My number one recommendation is to wear good shoes / boots. My first year at FOSDEM it snowed and I only had some old tennis shoes which means I spent a lot of

My number one recommendation is to wear good shoes / boots. My first year at FOSDEM it snowed and I only had some old tennis shoes which means I spent a lot of time with freezing soaked feet. It gets cold and talks are in different venues, so prepare accordingly. Rooms can fill up and some are quite small, so if there’s a talk you really want to see it pays to get there on the previous talk, even if you don’t care too much about it, to save a good seat. Don’t stress too much about it, though. Talks are recorded and it’s common that something you thought was going to be awesome turns out to be boring and something you didn’t care for at all is fascinating. You shouldn’t have much trouble with public transportation, especially because you’ll probably see other attendees making the same trip. But I do prefer walking and in all my visits I didn’t mind walking thirty minutes or more each way. It’s only two days and it’s my preferred way to visit a city. There are going to be booths too so you can visit them for some stickers and to strike up a conversation with people if you want.