Google Summer of Code (GSoC) accepted organisations were announced yesterday, and many of us in ARC and friends from other departments are involved in this year’s edition. Google has been running this programme for 20 years, making this one its 21st. GSoC focuses on helping Open Source projects get new contributors so they can learn […]

I have experienced conferences before; I have experienced developer workshops; I have also experienced small meetups; what I never had experienced was FOSDEM, or the way I see it, Comic-Con for open-source people. FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting) is an annual event organized by and for people involved with open-source software in […]

My first FOSDEM has come and gone, and what a whirlwind it was! Over 8,000 attendees, more than 1,000 talks, and 70 parallel tracks—all squeezed into two intense days, where no matter where you stood, you were never more than five minutes away from a place serving strong Belgian beer. It’s an overwhelming, exhilarating, and […]

It’s… Huge. On the 1st and 2nd of February, 11 of our team went to the Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting. This is an epic two-day conference with over 1000 talks (and something like 8,000 attendees) hosted in Brussels. It’s really huge. It’s so huge, in fact, that there are a good […]