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Over 550 videos of 870 talks from FOSDEM 2020 have now been uploaded

401 points by jonatron 7y ago

pojntfx 7y ago
I absolutely loved going to FOSDEM this year for the first time. It's an amazing community!
- erikbye 7y ago
  Any talks you can recommend?
  - tsukurimashou 7y ago
    Regaining control of your smartphone with postmarketOS and Maemo Leste - Status of Linux on the smartphone was p nice if you're interested on Linux running on smartphones https://video.fosdem.org/2020/Janson/smartphones.webm https://video.fosdem.org/2020/Janson/smartphones.webm https://video.fosdem.org/2020/Janson/smartphones.mp4 https://video.fosdem.org/2020/Janson/smartphones.mp4
  - ghaff 7y ago
    Really depends on what you're interested in. I pretty much camped out in the Community devroom on Sunday and it had a number of interesting talks. If you're interested in licensing/policy, the Legal & Policy devroom talks/debates are also good.
tsukurimashou 7y ago
Was my first time as well this year, long time lurker. Especially liked the closing talk of maddog, but it seems it's not available (yet?) on the page.
- MayeulC 7y ago
  I attended the one that followed (https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/fosdem_at_20/ https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/fosdem_at_20/, no video yet), but the sound quality was atrocious, at least in my (left) part of the amphitheater. So bad that the guy next to me was following the stream with headphones instead. Which is strange, as I attended some other talks at the same place, and they were fine. As a result, I didn't get much of what we were being told at the end. My friends shamed me a bit for complaining about sound quality to the person who gave us delicious cupcakes at the exit. If that was someone here, my apologies! Second time in a row for me, I'm pretty sure I'll attend next year as well. Maybe not so much for the talks, but I had some great fun in BoF rooms as well, and there are a few sprints during the week that I will try to attend next time. Also, going by bus (11h) was a bad idea, I should at least have taken a day off. Last year, I visited building K (with the welcome desk and the information leaflets) near the end of the last day, which I regretted a lot, as it was packed with practical info. If that's your first time as well, maybe start there? Looking forward to an official Matrix room as well as https://nav.fosdem.org https://nav.fosdem.org next year :)
  - tsukurimashou 7y ago
    Thanks for the advice! I agree the sound quality was not always the best, especially in small rooms. The Friday before we went to a bar with colleagues, we ended up going back to the hotel around 5AM to wake up at 8AM... And then we had a 3 hours trip to go back, and I was working the next day. I should have taken days off too haha. I was pretty excited during the Linux on Smartphone talk when the guys asked how many people were running Android and almost everybody raised their hands, then he said he would expect most of these people to run Linux at FOSDEM 2021.
ghaff 7y ago
It's pretty amazing that a volunteer-organized event like FOSDEM can turn around video from the event like that. Lots of company-run events can take ages to put video up assuming that they do so at all. In all fairness, I think companies often feel they have to release polished videos that have gone through a relatively thorough editing process and then have to justify the ROI associated with paying to have the videos created and edited. And the reality is that 30-60 minute filmed presentations often get just a handful of YouTube views. Nonetheless, it's impressive that FOSDEM gets all this posted. It's especially nice because, even if you were there, so much is going on at the same time and it's often so hard to get into rooms that it's nice to catch up on anything you really wanted to see but missed.
- sam_lowry_ 7y ago
  Is it a volunteer organized event, really? IIRC, there is a non-negligeable number of staff nowadays. And an NGO that likely pays salaries. Unfortunately, they do not report annual accounts to the National Bank [1] so I can't check. They do not seem to have financial statements online, which is a pity. [1] https://cri.nbb.be/bc9/web/catalog;jsessionid=EB073167100A6A72CDD39B28F3A682B7?execution=e1s1 https://cri.nbb.be/bc9/web/catalog;jsessionid=EB073167100A6A...
  - ghaff 7y ago
    My understanding is that it is primarily volunteer although they have a small full-time staff (https://fosdem.org/2020/volunteer/ https://fosdem.org/2020/volunteer/) who may also be volunteers and, of course, many of the weekend volunteers are doing this as a part or quasi-part of their day job. In any case, it's certainly in a different category than a show that's basically entirely handled by paid staff and contracted events people.
    - raphinou 7y ago
      No one in the organisation gets paid. Some work year-round on it, but it doesn't mean full-time. (I started fosdem, and keeping it a volunteer event was always a priority. I'm not active in the organisation these days, but got the confirmation this week-end that none of the team gets paid)
bil7 7y ago
went last year. Many talks were so far over capacity you couldn't even squeeze in to stand, let alone get a seat. If there was a talk you really wanted to attend, the only way to have a good chance was to go and queue outside 15 minutes before it started, meaning skipping/leaving another talk. Glad I am watching this year's talks from home.
