What did we see?

Below you will find a list of the presentations I attended, with a link to the summary of the talk and the video(once they’re finished rendering them).

Saturday

• State of Go
  • Great talk by Maartje Eyskens about what is going on in the Golang language.
• The inner workings of Go Generics
  • Very interesting presentation about a former java programmer about how generics eventually made it into Golang.
• To Mine Or Not To Mine - Training of (Generative) AI Models under the TDM Exception in EU Copyright Laws
  • A very hot topic currently, who owns the data of AI?
• Panel: When is an AI system free/open?
  • On the same note, can we apply OSI definitions?
• Building the next generation of Cloud Native Database
  • Nice explanation of TiDB, and a call to participating.
• Reusing PostgreSQL codebase in a Distributed SQL Architecture (YugabyteDB)
  • Nice overview of how you reuse parts of an existing codebase(which really works fine already).
• Debian bof
  • Had a nice peek in the community and how they do things.

Sunday

• Introducing FUKI, guest firmware in a UKI for confidential cloud deployments
  • Not something I have been working with as of late, but I know firmware. 🙃
• Hunting Virtio Specification Violations
  • Someone has to check things, this talk explains how to do it professionally.
• Confidential VMs on public clouds and on-premise: a long way towards zero trust
  • I haven’t see a usecase for this, but if you’re into security, it definitely is worth watching!
• Migrating from VMware to Kubernetes
  • This is important for one of my customers.
• Opendesk and beyond: building the Eurostack
• A tale of several distros joining forces for a common goal: reproducible builds
  • Very interesting explanation on the state of reproducible builds for distros as Debian, Arch.
• The Road to EPEL 10
  • Normally I just use the EPEL repo’s, but there is more to it!
• Where in the OSS Supply Chain do SBOM attributes come from?
  • In this presentation (where I finally met someone I know) it was explained how some (mostly regulators) overthink/overload the SBOM spec.
• Lobbying the EU
  • Not a technical talk, but a quick walkthrough how to approach lobbying