In just over a week's time, Collaborans will be heading to Brussels to take part in this year's edition of FOSDEM, a two-day event organised by volunteers to promote the widespread use of free and open source software. Widely recognized as the best and biggest conference of its kind in Europe, this year's edition is also extra special as it marks the first time Collabora joins the ranks of sponsors!

Furthermore, Collaborans will be giving over a dozen talks over the weekend, on a wide variety of topics: from introductions to Flatpak and kmemleak to managing build infrastructure of a Debian derivative and modern tools to debug GStreamer.

You'll be able to hear them speak in the main track, but also in 7 different developer rooms, including embedded, mobile and automotive, package management, graphics, open media, debugging tools, distributions, and hardware enablement. See below are the details for each presentation.

If you are planning on attending FOSDEM, please do come say hello, or drop by the job corner to check out our current opportunities!

See you in Brussels!

Collabora @ FOSDEM 2018

Main track

• "Running Android on the Mainline Graphics Stack" by Robert Foss – Sunday, 11:00 CET.

Package Management developer room

• "Open Build Service in Debian" by Andrew Lee – Saturday, 12:00 CET
• "Introduction to Flatpak" by Simon McVittie – Saturday, 12:30 CET

Graphics developer room

• "A pixel format guide to the galaxy" by Alexandros Frantzis – Saturday, 12:50 CET

Open Media developer room

• "Update on GStreamer for Embedded Devices" by Olivier Crête – Saturday, 13:30 CET
• "Modern tools to debug GStreamer applications" by Guillaume Desmottes – Saturday, 14:00 CET
• "Technical overview of an FM radio station based on open source and DIY" by George Kiagiadakis – Saturday, 17:30 CET

Debugging Tools developer room

• "Introduction to kmemleak" by Thierry Escande – Saturday, 15:40 CET

Embedded, Mobile and Automotive developer room

• "GStreamer for tiny devices" by Olivier Crête – Saturday, 18:30 CET

Distributions developer room

• "Managing build infrastructure of a Debian derivative" by Andrew Shadura – Sunday, 9:00 CET
• "Flatpak and your distribution" by Simon McVittie – Sunday, 13:00 CET

Hardware Enablement developer room

• "Mainline Linux on Motorola Droid 4" by Sebastian Reichel – Sunday, 10:30 CET
• "Booting it successfully for the first time with mainline" by Enric Balletbò i Serra – Sunday, 11:30 CET