- ghaff 7y ago
  I didn't go last year and just dropped in quickly the year before to give my talk. My strategy this year was pretty much to spend a good chunk of each day hanging out in either a devroom or somewhere that you're likely to have serendipitous hallway track encounters. Trying to constantly move from often packed room to room across a somewhat spread out campus is mostly an exercise in frustration.
- koffiezet 7y ago
  Yeah it's getting too crowded... Didn't go this year although it's just a 30min drive for me. Last time I just found myself a quiet spot somewhere on-campus and followed the livestreams of the rooms I wanted to see, didn't even bother trying to enter the rooms...
  - ghaff 7y ago
    I'm often at events mostly to meet people, aka hallway track etc. I do go to sessions too, in part because video posting can be unreliable/very delayed but also because I know I'll often never get around to watching the videos anyway. That said, keynotes at large events I tend to watch streaming as I have very little interest in getting crowded into a room with 10,000 of my closest friends so I can watch the speaker on the distant stage up on a monitor :-)
  - hujjji 7y ago
    Really? You are always able to get into Janson or the other big one. I think the atmosphere is definitely worth it.
    - 7y ago
skinnyasianboi 7y ago
Will the leftover 320 video also be uploaded? I'm particularly interested in 2 talks which haven't been uploaded yet.
- jonatron 7y ago
  Most will, you can check on the status at: https://review.video.fosdem.org/overview https://review.video.fosdem.org/overview
  - toomuchtodo 7y ago
    Will these videos make their way into the Internet Archive? Or should someone perform this archival operation themselves?
    - toomuchtodo 7y ago
      Replying to my own comment for historical reference purposes: FOSDEM will upload to the Internet Archive.
unixhero 7y ago
Is it just me, or are the mobile pages not showing video recordings each talk page?
lwb 7y ago
Awesome resource. I thought "State of the Onion" was a Perl thing though? I guess Tor uses it now too?
- nickik 7y ago
  They have bee using it for many, many years. I didn't know somebody else used it. Seems pretty clear given the logo, not sure why it fits Perl.
  - lwb 7y ago
    News to me. Larry Wall's SOTO speeches are some of the most interesting talks I've read. I think he just chose the name to be funny. https://www.perl.com/tags/state-of-the-onion/ https://www.perl.com/tags/state-of-the-onion/
    - kaybe 7y ago
      Here are older 'state of the onion' talks: https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6251_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412301400_-_state_of_the_onion_-_jacob_-_arma https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6251_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412301... https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7307-state_of_the_onion https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7307-state_of_the_onion
mehdix 7y ago
This is great. I was there and couldn't get into some rooms (which was expected) and I am going to gradually watch those talks that I have missed.
clvx 7y ago
Does someone know if this is provided by a torrent file?
philippeback 7y ago
First year I missed in due to my dad going under the knife on that very week end. Nice to have the videos indeed!
trenning 7y ago
That's a lot of videos. What are some that yall would recommend starting with?
wolco 7y ago
I feel like taking off a year and exploring these.
tzs 7y ago
OT: I'm curious if they could run into problems with this over accessibility? In the US, universities have been forced under the ADA [1] to take down videos of old lectures because they were not closed captioned. Does Europe (the videos are hosted in Belgium, at least according to MaxMind's GeoIP database) have anything similar? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Act_of_1990 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Ac...
- monocasa 7y ago
  Was there case law behind that decision remove those videos, or was it typical University legal cya running the show?
  - marcinzm 7y ago
    Lawsuits most likely, it's fairly common for disabled people to sue entities over such things and law suits are very expensive even if you win. edit: For example, https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahkim/2019/11/29/harvard-university-national-assoc-of-the-deaf-lawsuit/#25f526846699 https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahkim/2019/11/29/harvard-uni...
    - monocasa 7y ago
      That only mandates > and any new university created audio or video it doesn't seem like it would require removing blanket access to archived lectures.
      - marcinzm 7y ago
        For that lawsuit and those universities after they paid out the settlement and legal fees. Another university that has old lectures can still get sued for those in a separate lawsuit. Then they'd need to pay out a settlement, legal fees and so on to maybe get to keep old videos up. The lawyers suing won't care, they just want the settlement money. Easier to just get rid of all the videos.
  - 7y ago
phendrenad2 7y ago
Waiting for the Maddog video as well. Hopefully these make it to youtube so I can listen at 2x speed.

