Exhibitors
These projects and companies will be present with a booth and are eager to get in touch with you.
AK - Vorrat
The Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung (German Working Group on Data Retention) is an association of civil rights campaigners, data protection activists and Internet users. The Arbeitskreis coordinates a campaign against the introduction of data retention in Germany.
Arch Hurd
Arch Hurd is a derivative work of Arch Linux porting it to the GNU Hurd system with packages optimised for the i686 architecture. Our goal is to provide an Arch-like user environment (BSD-style init scripts, i686-optimised packages, use of the pacman package manager, rolling-release, and a KISS set up) on the Hurd which is stable enough for use, if not as a primary OS, at least as something to consider as a dual-boot option.
Aptosid
aptosid is an operating system based on the Linux kernel and the GNU project, with applications/programs from Debian unstable/sid and we hold fast to the core values and social contract of Debian.
aptosid is made up of 2 words, Firstly apto which is a Latin word which means to fit, adapt, adjust, make ready, or fit. The second word is sid and is the codename of Debian's unstable branch.
Arch Linux
A linux distribution which keeps its technological simple and puts the user in control.
Bistrecode
BistreCode s.r.o. was created with the goal to provide quality Linux Deployment Solutions needed in the wide Linux ecosystem. Our goal is to provide a unified view into the GNU/Linux world for our customers and simplify deployment and support of their products and services.
Bundesweit Informatiknachwuchs fördern (BWINF)
The initiative „Bundesweit Informatiknachwuchs fördern“ (BWINF) aims to spark young people's interest in informatics, to find and promote young talents in this area.The initiative is addressed at kids, teenagers and young adults who are interested in programming and computer science. BWINF helps them to learn more about informatics and experience it as an exciting and fascinating subject. The projects „Informatik-Biber“ and „Einstieg Informatik“ offer an age-oriented access to informatics, in part without previous knowledge. The core of BWINF is "Bundeswettbewerb Informatik" (German National Competition in Informatics); young talents who are seeking for new challenges are invited to take part and measure up to others. The best ones will get the opportunity to take part in the International Olymiad in Informatics.
Booking.com
Booking.com is a part of Priceline.com (Nasdaq:PCLN) World's #1 Online
Hotel Reservations Company attracting over 30 million unique visitors every
month and offering 135,000+ hotels worldwide. We use MySQL, Perl, Python,
Puppet, Apache, Memcache, Git, Linux & more! International, result driven,
fun & dynamic work environment based in Amsterdam, NL. Join us!
Bytemine
CACert/German Privacy Foundation e.V/secure-u e.V.
CAcert.ORG - E-mail and SSL certificates for everyone
CAcert.org is a community driven, Certificate Authority that issues certificates to
the public at large for free. These certificates make it possible for you to protect your Weberver with HTTPS, Signing and encoding your e-mails with s/MIME digitally to proof your identity against others.You are therefore no longer dependent on self-signed certificates. The certificates are both for private and for organizations usable and always free. Interested parties can create at www.CAcert.org an account; name, password and a valid electronic mail address are the only thing wich is necessary. Now the person can be verified (assured) to proof his or her Identity to others. At the "Assurance" is the presentation of at least a valid transparency-card (e.g. driver's license, The identity card or passport) necessary, this one has to be shown at the stand of "Assurers" being checked and verified. At check having been carried out gets the users' points which reflect his trustworthiness. One a trustworthy user can certificates on the CAcert web site himself points to other users exhibit and additional over a "web of trust" allocating. See also wiki.cacert.org/wiki/FAQ/AssuranceByCAP if you want to be well prepared.
Further information also under www.cacert.org or in our News-blog under http://blog.cacert.org
The protection of personal privacy is paramount. In an an environment of increased communications surveillance, the right to, and the protection of, personal privacy must be available. The personal liberties in the digital world must be defended. The right to communicate without restrictions is a basic human right, the right to control one's personal data, including anonymity, a cornerstone of data protection. Everybody has the right to freely decide, what he or she is willing to disclose about themselves. Within the framework of laws and other peoples rights, everyone is able to control one's personal data by using the veil of anonymity, especially while accessing the Internet.
