This year we will organize the familiar event again. The edition is the 20th in a row, and the dates are October 15 and 16. Circumstances at the moment include introduction of partial covid measures and a dose of uncertainty about the future, but we will hold OpenFest 2022 live at Sofia Tech Park, John Atanasov Forum.

This year we will organize the familiar event again. The edition is the 20th in a row, and the dates are October 15 and 16. Circumstances at the moment include introduction of partial covid measures and a dose of uncertainty about the future, but we will hold OpenFest 2022 live at Sofia Tech Park, John Atanasov Forum.

OpenFest is a conference that covers a wide range of topics related to open culture – free software, open source, open hardware, open data, but also topics from the IT world and the impact of digitization on society and people’s lives. The event itself has an open spirit and everyone is welcome to propose and participate with their topic.

Come to the workshops and lecture streams (we plan to have at least two). If you are interested in attending the event, but will not be able to do so, it will be webcast again.

And in case that you wish to:

• participate as a speaker
• hold a workshop
• present a project
• help as a volunteer
• or present another cool idea that is not listed above,

you can register at https://cfp.openfest.org.

We are happy with receiving diversified proposals and look forward to realizing them in the colorful autumn.

Applications are accepted until September 1, 2022.

Here are the rules:

1. You need to provide some information for identification so you can join and they will shower you with bananas… оr prizes.

2. Hit the Start button and begin reading the text on the screen as quickly and as precisely as you can.

3. Then something cool happens! Banafo’s very own machine learning model is momentarily captioning your reading and turning it into text.

You all get to grab a little something for your hard work and if you are good enough of a reader – you will qualify for the top 10. The best reader will leave Maimunarnika riding the Banafo big prize – e-scooter!

During the two conference days of OpenFest 2021 DataArt will organize online contest on its own platform for testing technical knowledge Skillotron (https://skillotron.com/).

The participant with the highest score in the contest will get a gift voucher for Technomarket to the amount of 150 BGN.

In order to participate in the contest, please follow the steps:

1. Register/log in at Skillotron https://skillotron.com/

2. Go to Contests tab in the header.

3. Enter the promo code „openfest“.

4. Pass contest quizzes and get as much points as you can.

If you have any questions, please visit DataArt’s booth at the event.

Good luck!

https://www.hackerrank.com/openfest-contest

Sofia, August 9

In the mid of summer, on August 14 and 15 (Saturday and Sunday), Sofia will host the 19th edition of the event for open culture and free software – OpenFest, which will be held this year in “Maymunarnika” club, Borisova gradina park. The start is at 10:00. on Saturday, and the program continues with lectures and a discussion part until 7:30 PM, and after them informal cocktails are organized on both days so that you can meet and communicate with other visitors. Admission is free, the maximum capacity for visitors of the open space will be observed.

OpenFest is known as the first native event on topics such as open source, open hardware, open data, free and open source software. This one-of-a-kind forum brings together both IT professionals and activists, academics and independent consultants. There is no age limit, and given the venue, this year’s event will be more accessible than ever even for parents with children.

Guests of the event will be representatives of the State Agency for Electronic Government, who will acquaint everyone with the status of open data initiatives under European law and how they are implemented in Bulgaria. Petko Marinov will present a native development of a medical device – a personal ECG monitor – created on the basis of open hardware and software. The founder of the first shared workspace in Bansko, Matthias Zeitler will share views on the sustainability of open source projects over time. Borislav Mihailov and Haralan Dobrev will talk about the implementation and challenges of the project “You Count”, which was created with open source technologies and conducted in the spirit of joint work.

After the lectures on Saturday night there will be a screening of short films and introduction to digital video art to the sounds of funk and jazz DJ sets. On Sunday evening, after the end of the program, there will be an official closing of the event, the mood of which will be taken care of by the group Dandorendo. The full program for the two days is already known and can be viewed at openfest.org/program.

“Given the complicated situation at the moment, we believe that Borisova gradina park is the most suitable meeting place, although atypical for technology conferences”, said the organizers. “Maymunarnika” club offers natural tree shades and cold drinks, and in view of the summer time the organizers will provide free drinking water for all visitors with the support of Pure Water. The first three hundred visitors each morning will receive a compliment – a free coffee drink from the bar.

Those who are unable to attend the event will be able to watch the live lectures via OpenFest website. A team of volunteers takes care of the broadcasting, as well as the conference as a whole.

In 2020, the company created an engineering hub in Bulgaria, which continues to grow at a rapid pace, and the focus of its employees is the development of revolutionary open source solutions. Apart from software engineers, SUSE Bulgaria also hires people in the Marketing and HR teams of the company on a global level.

Some of the innovative projects that SUSE is working on include:

• Rancher Desktop, Kubernetes on your desktop

• Harvester, Open source hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software.

• Kubewarden, Kubernetes admission control using WebAssembly (WASM).

• SLE BCI, Flexible developer environment tailored for modern containerized application development, CI / CD application containerization.

You can view the full list of the company’s projects here: suse-projects.github.io

The ethos of the open source community is deeply rooted in the company’s culture. SUSE values ​​cooperation, transparency, inclusion and diversity. The company constantly contributes, participates and creates innovations together with the open source communities.

For the second year in a row, SUSE supports OpenFest in Bulgaria, and the company’s team will be waiting for you at its stand during the event. There you will be able to learn more about the company, projects and open positions, as well as meet the local SUSE team.

In addition, in partnership with OpenSUSE Bulgaria, SUSE have prepared a challenging game for the participants of OpenFest – Treasure Hunt with 3 tracks dedicated to SUSE, OpenSUSE and SUSE Rancher, filled with interesting questions and of course many prizes.

Be sure to check out SUSE’s open positions in Bulgaria.

About StorPool Storage

StorPool Storage is a leading software provider that develops the most reliable and speedy storage platform on the market. Public and private cloud builders – Managed Services Providers, Hosting Services Providers, Cloud Services Providers, enterprises, and SaaS vendors – use StorPool Storage as the foundation for their clouds. StorPool converts sets of standard servers into primary storage arrays for large-scale cloud infrastructure. The software comes as an utterly hands-off solution –  they architect, deploy, tune, monitor, and maintain your StorPool Storage system so that your users experience a speedy and reliable service.

Despite the global pandemic, StorPool doesn’t stop growing. The company was named Software Defined Storage (SDS) Vendor of the Year at the 2020 Storage Awards.  The same year StorPool was recognized as a leading technology company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Central Europe 2020 program. In 2020, StorPool Storage announced over 70% YoY growth.

StorPool Storage on OpenFest 2021

StorPool Storage will once again support OpenFest and the open-source community and will join the event as a Gold sponsor. The company will have a speaker at the event: Boyan Krosnov, CPO and co-founder at StorPool Storage, who will present his talk “Linux High Performance IO”. Meet StorPool’s team at their booth on OpenFest 2021 and join the challenges they have prepared for you!.

Learn more about the tech game and what are the current open positions on StorPool’s Force Page. And may the force be with you!

StorPool is growing. Become a part of the star team!

As one of the few IT companies in Bulgaria that develop their own product, StorPool highly values ​​the creativity and high motivation of the people in the team. They are the reason for the success of the company and the high results that StorPool continues to achieve each year.

StorPool believes that every leading company is a product of exceptional people! They set their goals high, and they are looking for proactive people who think outside the box and would like to become a part of something special.

Become a part of StorPool’s rocket ship! Accept the challenge by sending a CV to force@storpool.com