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
@fosdem I just announced our temporary #IPv4 PI space 151.216.128.0/17 for #FOSDEM. If you want, you can follow it starting to become visible over the next hours and days on any #BGP #lookingglass, e.g. https://lg.de-cix.net/ has quite a few globally so you can see it spread.
As of this writing, https://lg.de-cix.net/search?q=151.216.128.0%2F17 has it in Frankfurt and Marseille, and nowhere else. Usually for new BGP announcements from EU, they show up in LATAM last, with a delay of up to three days.
Speaking of #FOSDEM.. it will be our 25th anniversary!
Is there anything you would like me to cover during the opening and closing talks? Anything fun? Anything important? The next week or two is a great time to let me know
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.
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.
With the amount of public and private notifications of people contracting #COVID / #COVID19, #flu, #tonsillitis, and a plethora of other illnesses transmitted through the respiratory system, I'm quite happy with opportunistically but largely consistently #masking at #38c3. I'm fine, but I only consider our group clear by the 6th. Everyone in this group is #vaccine ated to their teeth of course, that helps.
Anyway, you'll see me #mask at #FOSDEM in public spaces again.
Consider doing the same?
I have to admit that the "1000 talks" for #FOSDEM is such a clean number that it feels made up, but it's actually a precise count as of today.
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!
@fosdem I was asked privately for the "how", and figured a public reply makes sense
https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-801 is the policy.
Fun fact: The extra time around an event used to be 1-2 weeks, and this was distilled pain as I had to chase #FOSDEM #BGP upstreams to update sessions, filters, etc and usually needed to escalate through to last level support
Before automation and the Cloud, a new #BGP announcement took days to weeks by default
So I got the #RIPE policy changed and extended to a month :)
