BEST Patras: Διημερίδα Τεχνολογίας στο Πανεπιστήμιο Πάτρας

Το BEST Πάτρας είναι ένας από τους πιο εντυπωσιακά οργανωμένους πανευρωπαϊκούς συλλόγους φοιτητών. Ο σύλλογος είναι μη κερδοσκοπικός, μη πολιτικός και εθελοντικός οργανισμός με μέλη 64 πανεπιστήμια της Ευρώπης.

Οι δραστηριότητες του συλλόγου έχουν ως στόχο, μεταξύ άλλων, τη γνωριμία και την προώθηση της συνεργασίας μεταξύ των φοιτητών στα Πολυτεχνεία της Ευρώπης, και περιλαμβάνουν ανταλλαγές φοιτητών, σεμινάρια, πολιτιστικές και τεχνολογικές εκδηλώσεις, και πολλά άλλα πράγματα, τα οποία σίγουρα δε με φτάνει ένα blog post να τα γράψω όλα.

Short summary and photos: Athens Digital Week 2008

I just came back from “Athens Digital Week 2008” and finished uploading some of the pictures I took while in Athens:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/athensdigitalweek

The talks at “Technopolis” were amazing. There were people coming and going all the time; I am very glad I saw many of the “usual gang“; the talks about security and wireless networking were quite intriguing; and our own talks seem to have attracted quite a few questions about free software, open source, the way Linux and the BSDs work, and so on.

Athens Digital Week 2008

From: keramida
Subject: Athens Digital Week 2008
References: http://www.athensdigitalweek.gr/

Everything is ready, so I’m going to leave for Athens to attend the “Athens Digital Week 2008” event tomorrow. Two short presentations have been prepared, and sent to the organizers. I am not sure if we will have a lot of time to present both of them, but we can definitely try.

The topics of the short talks and their accompanying presentation material are:

• “The FreeBSD Project”
• “The Greek FreeBSD Documentation Team”

What is absolutely amazing though is that two out of three of the current Greek FreeBSD Committer population are going to be there. Manolis is probably too far to reach us in time for the event, but prof. Diomidis Spinellis and me will be there. Yay!

Interesting times ahead for FreeBSD

Ed Schouten’s MPSAFE-tty layer is now in the main tree of FreeBSD, but it i only one of the active projects which run in parallel. The excellent news is that the MPSAFE-tty layer brings down by one the count of kernel subsystems that require the big Giant lock for running within the threaded FreeBSD kernel. There are only a few more, i.e. the USB stack. Removing the requirement for Giant from some of the remaining Giant-dependent subsystems is already part of ongoing work.

Fedora 9 release party at Patras

Dimitris and his Fedora friends are organizing a release party for Fedora 9 today (Saturday, May 17 2008).

FOSSCOMM finished, keramida pleased :)

As I promised at Last afternoon’s post from the FOSSCOMM presentation room, here’s a short write up of the , relatively short, but good times we had in NTUA this weekend.

After a bit of a late session at work on Friday, I managed to get about 3-4 hours of sleep at about 02:00am. At about 06:30 I left Patras, and after an uneventful trip I arrived at the FOSSCOMM room at about 13:30 (travelling by bus is, apparently, not very time-efficient).

USENIX conference proceedings freely available

Wonderful news!

http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/

Many thanks to all the people behind this move :-)

FOSSCOMM (GR)

FOSSCOMM(GR) has been announced.

The 1st Free Software and Open Source Software conference, is the offspring of earlier efforts (as very aptly pointed out by Asteris). What is unique about this conference is that it is more centered around getting Greek FS/OSS teams and developers to get acquainted with each other.