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FOSDEM 2021
- syberspace 6y agoFor anyone who doesn't have the time to attend there's a summary at http://n-gate.com/fosdem/2021/ http://n-gate.com/fosdem/2021/
- kstenerud 6y agoThis link goes to a captcha page that never fully loads and therefore cannot be passed.
- formerly_proven 6y agoWorks fine for me, sounds like a you-problem.
- smichel17 6y agoIt's the referer. Copy paste and open in new tab, rather than clicking.
- progval 6y agoOr use a browser extension that blocks referers, like uMatrix. (It's a good habit for privacy in general, and doesn't break any website I know but JIRA)
- encom 6y agoDon't need an extension for that. Referer settings are under network.http.referer.*
- MayeulC 6y agoUnfortunately, umatrix has been archived: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24532973 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24532973 In the same vein (not the same functionality though), I also like https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls to strip tracking parts out of URLs.
- gsich 6y agoIt has a noobfilter. ;)
- em-bee 6y agotry http://n-gate.com/fosdem/ http://n-gate.com/fosdem/ edit: don't do that. instead, when you see the 'captcha' use one of the links on the right side. but a better solution is to just open any of the links in a private window. that seems to get rid of the referer.
- code_scrapping 6y agoInteresting. "I'll talk about a thing I don't like to people I don't like". Doesn't even work on the sarcasm/satire level because there's too much effort put into it. What am I missing?
- oytis 6y agoIt's fun and sometimes witty.
- code_scrapping 6y agoMaybe the problem is with my sense of humor, but I find that when a comedian starts the sketch with "you're a stupid moron, let me tell you why..." I have trouble following the rest.
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- hexo 6y agoWhat lovely a super spreader event
- sildur 6y agoHey, free immunization. With a side of extreme sport.
- jka 6y ago"While a virtual FOSDEM does not have buildings, our conference management system expects them. So we reused them to group talks by their type."
- michielr 6y agoOh come on. It's fully online. You could at least skim the page before commenting.
- 0XAFFE 6y agoIts purely virtual https://fosdem.org/2021/news/2021-01-31-fosdem-online-sneak-preview/ https://fosdem.org/2021/news/2021-01-31-fosdem-online-sneak-...
- izacus 6y agoYep, super spreading ideas of software freedom to anyone online seems like a lovely thing indeed.
- detaro 6y agoEven if not watching the talks (gotta admit, I'm a bit tired of watching streams of talks by now...), I find just browsing through the schedule and seeing what communities I'm not involved with are getting up to really interesting each year. Even if it's clearly just a subset of things it's a nice point to start search further.
- orra 6y agoYeah, I have always found it interesting to read some fosdem slides, and catch a talk or two (with sped up playback) from the video archive. I always meant to actually attend. Now I can, easily, online. So no excuses.
- mnahkies 6y agoThe last couple of years at least you could watch live streams during it, and recorded sessions after. A lot of the fun is in the hallway conversations etc though, so would still recommend attending if you can at some point in the future
- orra 6y ago> A lot of the fun is in the hallway conversations etc though, so would still recommend attending if you can at some point in the future I look forward to it; next year is plausible, now that we're manufacturing vaccines.
- AtlasBarfed 6y agoOr reading a certain snarky website's nutshells of the talks (and this site's).
- orra 6y agoTBH I'm not sure which particular snarky site you mean!
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- edwintorok 6y agoI don't know what is with all the negativity here in the toplevel comments. I've downloaded the Android app and bookmarked quite a few talks that I'm looking forward to.
- rjammala 6y agoLooking forward to watching this one https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/gotailscale/ https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/gotailscale/
- okso 6y agoMost of the discussions will take place using Matrix. This blog article explains more on the topic: https://matrix.org/blog/2021/01/04/taking-fosdem-online-via-matrix https://matrix.org/blog/2021/01/04/taking-fosdem-online-via-...
- feb 6y agoAnd they even have talks on how to run a big virtual conference and some lessons learned : * https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/matrix_communities/ * https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/jitsi_scaling/ * https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/vircadia/
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoTons of stuff there. Any favorites?
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoLooking forward to https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/retro_gemini/ https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/retro_gemini/
- 2pEXgD0fZ5cF 6y agoSame here. Also https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/matrix_pinecones/ https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/matrix_pinecones/
- Tepix 6y agoSeems to be hard to create a website where you can login or maintain a session with Gemini. Perhaps it's too radical? Can't indicate your preferred languages either. Perhaps a "simple web mode" would be the better solution... a proxy that strips away the unwanted parts.
- MaxBarraclough 6y ago> Seems to be hard to create a website where you can login or maintain a session with Gemini I don't think that's supported. Gemini is more about providing an ultra-lightweight alternative to 'Web 1.0'. It's more at the level of the man page format, [0] or markdown, than HTML. I imagine they might want a way to provide access-control, but I doubt they'd be interested in implementing read/write features. > Can't indicate your preferred languages either. Looking at the spec, I think you can. [1] > Perhaps a "simple web mode" would be the better solution... a proxy that strips away the unwanted parts. Don't we have that with Reader Mode and Outline.com? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page#Formatting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page#Formatting [1] https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/specification.html https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/specification.html
- majormjr 6y ago
- nivenkos 6y agoBit of a shame there's no Rust dev room.
