Events/FOSDEM/2020

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

FOSDEM auditorium, 2019

Like previous years, FOSDEM is organised at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Coordinates: 50.81 N 4.38 E.

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

Date

1–2 February 2020

All information on https://fosdem.org/2020/.

Talks about MediaWiki or Wikimedia

See mentions of Wikimedia in the FOSDEM 2020 schedule:

• Lexemes in Wikidata (structured lexicographical data for everyone)
• Wikibase Ecosystem (taking Wikidata further)
• Web Performance track.

Devroom

Wikimedia is introducing a Web Performance devroom, run by Gilles, Peter and Timo of the Wikimedia Performance Team.

Stand

No official Wikimedia stand this year.

Blog posts

• Organizing a developer room at FOSDEM, techblog.wikimedia.org.

Participants at FOSDEM

One of several sessions at FOSDEM 2020 which has shown Wikidata: Pintoch on OpenRefine

• Nemo (also in the open science and Replicant track, but usually in the legal/communities track; earlier going to pre-FOSDEM FSFE and EP, later going to CopyleftConf)
• Laurentius
• Geertivp (talk)
• Ainali (also earlier going to pre-FOSDEM OFE and FSFE events on Friday)
• Krenair ^{(talk • contribs)}
• Pintoch (talk) 14:34, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Saturday night drinks

We met for drinks after the talks in a private room upstairs of a nice pub near Grand Place.