#deltachat - one of the inspiring talks of #fosdem about #chatmail - de-centralised, resilient, safe, mature chat network with dignified on-boarding; all operated via email. "Over the years, Delta Chat has matured to be an easy-to-use, secure, and even fast messenger for all platforms, based on the massive e-mail server network. We'll give an overview of the ways Delta Chat is used today and how it is developed by a dozen active contributors." https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5853-delta-chat-from-e-mail-messaging-to-peer-to-peer-realtime-networking @delta
one of the great talks of #fosdem - @zverik using osm data to bring the 15-minute city concept to life (also featuring a very well prepared demo section) https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4627-15-minute-city-in-15-minutes/
💁🏻 tips sought on minimal dependency blogging? as a person who posts rarely (i.e. after returning from #fosdem feeling all utopian), i recently tried to dust off my 11ty site... being unmaintained for a year, it is unsurprisingly not working and i've lost enthusiasm for static site gens, (thanks to Łukasz for the beautiful template though). seems it's time to make like @froos and just write markup? https://garten.salat.dev/meta/youre-doing-computing-wrong.html @lukem https://github.com/lwojcik/eleventy-template-bliss #ssg #blog #11ty #html
save lives, deliver babies: one of the best talks from #fosdem
How London Ambulance Service use open data to locate patients; how your phone sends live geospatial information to their control room; how other open (and some not-open) data saves lives across London every day. suitable for all ages.
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4914-how-to-save-a-life/
"bamboozlement now!" one of the best talks from this year's #fosdem featuring a swanee whistle for maximal impact: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4933-bamboozling-badly-behaving-bots/
big thanks to all who joined (or tried to join) the #geospatial room at #fosdem (the videos are starting to appear now). it was great to have a place for geospatial devs @ brussels in february again, and for that i'd like to thank @edward for putting us back on the fosdem map 🗺️ also shouts to all who gave talks @zverik @skylar @ciupava @soporificoctopus @cquest @jameslmilner @oguyot_c2c @maximvdw
Pratichhya Sharma, Brian Duggan, and crew @nmar @trigpoint @mbess https://video.fosdem.org/2025/aw1120/ #osgeo
@bitboxer the arguments seem part of the show. #38c3 even featured a stage invasion recently! i remember the 2019 final keynote saying "foss is capitalism" and then <big scary sponsor> getting namechecked during the infra review eliciting a Janson sized roar of disapproval. <big scary sponsors> have had much less fanfare since then, but still, what is #fosdem for: utopia, dystopia, or an awkward mix of the two?
@yaxu @TodePond come to #fosdem it's freedom free, which does mean you get to buy your own train ticket etc. but it's such a spectacular outpouring of open sourcery that it's worth it anyway as a mini sabbatical for the spirit. imagine a pub meetup scaled to 10K open sourcerers fueled by trappist monks, carmelite nuns, and smurfs. it definitely needs a livecoding presence!
#fosdem #opengeo devroom back in VUB's magic building and looking great for '25! https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/geospatial/ @ciupava @maximvdw @zverik @cquest @oguyot_c2c @skylar @edward @nmar
