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FOSDEM 2025: A Weekend of Talks, Conversations, and Controlled Chaos

By Christian Gutschow, on 17 February 2025

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 […]

FOSDEM 2025

By Sam Cunliffe, on 13 February 2025

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 […]