Hi, As it’s traditional, here’s a short financial report from OpenFest 2015, with rounding: Total revenue: 28000 BGN From those: Sponsors – 18000 BGN Donations – 10000 BGN Total expenses: 36700 BGN from those: Venue – 13000 BGN Renting equipment (screens, projectors, cameras) – 4000 BGN Plane tickets and accommodation for speakers – 7500 BGN

Most of the recordings are now uploaded, in youtube and in our archive. We apologize about the delay and hope to be able to upload all of them soon. For everyone interested in the music through the event, we’ve uploaded the recordings from the intermissions in Bulgaria hall (youtube or va.ludost.net).

On 15.10.2015 the program committee of OpenFest 2015 gathered to discuss the propositions for lectures and workshops and to make the program. The committee had a diverse membership: Alexander Velin Boyan Krosnov Vasil Kolev Krasimir Tsonev (online, through an audio conference call) Leon Anavi Marian Marinov Petko Bordjukov Peter Sabev (in person until 23:30, through […]

In the last few days the site of OpenFest is accessible over https with certificates issued by letsencrypt. Petko from our team was in their beta program and registered us for participation. Letsencrypt is an initiative of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the goal of which is to give easy and free way for people to […]

In the current program of OpenFest there are two talks by Bozhidar Bozhanov: Electronic identification, about the expected smart-card chips in the personal IDs, which would be usable for electronic signatures and for on-line representation to the state, and On-line voting, for the expected idea for on-line voting. For the first talk the program committee […]

As the tradition dictates, most of the requests for talks come after the end of the deadline, as a lot of people have either forgotten or waited until the last possible moment, which is illustrated very well by this graph from last year (the deadline was the 30th of September, 2014): Because we see that […]

Some big changes happened in the last few months, and it’s time to tell you about them 🙂 As it’s traditional, OpenFest will take place in the first weekend of November, the dates are the 7th and the 8th, but the place is different. Last year it was evident that Interpred can’t fit all the […]