Fosdem

FOSDEM 2026: Reflections from the Day After The day after FOSDEM always feels a bit strange. You are tired, your head is full of ideas, and you are already thinking about next year. FOSDEM 2026 was no exception. As usual, it was simply amazing. Talks & Venue This edition of FOSDEM took place at its usual location: the ULB Solbosch Campus in Brussels. It is one of the few venues that can handle the huge number of people attending the conference. As far as I know, FOSDEM is the largest open-source conference in Europe.

This weekend I traveled to Brussels to attend FOSDEM 2023, although only for the first day (Saturday 4th, 2023). It hasn’t been my first one, but it has been the first massive event I have attended after the COVID-19 pandemic. After the morning keynote, I had a quick look around the buildings where the event was hosted to visit the different stands of the many sponsors of the conference. Among the most interesting ones (for me personally, all the stands where really interesting in one way or another) where: