FOSDEM '25 Meetup - Brussels, February 1-2, 2025

[grizzled thistle]

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas, and collaborate together. The best thing about this annual event is that all you need to do is show up!

There are a few of us who will be there, and we'd love to know if you're interested for a meetup and what day! Please fill out this form - we'll follow up in here once we have more details to share. 😄

[analog holly]

@unborn bane @idle badger @tidal magnet @wise crest @hardy jackal @rugged island @finite stirrup @warm herald @blazing hull @heady forge

[grizzled thistle]

If you've already filled out the form, no need to again! We've got you (and the form will tell you no anyway). 😄

[analog holly]

But did y'all see the schedule for both days already? It's filled to the brim again

[finite stirrup]

Thank god Google Forms has better memory than me

[grizzled thistle]

Now imagine if you were logged into a second Google email and were able to submit again.

[unborn bane]

yeah ... i'm already thinking of, print it out, hang it on a darts board and throw a dart 😄

[grizzled thistle]

It currently looks like most people are okay with either day for our meetup but a couple would prefer February 1st.

[unborn bane]

Saturday would be the best ... pleeeaaaase 🥺

[unborn bane]

with 50% scale on an WQHD monitor 😬 and that's just Saturday

[analog holly]

I'm also leaving earlier than expected

[unborn bane]

uhhh .... hopefully earliest on Sunday?

[analog holly]

Sunday start of the evening

[grizzled thistle]

We should probably expect it to be on the 1st then - but maybe give it a couple more days.

[unborn bane]

I'm planing to leave Sunday around 13/14:00 (~8-9h traveltime)

[wise crest]

Or... import the ICS into Home Assistant and use a script to randomly pull the next one?
We just need the ICS component to be part of core, I'm sure @analog holly has some free time 😛

[analog holly]

I'm fully booked until 3 February

[unborn bane]

I'll just be there and wait that someone will pick me up 😅

[wise crest]

I'm there Friday-Monday, I booked a long weekend from work and am taking the Eurostar so it should be pretty relaxed for me 😄

[finite stirrup]

Same, except not the Eurostar part.

Where is everyone staying? I booked a spot at the LATROUPE Grand Place hostel.

[unborn bane]

Hotel Siru

[rugged island]

It's like with Chaos Communication Congress or other stuff, you will not get to most of the stuff anyways 😄

[wise crest]

Hotel Aqua for me

[rugged island]

dito

My husband and I will be there from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon, as on Monday the wage labour is calling 😄

[rugged island]

Yes please 🥺

[rugged island]

Eurostar, fancy 😄

[analog holly]

I am interested in how you will experience DB

also, will we see @dawn barn in brussels as well?

[rugged island]

I hope that my "International Reduced Rate Card for Railway Staff" (FIP card) will arrive on time 😄

The first time using trains internationally 😂

[unborn bane]

initially I planned the same - already booked the train tickets (1st class) but did not think that I would need any seat reservation, because - come one it's first class 🫣
meanwhile I got the info, that a very high utilization is expected for these travels, so a seat reservation is highly recommended ... it figured out, that booking 1st class, does not mean, that you get a seat in the first class, it just means, you're allowed to be in the 1st class area - even you just sit on the ground for 9h 🤦

[tidal magnet]

Well, my year didn't really start good, it was already going to be difficult to attend and past days made it even worse.

[rugged island]

But you can book seat reservations independent of your ticket

[rugged island]

But as a normal passenger you can use a seat when one is free, as railway staff you have to officially give up your seat when the train is full 😄

[analog holly]

Oh really

[rugged island]

Yep, on the staff tickets it's written "Please make your seat available for our customers in full trains. Thanks."

[analog holly]

Cool

[rugged island]

Now they at least write please and thanks, up until a few years ago it just said "Make seat available for customers in full trains" 😄

[naive bane]

Is there HA apparel merch?

[grizzled thistle]

No, not apparel. Need to get @analog holly to print out stickers, though. 😉

[dawn barn]

Yeah, just got my flights sorted out 👍

[analog holly]

(Now I finally got you here, there are some open PRs on your libraries by me 👀 )

[dawn barn]

... Which one(s)? My /pulls and /notifications are in shambles

[analog holly]

Oh lol, wait, they were closed in october as they weren't needed anymore

never mind 😂

[dawn barn]

Oh yeah, the license classifier stuff?

[analog holly]

For sensirion ble and aioruuvigateway

yess

[rugged island]

The FIP cards are there, now I can book the international train tickets 😁

[lethal ledge]

Trip planed, will be in there from 31:e jan to 3:e Feb.

[grizzled thistle]

We're finalizing some things today. 😄

We're hoping to have swag printed for y'all - similar to what I did for GitHub Universe.

[unborn bane]

Holo stickers? 👉👈🥺

[grizzled thistle]

As long as Joost prints them. 😄

Then y'all can post them to Horst.

