LI_S02E70_SFSCon

This episode is all about SFSCon, one of those hidden FLOSS conference jewels located in northern Italy, in a German-speaking enclave known as South Tyrol. Simon Phipps of OSI-fame and Patrick Ohnewein will give you (and us) the lowdown on this long-standing and popular FLOSS format.

Links

• Open Source Initiative @ Linux Inlaws (S02E42): https://archive.org/details/hpr3459
• SFSCon: https://www.sfscon.it
• NOI Tech Park: https://noi.bz.it/en
• Last year's hackathon: https://hackathon.bz.it/edition/november-2025
• LLM & EU: https://openeurollm.eu
• Simon's extracurricular activities (some of them): https://www.stan4cra.eu/etsi-tc-cyber
• Zendis stack: (German initiative)
• LaSuite (French initiative): https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/france-phases-out-proprietary-operating-systems-workstations
• EU's tech sovereignty package: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-tech-sovereignty
• EU's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA): https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cyber-resilience-act
• Collabora comic: https://www.collaboraonline.com/torf/torf1/
• Openwashing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openwashing