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A brief introduction to the Bergen Open Source Conference, including some practical information about the evening.

In light of todays weakened trust in the "tech giants" and the focus on privacy and security, we will explore an alternative to the "spin it up in {Insert cloud provider here}" solution. In this talk, we will take a look at various open source tools and software that can be used to build a competitive hosting platform. Do we have to give up the advantages that AWS/Azure/Google Cloud provide? Are there specific benefits to using open source? Is this only relevant for large companies with their own DevOps teams? These are questions we will attempt to answer.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that enables AI assistants to connect to external resources, thereby expanding their context and functionality. MCP gives developers great flexibility in how they can set up their assistants. The presentation addresses a specific chatbot problem that illustrates the limitations of traditional, isolated language models, and provides a practical solution using MCP.

Food break

tl;dr; A talk/rant/beer in hand talk about my experience with frontend, from the 90s to today For over 24 years I have played, enjoyed and gotten grey hairs doing frontend. I share my experiences around this, all the good and bad stuff. This talk is also to summarize where we come from within frontend development, and where we are heading. So if you are into some frontend nostalgia, this talk is for you

Large language models are trained on vast amounts of data, much of which is sourced from the internet. When it comes to source code, the main sources for such training data are large code repositories such as GitHub and GitLab, where most of the code is licensed under open source software licenses. Such licenses generally permit the use of the code for training artificial intelligence and for making the code available as output from AI models. However, this is conditional on the user accepting the license and complying with its terms, for example by crediting contributors or by licensing further modifications under equivalent terms (copyleft).

Organizations that use open source software in production face the same requirements for personal data security as any other. This presentation highlights what we can learn from actual breaches of personal data security, and how the General Data Protection Regulation sets the framework for safe use.

December 12, 2027 is too late. That's the day after the EU's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) has come fully into effect. If you are a supplier of a “product with digital elements,” you must have complete oversight of and insight into all components and dependencies it contains. Otherwise, you are not qualified to deliver your product in the EU. But if, as a software developer, you can answer “yes” when asked: “Do you know what your code does? I mean, do you know everything the code you write does?” you are already well on your way. This presentation shows how to move from being a coder to becoming a code engineer, and provides insight into the practical use of the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), the key tool for delivering with insight and quality.

Thank you for attending the Bergen Open Source Conference!

We hope you had a nice evening and liked this years iteration of the conference :)