The vast majority of events (talks, hacking sessions, open discussions) are held inside “developer rooms” (“devrooms”), which are mini-conferences organized and managed by open source projects themselves.
It’s also FREE !! 🥳
And there are cookies 🍪
How the fuck are you supposed to pick a talk when there’s this many speakers? I already have trouble picking talks at conference with <100 speaker.
All the talks are supposed to be livestreamed and recorded, so the choice is thankfully more just which one(s) do you want to attend in person. Which is great, because in my experience half of the fun of FOSDEM is chatting with other attendees outside of any talk at all!
Wait, there are talks? I thought we all just hung out in the hallways excitedly nerding out about nerdshit. 😉
I’m missing FOSDEM this year, sadly. That AI plumbers track looks great. I really wanted that track to be a thing two years ago, but instead of that, the AI track at the time was all weirdly social/political.
that’s awesome isn’t it! 🎉🙌
Yes, it’s awesome that all these people come together to share their kniwledge, but also very stressful haha