FrOSCon 2026 Free & Open Source Conference The “Free and Open Source Conference” (#FrOSCon) took place for the 21st time at the Bonn–Rhein–Sieg University of Applied Sciences with over 2,000 participants, 70 volunteers and 83 speakers. The topics covered at FrOSCon include free software, hardware, and open source. “We had a lot of fun again at the…
The year 2025 in spotlights The year is drawing to a close and it is time for us to look back with thankfulness and review the past year. 2025 was very eventful and we carried out numerous business, open source and social projects. We are delighted to have gained new clients and to be…
FrOSCon 2025 Free & Open Source Conference The “Free and Open Source Conference” (#FrOSCon) took place for the 20th time at the Bonn–Rhein–Sieg University of Applied Sciences with around 2,000 participants. The topics covered at FrOSCon include free software, hardware, and open source. Launching #FrOSCon 2025 in #SanktAugustin Vice President @h_bonnrheinsieg #Hochschule #Bonn #RheinSieg #Free #OpenSource #FOSS #OSS…
CAIML #35 Meetup Cologne The 35th community meetup of Cologne AI ML (CAIML) took place on March 18th at Publicis Sapient in downtown Cologne. We were pleased to welcome about 50 AI ML enthusiasts at the second CAIML meetup this year and to spend an evening full of interesting talks and inspiring discussions with…
Evening of Generative AI Language models, Haystack & brushstrokes Program A varied program with two exciting talks awaited us at the inovex office in Cologne. The first talk was about the development of applications using the Haystack framework, the ease and flexibility of integrating state-of-the-art language models into projects. The second presentation dealt playfully…
Future Skills for the DeepTech Industry ReDI School is a non-profit school for locals, newcomers and underprivileged communities without access to digital education. Thanks to the support of more than 500 volunteers each year, we empower tech-interested learners by providing them with free courses in different digital topics and supporting them through soft skills…
GitHub repositories We make our program codes and numerical simulation models (FEM, CFD) that we have developed over time available to the public in the sense of open source collaboration. We have also compiled the experimental measurements of our relevant scientific work as Open Data. | Open Source | Open Data | Open Access…
Chat with the Inventor of FORTH Charles H. Moore was our guest for our monthly Forth2020 Zoom meeting which was held on October 9, 2021. It was a great event and Charles was very generous with his time. He fielded questions about everything from inventing Forth in 1969 on the IBM 1130 through to…
PyTorch Opacus: Deep Learning with Differential Privacy CAIML #15 was an online meeting and took place on November 10. We had an excellent presentation by Kritika and a question & answer session, followed by an interactive networking session. Speaker Kritika Prakash – linkedin.com/in/kritika-prakash “A talk on how to train PyTorch models with differential privacy…
Real-time data-acquisition system realized with FORTH International Forth2020 meetings “Thanks to SVFIG members and FIGs chapters from all around the world we started this new way of communication in times of quarantine. Covering all the world, from Australia to California present now in 4 continents. Forthers are together for first time, showing what they…