The FOSDEM conference has released the list of accepted stands. Haiku is granted a stand again this year aftear two years of break.
We will be there with mmu_man and nephele, and, of course, more people is better as then we can take turns being at the stand, and enjoy other parts of the conference as well.
If there is enough interest, we can also plan a coding sprint after FOSDEM (starting on monday, until friday or maybe just 2-3 days). In the previous times we did this, there were only a handful of people, so we rented an airbnb and stayed there for a few more days after the conference. Who would like to join? So I get an idea of the number of people and see what kind of place I should book
I’d love to participate at such a conference some day,but I just checked the distance and Brussels is 516km away from here.
That’s a bit too much for only two days.
For those who are there,I wish you a lot of fun and tell the world about the best desktop OS
I will plan for 6 persons (it’s difficult to find places that can host more people in a single place anyways). If there are more people who want to join the sprint, you are of course welcome, but we may not have a bed for you to sleep at night. So you have to find your own place to sleep (or not sleep at all, but usually that doesn’t work for an entire week).
I’ll arrive in Brussels late on friday night (past midnight) and stay until the next friday early in the morning (so, 31/01 to 07/02).
I will be in Europe around the time FOSDEM 2025 is held, mostly likely in Paris by February. Will check with my travel agent if the itinerary can be changed so that I can attend the event.
Update:
I’ll be too far from Belgium on February 1-2, unfortunately. Might be closer to it though later in the following days afterwards.
A BeGeistert would be cool though. I’ve not heard from the HSA in recent years, are they still around? I would be willing to help organize a BeGeistert, But I am not a member
due to a last minute cancellation, we have one free room at the coding sprint (during fosdem and the week after). Contact me if you’d like to join us!
Well, it has been a very nice weekend at FOSDEM, took me back to presenting demo’s for BeOS back in the days.
Lot’s of attention for Haiku by the public, major question was “why would I use Haiku”, my counterpart on that was, “why not”, these days you can do “almost” anything you can do on a running Linux box without the distracting gimmicks or unrelated bloat, and have a smooth and running system on older or even newer hardware (given the support for it is well enough for it). Even mentioned that to some people from openSUSE that were seated next to us.
It was a joy meeting @PulkoMandy for the first time, @mmu_man and Olivier again after so many years (last meat was at one of the BG meetings), and had some nice talks to @n0toose during the event, same with meeting @habbie from IRC.
With my (old) BeOS shirt it attracted some former BeOS users attention and it was really great to hear they kept an eye on Haiku for all those years, kudos to those also (some have been donating to Haiku also, so big thanks was presented in real live)!
EDIT: need to mention also that some upstream ports passed by for a talk, thanks for your continues interest for Haiku:
Speed-dreams, MilkyTracker, Qemacs … (on the top of my head now)
We’re wearing musks because mmu_man is just recovering from the flu and none of us want to get it again. In a large event like FOSDEM, it seems reasonable to do so (at least to me, unfortunately, few people seem to worry about it).
