FOSDEM 2024

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About

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas, and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. You don't need to register. Just turn up and join in! FOSDEM 2024 will be held on 3-4 February 2024.

• Website: fosdem.org/2024/
• Location: ULB Campus Solbosh, Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, 50, 1050 Bruxelles
• Time Zone: Central European Time (CET), or UTC+1
• Schedule: fosdem.org/2024/schedule/
• Fedora Talks & Speakers: see below
• Format: In-person participation only, live-streaming available

First time at FOSDEM? Read the FOSDEM practical info guide to learn more.

Duration and Location

ULB Campus Solbosh
Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, 50
1050 Bruxelles

Location ULB

ULB campus

The event is easily reachable by public transportation. For details, see below. If you are afraid of getting lost, the following links might help you:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• Map24
• ViaMichelin

Fedora-approved hotel

The approved Fedora hotel is the Moxy Brussels City Center. It is about a 10-20 minute drive or 45 minute walk to the event venue from the approved hotel. See the directions below:

Screenshot of Google Maps showing the approximate route from the approved Fedora hotel to the FOSDEM 2024 venue in Brussels, Belgium.

Visas

Belgium is a Schengen Zone member state. Any person who needs a visa for the European Schengen Zone will also require a visa for Belgium.

Schedule at a glance

• URL: fosdem.org/2024/schedule/

Saturday, 3 February

• 09:30 - 10:00 // Fedora team arrival on-site
• 10:30 - 19:00 // Conference Programming

Sunday, 4 February

• 08:30 - 09:00 // Fedora team arrival on-site
• 09:00 - 17:00 // Conference Programming

Fedora presence

Are you a Fedora contributor attending FOSDEM 2024? Add yourself to the table below. Please use the "Comments" column to specify your role in the Fedora community.

No	Name	FAS	Thu, 1 Feb	Fri, 2 Feb	Sat, 3 Feb	Sun, 4 Feb	Travel itinerary	Languages	Comments
1	Justin W. Flory	jflory7					BER => BRU	en	All things Fedora. Attending as Fedora Community Architect.
2	Bogomil Shopov	bogomil					N/A	bg, en, cz	Stand staff. L10n, community building, privacy.
3	Nikita Tripathi	nekonya3					Roorkee (India) <=> BRU	hi, en	Past Outreachy intern for the Badges Design Project, current design contributor. CFP submitted for Open Source Design Devroom
4	Sandro (Penguinpee)	gui1ty					NL <=> BRU (train most likely)	nl, en	Possibly presenting with Ankur Sinha in Open Research Devroom
5	Emma Kidney	ekidney					DUB <=> BRU	en	Community designer.
6	Michal Konecny	zlopez					PRG <=> BRU	cs, en	Fedora Infra & Releng Team Lead
7	Jona Azizaj	jonatoni					TIA <=> BRU	sq, en	Fedora DEI Advisor
8	Shaun McCance	shaunm					CVG <=> BRU	en, de	CentOS Community Architect, CentOS Connect organizer
9	Momcilo Medic	fedorauser					SRB <=> BRU	en, rs	Ambassador in Serbia
10	Bojana Medic	littlecat					SRB <=> BRU	en, rs	Contributor in Serbia
11	Peter Boy	pboy					BRE <=> BRU	de, en	Fedora Server Edition Working Group, Fedora Docs board
12	Sumantro Mukherjee	sumantrom					CCU=>BRU	en, hi, bn_in	Fedora QA Team member, Currently in Fedora Council and working on CommOps Init 2.0
13	Tomas	humaton					PRG=>BRU	cz,sk,en	Fedora Release Engineering Team member, submitted talks for distro devroom
14	Aoife Moloney	amoloney					DUB => BRU	en	Fedora Operations Architect
15	Amy Marrich	spotz					AUS => BRU	en	Fedora DEI, Cloud SiG, CentOS
16	Dan Čermák	defolos					NUE <=> BRU	en, de, cz	Presenting in Distribution Devroom, Fedora i3 SIG
17	Akashdeep Dhar	t0xic0der					CCU <=> BRU	en, hi, bn	Fedora Infrastructure
18	Vipul Siddharth	siddharthvipul1					--	en	Fedora Family
19	Michel Lind	salimma					ORD <=> AMS <=> BRU	en, id	Presenting at CentOS Connect, EPEL, Python, Rust, Golang
20	Tomáš Hrnčiar	thrnciar					VIE <=> BRU	en, sk	Fedora Python maintainer
21	Julia Bley	jbley					FRA <=> BRU	de, en
22	Carl George	carlwgeorge					SAT <=> ATL <=> JFK <=> BRU	en	EPEL Steering Committee, Python SIG, maintainer of too many packages. Also presenting at CentOS Connect.
23	Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek	zbyszek					WAW <=> BRU	en	FESCo, systemd
24	Davide Cavalca	dcavalca					SFO => FRA => BRU	en, it	Presenting at CentOS Connect, Hyperscale, Asahi, EPEL, Rust, Golang
25	Neil Hanlon	neil					BOS => IAD => BRU	en, bad fr	Packager, EPEL, CentOS Contributor, general menace. Also attending CentOS Connect and SOOCon24.
26	Neal Gompa	ngompa					JFK <=> BRU	en	FESCo, EPSCo, KDE SIG, Asahi SIG, Cloud WG, Workstation WG, etc., doing all the things. Also presenting at CentOS Connect.
27	Luis Bazan	lbazan					PTY <=> BRU	en, es	Fedora Mindshare Committee member, Fedora Latam, Fedora Ambassador.
28	Daniel Milnes	thebeanogamer					QQS (London) <=> BRU	en	Package Maintainer
29	Lumír Balhar	lbalhar					VIE <=> BRU	en, cz	Python package Maintainer
30	Artur Frenszek-Iwicki	suve					WAW <=> BRU	en, pl	Package maintainer
31	Tomáš Orsava	torsava					PRG <=> BRU	en, cz	Python-maintenance team in Fedora & CentOS

 : present  : absent  : undecided

Budget proposal

This table represents the proposed budget to the Fedora Mindshare Committee. Note that the amount proposed below is final, i.e. you would not be reimbursed for more than what is proposed here.

