Events/FOSDEM/2017

FOSDEM (Brussels, Belgium) is probably the best community driven FOSS event in Europe. It's massive, chaotic and fun.

FOSDEM main track, 2013.

Like previous years, FOSDEM is organised at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration. Just turn up!

Date

4 & 5 February 2017

All information on https://fosdem.org/2017/.

Call for participation published at https://fosdem.org/2017/news/2016-07-20-call-for-participation/

Lectures & lightning talks about MediaWiki or Wikimedia

Wikimedia Foundation presentation by Filippo Giunchedi at FOSDEM

Another Wikimedia Foundation presentation

• Prometheus at WMF

Wikis devroom

No dedicated Wikis devroom this year.

Related rooms:

• PHP and friends room
• Mozilla room (discourse, HTTP/2, Persona, rendering and motivation all affect us too)
• Legal room
• LibreOffice room,

Related talks: OSOR, OSM, UX clash, Pandas

Wikimedia stand

No Wikimedia stand stand this year. https://fosdem.org/2017/stands/

Related:

• Tiki Wiki CMS stand.
• If we don't pick a "default" stand, I'll probably be around those with people I know best: LibreOffice/KDE/Fedora, FSFE, Mozilla/GCI/GSOC, Debian/Haiku, Conservancy. Nemo 13:28, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Participants at FOSDEM

No registration is required, but here you can tell other MediaWiki / Wikimedia users that you are going to attend the conference.

• André Klapper
• Siebrand
• Multichill
• TheDJ
• Lydia Pintscher
• Jan Dittrich (WMDE, UX)
• Léa Lacroix / Auregann (Wikidata, communities)
• Charlie Kritschmar
• Samu (WMDE)
• Nemo (will probably try multiple devrooms and the legal session)
• Filippo Giunchedi
• Parent5446 (participates the Sunday to the PGP key signing event)
• Dereckson (participates the Sunday to the PGP key signing event)
• Effie Mouzeli (not staff member at the time)
• Riccardo Coccioli
• Geertivp (talk)