For talks which will obviously be popular, go to the talk before it even if it's not as interesting. It's not common to have two super-popular talks in a row in the same room.
That is how it's supposed to be. You can watch the talks at home at any time but the opportunity to meet random yet like-minded people from all over Europe is unique.
Indeed! It's the 3-4x times I'm going to FOSDEM so I'm mainly looking to connect with people doing cool stuff tbh, otherwise I can just watch stuff online for sure.
For talks which will obviously be popular, go to the talk before it even if it's not as interesting. It's not common to have two super-popular talks in a row in the same room.
Yeah ofc but I also like to walk around, I might just camp in a room next year.
This year they said they avoided making single–project rooms. These are the ones people camped in the most, I think.
Is that right? There were devrooms for GCC, Go, LLVM, Nix, Plan 9, Python and many more.
F.ex. they didn't do postgresql and other DBs separately but instead just had a databases room.
Just repeating what they said from the closing ceremony.
That is how it's supposed to be. You can watch the talks at home at any time but the opportunity to meet random yet like-minded people from all over Europe is unique.
On my side, I had the feeling that there was less room/talk full to the point you can't enter compared to previous years.
Except in the H building.
Agree, felt a little less packed than before. H building was brutal though.
Not the same experience of course, but I think you can watch the presentations you've missed https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/streaming/
Indeed! It's the 3-4x times I'm going to FOSDEM so I'm mainly looking to connect with people doing cool stuff tbh, otherwise I can just watch stuff online for sure.