FOSDEM 2010 - part 2 #

The event itself featured 306 talks - so pretty hard to choose what to watch on two days. This time, not only the main tracks were awesome, but also several dev rooms featured very interesting talks by well known FOSS developers.

Saturday started with a FOSDEM birthday dance done by all attendees. The first keynote speaker Brooks Davis explained his experiences promoting open source methods at a large company. After that Richard Clayton gave an amazing talk on the evil on the internet. He explained not only how phishing works on a technical level but also included an explanation of the economics behind these attacks, explained how the money flow from victims to attackers works.

On the afternoon Bernard Li gave an introduction to the cluster monitoring tool Ganglia. Directly after that Lindsay Holmwood gave an overview of the monitoring and notification tools flapjack and cucumber-nagios.

The evening was filled with the speakers dinner. Thanks for the organisers for providing that. We had a really nice evening together with some of the organisers, Andrew Tanenbaum and Elena Reshetova at our table.