Richard "RichiH" Hartmann (24)
@fosdem yesterday, we had our post mortem meeting. Blown up to seven hours straight, and we only got through everything by aggressively skipping and timeboxing -- after(!) moving half of it to the kick-off... Almost twenty people on site in Brussels with half a dozen more calling in.
There's a LOT of details and discussions to running a successful #FOSDEM
Afterwards, we had dinner together
Two weeks! Two. Whole. WEEKS!
As of 30 minutes ago, the published videos from #FOSDEM 2025 have more than TWO WEEKS OF TOTAL RUNTIME!
If you sat down on day 1 in the morning and started watching videos all day every day, no breaks and no sleep, you would still be watching by the time we're sitting down for the Post Mortem in Brussels next Saturday noon. And we still have 100+ videos left to finish.
Largest #OpenSource conference on Earth.
The total amount of released video from #FOSDEM is now over one whole week! And we're still going!
As you can see from our #Grafana dashboard we had some bugs in the transcoding pipeline, but things are getting fixed and we're making good progress. We also added more VMs to the transcoding pool. The jump cut bug should also have been fixed.
If you have been waiting for a re-cut or not submitted a cut for your talk yet, this Sunday is a great time to take a look!
Another #FOSDEM ask/offer:
We are actively interested in loaning our video boxes to other conferences. If you want an easy, #opensource, and #openhardware way to record video and laptop, do let me know.
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6832-fosdem-videobox-2025/ for details.
And yes, they frickeled the microphones just before the talk, normally the sound quality is good. We're aware of the irony :)
Retoots appreciated, as always.
@fosdem And then, I closed #FOSDEM out with the closing keynote: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6713-closing-fosdem-2025/
Second time in a row that I couldn't do the closing dance for health reasons, hopefully 2026 is better.
But no matter if kidney stone, car accident, or whatever. I'd attend #FOSDEM in a wheelchair if need be.
@fosdem Then, Basti and myself did the #FOSDEM infrastructure review.
It was rather empty, as the videobox talk was at the same time. Bad planning in hindsight, but I'm very happy the videobox talk had so many attendees
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6714-fosdem-infrastructure-review/
@fosdem Right afterwards, we had the 25 years of #FOSDEM and open source t shirt photo. Maybe we will do that again in the future.
I'll share photos later when I have had some time.
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6728-group-photo-25-years-of-fosdem-shirts/
@fosdem Shortly after, i talked about 25 years of #FOSDEM, sharing various anecdotes.
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6729-anecdotes-from-25-years-of-fosdem/
We had Raphael join us and also share a few stories. He started OSDEM 25 years ago!
There was also the dance.
@fosdem Opening the #FOSDEM #Monitoring & #Observability devroom on Sunday. It was empty in the morning but flipped to being full with lines outside soon enough.
Again, another videobox, showing the built-in display
@fosdem That's a wrap!
We're still tearing down & cleaning up, but I'll spend some minutes on #FOSDEM updates backfill
A view into our new video boxes.
More details in https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6714-fosdem-infrastructure-review/ & https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6832-fosdem-videobox-2025/
