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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 | Ambassador |
| 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) | nl, en | All things Badges, NeuroFedora (I'm not a scientist) |
| 5 | Emma Kidney | ekidney | |
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DUB <=> BRU | en | Community designer. |
| 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 & CentOS Connect, 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 | |
| 22 | Carl George | carlwgeorge | |
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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 | |
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WAW <=> BRU | en | FESCo, systemd |
| 24 | Davide Cavalca | dcavalca | |
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SFO => FRA => BRU | en, it | Presenting at CentOS Connect, Hyperscale, Asahi, EPEL, Rust, Golang |
| 25 | Neil Hanlon | neil | |
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BOS => IAD => BRU | en, bad fr | Packager, EPEL, CentOS Contributor, general menace. Also attending CentOS Connect and SOOCon24. |
| 26 | Neal Gompa | ngompa | |
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JFK <=> BRU | en | FESCo, EPSCo, KDE SIG, Asahi SIG, Cloud WG, Workstation WG, etc., doing all the things. Also presenting at CentOS Connect. |
| 27 | Daniel Milnes | thebeanogamer | |
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QQS (London) <=> BRU | en | Package Maintainer |
| 28 | Lumír Balhar | lbalhar | |
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VIE <=> BRU | en, cz | Python package Maintainer |
| 29 | Artur Frenszek-Iwicki | suve | |
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WAW <=> BRU | en, pl | Package maintainer |
| 30 | Tomáš Orsava | torsava | |
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PRG <=> BRU | en, cz | Python-maintenance team in Fedora & CentOS |
| 31 | Charalampos Stratakis | cstratak | |
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VIE <=> BRU | en, gr | Python-maintenance team in Fedora & CentOS |
| 32 | Nicola Sella | nsella | |
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VIE <=> BRU | it, en | Package Maintainer |
| 33 | Till Maas | till | |
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Bonn, Germany <-> Brussels by train | de, en | Engineering manager for NetworkManager, Nmstate, Network System Role, Package Maintainer, random contributor |
| 34 | David Cantrell | dcantrell | |
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AMS => BRU | en | FESCo member, Fedora Council member, lots of Fedora stuff |
| 35 | Robert Wright | rwright | |
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AMS => BRU | en | CommOps + Fedora Pride |
| 36 | Alexander Bokovoy | abbra | |
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HEL => BRU | en | FreeIPA and other identity management packages maintainer |
| 37 | Christian Glombek | lorbus | |
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HAM => BRU | de, en, es | OKD, CoreOS, CentOS Cloud SIG, GNOME |
| 38 | Arthur Bols | principis | |
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BE <=> BRU | nl, en | Package Maintainer |
| 39 | Aurélien Bompard | abompard | |
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FRA => BRU | fr,en | Fedora Infrastructure & CPE |
| 40 | Fabian Arrotin | arrfab | |
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BE (local) => BRU | fr,en | CentOS Infrastructure & CPE |
| 41 | Petr Šabata | psabata | |
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ZRH <=> BRU | cs,en | Package Maintainer |
| 42 | Sherif Nagy | sherif | |
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DUB <=> BRU | ar,en |
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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 |
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| 1 | Nikita Tripathi | nekonya3 | $1350 | $850 | $150 | $2350 | Attending CHAOSScon EU and FOSDEM. Base airport DEL. |
| 2 | Jona Azizaj | jonatoni | N/A | $475 | N/A | $475 | Attending FOSDEM only. Hotel sponsorship only. |
| 3 | Nicola Sella | nsella | $200 | N/A | N/A | $200 | CentOS Connect and FOSDEM. Partial airfare. |
| 4 | David Cantrell | dcantrell | $45 (rail) | $701 | N/A | $746 | Attending FOSDEM only. Hotel and rail sponsorship. |
| 5 | Sandro (Penguinpee) | gui1ty | N/A | $550 (incl. train ticket) | N/A | $550 | CentOS Connect and FOSDEM. Volunteering at FOSDEM. |
| Total | -- | -- | $1595 | $2576 | $150 | $4321 | -- |
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 |
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| 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 | Adapting Your Project: Making Changes Without Breaking Linux Distributions | Sun, 4 Feb | 10:00 - 10:25 | Fernando Fernandez Mancera | Distributions | As a member of the NetworkManager team, I understand the impact that changes in a free software project's behavior can have on various setups and environments, especially within the diverse landscape of Linux distributions. In our session, we'll navigate the challenges of evolving software behavior without causing disruptions across different distributions. We'll delve into best practices and strategies that ensure seamless transitions, drawing on real-world use cases to illustrate effective approaches. Whether you're a seasoned developer or an open-source enthusiast, this discussion aims to provide valuable insights into maintaining project stability while embracing necessary changes. | https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2921-adapting-your-project-making-changes-without-breaking-linux-distributions/ |
