Event postponed due to COVID-19
Community Day
The foss-north community day is a day of community activities taking place on March 29.
We have invited a number of projects to Gothenburg and provided them with venues. Now it is up to you to visit them and explore!
This day is free of charge, but we would be happy if you could RSVP this meetup for us to know how many your are. Some of the projects also require you register your participation. See the descriptions below for more information.
Notice that you do need to get one for the rest of the conference. Get your's here!
Please notice that the list below is tentative!
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Projects
The Ansible Contributor Summit has been partially cancelled due to COVID-19. There will be hacking sessions. Please refer to the links above for more information.
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Welcome to the badge hacking workshop!
We've created an unofficial conference badge for foss-north with a ESP32 micro controller that have WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, some battery and blinkenlights.
The workshop will consist of three parts:
* The Badge - Walk through of the hardware
* FreeRTOS - A jump start in how to use a RTOS
* Freestyle - Solder on random fun stuff on your badge and make it interact
* The Badge - Walk through of the hardware
* FreeRTOS - A jump start in how to use a RTOS
* Freestyle - Solder on random fun stuff on your badge and make it interact
Requirements:
* Light programming skills
* A laptop with any OS installed
* Light programming skills
* A laptop with any OS installed
There are 15 spots available on the workshop, and it's free - but registration is required.
The workshop runs from 12:00 to 16:00
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We'll have a Bug Squashing Party in Gothenburg (Sweden) on Sunday March 29, organized as part of Foss-North's Community Day. The event will be held at Viktoriahuset, courtesy of the Inbyggd Frihet project, close to the old town.
Even if you're not a Debian Developer or Maintainer yet (but are otherwise interested in fixing bugs and helping Debian) please don't hesitate to attend; there will be enough people around to sponsor uploads and/or offer advice.
Please use the wiki for registration and further information about the venue.
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Welcome to the FreeBSD Community day!
This day is for anyone who is intereseted in the FreeBSD operating system or any offshoots, such as pfSense or FreeNAS.
During the day, you will get to learn more about FreeBSD and the FreeBSD project, and how to get involved. There will also be an opportunity to try it out yourself.
This event is open for anyone, no prior knowledge or skills are required.
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(CANCELLED) An introduction to GNOME community, the projects we are developing now and the areas that people with no technical background can contribute to. After the introduction we will have the newcomers workshop, which is for developers who want to participate in coding GNOME’s apps.This workshop requires a bit of object oriented programming and git skills.
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Welcome to the Ingrid workshop!
Project Ingrid is an IT-calendar for all of Sweden. Find out about hackathons, upcoming conferences, meetups, call for papers and much more.
Any programming language! You can contribute in any programming language, design, frontend, backend, spelling mistakes - there's something for everyone to contribute to!
If you want to do this now then get in touch with Victoria at victoria@46elks.com and she can help you learn how to work with GIT and how to make a pull request. If you ask, Victoria will create a tutorial that you can follow along remotely.
You can ask Victoria about:
- GIT basics
- git init
- git add
- git commit
- git pull
- git push
And also some next level git knowledge that is very useful for making pull requests to open source:
- git branch
- git merge
- squashing commits
- amending commit message
- setting author
- rebasing
- creating a pull request
- how to add an item to the IT-calendar
Requirements: Open minded mindset and a friendly attitude towards others.
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The KDE community and technologies it uses, from translation to coding to design. We have a handful of topics, and we'll see what gets the most interest. Afterwards we'll sit down with a drink and talk KDE things in general. To participate, you'll need a laptop or mobile device.
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The event will start at 16.00. We are still working on the program, and hopefully there will be a number of interesting speakers! We'll start the first meeting with a RISC-V overview! The venue and agenda is still to be settled. Please watch this space for updates!
If you have a RISC-V topic you want to present, don't hesitate to reach out! Got a board you'd like demo? Bring it!
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