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> If want to attend a certain talk you absolutely have to arrive early. For popular tracks the trick used to be to arrive for an earlier less popular talk. Doe
by Timshel 3y ago
> If want to attend a certain talk you absolutely have to arrive early.
For popular tracks the trick used to be to arrive for an earlier less popular talk. Does not really work anymore, past 10 you'll probably never enter the PG or Rust tracks unless you spend more than 1 hour waiting outside.
Good news is streaming is really good so a fallback is to stay at the cafetaria and just stream.
Lightning rooms usually have some space too :).
Edit: disclaimer my last Fosdem was in 2020 ^^
- lukego 3y agoIt's really comical not being able to fit into a devroom for a talk and noticing that people inside weren't actually paying attention but rather just holding a chair for another talk coming later... Thankfully the hallway is then full of people interested in that subject!
- Timshel 3y agoYeah :(; and streaming might have made it worse since you can now just stay in the same track all day and follow other talk. You could try to force people to leave after each talk in popular tracks but it would probably take too much time and you would have people leaving early to go back to the queue ...
- Pawka 3y agoLast year I took headphones + power bank and watched presentations live on my phone while waiting in a queue at another auditorium or commuting. Worked well.
- musicale 3y agoI have been to well-organized conferences that had the foresight to put popular sessions in larger auditoriums, and it largely eliminated lines and the unhappiness of not being able to get into a session that you wanted to attend.
- Timshel 3y agoI would say that FOSDEM is well-organized but they just can't create auditorium. There is like probably at least 4 ultra-popular tracks and only one Janson ...
- ghaff 3y agoI haven't been for a while but there are basically too many people for the space. But it's a free conference and the space is what the space is. I basically don't stress getting into specific sessions or otherwise overly optimize sessions generally. I mean there's video after the fact if you really care.
- CorrectHorseBat 3y agoThere's another campus of the ULB and one of the VUB a 20min walk away so getting more auditoria isn't completely out of the question.