Please estimate all prices in USD. Use latest market rates for approximate conversions from EUR to USD on xe.com.

No	Name	FAS	Airfare and/or rail ($USD)	Hotel ($USD)	Incidentals¹ ($USD)	Total ($USD)	Comments
1	Nikita Tripathi	nekonya3	$1350	$850	$150	$2350	Attending CHAOSScon EU and FOSDEM. Base airport DEL.
2	Luis Bazan	lbazan	$1350	$850	N/A	$2200	FOSDEM/Centos Connect. Base Airport PTY Panama.
3	Jona Azizaj	jonatoni	N/A	$475	N/A	$475	Attending FOSDEM only. Hotel sponsorship only.
Total	--	--	$2700	$2175	$150	$5025	--

¹ — Taxi, meals, visas, travel insurance, other minor incidentals. Confirm other expense types with Community Architect before proposing here.

Speakers

The following is a list of presentations, birds of feathers, workshops, talks and discussions organized by the community members of the Fedora Project. If you are a part of the community and have a subevent that is selected for the event, please feel free to edit the table below to add an entry with all the related details.

Order	Name	Date	Time (CET)	Speaker(s)	Track/DevRoom	Description	URL
1	Orchestrating eBPF Applications in Kubernetes and Fedora	Sat, 3 Feb	15:40 – 16:10	Daniel Mellado, Dave Tucker	Containers	During our discussion, we will delve into the developmental journey of bpfd, tracing its origins from Aya, a Rust library designed for eBPF development. Our exploration will extend to practical aspects such as leveraging the operator, deploying applications, and understanding how Fedora elevates the user experience as a host.	https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-1745-orchestrating-ebpf-applications-in-kubernetes-and-fedora/
2	mkosi-initrd: Building initrds out of distribution packages	Sun, 4 Feb	12:30 - 12:55	Daan De Meyer, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek	Distributions	In this talk, we'll present mkosi-initrd, a project to build initrds out of distribution packages using mkosi, systemd's image builder sister project.	https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2888-mkosi-initrd-building-initrds-out-of-distribution-packages/
3	Upstream and downstream, best friends forever?	Sun, 4 Feb	14:00 - 14:25	František Lachman	Distributions	Integrating the upstream and downstream world is hard. Isn’t it? During the talk, we will go through these and provide suggestions on what you can do in such situations and how to bring the best benefit both to developers and maintainers.	https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2881-upstream-and-downstream-best-friends-forever-/
4	It's all about the email. Ugh, what?	Sun, 4 Feb	16:45 - 17:00	Bogomil Shopov - Бого	Modern Email	The session's goal is to enlarge the horizons of the people building the open-source way of email.	https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-1711--ending-it-s-all-about-the-email-ugh-what-/

Goals & messaging

Fedora 2028 Strategy: “Double the number of Fedora contributors active every week.”

Fedora 2028 Strategy.

• Find it, use it, change it: Linux accessibility (Fedora Docs, Fedora Linux, release engineering tools).
• Be a mentor, have a mentor: Empower a culture of mentoring in Fedora and scale it.
• Release stories: Fedora releases should have a story behind changes in each release.
• Open collaboration: More partnership with peer communities and upstream projects.

Open Source Values messaging: Freedom, Friends, Features, First

• Freedom: We are dedicated to free software and content. (🔗 more)
• Friends: We are a strong, caring community. (🔗 more)
• Features: We care about excellent software. (🔗 more)
• First: We are committed to innovation. (🔗 more)

Fedora Linux 39 Changes and talking points

• Programming language stacks:
  • Golang 1.21: Update of Go (golang package) to the upcoming version 1.21 in Fedora 39.
  • Python 3.12: Update the Python stack in Fedora from Python 3.11 to Python 3.12, the newest major release of the Python programming language.
  • Perl 5.38: A new perl 5.38 version brings a lot of changes done over a year of development. Perl 5.38 was released on July 3rd 2023.
• Package management - Retire Modularity: Fedora will discontinue building modules for Fedora Linux 39 and further in the Fedora infrastructure and shipping modular content to users.
• Apps - LibreOffice 7.6: Update LibreOffice suite to 7.6. At the same time we plan to stop building LibreOffice for i686 architecture.
• Fun & novel - Color Bash Prompt: Introduce a default colored prompt for Fedora's default shell bash.
• Spins:
  • Sericea and Sway Spin Xorg-less: At the moment Sericea and Sway Spin ship with xorg-x11 packages. This proposal removed xorg-x11 packages from such artifacts.
  • Fedora Onyx: Creation of an official Fedora immutable variant with a Budgie Desktop environment, complementing Fedora Budgie Spin and expanding the immutable offerings of Fedora.
• Fonts - FontAwesome 6: Update the FontAwesome package in Fedora to version 6.x, with a compatibility package for packages still needing 4.x.