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When I look at the schedule, I feel I'm more and more away from Fosdem. There are so many talks on so many subjects that look so "niche", I don't know where to
by wiz21c 10y ago
When I look at the schedule, I feel I'm more and more away from Fosdem. There are so many talks on so many subjects that look so "niche", I don't know where to go. What would you attend, as a generalist coder/project manager ?
- justincormack 10y agoThe lightning talks are good for generalists. Otherwise just pick some things that you think sound interesting and try them out...
- kasbah 10y agoYes this is definitely true. FOSDEM provides a way for FOSS developers with very niche interests to split into their separate "devrooms" and have their own mini events. I would recommend to stick to the keynotes and main tracks and glance over everything else and see what you fancy.
- karambahh 10y agoThat is exactly why I consider fosdem as a very interesting conf: I am myself somewhat generalist, and attending a room almost "at random" leads to very interesting discoveries. Last year I saw a talk about the internals of the jvm. It lead us to drastic performance improvements in the last year. Two years ago, a talk about measuring time lead me to dive into theoritical physics in my spare time. Alongside these discoveries, I will attend devrooms directly in line with our technological stack. In short we will learn stuff, aligned with our core needs, learn to think outside the box and finally meet great people in a great city, Brussels.
- specialist 10y agoI regret missing FOSDEM every year. Even when it was tiny. The announced schedule always has a lot of meat. Doesn't feel like filler, resumeware, fads, or corporate pap. I imagine its like the difference between PAX and E3.