- stickac 6y agoRust talks always happened in the Mozilla dev room historically.
- bregma 6y agoGetting people to stop talking about Rust is the big challenge. No need to facilitate it.
- vaylian 6y agoA rust room was actually the first thing I was looking for. But I can understand that not everyone shares our enthusiasm, because there are also a lot of other cool things to talk about.
- albertzeyer 6y agoI was also looking for that. Go, Kotlin, Zig, Python, JavaScript have devrooms. It seems there is one Rust talk in the Mozilla room. But this is way less than for the other languages. I wonder why Rust is somewhat underrepresented at FOSDEM. Or maybe my view is totally biased from reading too much HN... Despite, now that Mozilla does not maintain Rust anymore, I think this really should get a separate devroom. Edit: Downvote? Why? What is controversial about what I said? Really curious. That Rust should get a separate devroom? Not relevant enough? But this is even what I considered in the sentence before. Or are there more Rust talks and I didn't found them? Actually, there seem to be some more, but still less than for other languages: https://fosdem.org/2021/search/?q=rust https://fosdem.org/2021/search/?q=rust
- steveklabnik 6y agoRust had a room the last few years. I don’t know if anyone actually applied for one this year. It’s a weird time for conferences.
- bregma 6y agoOnly thing that's missing is the cold rain, the food trucks, the collectibles, and the strong ale.
- woile 6y agohaha I miss the people and the food :(
- omn1 6y agoMe too. Shout out to the orga team who always provides cheap (but great!) sandwiches and mate. That's FOSDEM to me. That and the nerdy discussions in the rain while waiting in the food truck queue.
- pjmlp 6y agoAnd not being able to watch a talk because you didn't bother to come 10 minutes earlier to reserve a spot or had to fly crossing the campus.
- ghaff 6y agoYep :-) When I went last year I decided to just pretty much camp out in specific dev rooms and that worked a lot better. It had grown to a point where trying to flit from room to room was pretty much an exercise in frustration.
- notagoodidea 6y agoThe people and the collectibles, definitively.
- coldtea 6y agoI like all of the things you've mentioned!
- Kototama 6y agoAnd getting sick on the last day on your way back to home.
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- belorn 6y agoBased on the blog post linked here in the comments, the talk themselves are actually already prerecorded. The live aspect will only be the Q/A with the speaker and a host. Does that change how people will perceive the conference?
- detaro 6y agoIMHO that's generally a good model: it reduces issues with the setup or speakers internet connections, and allows the speaker to stress-free answer questions in chat during the talk.
- ghaff 6y agoIt can make sense to have a real-time portion so that attendees get more of a sense of attending a live "event." But I agree that my experience as someone helping to run some events is that it makes sense to pre-record most sessions. There's a lot less sense of working without a safety net, fewer problems, and more time to focus on making those parts that are live go as smoothly as possible.
- notagoodidea 6y agoNot a lot. At FOSDEM (at least for the last 10y, I have been attending), you have four kinds of talks: * Lighting talks/short talks: Most of the time, you may not have Q/A if the speaker talks too long but you can catch they off stage to talk about it. So you keep the live aspect. * Big/Popular talks/Main roam (Janson): You don't ask Q/A during those presentations so it would not change a lot. * Mid-sized talks/roams: It depends on the speaker how much interaction, he wants. * Tiny roams: There you will loose the jokes and the fun going on with well-know speakers in their communities. I think we will see less informal/fun talks because the streaming format does not easily allow the spur of the moment joke/question. The quality of the speaker will really during those Q/A moments but on a time management side, the good news is that you have less time-keeping to do with a prerecorded streaming event if each talks has his channel.
- Schalter 6y agoOf course and it will not be the same; For the ccc conference rc3, linus said something in direction of 'lets not do that again'. At least for me, i go to Fosdem for all the talks of course but also to see people, dring belgien beer, eat, freeze, have wet shoes and enjoy the sun on the second day for 1-2 hours.
- hardwaresofton 6y agoThe amount of free edge-of-industry information out there is staggering, can't wait till I get to browse the collection and pick and choose talks to watch. You can find FOSDEM 2020 recordings on Youtube[0]. Despite my misgivings about Google, I certainly do use their product for this. Youtube is insanely good for teeing up technical talks to watch. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bagFAfFVruY&list=PL_QKjHDgmNzp7DA4KIR4qC-bjIVDlYdkk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bagFAfFVruY&list=PL_QKjHDgmN...
- johannes1234321 6y agoI hope they don't see it to much as an industry event, but keep it focussed on the FOSS community. This is what makes the Charme of the event - you get all sorts of content, mostly about technology, less about tech marketing. Especially also from projects with little to no financial objectives.