401 points by jonatron 7y ago

pojntfx 7y ago

I absolutely loved going to FOSDEM this year for the first time. It's an amazing community!

erikbye 7y ago
Any talks you can recommend?
- tsukurimashou 7y ago
  Regaining control of your smartphone with postmarketOS and Maemo Leste - Status of Linux on the smartphone was p nice if you're interested on Linux running on smartphones https://video.fosdem.org/2020/Janson/smartphones.webm https://video.fosdem.org/2020/Janson/smartphones.webm https://video.fosdem.org/2020/Janson/smartphones.mp4 https://video.fosdem.org/2020/Janson/smartphones.mp4
- ghaff 7y ago
  Really depends on what you're interested in. I pretty much camped out in the Community devroom on Sunday and it had a number of interesting talks. If you're interested in licensing/policy, the Legal & Policy devroom talks/debates are also good.

tsukurimashou 7y ago

Was my first time as well this year, long time lurker. Especially liked the closing talk of maddog, but it seems it's not available (yet?) on the page.

MayeulC 7y ago
I attended the one that followed (https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/fosdem_at_20/ https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/fosdem_at_20/, no video yet), but the sound quality was atrocious, at least in my (left) part of the amphitheater. So bad that the guy next to me was following the stream with headphones instead. Which is strange, as I attended some other talks at the same place, and they were fine. As a result, I didn't get much of what we were being told at the end. My friends shamed me a bit for complaining about sound quality to the person who gave us delicious cupcakes at the exit. If that was someone here, my apologies! Second time in a row for me, I'm pretty sure I'll attend next year as well. Maybe not so much for the talks, but I had some great fun in BoF rooms as well, and there are a few sprints during the week that I will try to attend next time. Also, going by bus (11h) was a bad idea, I should at least have taken a day off. Last year, I visited building K (with the welcome desk and the information leaflets) near the end of the last day, which I regretted a lot, as it was packed with practical info. If that's your first time as well, maybe start there? Looking forward to an official Matrix room as well as https://nav.fosdem.org https://nav.fosdem.org next year :)
- tsukurimashou 7y ago
  Thanks for the advice! I agree the sound quality was not always the best, especially in small rooms. The Friday before we went to a bar with colleagues, we ended up going back to the hotel around 5AM to wake up at 8AM... And then we had a 3 hours trip to go back, and I was working the next day. I should have taken days off too haha. I was pretty excited during the Linux on Smartphone talk when the guys asked how many people were running Android and almost everybody raised their hands, then he said he would expect most of these people to run Linux at FOSDEM 2021.

ghaff 7y ago

It's pretty amazing that a volunteer-organized event like FOSDEM can turn around video from the event like that. Lots of company-run events can take ages to put video up assuming that they do so at all. In all fairness, I think companies often feel they have to release polished videos that have gone through a relatively thorough editing process and then have to justify the ROI associated with paying to have the videos created and edited. And the reality is that 30-60 minute filmed presentations often get just a handful of YouTube views. Nonetheless, it's impressive that FOSDEM gets all this posted. It's especially nice because, even if you were there, so much is going on at the same time and it's often so hard to get into rooms that it's nice to catch up on anything you really wanted to see but missed.

sam_lowry_ 7y ago
Is it a volunteer organized event, really? IIRC, there is a non-negligeable number of staff nowadays. And an NGO that likely pays salaries. Unfortunately, they do not report annual accounts to the National Bank [1] so I can't check. They do not seem to have financial statements online, which is a pity. [1] https://cri.nbb.be/bc9/web/catalog;jsessionid=EB073167100A6A72CDD39B28F3A682B7?execution=e1s1 https://cri.nbb.be/bc9/web/catalog;jsessionid=EB073167100A6A...
- ghaff 7y ago
  My understanding is that it is primarily volunteer although they have a small full-time staff (https://fosdem.org/2020/volunteer/ https://fosdem.org/2020/volunteer/) who may also be volunteers and, of course, many of the weekend volunteers are doing this as a part or quasi-part of their day job. In any case, it's certainly in a different category than a show that's basically entirely handled by paid staff and contracted events people.
  - raphinou 7y ago
    No one in the organisation gets paid. Some work year-round on it, but it doesn't mean full-time. (I started fosdem, and keeping it a volunteer event was always a priority. I'm not active in the organisation these days, but got the confirmation this week-end that none of the team gets paid)

bil7 7y ago

went last year. Many talks were so far over capacity you couldn't even squeeze in to stand, let alone get a seat. If there was a talk you really wanted to attend, the only way to have a good chance was to go and queue outside 15 minutes before it started, meaning skipping/leaving another talk. Glad I am watching this year's talks from home.