The non-profit German Privacy Foundation informs about secure ommunications on the Internet as well as organizes and supports informational and educational campaigns for adults and teenagers. The GPF is at disposal to answer requests in regards to cryptology (especially encryption of email) and anonymity on the Internet (tor-server, Java Anon Proxy, anonymous re-mailer). Furthermore in the Internet the foundation is running several anonymization servers for free usage.
Members of the board as well as ordinary members are obligated to communicate organizational matters only via encrypted (protected from eavesdropping) mail. We don't just talk about data protection, we practice what we preach. We cherish close cooperation with journalists and civil liberties organizations in order to achieve a better understanding of "Internet Security" in the media.
CentOS
CentOS is an Enterprise Linux distribution based on the freely available sources from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Each CentOS version is supported for 7 years (by means of security updates). A new CentOS version is released every 2 years and each CentOS version is periodically updated (roughly every 6 months) to support newer hardware. This results in a secure, low-maintenance, reliable, predictable and reproducible Linux environment.
Chicken Scheme
Chicken is a compiler for the Scheme programming language. It produces portable, efficient C, supports almost all of the R5RS Scheme language standard (soon R7RS), and includes many enhancements and extensions. The community maintains a comprehensive and steadily growing collection of libraries (eggs). Chicken runs on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, and many Unix flavours.
Cologne Intelligence
Dante e.V.
Dante, the "Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX e.V.", was founded in 1989 in Heidelberg. The goal of this society is to take care of and do consulting for German-speaking TeX users. Dante supports and coordinates developments in TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, LuaTeX, Metafont, BibTeX, ... nationally and internationally
coreboot
coreboot, the blazing fast opensource x86/x86_64 BIOS/EFI replacement, is coming to a system near you. Learn about coreboot, how you can benefit from it and watch a live demo showing 0,5 seconds from poweron to Linux.
Debian
Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux.
Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 29000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.
DLR
Eventphone
Again this year, Eventphone is going to support our communication infrastructure. exhibitors, speakers, project members, helper crew and visitors can register their personal number with Eventphone. All you need is a DECT-compliant phone.
Fedora
Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that always includes the latest and greatest free and open source software. It is free to use, modify and distribute. Fedora is developed by people around the globe that and work together as a community: The Fedora Project. The Fedora Project is open and everybody is invited to support it.
flashrom
flashrom is the open source utility of choice to identify, read, write, verify and erase flash EEPROM chips.
flashrom is commonly used to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware from a running Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris, Mac OS X or DOS, but it also has the ability to reflash graphics cards, SATA controllers, network cards and one game console. A wide variety of external programmers is supported as well, from ultra-cheap homemade setups to high end commercial machines. Hotflashing and crossflashing complete the feature set.
FreeBSD
The BSD most widespread on personal computers is FreeBSD. It has the best hardware support and is the most optimised for the i386 (x32) and AMD64 (or Intel64) architecture. It has the most features and focuses most on ease-of-use. It also has the largest Ports Collection, with more than 22.000 applications available. FreeBSD does not consider itself a pure server operating system anymore. It now has much better desktop support, with significant improvements in sound and graphics capability, USB, Firewire and WLAN support, helping users from Windows and Linux with graphical user interfaces. FreeBSD supports a lot of platforms, including AMD64, EM64T, Alpha, Itanium (ia64), PowerPC (Apple), SPARC64 etc. FreeBSD is the most widespread BSD with the largest user base and most committers and has very good SMP support. Today a project has emerged especially for desktop users: PC-BSD, giving users an easy way to install, configure and update their systems. There are other projects based on FreeBSD for firewalling (m0nowall and pfsense) and NAs (FreeNAS) FreeBSD is used for a lot of servers in companies and enjoys much support from well-known companies like Dell, Yahoo!, Juniper and others.
Freifunk KBU
Freifunk Cologne, Bonn and surrounding area is a free wireless Projet from the region, which tries to revive free wireless networks on current software.
FreeSWITCH
FreeSWITCH is an open Telephony System that allows you to create a SoftSwitch, an advanced IVR System, a PBX and more applications for Voice, Video and other media. FreeSWITCH can be a Daemon, a Library called by 3rd Party Apps, a remotely controlled Telephony Server, a Media Server, a SS7 Gateway, an ISDn Mediaswitch or a Call Router.
