{"id":132352,"date":"2023-03-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fedoramagazine.org\/?p=37994"},"modified":"2023-03-10T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T08:00:00","slug":"the-fedora-project-fosdem-23-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/03\/10\/the-fedora-project-fosdem-23-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fedora Project FOSDEM 23 Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A measure of growth is most apparent when scaled across a span of different times and situations. That applies to folks getting to see you after a long time, to vegetation left alone to spread and of course, to communities having their first meetup after a prolonged spell of online-bound interactions. FOSDEM 23 happened to be one of the first times after around three years that community members from across the world met in person with each other in Brussels, Belgium. With new and old faces alike, their time was well spent representing the community, exhibiting to the wider free and open-source communities the good stuff that they have been keeping themselves busy with and most importantly, bonding with their Fedora friends.<\/p>\n

This year FOSDEM took place on 4th February ’23<\/strong> and 5th February ’23<\/strong> at Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles, Campus du Solbosch, Avenue F. D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium<\/strong>. This free event was participated by over 8000 software engineering enthusiasts from across the world, had around 36 lightning talks and around 771 talks spanning 55 designated devrooms. Contributors from our community did not restrict their participation in the event as just attendees but they also enthusiastically volunteered to be stand keepers<\/em> in the Fedora Project booth, speakers<\/em> for a variety of talks and lectures, organizers<\/em> for a set of devrooms and even as ground staff<\/em> for making FOSDEM 23 a grand success.<\/p>\n

Representation in booth<\/h2>\n
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Fedora Project had its official booth in Building H<\/strong> of the Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles<\/strong> campus, near the booths belonging to our friends at CentOS Project<\/a> and GNOME Project<\/a>. The desks were set up on time with a display showing the FOSDEM 23 attendee badge QR code and an assorted set of Fedora Project swags for taking (like keycaps with the Fedora logo, USB flash drives with Fedora branding, stickers and clips with the branding of Fedora subteams\/SIGs\/workgroups like NeuroFedora<\/a> and Workstation<\/a>, webcam covers with the Fedora logo and much more). We were also thankfully provided with a jar of jelly bears to offer to our booth attendees and a set of stickers from our friends at the AlmaLinux<\/a> community.<\/p>\n

With a designated booth duty schedule planned beforehand by our community members, the booth was constantly looked after by at least three staff members at any point in time and attended to hundreds of booth visitors throughout the course of the event. The booth visitors were excited to interact with our booth staff members, shared their own fun experiences of using Fedora Linux<\/a> for a purpose of their choice and asked questions about participating in the community. We also teamed up with our friends from CentOS Project<\/strong> to combine our efforts into managing our booths together and moving our resources to\/from the FOSDEM locker room. To sum it up, we really appreciate the community\u2019s participation in our official booth.<\/p>\n

Speaking about innovation<\/h2>\n
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Contributors participating in the Fedora Project community were eager to share what they know about what they have been working and that took place in the form of multiple talks\/lectures for a variety of devrooms during FOSDEM 23. Ranging from the latest Fedora Linux remix running on Apple Silicon hardware to improving the experience of video gaming on GNU\/Linux distributions, from summing up the helpful outcomes of one of the first open-source creative conferences to building a web-based installer for Fedora Linux, our members were involved in providing a great deal of quality content and were met by wide acclaim from halls filled with enthusiastic attendees.<\/p>\n

The delivered talks\/lectures were not only useful in letting others know about all the cool things we have been working on but also instrumental in garnering feedback from the wider free and open-source software communities as to how we can do better. The attendees were eager to ask their questions at the end of the respective talks and curious to know about the directions that our projects, activities and developments were headed, thereby helping the speaker establish their network and also, potentially onboarding contributors. The following is the list of talks\/lectures associated with the Fedora Project, the links of which can be followed to access the recordings and shared presentation assets.<\/p>\n