ghaff 7y ago
I didn't go last year and just dropped in quickly the year before to give my talk. My strategy this year was pretty much to spend a good chunk of each day hanging out in either a devroom or somewhere that you're likely to have serendipitous hallway track encounters. Trying to constantly move from often packed room to room across a somewhat spread out campus is mostly an exercise in frustration.
koffiezet 7y ago
Yeah it's getting too crowded... Didn't go this year although it's just a 30min drive for me. Last time I just found myself a quiet spot somewhere on-campus and followed the livestreams of the rooms I wanted to see, didn't even bother trying to enter the rooms...
- ghaff 7y ago
  I'm often at events mostly to meet people, aka hallway track etc. I do go to sessions too, in part because video posting can be unreliable/very delayed but also because I know I'll often never get around to watching the videos anyway. That said, keynotes at large events I tend to watch streaming as I have very little interest in getting crowded into a room with 10,000 of my closest friends so I can watch the speaker on the distant stage up on a monitor :-)
- hujjji 7y ago
  Really? You are always able to get into Janson or the other big one. I think the atmosphere is definitely worth it.
  - 7y ago

skinnyasianboi 7y ago

Will the leftover 320 video also be uploaded? I'm particularly interested in 2 talks which haven't been uploaded yet.

jonatron 7y ago
Most will, you can check on the status at: https://review.video.fosdem.org/overview https://review.video.fosdem.org/overview
- toomuchtodo 7y ago
  Will these videos make their way into the Internet Archive? Or should someone perform this archival operation themselves?
  - toomuchtodo 7y ago
    Replying to my own comment for historical reference purposes: FOSDEM will upload to the Internet Archive.

unixhero 7y ago

Is it just me, or are the mobile pages not showing video recordings each talk page?

lwb 7y ago

Awesome resource. I thought "State of the Onion" was a Perl thing though? I guess Tor uses it now too?

nickik 7y ago
They have bee using it for many, many years. I didn't know somebody else used it. Seems pretty clear given the logo, not sure why it fits Perl.
- lwb 7y ago
  News to me. Larry Wall's SOTO speeches are some of the most interesting talks I've read. I think he just chose the name to be funny. https://www.perl.com/tags/state-of-the-onion/ https://www.perl.com/tags/state-of-the-onion/
  - kaybe 7y ago
    Here are older 'state of the onion' talks: https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6251_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412301400_-_state_of_the_onion_-_jacob_-_arma https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6251_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412301... https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7307-state_of_the_onion https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7307-state_of_the_onion

mehdix 7y ago

This is great. I was there and couldn't get into some rooms (which was expected) and I am going to gradually watch those talks that I have missed.

clvx 7y ago

Does someone know if this is provided by a torrent file?

philippeback 7y ago

First year I missed in due to my dad going under the knife on that very week end. Nice to have the videos indeed!

trenning 7y ago

That's a lot of videos. What are some that yall would recommend starting with?

wolco 7y ago

I feel like taking off a year and exploring these.

tzs 7y ago

OT: I'm curious if they could run into problems with this over accessibility? In the US, universities have been forced under the ADA [1] to take down videos of old lectures because they were not closed captioned. Does Europe (the videos are hosted in Belgium, at least according to MaxMind's GeoIP database) have anything similar? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Act_of_1990 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Ac...

monocasa 7y ago
Was there case law behind that decision remove those videos, or was it typical University legal cya running the show?
- marcinzm 7y ago
  Lawsuits most likely, it's fairly common for disabled people to sue entities over such things and law suits are very expensive even if you win. edit: For example, https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahkim/2019/11/29/harvard-university-national-assoc-of-the-deaf-lawsuit/#25f526846699 https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahkim/2019/11/29/harvard-uni...
  - monocasa 7y ago
    That only mandates > and any new university created audio or video it doesn't seem like it would require removing blanket access to archived lectures.
    - marcinzm 7y ago
      For that lawsuit and those universities after they paid out the settlement and legal fees. Another university that has old lectures can still get sued for those in a separate lawsuit. Then they'd need to pay out a settlement, legal fees and so on to maybe get to keep old videos up. The lawyers suing won't care, they just want the settlement money. Easier to just get rid of all the videos.
- 7y ago

phendrenad2 7y ago

Waiting for the Maddog video as well. Hopefully these make it to youtube so I can listen at 2x speed.