FSFE
Free Software Foundation Europe is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the furthering of Free Software, and works to promote freedom in emerging digital society.
GUUG
The German Unix User Group, founded in 1984, is a non-profit organization for professional system and network administrators, security experts and system programmers which prefer to use a Unix operating system.
HJR GmbH
i3
i3 is an improved dynamic tiling window manager. Key features of i3 are good support of multi-monitor setups (workspaces are assigned to virtual screens, i3 does the right thing when attaching new monitors), XRandR support, horizontal and vertical columns (think of a table) in tiling. Also, special focus is on writing clean, readable and well documented code. i3 uses XCB for asynchronous communication with X11, and has several measures to be very fast.
Icinga
Icinga is an enterprise grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch over a network and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries, and generates performance data for reporting. Scalable and extensible, Icinga can monitor complex, large environments across dispersed locations.
Far beyond a simple fork of Nagios, Icinga supports PostgreSQL and Oracle alongside MySQL while offering a flexible architecture based on a REST, web and plugin APIs for easier extension. Top it off with the most user-friendly and customisable web interface and you have Icinga - open source monitoring at the next level.
invis server
invis servers are a server solution for small and micro enterprises based on openSUSE distribution. They offer comprehensive services in terms of office communications, network organization and data management - from DHCP to ERP. They are characterized by ease of use and administration. The project aims to micro and small businesses with the opportunity, administrative activities, such as network integration of new PCs or printers even perform as well as
to provide IT services to a system for simple manufacturing of complete server appliances for the small business sector to the hand.
Linux New Media
LPI e.V.
Mageia.org
Mageia is a fork of the 'Mandriva Linux' distribution founded in september 2010 due to the uncertain future of Mandriva S.A.
Mageia released its first stable version in June 2011.
Mageia is a community project without any commercial background. The goal of the project is to provide a distribution that is easy to use for the beginner but does give the advanced user or developer everything he needs for his daily work.
Mandriva User
MandrivaUser.de is the German community platform for users of the 'Mandriva Linux' distribution.
Next to the forum - the core of MandrivaUser.de - the projecz provides a wiki, a package repository and Magdiva, a magazine in pdf format, published several times a year.
MirBSD
MirOS BSD is a free operating system from the BSD family.
openITCOCKPIT
openITCOCKPIT is a new open source project for umbrella management, system and application monitoring. openITCOCKPIT's roots stem from large-scale system management projects at SEAT, Puma, Bundesversicherungsamt, Deutsche BKK and others. In June 2010, project initiator it-novum gave openITCOCKPIT to the community under GPLv2. openITCOCKPIT is based on Nagios and integrates many other open source tools.
The open source philosophy behind openITCOCKPIT makes all sorts of monitoring scenarios possible. Both agent-based as well as agentless monitoring is supported. Based on a distributed monitoring approach and bi-directional communication between master and slave systems, checks can be performed via multiple management servers. openITCOCKPIT can not only distribute system checks over multiple nodes; its multi-layer strategy also allows for an alternative architecture, differentiating between monitoring, aggregation, middleware and presentation layers.
openITCOCKPIT makes use of a graphical interface, the management console. It is written in PHP, providing easy access to all data and data analyses. Graphs, visualizations and color codes help identify problems, failures or trends at an early stage.
All network components, systems and services which are based on manufacturer standards are supported. openITCOCKPIT makes it possible to monitor complete IT environments: from the company headquarters to the branch offices, from the infrastructure level deep down into individual applications.
Open Source Press
Open Source Press is a computer book publisher based in Munich, Germany. The company specialises on high-quality publications on topics related to open-source software and philosophy. It was founded in 2003.
OpenSUSE
openSUSE is a free and Linux-based operating system for your PC, Laptop or Server. You can surf the web, manage your e-mails and photos, do office work, play videos or music and have a lot of fun!
OTRS.org
OTRS.org is the independent community behind the widespread open source ticket system OTRS. This software makes it possible to record, handle and document requests efficiently and structured in a team. In the community users support each other in configuration and customization and influence the further development of OTRS.
