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From one perspective, I expected it to be disappointing not attending FOSDEM this year. Now, looking at the photos and posts, I'm genuinely feeling down - not because of FOMO - but due to a sense of guilt for not being able to rearrange my commitments to attend. Let's aim for next year!
Come by the Arch table and get some swag. Come by and say hi to Arch staff and maintainers!
Paris 🚊 Brussels for #FOSDEM
So many feelings:
Filled with excitement at the prospect of finally meeting many inspiring people I’ve been corresponding with for months on the Fediverse.
Just missing my family already: my 4 year old called after me from the balcony when I left and cried a little (it was a bit dramatic). I need to bring back cool FOSDEM swag to her (and a cute stuffed animal, too, ideally).
See you around tomorrow! (This is my first FOSDEM and my first conference in 5 years)
Tomorrow the #opensource #FOSDEM #conference starts in #Brussels, #Belgium!
Let’s see if we can attract more people to #BSD based systems by providing free #vps running #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD or even #illumos as an #opensolaris solution.
@gyptazy will be onsite to provide you more information or even stickers ;)
#FOSDEM 2025 - anyone interested into #GPG key signing?
If you're interested:
* Provide a printed snippet of your fingerprint (gpg-key2ps)
* I will send you the signing to your email (instead of uploading them to key servers [gpg-mailkeys])
* You can find my key at https://gpg.gyptazy.com and you're allowed to upload them to key servers.
* Have you passport / ID card with you to validate your identity
* I'll probably be mostly in the #BSDDevroom but you can also ping me on Matrix
Happy key signing!
#encryption #freebsd #bsd #runbsd #keysigning #keysigningparty #email #communication #conference #brussels #belgium #opensource #security
For various reasons I unfortunately will not be at #FOSDEM this year. But next year I will be there. I will now cry myself to sleep.
When I booked my train for #FOSDEM in November I was intimidated: will I feel like a fish out of water, since I'm not a developer?
Around that time @ilja recommended I check out @yunohost.
On Dec 17 I signed up for a VPS, installed #YunoHost and in the span of a month I'm now running:
1) a #GoToSocial instance @elena
2) my own #Pixelfed @ele
3) a #LinkStack
4) a #Ghost blog (upcoming)
So I'm a little less intimidated (but still a newbie).
Excited to connect with so many familiar faces 😊
Brussels - here I come! Happy to be part of the #FOSDEM 2025!
Happy to have some great chats with you all about #BSD / #FreeBSD, #BoxyBSD, #ProxLB and #ZFS as an awesome filesystem! See you there!
#fosdem #fosdem25 #fosdem2025 #brussels #belgium #conference #opensource
Are you fucking kidding me?
Jack Dorsey is a main track speaker at FOSDEM this year:
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4507-infusing-open-source-culture-into-company-dna-a-conversation-with-jack-dorsey-and-manik-surtani-block-s-head-of-open-source/
🤮
I am at a loss of words. I also owe sincere apologies to everyone flagging issues with FOSDEM over the years, whose concerns I often somewhat minimized. I am sorry, you were all right and I was wrong.
FOSDEM is now explicitly platforming AI/blockchain bro fascists. 🤬
With all the excitement about the organisation changes announced yesterday, I nearly forgot to ship the product and engineering #TrunkAndTidbits updates post for last month - sorry it is a bit later than planned! Here's what @MastodonEngineering has been up to... (also, help appreciated with some React component dependency updates for the site!). Now looking forward to #FOSDEM. 💻 https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/trunk-tidbits-december-2024/
I am excited about this! We had *so many* great submissions for the #SocialWeb track at #FOSDEM, and being able to include some as a bonus for those able to attend the "After Hours" event was so important, amazing speakers all around. https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/04/social-web-after-hours-at-fosdem-2025/