Most, if not all of us, know what FOSDEM is, but if you don’t, it’s one of the most important conferences you can go to in your technical career.
As an old mentor of mine said, “It’s boot camp for nerds; everyone smells, it’s chaos, but you’ll come out with some of the best and closest friends you’ll ever have after it.”
FOSDEM is a right of passage, speaking at it doubly so.
I would say go at least once. I won’t be going this year because the video experience is so much better than being on the premises. None of the things are easy to get into the seats are very uncomfortable and I might say that I am not that impressed with Brussels. But it was fun and if you’ve never been to Europe it’s worth a trip.
Isn’t the call for main track talks and dev rooms closed already? It would maybe be better to link to the calls than the submission system, which doesn’t seem to list the deadlines.
It would maybe be better to link to the calls than the submission system, which doesn’t seem to list the deadlines.
This is the CFP for the devrooms, the deadline is 6th of December. Everything is unified under pretalx this year instead of the oldoldoldoldold FOSDEM CFP system.
I thought the call for dev rooms had closed. At least some dev rooms have been announced, the dev room talk submissions are through this system (for most devrooms, a few are doing their own thing). The call for stands is also open.
Indeed devrooms cfp is long closed, and devrooms have been assigned. There are always more requests for devrooms than available rooms, so good proposals do get turned down (with another good chance next year). There is no chance of still getting a devroom.
I’ve had the best experiences with conferences when doing a talk, can recommend. With fosdem, the nice thing is you can also help by organising a devroom. It’s actually a relatively easy way to organise any kind of gathering around open source topics. The fosdem organisers do most of the heavy lifting: making space available, getting everyone in one place, video recording & publishing.
Edit: To be clear, you can still submit a proposal for doing a talk at a devroom (until 30 November, schedules will be announced 15 December), but you cannot submit a proposal for organising a devroom anymore.
Most, if not all of us, know what FOSDEM is, but if you don’t, it’s one of the most important conferences you can go to in your technical career.
As an old mentor of mine said, “It’s boot camp for nerds; everyone smells, it’s chaos, but you’ll come out with some of the best and closest friends you’ll ever have after it.”
FOSDEM is a right of passage, speaking at it doubly so.
best of all, it is free to attend (minus hotel/food/transport) obviously
I would say go at least once. I won’t be going this year because the video experience is so much better than being on the premises. None of the things are easy to get into the seats are very uncomfortable and I might say that I am not that impressed with Brussels. But it was fun and if you’ve never been to Europe it’s worth a trip.
Isn’t the call for main track talks and dev rooms closed already? It would maybe be better to link to the calls than the submission system, which doesn’t seem to list the deadlines.
This is the CFP for the devrooms, the deadline is 6th of December. Everything is unified under pretalx this year instead of the oldoldoldoldold FOSDEM CFP system.
I thought the call for dev rooms had closed. At least some dev rooms have been announced, the dev room talk submissions are through this system (for most devrooms, a few are doing their own thing). The call for stands is also open.
Indeed devrooms cfp is long closed, and devrooms have been assigned. There are always more requests for devrooms than available rooms, so good proposals do get turned down (with another good chance next year). There is no chance of still getting a devroom.
The cfp’s from the devrooms are now going out on the fosdem mailing list: https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2024q4/thread.html
I’ve had the best experiences with conferences when doing a talk, can recommend. With fosdem, the nice thing is you can also help by organising a devroom. It’s actually a relatively easy way to organise any kind of gathering around open source topics. The fosdem organisers do most of the heavy lifting: making space available, getting everyone in one place, video recording & publishing.
Edit: To be clear, you can still submit a proposal for doing a talk at a devroom (until 30 November, schedules will be announced 15 December), but you cannot submit a proposal for organising a devroom anymore.