Perl
Perl is a great programming language that provides flexibility, power and a great community to the programmers. The language is used in many areas - system administration, simple desktop applications and big websites.
Plone
Plone is a powerful, flexible Content Management
solution that is easy to install, use and extend
Plone lets non-technical people create and maintain information using
only a web browser. Perfect for web sites or intranets, Plone offers
superior security without sacrificing extensibility or ease of use.
Plone is among the top 2% of all open source projects worldwide, with 200 core developers and more than 300 solution providers in 57 countries. The project has been actively developed since 2001, is available in more than 40 languages, and has the best security track record of any major CMS.
It is owned by the Plone Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, and is available for all major operating systems.
Sources: CVE and Ohloh.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness. It runs on all major operating systems, including Linux, UNIX (AIX, BSD, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, Tru64), and Windows. It is fully ACID compliant, has full support for foreign keys, joins, views, triggers, and stored procedures (in multiple languages). It includes most SQL:2008 data types, including INTEGER, NUMERIC, BOOLEAN, CHAR, VARCHAR, DATE, INTERVAL, and TIMESTAMP. It also supports storage of binary large objects, including pictures, sounds, or video. It has native programming interfaces for C/C++, Java, .Net, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, ODBC, among others, and exceptional documentation.
An enterprise class database, PostgreSQL boasts sophisticated features such as Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC), point in time recovery, tablespaces, asynchronous replication, nested transactions (savepoints), online/hot backups, a sophisticated query planner/optimizer, and write ahead logging for fault tolerance. It supports international character sets, multibyte character encodings, Unicode, and it is locale-aware for sorting, case-sensitivity, and formatting. It is highly scalable both in the sheer quantity of data it can manage and in the number of concurrent users it can accommodate. There are active PostgreSQL systems in production environments that manage in excess of 4 terabytes of data. Some general PostgreSQL limits are included in the table below.
sidux e.V,
Ever since it's foundation the association sidux e.V. has been dedicated to the promotion of free and open source software. With our activities we strive to foster the understanding und support for free and open source software in the general public, politics and legislation.
We are operating on a national as well as international level. The cooperation and networking with institutions and organization advancing the same goals plays a prominent role in our daily work. We would not only like to advocate the cooperation with the various projects on the FrOSCon but also to enter into cooperation with those projects.
We are looking forward to interesting discussions with all participants of the FrOSCon.
pyCologne
The Python User Group Cologne (pyCologne) is a group of Python enenthusiastics from the Cologne-Bonn-Düsseldorf area. In the regular monthly meetings, information about all aspects of Python are shared with talks, discussions, and direct help on problems.
At FrOSCon, members of pyCologne will introduce Python to all interested attendees. They can learn Python with a short tutorial and small examples. Attendees will get information about advantages and disatvantes of Python, about Python-based applications, and hints for further sources of information.
Nokia Qt Development Frameworks
Sidux e.V,
Ever since it's foundation the association sidux e.V. has been dedicated to the promotion of free and open source software. With our activities we strive to foster the understanding und support for free and open source software in the general public, politics and legislation.
We are operating on a national as well as international level. The cooperation and networking with institutions and organization advancing the same goals plays a prominent role in our daily work. We would not only like to advocate the cooperation with the various projects on the FrOSCon but also to enter into cooperation with those projects.
We are looking forward to interesting discussions with all participants of the FrOSCon.
Skolelinux/FSuB
subtle
A grid-based manual tiling window manager with a strong focus on easy but customizable look and feel.
Terrashop
tarent
Triagens
Tine2.0
Tine 2.0 is an webbased Groupware and CRM solution which focuses on stability and usability. Tine 2.0 provides following applications: Addressbook, Calendar, Email, Tasks, CRM and Timetracker. Different mobile phones(for example iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, Nokia) can synchronize contacts and events directly with Tine 2.0.
TroLUG
Troisdorfer Linux User Group
UnifiedSessionsManager
The UnifiedSessionsManager provides a seamless and simplified
interface for the application and administration of heterogeneous
IT landscapes. The combination of various heterogeneous physical
and virtual systems and operations systems is supported.
Particularly the seamless application of personal work environments
in private and - beginning with 06-07/2011 - public cloud services
is provided.
Xfce
Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.
