Fosdem 2024 day one going down the memory lane

Today marked the first FOSDEM day. The official tag for social networks is #fosdem. The intro was nice because the presenter took some picture from my mastodon feed of yesterday. The auditorium was full and a lot of people raised their hand when asked if it was their first Fosdem.

A full auditorium, Jansen

I then listened to a few talks, the one from Ryan of the thunderbird project explaining how an Open Source project to think about sustainability. I learned there that the team was now 32 people - that's way way more than mozillamessaging never had. That was nice news. And then I started meeting people, that was a blast. Many old mozilla contributor, people from Thunderbird from the momo days. All in all 21 people. And I have not met everyone yet. I need to make group pictures.

The talk about the 10 years of NetBSD was interesting, but more for the 2BSD news and the DPD-11 clone.

The talk on I2P DNS was interesting, I learned a lot about I2P, but was disappointed that it wasn't really DNS related.

I got my fedora virtual badge. And some interesting stickers.

End of the day was meant talking to old friend and attending the mozilla diner.