FOSDEM 2024 in Brussels, Belgium
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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
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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:
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:
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
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 |  |
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BER <=> BRU | en | All things Fedora. Attending as Fedora Community Architect. |
| 2 | Bogomil Shopov | bogomil |  |
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N/A | bg, en, cz | Stand staff. L10n, community building, privacy. |
| 3 | Nikita Tripathi | nekonya3 | |
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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 |  |
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NL <=> BRU (train most likely) | nl, en | Possibly presenting with Ankur Sinha in Open Research Devroom |
| 5 | Emma Kidney | ekidney | |
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DUB <=> BRU | en | Community designer. Possibly presenting in Open Source Design Devroom |
| 6 | Michal Konecny | zlopez | |
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PRG <=> BRU | cs, en | Fedora Infra & Releng Team Lead |
| 7 | Jona Azizaj | jonatoni | |
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TIA <=> BRU | sq, en | Fedora DEI Advisor |
| 8 | Shaun McCance | shaunm | |
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CVG <=> BRU | en, de | CentOS Community Architect, CentOS Connect organizer |
| 9 | Momcilo Medic | fedorauser | |
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SRB <=> BRU | en, rs | Ambassador in Serbia |
| 10 | Bojana Medic | littlecat | |
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SRB <=> BRU | en, rs | Contributor in Serbia |
| 11 | Peter Boy | pboy | |
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BRE <=> BRU | de, en | Fedora Server Edition Working Group, Fedora Docs board |
| 12 | Sumantro Mukherjee | sumantrom | |
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CCU=>BRU | en, hi, bn_in | Fedora QA Team member, Currently in Fedora Council and working on CommOps Init 2.0 |
| 13 | Tomas | humaton | |
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PRG=>BRU | cz,sk,en | Fedora Release Engineering Team member, submitted talks for distro devroom |
| 14 | Aoife Moloney | amoloney | |
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DUB => BRU | en | Fedora Operations Architect |
| 15 | Amy Marrich | spotz | |
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AUS => BRU | en | Fedora DEI, Cloud SiG, CentOS |
| 16 | Dan Čermák | defolos | |
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NUE <=> BRU | en, de, cz | Presenting in Distribution Devroom, Fedora i3 SIG |
| 17 | Akashdeep Dhar | t0xic0der | |
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CCU <=> BRU | en, hi, bn | Fedora Infrastructure |
| 18 | Vipul Siddharth | siddharthvipul1 | |
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-- | en | Fedora Family |
| 19 | Michel Lind | salimma | |
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ORD <=> AMS <=> BRU | en, id | Presenting at CentOS Connect, EPEL, Python, Rust, Golang |
| 20 | Tomáš Hrnčiar | thrnciar | |
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VIE <=> BRU | en, sk | Fedora Python maintainer |
| 21 | Julia Bley | jbley | |
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FRA <=> BRU | de, en |
: present
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: 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) | Taxis, meals, visas, insurance, other minor incidentals ($USD) (if applicable) | Comments |
| 1 | Akashdeep Dhar | t0xic0der | $1350 | N/A | N/A | Attending CentOS Connect and FOSDEM. Base airport CCU. |
| 2 | Nikita Tripathi | nekonya3 | $1350 | $850 | $150 | Attending CHAOSScon EU and FOSDEM. Base airport DEL. |
| 3 | Jona Azizaj | jonatoni | $180 | $475 | N/A | Attending FOSDEM only. Base airport TIA. |
| 4 | Sumantro Mukherjee | sumantrom | $1350 | $850 | $150 | Attending CentOS Connect and FOSDEM. Base airport CCU. |
- Total Airfare: $4230 USD
- Total Hotels: $2175 USD
- Total Taxis, Meals, Visas, Insurance, Other Minor Incidentals: $300 USD
- Event Total: $6705 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.
| 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 | 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-/ |
| 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-/ |
Goals & messaging
Fedora 2028 Strategy: “Double the number of Fedora contributors active every week.”
- 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.