{"id":945,"date":"2019-02-05T11:58:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T10:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/?p=945"},"modified":"2019-02-05T11:58:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T10:58:03","slug":"fosdem-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/2019\/02\/fosdem-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"fosdem 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The first weekend of February means Belgium, Brussels and fosdem<\/a>. To those of you who has not been there yet, it is a huge, chaotic, crowded, but also wonderful event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But first I was met by a huge snow storm and the following chaos. :-)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve been to fosdem a number of years now, and I was brave enough to take to the stage<\/a> last year. In the early days, I spent most time in various dev rooms, either hacking myself or listening to talks. For me, fosdem has changed from this to more of a social event. I’ve spent hours talking the the K-building, made sure to meet people I’ve interacted with online for the first time, and generally hang out and enjoy the company of a lot of smart people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another side mission of mine this year was to do some foss-north<\/a> promotion. As you might know, I’m organizing the foss-north event, and I had the opportunity to meet with both speakers and sponsors during fosdem (call for papers close in ~1.5weeks, just sayin’). I also took the opportunity to hang some flyers at the venue, so hopefully some people discovered the event that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As I pointed out earlier, the weather was not that great, but for a few moments on Sunday morning the sun peeked out between the clouds and you could almost feel a sense of spring in the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I did not attend that many talks this year, but I did really appreciate Jon maddog Hall<\/a>‘s talk Fifty years of Unix and Linux advances<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After the event I took the opportunity to visit Brussels with some friends. I finally got around to visit Atomium<\/a>. Such an amazing place! I love the mix of the 50’s architecture and the contemporary exhibitions in some of the spheres. This place was way better than I expected it to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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