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I 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 sort

I 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 ago
Ah 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 ago
  I'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!!
markvdb 6y ago
Serving the FOSS developer community is FOSDEM's goal. We live by its grace. That is more than just fluffy talk. I believe FOSDEM to currently be fairly well positioned to keep that focus: - I like to hope/think FOSDEM's financial situation is close to an optimum: healthy enough to guarantee our editorial independence, but not interesting enough to attract vultures sophisticated enough to distract us from our goal. - Our formal structure should shield us from takeover attempts fairly well. - I have every reason trust my fellow board members. We are individuals with alternatives. We actively choose to convert part of our energy into volunteering for FOSDEM instead of into money in our bank accounts. - We have a physical allergy to tech marketing rear end talk. - Each of us can tap into an incredibly talented and powerful pool of community allies. - We actually try to look at opportunities and pitfalls now and then. That probably distiguishes us from >95% of all organisations.

hardwaresofton 6y ago

Ah 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 ago
I'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!!

markvdb 6y ago

Serving the FOSS developer community is FOSDEM's goal. We live by its grace. That is more than just fluffy talk. I believe FOSDEM to currently be fairly well positioned to keep that focus: - I like to hope/think FOSDEM's financial situation is close to an optimum: healthy enough to guarantee our editorial independence, but not interesting enough to attract vultures sophisticated enough to distract us from our goal. - Our formal structure should shield us from takeover attempts fairly well. - I have every reason trust my fellow board members. We are individuals with alternatives. We actively choose to convert part of our energy into volunteering for FOSDEM instead of into money in our bank accounts. - We have a physical allergy to tech marketing rear end talk. - Each of us can tap into an incredibly talented and powerful pool of community allies. - We actually try to look at opportunities and pitfalls now and then. That probably distiguishes us from >95% of all organisations.