User:Ciampix/SFSCON

South Tyrol Free Software Conference (SFSCON) is a conference about Free Software held each autumn in Bolzano, Italy.

SFSCON has grown over the years and now attracts more than a thousand participants and more than a hundred speakers every year to meet and share knowledge about Software Freedom.

This annual conference dedicated to Free Software is aimed at the general public, but in particular at decision-makers in companies, start-ups and research organizations. SFSCON promotes the use of Free Software in IT infrastructures "as a tool to achieve greater innovation and competitiveness".(ref?)

The conference is also a meeting place for experts, end users and all those interested in Free Software, offering participants the opportunity to share best practice and to get to know the latest innovations in the field.

Conference history

The conference was founded in 2001 by the of the local Linux User Group LUGBZ.(ref?) Since 2005 SFSCON has been jointly organised and promoted by LugBz and the TIS innovation park in Bolzano, now NOI Techpark.(ref?)

From 2004 onwards the Linux User Group Bozen-Bolzano-Bulsan (LUGBZ) has been presenting the “South Tyrol Free Software Award” (SFS Award) at SFSCON.(ref?)

Starting from 2023, for the Award, LUGBZ has been joined by the Free Software Foundation Europe.(ref?)

South Tyrol Free Software Award

Since the SFSCON edition in 2004 an award is given every year to a person who has supported the use of FLOSS in the region and since 2023 in Europe.

Winners

• European SFS Award 2023 - Frank Karlitschek
• SFS Award 2022 - Rosella Gennari
• SFS Award 2021 - Diego Maniacco
• SFS Award 2020 - Davide Montesin
• SFS Award 2019 - Piergiorgio Cemin and Marco Marinello
• SFS Award 2018 - Paolo Dongilli
• SFS Award 2017 - Dietrich Pescoller and Reinhold Pescoller
• SFS Award 2016 - Patrick Ohnewein
• SFS Award 2015 - Markus Windegger
• SFS Award 2014 - Erwin Pfeifer
• SFS Award 2013 - Christian Peer
• SFS Award 2012 - Alessandro Sani
• SFS Award 2011 - Paolo Zilotti
• SFS Award 2010 - Christian Mair
• SFS Award 2009 - Karl Lunger
• SFS Award 2008 - Raphael Vallazza
• SFS Award 2007 - Hellmuth Ladurner
• SFS Award 2006 - Anton Auer
• SFS Award 2005 - Maurizio Cachia
• SFS Award 2004 - Hugo Leiter

Consult the dedicated page on SFSCON site.

External links

• Official website sfscon.it

• IA e cybersecurity sono i protagonisti della SFSCON 2023, Hardware Upgrade, 2023

• Nextcloud-CEO Frank Karlitschek ausgezeichnet, Heise, 2023

• Frank Karlitschek erhält den europäischen SFS-Preis, Linux-Magazin, 2023

• SFSCON 2021: INTERVISTA A DAVIDE RICCI DI HUAWEI, 2021

• Der Open-Source-Großangriff, [http://Golem.de golem.de, 2021]

• "SFSCON 2019, Bolzano capitale europea del Free Software con 1000 partecipanti" [Over 1,000 participants: Bolzano capital of free software] (Press release) (in Italian). Il Sole 24 Ore. 15 November 2019.

• Press mentions