{"id":206,"date":"2015-03-02T18:12:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T17:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/ltilve\/?p=206"},"modified":"2015-03-02T18:13:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T17:13:51","slug":"fosdem-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/ltilve\/2015\/03\/02\/fosdem-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Fosdem 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/ltilve\/files\/2015\/03\/brussels.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-227\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/ltilve\/files\/2015\/03\/brussels-580x78.jpg\" alt=\"brussels\" width=\"580\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/ltilve\/files\/2015\/03\/brussels-580x78.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/ltilve\/files\/2015\/03\/brussels-940x127.jpg 940w, https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/ltilve\/files\/2015\/03\/brussels-500x67.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/ltilve\/files\/2015\/03\/brussels.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a good excuse as any other to retake the\u00a0blog back to life.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a long, long time since I was\u00a0writing here last time, and I have been\u00a0doing quite different things since then. As part of\u00a0the\u00a0Igalia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.igalia.com\/webkit\/\">browsers\u00a0team<\/a>, I have been working on WebKit related projects (mostly\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.webkitgtk.org\/\">WebKitGTK+<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.gnome.org\/epiphany\/\">Epiphany<\/a>), contributing on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chromium.org\/\">Chromium<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chromium.org\/blink\">Blink<\/a>,\u00a0and dealing\u00a0with the coverage\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/w3c.github.io\/media-source\/\">Media Source Extensions<\/a>\u00a0specification.<\/p>\n<p>Now going\u00a0back to the reason for this post, it was my first year both at <a href=\"https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2015\/\">FOSDEM<\/a> and Brussels. I had an idea about the size of the event, but it was indeed quite impressive.<\/p>\n<p>This year we had four talks from igalians there, sharing the state\u00a0on a few things that some\u00a0our teams have been working on. In this case,\u00a0we were talking about OpenGL\u00a0conformance validation, on our improvements\u00a0on performance and testing with\u00a0Pflua, and the progress\u00a0on LibreOffice for Android.<\/p>\n<p>In particular the Igalia\u00a0talks at FOSDEM 2015 were the following ones:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"High-performance packet filtering with Pflua\" href=\"https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2015\/schedule\/event\/packet_filtering_pflua\/\">High-performance packet filtering with Pflua<\/a>\u00a0by Andy Wingo<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Property-based testing an open-source compiler, pflua\" href=\"https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2015\/schedule\/event\/property_based_testing\/\">Property-based testing an open-source compiler, pflua<\/a>\u00a0by Katerina Barone-Adesi<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"How to test OpenGL drivers using Free Software\" href=\"https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2015\/schedule\/event\/gl_testing\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to test OpenGL drivers using Free Software<\/a>\u00a0by Samuel Iglesias<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"A vision about a LibreOffice document manager for Android\" href=\"https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2015\/schedule\/event\/editors_android_vision\/\" target=\"_blank\">A vision about a LibreOffice document manager for Android<\/a>\u00a0by Jacobo Aragunde<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The four of them\u00a0were really cool, and they had a lot of people attending to (well\u00a0done mates \ud83d\ude00 )<\/p>\n<p>Also, after digesting the FOSDEM huge schedule, my plan was to get the most out of the profiling and multimedia related tracks, and a few\u00a0other talks that were calling my attention.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On top of my colleagues\u00a0presentations, and a part of the introductory talk by Karen Sandler, I could attend\u00a0to\u00a0<a title=\"Valgrind Integration in the Eclipse IDE\" href=\"https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2015\/schedule\/event\/valgrind_eclipse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Valgrind Integration in the Eclipse IDE<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0<a title=\"What is wrong with Operating Systems\" href=\"https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2015\/schedule\/event\/what_is_wrong_with_operating_systems\/\">What is wrong with Operating Systems<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Tuning Valgrind for your Workload\" href=\"https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2015\/schedule\/event\/valgrind_tuning\/\">Tuning Valgrind for your Workload<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"GStreamer in the living room and in outer space\" href=\"https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2015\/schedule\/event\/gstreamer\/\" target=\"_blank\">GStreamer in the living room and in outer space<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"How to start hacking on Valgrind by example\" href=\"https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2015\/schedule\/event\/valgrind_easy_hack\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to start hacking on Valgrind by example<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"How to record all TV. Creating a 30 channel DVR\" href=\"https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2015\/schedule\/event\/diy_dvr\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to record all TV. Creating a 30 channel DVR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There were\u00a0some useful\u00a0tricks at\u00a0the Valgrind track and\u00a0a nice\u00a0overview on GStreamer portability.\u00a0It was also curious\u00a0finding\u00a0RMS at the\u00a0exhibition\u00a0area.\u00a0After a long conference day, it was\u00a0Delirium Tremens time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My schedule\u00a0for the Sunday was\u00a0<a title=\"Ubuntu on phones and beyond\" href=\"https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2015\/schedule\/event\/ubuntu_on_phones_and_beyond\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ubuntu on phones and beyond<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Mobile == Web\" href=\"https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2015\/schedule\/event\/mobile_web\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mobile == Web<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Kodi mediacenter (XBMC) past, present and future\" href=\"https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2015\/schedule\/event\/kodi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kodi mediacenter (XBMC) past, present and future<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"It\u2019s not a bug, it\u2019s an environment problem\" href=\"https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2015\/schedule\/event\/its_not_a_bug_its_an_environment_problem\/\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s not a bug, it\u2019s an environment problem<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Servo (the parallel web browser) and YOU!\" href=\"https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2015\/schedule\/event\/servo_and_you\/\" target=\"_blank\">Servo (the parallel web browser) and YOU!<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Living on Mars: A Beginner's Guide\" href=\"https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2015\/schedule\/event\/living_on_mars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Living on Mars: A Beginner&#8217;s Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I found particularly interesting the one\u00a0from Stormy Peters on how limited the understanding of the web is going to be for the next new billion users due to the devices used for it. I had also planned to attend to the one by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fosdem.org\/2015\/schedule\/speaker\/habib_virji\/\">Habib Virji<\/a>\u00a0(who I knew at the <a href=\"http:\/\/webbengineshackfest.org\">2014 Web Engines Hackfest<\/a>) but is talk on Web Security was full.<\/p>\n<p>It was also curious the closing keynote on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mars-one.com\/\">Mars One<\/a> project. It\u00a0would\u00a0be fun if they manage to solve the (apparently still quite complex) open problems and this\u00a0generation can\u00a0witness a Mars colony.<\/p>\n<p>To conclude, I think I\u00a0probably rushed\u00a0too much to get myself into an excessive amount of\u00a0talks for 2 days, but it was great in any case to get info and fresh updates on the state of a lot of projects, meet\u00a0some old friends, and breath\u00a0some (literally) fresh air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a good excuse as any other to retake the\u00a0blog back to life. It has been a long, long time since I was\u00a0writing here last time, and I have been\u00a0doing quite different things since then. As part of\u00a0the\u00a0Igalia browsers\u00a0team, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/ltilve\/2015\/03\/02\/fosdem-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,6],"tags":[30,11],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fosdem","category-planet","tag-brussels","tag-free-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/ltilve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/ltilve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/ltilve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/ltilve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/ltilve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/ltilve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/ltilve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/ltilve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/ltilve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/ltilve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}