Last year I was blown away as a #FOSDEM speaker about the speaker page/video infrastructure and how well it all works. This year I'm a co dev room manager and a Cfp reviewer... similarly blown away with how well it all works. Huge kudos to the team. #opensource

I'm in #Seoul for #FOSS For All; I had the honor of giving the opening keynote about #FOSDEM

I took this photo in the restroom of the university. It's a soap bar. You wet your hands, rub the soap, and wash your hands.

As you're standing in line to wash your hands, the act of getting soap looks exactly as you'd expect it to look like.

#traveltales #travelnotes

Generally, #IndiaFOSS impressed me. It was the right mix of chaos and organization; the crowd was very engaged.

I gave a talk about #FOSDEM and I had uncounted conversations about FOSDEM, OSS, and how to apply its principles afterwards.

I do start feeling like an old these days. I mentioned to someone that I was first in #India in 2006 and someone commented were like "yeah, he wasn't alive then". Brutal.

But good crowd.

#traveltales #thailand

* Gerry (#FOSDEM staff friend) and myself are rocking this without guide; seeing guides is both reassuring and annoying
* #Train ticket for one hour ride is 10 Baht or 0.27€
* There is no train bridge. We will get out, see about catching a ferry, and board a different train
* End stop is going to be Mae Klong. So we will see the railway market fold up and spread again every time a train passes. For the first run, we see it from the train

@hongminhee洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) @fosdem

Everything in #Fosdem has always been archived on #matrix,https://fosdem.org/2026/archives/. So, why not organise a live talk with the Fediverse's room at #fosdem26 ? And why not organise previously prepared communications available online for those who want it ?

The new @BoxyBSD platform gained some new features for a better #BSD experience!

* The new portal now also finally supports VNC access to your BSD based VPS instances!

* You can finally select ISO files which offers you even to install any BSD or #OpenSolaris version from scratch or to install your VPS instance based on your personal needs without relying on a ready2use image. More images can be added upon request quickly. Simply get in touch with @gyptazy

* You can now get up to 2 free VPS instances to test and evaluate HA setups, multi-region setups etc.

* Extended DN42 peering (where you can also use your DN42 IPv4 addresses)

This is created by @gyptazy and if you're interested into more information, just come to the FOSDEM 2026 for a chat!

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #SmolBSD #MidnightBSD #DragonflyBSD #RUNBSD #FreeVPS #Hosting #IPv6 #DN42 #community #opensource #fosdem

Submissions for Fediverse FOSDEM 2026 are now open!

We had a brilliant time at FOSDEM last year and we're hoping to be back in Brussels in 2026.

If you have a talk, an idea, or something to show off, why not take a look at signing up?

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/10/31/fosdem-2026-social-web-devroom-call-for-participation/

#FOSDEM #Fediverse #SocialWeb #CallForParticipation #Tech #Brussels #SocialMedia #BuildInPublic

Excited to be supporting the Fediverse / Social Web track at #FOSDEM again this year! Here's the CfP -> https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/10/31/fosdem-2026-social-web-devroom-call-for-participation/

🐍 We are happy to announce that we will again be running a Python devroom at FOSDEM 2026 (https://fosdem.org/2026/).

🌍 FOSDEM 2026 will take place on the weekend Jan 31 / Feb 1 2026 in Brussels, Belgium, with the Python devroom being held on Saturday, Jan 31.

📅 The Call for Proposals (CFP) has started. Submission deadline is December 1 2026

For full details, please check the announcement email at: https://gist.github.com/malemburg/4f2d1ceeb24d26c35740390cf712af5e

#fosdem #python #devroom #cfp

We're so happy to annouce that we have an open source design devroom and we're now accepting calls for talks via the FOSDEM pretalx system.

Open Source Design has been part of FOSDEM for over a decade now, making sure designers who work with, or contribute to free, libre and open source software (FLOSS) a platform to share their ideas.

Call for participation details and link here:
https://opensourcedesign.net/2025/10/01/fosdem-cfp-2026​

#opensource #fosdem26 #opensourcedesign #design #oss #fosdem #cfp

confirmed 90 days left until #fosdem 2026 🍺

Once again FOSDEM will have a Security Devroom, please submit your talk! #fosdem #security https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/security-devroom/2025/000210.html

Call for Participation: Nix and NixOS devroom @ FOSDEM 2026

The Nix and NixOS devroom aims to provide a welcoming space for the Nix community and its extended projects, to give time and space for both technical and non-technical talks about Nix/NixOS.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/call-for-participation-nix-and-nixos-devroom-fosdem-2026/71551

#Nix #NixOS #FOSDEM #fosdem2026

I'm happy to announce there will be a Nix and NixOS devroom at FOSDEM 2026!

#Nix #NixOS #FOSDEM #fosdem2026

Yay! "Modern Email" got a #FOSDEM devroom! Nay! Things to do... :P (I want to move our infrastructure to #NixOS, and probably want to package up <https://github.com/cpvalente/ontime>.)

