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FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap

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Re: FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap

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Post by charcircuit »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #95
fvdessen wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have an AI track focused on how to use AI to improve OSS software instead of how to run LLama on RISC-V. Invite the open source developpers behind popular OSS AI frameworks such as opencode, etc. Invite talkers from large companies that produce open source software and models such as Mistral.AI Invite talkers from companies that run OSS LLMs at scale such as groq Invite the people who build drones in Ukraine, (probab…

It's been ~three years now we've been hearing about "AI" non-stop. Am a bit tired of it to be honest.

But the AI talked about 3 years ago are not the same kind of projects that are being talked about today. It's rapidly evolving. There is a lot of new scope available for new open source projects to take. This isn't open source reimplementing the same thing for 3 years straight.

Re: FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap

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Post by greatgib »

greatgib wrote: post #96

What saddens me a lot is that a lot of talks become low level beginner introduction fast food talks. I think that it was better when most talks were 45 mins to 1h with deeper more advanced and senior content. At the same time, with the overcrowded aspect, it becomes harder to socialize and meet people really involved in maintaining open source projects in my opinion. There are a lot lot lot more "users" on both sides…

As an example, in a majority of talks there was no time for questions and very little chatter between and around talks. It is like walking in big city, everyone is busy running around.

And questions and comments after talks was what was bringing the most value to the event. Compared to just watch a recording of a talk.

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Post by Insanity »

nesarkvechnep wrote: post #97
throw567643u8 wrote: post #59

I watched at home and drank Belgian beer in the afternoon.

I hope you didn't get a hangover. They have great tasting beers but put too much sugar in them.

That’s a sweeping generalization for hundreds of varieties of Belgian beers lol.

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Post by protocolture »

haunter wrote: post #13

> Not every open source project exists to solve geopolitical problems, and not every contributor arrives with a policy agenda. FOSDEM has always thrived on its diversity of motivations, and maintaining that balance will be increasingly challenging. It’s not just the FOSS scene but there is an increasing crowd (mostly on the internet) of “everything is political”. Honestly I’m not sure what will happen in the coming y…

By politics, do you mean politics. Because of course OSS has always been political.

Generally people afraid of politics are using the term as an empty space for some form of specific politics they want to run away from. In which case, why not just say what you mean.

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Post by protocolture »

anthk wrote: post #65
fvdessen wrote: post #48

I for one found this event really sad. It's like the OSS community has rejected the past 5 years of software and technological changes and now choses to live in a retro computing bubble. We're in 2026, hardware is made in dark factories in shenzhen in fully automated assembly lines by the million of units. Software is written using LLMs hosted in gigantic datacenters. Millions of people are now writing their own soft…

LLM turds will degrade more and more over time. The newbies will become even dumber and people with actual knowledge will be several steps over anthing else trained to copy and paste from bullshitters.

Yeah man.

Just like how novel reading, newspapers, music, rock music, the internet, computer games all made everyone super dumb and the world ended.

I am definitely sure that this time you are right and the world will actually end this time, everyones going to end up way dumber than you, or if they dont, you will still pretend it happened and be smug about it on the internet.

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Post by direwolf20 »

NeutralForest wrote: post #38
jzwinck wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For talks which will obviously be popular, go to the talk before it even if it's not as interesting. It's not common to have two super-popular talks in a row in the same room.

Yeah ofc but I also like to walk around, I might just camp in a room next year.

This year they said they avoided making single–project rooms. These are the ones people camped in the most, I think.

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

GreenDolphinSys wrote: post #73
teekert wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fwiw, I 100% agree with this. All of a sudden the constant judging is there, it's seeping into the once clean, apolitical world-of-mind. It started on the big tech platforms, the new weary giants of flesh and steel, but it's overflowing into our hacker-minded spaces as well now. Like US families torn between 2 sides of their politics, they can't even have normal dinners together anymore. They can't communicate withou…

Well, it's hard to break bread with someone who you fundamentally disagree about things like humans rights issues with. Family or not. You don't just skip over that, and in fact why should you? Having blood relations means you have to sit and eat with someone who thinks you or people you know shouldn't exist or shouldn't be allowed to have the same rights as other people? I'm very glad that we've normalized not gloss…

> Well, it's hard to break bread with someone who you fundamentally disagree about things like humans rights issues with.

It's actually not. It's very easy to get along with people, even those from whom we have vastly differing moral axioms, if we only try. Sadly these days many people are disinterested in trying, believing (wrongly) that they will make the world a better place if they sow more division.

Re: FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

fvdessen wrote: post #99
mixmastamyk wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's been ~three years now we've been hearing about "AI" non-stop. Am a bit tired of it to be honest.

It is extremely exhausting, but it's also the biggest change in tech since the invention of the internet. It don't think it can be ignored.

That's certainly what the companies who stand to profit want us to believe. But I don't think it is. I think it's yet another hype storm without any actual utility to back it up.

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Post by ongy »

ahartmetz wrote: post #109
thinkbud wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do not share your view of old timey sales pitch, at least for the talk about systemd nspawn OCI container support. If anything, that talk was a tad low effort, with even dismissive answers — "Yes" and "No?" as full answers to audience questions, with no follow up?! Still very informative though!

The Varlink talk really was very salesy for a Fosdem presentation. Shouldn't be long until the recording becomes available, feel free to tell me I was wrong after watching it.

It's mainly re-hashed. I think I've seen the same talk twice before? At least once.

It's a very "I've made a cool thing. This is what I think is cool about it" type of talk. Which I don't think is uncommon for FOSDEM. Maybe a bit uncommon for a higher profile figure like Lennart.

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