FOSDEM 2024 Schedule

Here are two FOSDEM guides, I found interesting when researching my trip.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;petersouter.xyz&#x2F;fosdem-survival-guide&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;petersouter.xyz&#x2F;fosdem-survival-guide&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bytemark.co.uk&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;07&#x2F;my-guide-to-fosdem-europes-biggest-open-source-developer-conference" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.bytemark.co.uk&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;07&#x2F;my-guide-to-fosdem-eu...</a><p>It will be the first time at FOSDEM for me, so I cannot confirm or deny much, but I&#x27;ve definitely heard from multiple sources that it <i>is</i> very crowded. If want to attend a certain talk you absolutely have to arrive early.<p>I have not booked a hotel yet, so if you know a good place to stay, especially near the venue, pointers would be appreciated. My contacts are in my profile.<p>Finally a shoutout to the Rust crowd, links to the track and the Dev Room:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosdem.org&#x2F;2024&#x2F;schedule&#x2F;track&#x2F;rust&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosdem.org&#x2F;2024&#x2F;schedule&#x2F;track&#x2F;rust&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rust-fosdem.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rust-fosdem.github.io&#x2F;</a>

Oh, oh! I love FOSDEM. I live in Brussels and love the city, I want to make a couple of recommendations for people coming to visit:<p>1. DON&#x27;T RELY ON CARS. Traffic is awful here. Brussels is bikeable, has shared scooters and shared bikes as well as a fairly solid public transport infrastructure. 2. I recommend finding a hotel either in the city center, or near the Merode area (east of Parc du Cinquantenaire). Don&#x27;t try to get a hotel near the ULB (the venue) itself... it&#x27;s not the most exciting part of the city. 3. While you&#x27;re here, take a moment to visit other cities in Belgium such as Mechelen, Leuven, or even Antwerp. They&#x27;re a cheap and short train ride away (20 mins for Mechelen&#x2F;Leuven, 40 for Antwerp).<p>Also if you have any questions feel free to ask them here I&#x27;ll check back in a little while.

Two Times in a row i got home from fosdem absolutely sick. It&#x27;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&#x27;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.<p>Oh, and drinks are cheapest from the vending machines because they are from the university, not from the commercial vendors.

I can&#x27;t wait to be there, learn, and meet great people<p>This is my second year there, and here is our recipe at Quickwit:<p>- book an Airbnb for 1 week at Bruxelles, a spacious house is definitely better<p>- submit a few talks to share our feedback from the past year<p>- meet a LOT of people<p>- carefully choose a few talks to watch; the place is crowded, so you need to be in the room in advance<p>- organize an evening event with the fellows we appreciate a lot and who work in the same field<p>- enjoy teamwork during a few days in the big house<p>I hope to meet a lot of HN readers there; see you in 1 month or so!

We are organizing the Declarative and Minimalistic Languages Devroom on Sunday morning! We hope we see you all there!

I&#x27;m going to see all the talks in the Railways and Open Transport devroom.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosdem.org&#x2F;2024&#x2F;schedule&#x2F;track&#x2F;railways-and-open-transport&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosdem.org&#x2F;2024&#x2F;schedule&#x2F;track&#x2F;railways-and-open-tra...</a>

Almost 500 different talks and not a single one which involves .NET or C#.

It&#x27;s a bit early as the schedule is filling up, but far from complete or definitive. The Main Tracks for example aren&#x27;t published yet, and many devrooms are still updating the schedule.

I quickly clicked through some of them and most ( if not all ) of the OS and Kernel are Linux only. Are there any thing that is BSD related?

I just relocated to Brussels and turns out I live 10-15 min by public transport from the venue !<p>I&#x27;ve been looking forward to attending for a couple years now, and now I definitely can&#x27;t let this pass.<p>It would be my first time attending, does anyone want to join me ? I&#x27;m slightly embarrassed to admit I don&#x27;t want to go alone hehe... Hit me up :) (my username @ protonmail.com)

I&#x27;ve been twice now, and as others have mentioned, the venue is bursting at the seams with the quantity of attendees. This, by itself, is manageable, except for the fact that the bathrooms tend to be in a truly dire state after a short while!

There are also some fringe events: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosdem.org&#x2F;2024&#x2F;fringe&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fosdem.org&#x2F;2024&#x2F;fringe&#x2F;</a>

Speaking of fosdem, I fear that Covid has probably taken the satire writer n-gate from us :-( (add .com to read his short articles)<p>Also, I&#x27;m a full time linux user of 19 years before you flame me :-)