| 3 | Enhancing Linux Accessibility: A Unified Approach | Sun, 4 Feb | 10:30 - 11:25 | Vojtech Polasek, Lukáš Tyrychtr | Distributions | Join us for a discussion aimed at supporting Linux distribution developers in enhancing accessibility. As blind software engineers, we believe we can bring a unique perspective to this essential endeavor. We'll explore the challenges faced by blind users when using the Linux desktop environment, with a focus on constructive solutions. We will discuss two main topics: lack of preinstalled assistive technologies and accessibility problems of basic components of desktop environments. | https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2949-enhancing-linux-accessibility-a-unified-approach/ |
| 4 | Ipa-tuura: FreeIPA connector for Keycloak | Sun, 4 Feb | 12:00 - 12:30 | Alexander Bokovoy, Francisco Triviño García | Identity & Access Management | The FreeIPA and SSSD teams have collaborated on a project to enable Keycloak to get a unified access for users and groups in FreeIPA/LDAP/Active Directory. It consists of a new Keycloak plugin and a bridge service to access the identity providers (FreeIPA/AD/LDAP). The bridge project, ipa-tuura, is based on the SCIMv2 API and provides an improved integration for classic directory services to cloud environments with an easy deployment. The bridge can also be used in a variety of different scenarios, from migration to synchronization of identities across different providers. | https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2618-ipa-tuura-freeipa-connector-for-keycloak/ |
| 5 | 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/ |
| 6 | The Monolith versus the Swarm - A Comparison of openSUSE’s and Fedora’s Build Infrastructures | Sun, 4 Feb | 13:00 - 13:25 | Dan Čermák | Distributions | Even though openSUSE and Fedora are both RPM-based Linux distributions, their respective infrastructures differ significantly. While openSUSE is built entirely using the Open Build Service, Fedora relies on a variety of tools to perform specific tasks of building a full Linux distribution. Both distributions have stood the test of time, and both approaches work for the most part fine for their communities. Yet, the question remains: is one of the approaches better than the other? And what are the advantages and drawbacks for the various contributor roles? The talk answers these and other burning questions and reveals the hidden weaknesses of both setups. | https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2945-the-monolith-versus-the-swarm-a-comparison-of-opensuse-s-and-fedora-s-build-infrastructures/ |
| 7 | 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-/ |
| 8 | PipeWire State of the Union | Sun, 4 Feb | 14:00 - 14:25 | Wim Taymans | Open Media | PipeWire started out as a low-level multimedia transport layer. Services such as screen sharing and later audio routing were added on top of this infrastructure. The recent 1.0 release marked a big milestone in the development. This talk will detail the current state of PipeWire and the plans for the future. | https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-1988-pipewire-state-of-the-union/ |
| 9 | An introduction to Image Builder: building up-to-date, customised operating system images the easy way | Sun, 4 Feb | 15:30 - 15:55 | Sanne Raymaekers | Distributions | Image builder is a tool that builds bespoke operating system images in a manner that is reliable and well-defined. Image builder supports the Fedora, CentOS Stream, and RHEL distributions for a host of target platforms such as bare metal, QEMU, vSphere and cloud platforms like AWS, Azure and Google cloud. It can build rpm ostree based images or "plain" dnf. It is shipped in a variety of ways: as a CLI tool, a cockpit plugin or a hosted service. We will take a look at the basic concepts, some of the features, and a new initiative targeted towards the Fedora community. | https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2678-an-introduction-to-image-builder-building-up-to-date-customised-operating-system-images-the-easy-way/ |
| 10 | POSIX identities out of OAuth2 identity providers: how to redesign SSSD and Samba? | Sun, 4 Feb | 16:35 - 17:00 | Alexander Bokovoy, Andreas Schneider | Identity & Access Management | This talk aims to define a common set of requirements and approaches to represent a secure POSIX identity management integration with OAuth 2.0-based identity providers. Aside from requirements towards client software on the Linux platform, we aim to define possible requirements towards other components of the integration, based on our experience developing Samba, SSSD, and FreeIPA for more than 25 years. | https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2587-posix-identities-out-of-oauth2-identity-providers-how-to-redesign-sssd-and-samba-/ |
| 11 | 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-/ |
| 12 | Juggling with UIDs and GIDs: rootless container deployment with Ansible | Sat, 3 Feb | 15:00 - 15:10 | Nicola Sella | Containers | The session's goal is to show a demo of how to manage a rootless container with Ansible. | https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3412-juggling-with-uids-and-gids-rootless-container-deployment-with-ansible/ |
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.