I don't know when they decided it exactly but FOSDEM usually takes place in Brussels, at the ULB / VUB (Université Libre de Bruxelles / Vrije Universiteit Bruss

I don't know when they decided it exactly but FOSDEM usually takes place in Brussels, at the ULB / VUB (Université Libre de Bruxelles / Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and these last days the numbers of new COVID cases are really through the roof in Belgium and Brussels more specifically (Brussels being the belgian city with the lowest vaccination rate in the country) and several politicians are asking once again, as you can guess it, for more and more restrictions.