_base.webm from the FOSDEM video archive. This channel is an unofficial mirror; FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community.

Today's Linux kernel and the ones from the early FOSDEM days still have some things in common, but in the end are totally different beasts. This talk will take a closer look at how the Linux kernel and its development during those twenty years evolved and adapted to new expectations.

The talk will thus mention some of the changes to the Linux kernel that had the most impact in those two decades; many might have seemed small or insignificant in the beginning, but turned out to pave the path for ground breaking techniques like Android, Cloud or Containers we all deal with today. The speaker will also take a closer look at how Linux kernel development itself changed during those twenty years, but also cover aspects that didn't change much – like the email driver development model, which in the days of Github and Gitlab might look anarchic and from the Middle Ages to some. The speaker also will step on thin ice and speculate a few minutes what the future might hold, as there are a few strong indicators that Linux is entering a new era and slowly but steady get more aspects of a microkernel.

• Speaker: Thorsten Leemhuis
• Track: Keynotes
• Room: Janson
• When: Saturday 1 February 2020, 10:00–10:50 (Brussels time)
• Schedule: FOSDEM 2020 event page

Slides & links

• Solving big problems in small steps for more than two decades (slides)

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Belgium (CC BY 2.0 BE) (as stated in the FOSDEM video archive).

Attribution: “The Linux Kernel: We have to finish this thing one day 😉” by Thorsten Leemhuis, FOSDEM 2020.

Original recording: 2020/Janson/linux_kernel.webm from the FOSDEM video archive. This channel is an unofficial mirror; FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community.

Free and Open Source software has revolutionized the Software Industry and nearly all other areas of human endeavor, but until now its reach into actual governance at the municipal citizen level has not been very deep. Initiatives like Code for America have encountered challenges driving acceptance for FOSS alternatives to proprietary software for citizen governance. At the same time the gap between citizen need and cities’ capabilities as widened. But several new projects are aiming to change this state of affairs to help empower citizens and improve municipal services worldwide through adoption of FOSS. Learn about these efforts and how you can get involved.

• Speaker: Danese Cooper
• Track: Community and Ethics
• Room: K.1.105 (La Fontaine)
• When: Saturday 1 February 2020, 10:00–10:50 (Brussels time)
• Schedule: FOSDEM 2020 event page

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Belgium (CC BY 2.0 BE) (as stated in the FOSDEM video archive).

Attribution: “How FOSS could revolutionize municipal government” by Danese Cooper, FOSDEM 2020.

Original recording: 2020/K.1.105/municipal_government.webm from the FOSDEM video archive. This channel is an unofficial mirror; FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community.

Welcome to FOSDEM 2020!

• Speaker: FOSDEM Staff
• Track: Keynotes
• Room: Janson
• When: Saturday 1 February 2020, 09:30–09:55 (Brussels time)
• Schedule: FOSDEM 2020 event page

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Belgium (CC BY 2.0 BE) (as stated in the FOSDEM video archive).

Attribution: “Welcome to FOSDEM 2020” by FOSDEM Staff, FOSDEM 2020.

Original recording: 2020/Janson/keynotes_welcome.webm from the FOSDEM video archive. This channel is an unofficial mirror; FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community.