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Two Times in a row i got home from fosdem absolutely sick. It's always cold, rainy, the campus is an order of magnitude to small for the amount of people in att
by dtx1 3y ago
Two Times in a row i got home from fosdem absolutely sick. It's always cold, rainy, the campus is an order of magnitude to small for the amount of people in attendance and the lecture rooms windows aren't opened long enough to deal with all the People Smells that accumulate. If you go there, were a Mask at all times and desinfect your hands frequently or you will end up sick.
Oh, and drinks are cheapest from the vending machines because they are from the university, not from the commercial vendors.
- domano 3y agoI was there 6 times and got sick 6 times after. The mask is a good idea. The weather was shitty every single time i was there. There are some good talks, but i find it to be overcrowded and if you dont get a seat in the morning in a devroom and stay there the whole day then you spend your day wandering from one at-capacity devroom to the next.
- wiz21c 3y agoThe weather is not shitty, it is belgian. There's a difference :-)
- ghaff 3y agoI used to go sometimes when there were a number of adjacent conferences. I wouldn't fly over from the US for just FOSDEM. Yeah, it's sort of a crappy time of year in general for that area of Europe. And, yeah, I latterly settled on a camp out in devroom strategy. It was much more pleasant than trying to move from full room to full room.
- switch007 3y agoAgree it’s a terrible venue. Went once and wouldn’t go back. Brussels is one of my least favourite cities in Europe
- ghaff 3y agoI've gone a number of times when I've been in Europe for other events at around the same time. But I agree with you even it's maybe an unpopular opinion. It's always good to see people but Brussels is one of my least favorite European capitals, especially in February and the venue has a lot of problems to say nothing that there are probably 2 to 3x the number of attendees than it can comfortably handle.