- hardwaresofton 6y agoAh yes, I didn't mean to imply that the event was for industry -- I meant that it was at the cutting edge (which is normally the leading edge of industry) since it's full of hackers and builders. I also do not want it to become an "industry event" in that sense, I enjoy it 10x more than I do the bajillion Kubecons. I was also referring to not just FOSDEM, but there's PostgresConf/Open, USENIX, OpenZFS, InfoQ, JSConf, Strange Loop -- there is so much information out there that it's exhausting but absolutely to our benefit. As companies go through their possibly short-lived tryst with true open source (before everyone starts reverting to shareware), they are sharing big ambitious projects that they're working on, and giving interesting talks on the architecture, motivations, etc.
- datameta 6y agoI'd like to add TinyML Summit to that list. TinyML Asia 2020 was wonderfully executed virtually. The amount of truly breakthrough research and development offered is astounding! It is also quite possible to make connections and discuss people's work and ideas post fact much more easily nowadays. I must say the Q&A feature works quite well in a videoconference setting. Everyone can see the questions - there is no chance of them being misheard. For smaller settings a live (virtual) discussion is also remarkably workable and useful. Never thought I could easily chitchat with one of the authors of the Agile manifesto, or of the head of the largest LoRaWAN network in the world, etc... Excited for TinyML Summit 2021!!
- gerty 6y agoAs far as I remember, it's a first time there are separate devrooms for Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice. It's been 10 years now, is it me or it feels like a waste of efforts ?
- scaladev 6y agoOpenOffice is a waste of efforts, sure. It's not really a problem though as there are barely any efforts at all.
- foxhop 6y agoThat's ridiculous, my wife makes great money using OpenOffice to create and publish digital downloads for teachers. Here is her e-commerce shop: https://shop.printableprompts.com https://shop.printableprompts.com If you are in the market to sell digital downloads check the platform I'm building: https://www.makepostsell.com https://www.makepostsell.com Open source has lots of efforts and bringong more attention to Open Office (or Libre office) is a great idea.
- coldtea 6y ago>That's ridiculous, my wife makes great money using OpenOffice to create and publish digital downloads for teachers. What parent means is OpenOffice is barely maintained (or no effort is put), not that it's worthless. They also imply that LibreOffice is where the action is, and is better maintained with a bigger community. I don't follow the projects to know if that's the case, but that's what the parent seems to mean, not that OpenOffice is not usable.
- foxhop 6y agoThanks for clarifying.
- zoobab 6y agoJoin #fosdem-orval for a beer!
- ksec 6y agoOpenPOWER - It will be interesting to see update on MicroWatt, the Free, Open Source implementation of POWER. PostgreSQL- Lots of Update. Containers - Running Linux container on Darwin / macOS. I find it funny, that The most interesting section for me is actually RetroComputing! Ada, Germini, DOS, 68K Mac, ZX Spectrum.
- michaelanckaert 6y agoFosdem is a really great event. No corporate (or too much) involvement. A true volunteer run conference with great talks, great people and great Belgian Beer :-)
- frob 6y agoIn that entire page, it does not once tell me what FOSDEM is (at least on mobile). I can infer it's some sort of computing conference from the events, but that's about it.
- You-Are-Right 6y agoHow do the video recordings happen? It still looks like this important feature was forgotten in Jitsi?
- bryanwb 6y agoWhat a shame. I miss the pommes frites and awesome linux talks. I believe this is all avoidable. I am a callous person. I think that Covid, while bad, is not world ending and should not preclude in-person events like this. Covid-19 appears to kill about 0.3% of those infected. In-person events like FOSDEM invaluable to open source and worth the risk for those w/out underlying health conditions. Judge me. Tell me what a horrible human I am.
- pelf 6y agoYou clearly don't work in a hospital.
- bryanwb 6y agodo you? during winter? when they are usually full anyways? Also, please tell me if hospitals in cities w/ full lockdowns are doing better than those that are open? You can't. The restrictions don't work. Florida isn't doing any worse than CA. Unpopular opinion.
- gspr 6y ago> In-person events like FOSDEM invaluable to open source and worth the risk for those w/out underlying health conditions. This would be fair enough if it were the case that only those choosing to attend the event are taking the risk. Most would-be attendees presumably live in societies where they interact with others, and presumably would need to interact with others travelling too and from the event.
- 1MachineElf 6y agoThere's enough talks in here to last me most of 2021
- carapace 6y agoOoo! William Byrd on miniKanren! "miniKanren: a minimal declarative language for relational programming" https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/minimalkanren/ https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/minimalkanren/
- nanna 6y agoUmm, what kind of resolution is the calendar meant to be displayed at? https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/day/saturday/ https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/day/saturday/
- Uninen 6y agoExcited to see plenty of WebRTC talks in there. 2020 was a huge boost for WebRTC but I think 2021 will be the year for lots of innovation around it now that the tooling has started to mature and the browser vendors are actively on it.