first edition of the SDR devroom at fosdem ?
Hi, A small quesion about the history of FOSDEM. Perhaps somebody can help me. I have been asked to write a rapport on the infobooth we had at FOSDEM 2018. I'm now gathering background some more background information on FOSDEM itself. Does anybody know when was the the first edition of the SDR devroom at fosdem? The first time I attended FOSDEM and the SDR devroom was (I think) in 2014, but I have no idea how long it already existed. It is correct to say that -at first- FOSDEM was a pure "software" conference, and later grew into more not-pure-software subjects too (SDR, open harware, hardware developer tools, GEOspacial, ..)? I guess this change probably happened gradually but I would be nice to have a rought idea when this happened? Thanks! :-) Kr. Bonne
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The archives (https://archive.fosdem.org) seem to suggest 2014 was the first year with a SDR devroom. On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 at 09:07 Kristoff <kristoff@skypro.be> wrote:
Hi,
A small quesion about the history of FOSDEM. Perhaps somebody can help me.
I have been asked to write a rapport on the infobooth we had at FOSDEM 2018. I'm now gathering background some more background information on FOSDEM itself.
Does anybody know when was the the first edition of the SDR devroom at fosdem? The first time I attended FOSDEM and the SDR devroom was (I think) in 2014, but I have no idea how long it already existed.
It is correct to say that -at first- FOSDEM was a pure "software" conference, and later grew into more not-pure-software subjects too (SDR, open harware, hardware developer tools, GEOspacial, ..)?
I guess this change probably happened gradually but I would be nice to have a rought idea when this happened?
Thanks! :-)
Kr. Bonne
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Dear I have been there since the first, much smaller edition on campus plaine. I've not been able to attend every year though but many. Have you setup a pad that we could collaboratively edit to help you? Regards Nicolas -- Nicolas Pettiaux, Ph.D Aess EMM Tel +32 496 24 55 01- HE2B ESI ULB Envoyé de mon téléphone portable. Veuillez excuser ma brièveté.
Nicolas (Frank, Les, Claus), That all for your replies. (I'll try not to spam the mailing-list to much so I'll to reply one single mail). Well, the report is about the ham-radio infobooth that was in the AW building, explaining why we did where there. Most people outside the IT-world equate "open source" (if they know the term at all :-) ) with computer programs. So I need to explain What an amateur radio-organisation is doing in (what they think) a conference that deals with computers. The point I want to make in the rapport is that the open-source culture thesedays also include quite a number of other fields; some of them (hardware, electronics, RF, SDR, electroncs-design software, ...) quite related to ham-radio. Based on the information provided by Frank and Les, it looks like "embedded" has been part of FOSDEM for actually quite early on, with the SDR devroom added 4 years ago. (I should check on the "CAD" devroom). Thanks all for the help. Cheerio! Kr. Bonne. On 08-02-18 09:59, Nicolas Pettiaux wrote:
Dear
I have been there since the first, much smaller edition on campus plaine. I've not been able to attend every year though but many.
Have you setup a pad that we could collaboratively edit to help you?
Regards
Nicolas -- Nicolas Pettiaux, Ph.D Aess EMM Tel +32 496 24 55 01- HE2B ESI ULB Envoyé de mon téléphone portable. Veuillez excuser ma brièveté.
On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 09:07:10AM +0100, Kristoff wrote:
Hi,
It is correct to say that -at first- FOSDEM was a pure "software" conference, and later grew into more not-pure-software subjects too (SDR, open harware, hardware developer tools, GEOspacial, ..)?
I'm not sure what you mean by "pure software" here. If geospatial and hardware developer tools aren't, what about e.g. hardware drivers?
I guess this change probably happened gradually but I would be nice to have a rought idea when this happened?
It's definitely true that FOSDEM changed over the years. It started (as OSDEM, first change!) with three rooms after all. Back in the "old" days there weren't any rooms dedicated to hardware (I suspect partly because there weren't that many rooms to go round, and partly because of open hardware popularity in general, at least my impression of that) but you can find things like "Quantum computing" on https://archive.fosdem.org/2001/program/index.html , https://archive.fosdem.org/2008/schedule/events/embedded_robot.html , https://archive.fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/reprap.html , and https://archive.fosdem.org/2004/2004/index/dev_room_embedded.html (there are others, I just had a quick look) I think someone else has already pointed it out, but most of the old schedules are still available on fosdem.org if you want to have a detailed look. Frank
Thanks! :-)
Kr. Bonne
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participants (5)
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Claus R. Wickinghoff -
Frank Gevaerts -
Kristoff -
Les De Ridder -
Nicolas Pettiaux