I have booked my #FOSDEM 2026 flights and hotel

🧑‍💻 FOSDEM: 세계 최대 오픈소스 컨퍼런스의 비결
25년간 8,000+명이 모인 비영리 행사, 어떻게 유지됐을까?

“FOSDEM - what it is, why we do it, and how”
RichiH (Grafana Labs)

#FOSSforAll #FOSDEM #오픈소스 #커뮤니티 #기여문화

@robpike

I have the full season of Firefly on TinyTV 2, we were showing it at @fireflyzeroFirefly Zero (game console) stand on #FOSDEM.

préparation de l'envoi de moultes photos 360 pour #panoramax prises en trottinette élec pendant le weekend du #FOSDEM 2024 à #Bruxelles

#openstreetmap

Taking advantage of the fact that we are at @fosdem 2025 we are really proud and happy to present you the #NewVersion 2.4.0 of #SpeedDreams. You have more info in the post on our website:
https://www.speed-dreams.net/en/blog/release-2-4-0
#OpenSourceGame #SimRacing #FOSDEM

My FOSDEM talk about threading and multicore support in TinyGo has been released!

https://cuddly.tube/w/106d045d-ece8-49ca-b91f-040392a511da

https://video.fosdem.org/2025/ud2120/fosdem-2025-5736-implementing-parallelism-how-we-added-threading-and-multicore-support-in-tinygo.av1.webm

#fosdem #TinyGo #golang

The latest #techlounge is packed with great interviews with great people from #fosdem back in February.

We have Rebecca Rumbul from the #Rust Foundation
A whole bunch of people from Sysdig talking about #stratoshark
Frank Karlitschek of #Nextcloud
And… @andypiper from Mastodon

Put up with the background noise, there's some great content!

Search for "Tech Lounge" wherever you get podcasts or listen here: https://chrischinchilla.com/podcast/voices-from-fosdem-2025

@bagderdaniel:// stenberg:// Thanks for your post & your counter 😆

I'm curious: you characterize the EU #CRA as requiring #SBOM's *specifically*. I know the License Compliance Industrial Complex wants it to be true, but I researched this issue for my #FOSDEM 2025 talk…
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6155-is-there-really-an-sbom-mandate-/
… & IIUC CRA *doesn't* specify SBOMs specifically.
IMO, if the vendor gives the customer complete, Corresponding Source & a 100% @reproducible_builds they've complied with CRA. No one has shown me anything that disproves that.

New blog post on the 27th #XMPP Summit and #FOSDEM25 / #FOSDEM : https://blog.mathieui.net/summit-fosdem-25.html

It was an honour and pleasure to close out the #SocialWebFOSDEM programming last night with #FediverseForFreedom, based on my blog post of the same title last year. Let’s build together this year, and return to share our progress at #FOSDEM in 2026 🙌🏻#fediverse

Bon aller, je tente une #introduction formelle.

Donc moi c'est Chloé, trans MtoF en évolution lennnnte (et non, je ne l'ai pas découvert il y a 3 mois, mais bien il y a 35 ans).

Comme avec ma génération il n'y avait *aucune* information sur la transidentité (rappel, le web n'existait pas); J'ai appris à me détester en interne et accepter cette enveloppe honnis comme identité publique.
Donc le mégenrrage, l'appel par le dead-name, ça m'ennuie fort, mais j'en fait pas un drame.

J'orbite dans le développement logiciel (pas front), #fosdem , #python , #c++ .
En ajoutant une pointe de SCRUM master et de manager.

J'aime lire, la randonné, courir.
Voila

Well, that cat is kinda out of the bag. I sent messages publicly to two accounts instead of private by accident. Deleted as they contained direct registration links

#ConfConf is an unconference about organizing conferences. Also see https://confconf.org

It's organized by four #FOSDEM people, myself included.

We are focusing on OSS and hacker conferences, and in particular for the first edition it's invite-only.

If you believe you fit the profile feel free to poke me and we can have a look

@fosdem I didn't get to start the slides until 23:30 and only finished at 09:08, but the #FOSDEM opening slides were done and presented successfully. Only five more sessions to go :)

@fosdem I should probably get started on writing the #FOSDEM opening talk 🙃

Today was a very interrupty day, but everything's working, the network is up and reachable everywhere, and half of us are already looking forward to the event being over :p

@fosdem I was asked privately for the "how", and figured a public reply makes sense

https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-801 is the policy.

Fun fact: The extra time around an event used to be 7 days, and this was distilled pain as I had to chase #FOSDEM #BGP upstreams to update sessions, filters, etc and usually needed to escalate through to last level support

Before automation and the Cloud, a new #BGP announcement took days to weeks by default

So I got the #RIPE policy changed and extended to 1 month :)

@fosdem ignore the route object errors for now; the databases for ISPs (Internet Service Providers) and IXPs (Internet Exchange Point) get updated every few hours to once per day.

