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FOSDEM 2023 - Sovereign Cloud DevRoom

Felix Kronlage-Dammers February 01, 2023

FOSDEM 2023 is only a few nights away! This upcoming weekend, February 4th and 5th, the 2023 edition of FOSDEM is happening in Brussels, Belgium. FOSDEM is the largest gathering of open source developers and is free to attend. Aside from the main conference tracks the conference is mainly about all the devrooms dedicated to individual subjects and/or communities.

Together with the fine colleagues from Operate First we organize the Sovereign Cloud devroom. The Sovereign Cloud devroom will happen on Saturday in Room Cornil - Building H, Room 1301. Thanks to many good submissions there is a nice schedule. From the SCS project there are two talks:

After a welcome by Thorsten from Operate First and me, our colleague Max will talk about how we created a Documentation Framework that works across a group of vendors in the sovereign cloud stack community. In the afternoon Kurt will elaborate on digital sovereignty and how Open Source Software helps to achieve it. I’m actually very happy that among the submissions there were quite a few from friends around us, such as

and Peter Zaitsev that will answer the question wether Open Source is coming to a cloud near you.

There are numerous other devrooms that touch topics that are relevant to the SCS community - to be honest, basically all of them do, so this is just an excerpt. ;)

If you now have the urge to develop FOMO, no worries: All the talks will be recorded and available for later consumption!

If you come to FOSDEM and want to meet for coffee, beer or food: be sure to reach out! Some of us will be heading to the OpenInfra Meetup on Saturday evening, so if you don’t have the time during the day, that will be a good place to catch us.

About the author

Felix Kronlage-Dammers
Felix has been building (open source) IT Infrastructure since the late 90s - during high school he helped build and run an ISP specialized in providing UUCP over ssh. Between then and now felix has always been active in various open source development communities (from DarwinPorts, OpenDarwin to OpenBSD and nowadays the Sovereign Cloud Stack). His interests range from monitoring and observability over infrastructure-as-code to building and scaling communities and companies. A technician at heart he enjoys enabling others to do awesome stuff. He is part of the extended board of the OSBA and describes himself as an unix/open source nerd. If not working, doing OSS for fun and (non-)profit or spending time with his family, he is usually found on a road bike.