FOSDEM 2018 schedule

This is the first year with a combined CAD and open hardware dev-room organized by the folks from CERN.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosdem.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;schedule&#x2F;track&#x2F;cad_and_open_hardware&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosdem.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;schedule&#x2F;track&#x2F;cad_and_open_hardware...</a>

It seems that language rooms are less popular: Guile, Python, Ruby, Lua rooms are not present compared to last year. Nevertheless there are bunch of talks that seem interesting to me:<p><pre><code> - Automating Your Lights with Open Source - Using Cryptographic Hardware - Smart Cards in Linux and why you should care - Inside Monero </code></pre> I will probably be there for both days.

This is going to be the first year that Nim[1] received a stand at FOSDEM[2]. I&#x27;m super thankful to FOSDEM for accepting our request and can&#x27;t wait to chat to all the attendees.<p>Myself and the rest of the core Nim team will be there, so do swing by if you&#x27;ve got some free time in between the brilliant talks.<p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nim-lang.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nim-lang.org</a><p>2 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosdem.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;stands&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosdem.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;stands&#x2F;</a>

For the people going to FOSDEM, there are many volunteering tasks available at: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;volunteers.fosdem.org&#x2F;tasks&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;volunteers.fosdem.org&#x2F;tasks&#x2F;</a>

Open source software and hardware talks this year too: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosdem.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;schedule&#x2F;track&#x2F;space&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosdem.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;schedule&#x2F;track&#x2F;space&#x2F;</a>

FOSDEM is one of the most community-oriented conferences I attend, which is quite an achievement considering its size nowadays.<p>A couple of us from the Prosody XMPP server project will be there in the &quot;realtime lounge&quot; area. Feel free to come and say hi!

Fosdem is great, I’ve been there many times. If you have the chance you should definitely go. What I like is that is it very low-key&#x2F;accessible. Over the years I ‘met’ &#x2F; talked with RMS, Robert Love, Tim O’Reilly, Wietse Venema, Timo Sirainen and Larry Wall by just walking around on campus and bumping into them.

I&#x27;m excited to go to FOSDEM for the first time this year. I plan to be hanging around Open hardware and Internet of things rooms.<p>&gt; FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration. Just turn up!<p>I was quite surprised to see that. Even free to attend conferences usually require registration so that they can plan ahead and prevent overcrowding. Did FOSDEM not have this kind of problems in the past? Judging by the number of people I know that regularly attend it, it&#x27;s quite a well known event.

For those interested in Linux-based Virtualization (includes Xen, KVM, QEMU) and IaaS topics:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosdem.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;schedule&#x2F;track&#x2F;virtualization_and_iaas&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosdem.org&#x2F;2018&#x2F;schedule&#x2F;track&#x2F;virtualization_and_ia...</a>

Sorry for an off-topic question, but does anyone know where to park a car not far from the university overnight? It&#x27;s our first year at FOSDEM, and we would like to avoid driving to the center of the city only to leave the car there. Thank you.

Looking forward to the AV1 update.