If you want to see the route object I created for #FOSDEM earlier, see
whois -h whois.ripe.net 151.216.128.0/17AS62392

Not a lot to it, but maybe it's interesting for someone?

@fosdem I just announced our temporary #IPv4 PI space 151.216.128.0/17 for #FOSDEM. If you want, you can follow it starting to become visible over the next hours and days on any #BGP #lookingglass, e.g. https://lg.de-cix.net/ has quite a few globally so you can see it spread.

As of this writing, https://lg.de-cix.net/search?q=151.216.128.0%2F17 has it in Frankfurt and Marseille, and nowhere else. Usually for new BGP announcements from EU, they show up in LATAM last, with a delay of up to three days.

@fosdem and finally, #FOSDEM staff dinner. I've been looking forward to this weekend for weeks, and I am sooooo happy it's finally over.

People will unload the vans tomorrow, sort and count and account and repair and such over the next week or so. We'll do a mix of in-person and remote post mortem in two weeks. And then we don't want to think about FOSDEM until August...

@fosdem #FOSDEM debugging... Part of K lost power. We traced it to one circuit breaker, and kept putting it back in while dividing and conquering towards finding the fault.

As @SwiftOnSecurity keeps saying, there's an advantage in being tall. Instead of going up and down the ladder all the time, I simply grabbed a broom and kept pushing the lever up again and again and again until we found it. A power strip had developed a short...

@fosdem #FOSDEM closing talk. I promised not to blur the sides photos this time ;)

@fosdem #FOSDEM highlights. We tried something new, and it was a bit bumpy, but it was fun! I was volunteered to MC it, which meant I had three talks back to back. I like stress I guess.

@fosdem #FOSDEM infrastructure review; good crowd and many questions as per usual. I had to leave early to the FOSDEM highlights, but Basti covered the rest.

@fosdem #FOSDEM hack. We couldn't refill the hand towel dispensers in the toilets. So the #FreeCAD people designed a key for us, #Prusa people @3dprinting #3dprinting it for us, and the cleaning staff could refill everyone's hand towels.

@fosdem #FOSDEM Monitoring and Observability opening, Sunday morning are always slow; we had the room full and lines outside in no time

@fosdem It's a bit of a #FOSDEM tradition by now.. in 2020, I put into an internal platform that I needed $something plus Gerry in a duck suit and he replied that if anything he'd only wear a moose suit.

Anyway, challenge me on those things at your own risk :)

@fosdem we forgot if he lost a bet or why we ended up here...

Anyway, if you need urgent Pokemon help, come to #FOSDEM K Infodesk. All Pikachus are standing by.

@fosdem Maybe I'll remember to keep all the #FOSDEM talks in in one thread? Let's see :)

#FOSDEM 2024 opening talk! We had 20-33% first timers!

As per usual, many, many people standing at the back and at the sides. (sorry for the blurry second photo, I hurried too much)

@fosdem #FOSDEM closing talk about to start. We're letting the NASA talk run over schedule to a packed room

#FOSDEM infrastructure review talk, this time largely delegated to Basti Schubert (not on Mastodon). His first public talk!

#FOSDEM opening talk from the other side. It's really good to be back in person.

No-one would have believed it if we posted this yesterday, so today we are announcing that Eclipse #Temurin 21 and 22 are available as a GA headless release on #RISCV! #openjdk #java
https://adoptium.net/en-GB/blog/2024/04/eclipse-temurin-21-and-22-available-on-riscv/
Thanks to @ludovic_devLudovic Henry and others at RISE for getting us here 🙂
You can also install it via the @jbangdevJBang tool. Set JBANG_DEFAULT_JAVA_VERSION=21 first to get the GA version
See also: "Lessons from porting" and the "managed runtimes" talks from #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2024 at https://video.fosdem.org/2024/aw1126/

So if you are at #FOSDEM, we hope you're vaccinated, wearing an appropriate mask, opting not to enter rooms that are simply too crowded, and taking the range of other precautions that are necessary to avoid catching any number of infections that circulate in Europe this time of year.

Attending big conferences like this often means booking time off, travel, and accommodations well in advance.

It can be expensive, and it's not always easy or possible to cancel last minute if you start to feel sick.

Taken together with that FOMO, and the desire to meet friends you might not have seen for several years, the natural outcome is that many people ignore that runny nose, slight cough, or mild fever, and attend #FOSDEM anyway.

We recognize the value of conferences like #FOSDEM.

Representatives from a very large number of open-source projects attend each year. People have deep conversations about their experiences with various aspects of #freeCulture.

People who are trying to get into the software field meet their role models. Some of them get hired. It can be a great opportunity, so naturally there's a significant Fear Of Missing Out in the #freeSoftware community, not just in Europe but across the world