
FOSDEM 2026
Late last year I finally had the chance to attend the Matrix conference, I had missed the year before due to running out of days on my Schengen visa. That was a blast, and as soon as I got home I wanted to find the next thing to attend. Then I spotted that the Free and Open-source Software Developers’ European Meeting, better known as FOSDEM, was taking place in only a few months. So I hastily organised a few friends and an Airbnb and stuck it in the diary. I had a skim of the schedule, and was amazed at the sheer volume of things going on in only two days. The Matrix conference seemed like a walk in the park in comparison. ...

