Agenda 2018
BelFOSS – Friday 16th March 2018
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Registration | |
| 09:30 – 09:40 | Welcome | |
| 09:40 – 10.15 | From the Cathedral to the Bizarre: Microsoft’s Open Source Journey | Martin Woodward (Microsoft) |
| 10:15 – 10:40 | The Ballad of Farset Labs | Andrew Bolster (Farset Labs) |
| 10:40 – 11:10 | Why 20 Year Old Linux Skills Still Matter | Andrew Mallet (The Urban Penguin) |
| 11:10 – 11:25 | Tea/Coffee | |
| 11:25 – 11:50 | OBIG: The Story of Project Lintol | Phil Weir & Rebecca Martin (OBIG) |
| 11:50 – 12:20 | “Come for the Tools, stay for the people” Building a Makerspace in a University |
John Bustard (QUB) |
| 12:20 – 12:40 | PiNet – A project that was never intended to be… | Andrew Mulholland (QUB Student) |
| 12:40 – 13:10 | FOSS; swipe right or left? | Aislinn McBride (Kainos) |
| 13:10 – 13:40 | Lunch | |
| 13:40 – 14:00 | The Nim Programming Language | Dominik Picheta (QUB Student) |
| 14:00 – 14.20 | Marketing your Open Source Project to Increase Contribution | Heather McNamee (Open Strategy Partners) |
| 14:20 – 14:50 | Big Data with Hadoop, Kafka & Druid | Ioseph O Loingsigh (SpotX) Jen Hanratty (SpotX) Ronan Bradley (SpotX) |
| 14:50 – 15:10 | Docker for DevOps: Containerising the Pipeline | Paul Mayne (Philips Healthcare) |
| 15:10 – 15:20 | Comfort Break | |
| 15:20 – 15:40 | Accelerating the Web, Intro to WebAssembly using Rust | Chris Nixon (Flexera) |
| 15:40 – 16:10 | Node.js – It’s just Javascript ! | Diarmaid McGowan (Allstate) |
| 16:10 – 16:40 | Panel Discussion | |
| 16:40 – 16:45 | Summary & Close |