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@vintprox nice to read your intro. You also visited fosdem once? Nice! But not this year?

@melroy Yep and yep. Busy bones! Do you know if they improved from last year?

I keep seeing posts about FOSDEM, but wasn't able to join myself. Tried remote sessions in 2023, but it seemed like everything was in a rush, speakers barely did their speeches in time, let alone take any for the audience questions.

@vintprox I was there in person again. It was very fun to be there again for me personally. It's not only the talks. It's the atmosphere, same minded and open source lovers. Also don't forget the stands. I talked with various open source projects developers myself including but not limited to Mastodon, curl, wolfssl, KDE, gnome, codeberg, matrix.

The talks started on time. But you are correct about questions, there isn't always enough time. However,you're always free to talk with the speakers.

@vintprox I couldn't visit in 2023 due to my health, however I did visit all the years prior again (minus the covid online event which was remote only).

The quality in general different always widely between speakers. Some are just better than others. I do think they do recording better nowadays. I mainly missed a devroom for c/c++ and alike and a devroom about the fediverse. #fosdem2024 #cpp #c #fediverse #fosdem

@melroy Oh, I'm not judging the local side of things: FOSDEM seems to be alive and kickin'! If not for formalities and paperwork, I would join in person as well. I would visit every stand I know without hesitation.

Remote sessions are a drastically different experience, for sure.

@vintprox Yea too bad it's hard to visit for you. I would love to meet you in person as well.