File:Music with Linux, FrOSCon 2007.jpg Music with Linux at FrOSCon 2007 The FrOSCon (Free and Open Source CONference) is an annual conference organized by the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences and the FrOSCon e.V. The FrOSCon features a variety of lectures and workshops on free and open source software . The event takes place regularly at the end of August since 2006. It is considered one of the largest events of this kind in Europe and the largest in Germany , with the Chemnitz Linux Days being second.
A large range of speakers are part of the scene. Organizational work is done solely by volunteers. Since 2014, the FrOSCon e.V. decided not to charge anything for admission.
File:Froscon 2010 picutre 3.jpg Lightshow at FrOSCon 2010 The FrOSCon has covered a wide array of topics over the years.
Year
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2025
Clouds over Europe - Digital Sovereignty and broken promises
When the autopilot fails - Risks and side effects of AI
Does it Matter? - Smart Home in 2025
Retro-Computing - VAXination becoming cool again
Reproducible Papers - Open Source in science
Better Websites for Everybody - European Accessibility Act
2024
Bridging the Gap between politics and reality - Open Source Lobbying
Security
In Rust we trust - Memory safe languages
Culture
2023
Development
Security
Web Development
Open your Windows for a breeze of fresh air - Open Source in public administration
2022
Development
If you don't schedule time for maintenance, your system will schedule it for you - everyone needs a break sometimes
Culture
System Administration
2021
This FrOSCon was online on video calls due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Wood work instead of IT? - Leisure activities you developed during lock down
Home-Office365 (-days later) - Lessons learned in the 1st year working from home
LPI-Day
Development
2020
This FrOSCon was online on video calls due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Working (together) in spite of Corona - Lessons learned on the journey to working from home
Clouds on the horizon - What happens when there's no space left in the cloud
Privacy vs. pandemic response - Who's protecting our data from the virus
Databases
2019
Software Defined Anything
IOT - The S stands for security
Network and Automation Track
Security
2018
Blessed by the algorithm
FrOSCon meets Science
there's a Tux in your window
The crossroads of privacy
2017
"Coexisting with Bots" – Why can't we just be friends?
"The Rise of Machine Learning" – You Only Learn Once
"Are you still migrating or have you started working?" – Change in tempo in Open Source development
"The golden years are over" – Software-Designpatterns in 2017
2016
FrOSCon meets Science
Getting to the source
Internet of Things
Putting Open Data on the map
2015
A decade of Free and Open Source Software
Cloud
New Kids On The Net
Open Source to go
2014
Open Source Culture
Monitoring
State of the Init
Virtualisation
