FOSDEM 2024

FOSDEM 2024 in Brussels, Belgium

About

FOSDEM 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	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 & Creative Freedom Summit Organizer.
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. Possibly presenting in Open Source Design Devroom
6	Michal Konecny	zlopez					PRG <=> BRU	cs, en	Fedora Infra & Releng Team Lead

 : available  : unavailable  : pending / 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 ($USD)	Hotel ($USD)	Taxi, visas, insurance, other minor incidentals ($USD) (if applicable)	Comments
1	My Name	example	$120	$700	$100	Also attending CentOS Connect

• Total Airfare: $TBD USD
• Total Hotels: $TBD USD
• Total Taxis: $TBD USD
• Event Total: $TBD USD

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.

No	Name	Date	Time (CET)	Speaker	Description	URL
1	Example Name	Sat, 3 Feb	10:00 - 10:50	Example Name	TBD	TBD

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.