[unborn bane]

as long as they are printed on this
https://amzn.eu/d/b0MiBAR

[rugged island]

https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html

[agile flax]

I didn't see anything related to HA on FOSDEM website ? is it just a meetup or do nabu casa actually have a stand over there ?

[analog holly]

Just a meetup!

As in, we are one of the biggest open source projects, but we are not used to being on the biggest open source conference

so for this year at least I am trying to get the community known to FOSDEM and hopefully get the ball rolling from there

So during FOSDEM itself it will probably just clutter and dissolve with people finding each other on the campus

https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2213-brewing-free-beer-with-esphome-and-home-assistant/

[naive bane]

Which of the people here works for DB? I have a complaint!

[analog holly]

@rugged island

[naive bane]

So, my trips to and from fosdem are each 2 legs. A total of 1 is Eurostar, 3 are ICE (scary I know)
Now due to having booked a single leg on an international partner
I can't add the 3 ICE tickets to the app either

[analog holly]

wdym 2 legs

[wise crest]

Trains I presume?

I'm taking Eurostar there. Train to London, Eurostar, and then walk/public transit. And the reverse on Monday 😊

[rugged island]

How did you book?

[naive bane]

DB website. Though it did tell me that'll send mails instead of saving it to the account due to having an international leg

[rugged island]

Were you forwarded to international-bahn.de?

[naive bane]

I think so

I didn't expect to have it in the app
But I looked at the PDFs I'm supposed to print
And they look exactly the same as normal DB ones for the DB parts

[rugged island]

Yeah, international-bahn.de is a separate system

International trains is unfortunately still a mess 😦

[naive bane]

=.=

[wet cape]

Are there any details about the meetup yet?

[naive bane]

#1325940723857621022 message this?

oh no, that's just a talk

[grizzled thistle]

Not yet, no. I’m working with Joost on location early this week.

Tomorrow is a US holiday though so I won’t be online until Tuesday.

MAYBE SOMEONE CAN DO SOME SEARCHING

-# This was a subcomment about Joost. 😂

[wise crest]

Note to self: bother Joost tomorrow

[naive bane]

you take holidays off? I've not seen you take weekends off so far

[grizzled thistle]

Shitposting isn’t working on the weekends.

Though that is like half of my job.

[rugged island]

Just throw a few "Godverdomme!" in his direction 😄

[analog holly]

Sid chose violence

[unborn bane]

another 5€-slap ?

[naive bane]

no live release party at FOSDEM

[analog holly]

Nope

But we can do a live demo of 2025.2 in the café

[naive bane]

how many devices will you bring?

[grizzled thistle]

I see that we have 16 respondents to the interest survey.

I'll be sending over 25 each of the pins and postcards designed for this meetup. 🙂

For those of you who weren't aware of what our collectible swag looks like - https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/1298442357531873300

[hexed olive]

Any news on the meetup time/location?

[analog holly]

euh

[rugged island]

And how many stickers will be there? 👀 Would love to take a few for the stickerbox at my local hackerspace

[analog holly]

at least 2

[naive bane]

Is that a soon on the meeting, or soon on the info?

[grizzled thistle]

Yes.

[grizzled thistle]

Oh yeah maybe I should order those today like I was supposed to do yesterday.

The meetup will be at a local bar or something, we'll finalize that today.

[finite stirrup]

I know my hostel has a bar for groups so I don't need to walk far afterwards 😂

[rugged island]

Ah okay, so outside of the venue? Good to know

[grizzled thistle]

Yeah, it won't be at the venue. Bars tend to be great places for these things.

[rugged island]

As long as they are not overfilled 😄

[grizzled thistle]

Psh, drink more so you can get louder than the crowd.

Duh.

😉

[rugged island]

My voice is loud enough 😂 I don't need a microphone when presenting things 🤪

[finite stirrup]

The venue is also a university, it's closed in the evening. (Well, not sure what hours the meet-up would be, but the university closes at 22h)

[rugged island]

But so it is just a casual meetup with just talking and getting to know each other (for the ones who haven't met in real life yet)

[grizzled thistle]

Yeah, nothing prepared or anything. Get together and mingle.

Or be awkward in a corner, that's fine, too.

[rugged island]

Ah okay 😄

From the Chaos congress I know meetups as quite organized events 😄 But I understand :3

[grizzled thistle]

We're organized adjacent.

😄

[rugged island]

Haha

But then it is not so awkward to bring my husband with me 😄

[naive bane]

You need bigger crowds

[analog holly]

then we can hear about all the horror stories of living in a smart home made by sid 😛

[rugged island]

😢

The unfinished smart home 😅

[analog holly]

Is it ever finished?

[rugged island]

Yeah okay, that's another question 😂

But my backlog still has quite some items 😄

[analog holly]

But at this point I also can't imagine someone else living with me with my smart home in its current state

[rugged island]

Naw

Yeah, it's a bit of a motivation when there is the pressure that the stuff should work 😄

Either it works or I have to revert to a working state 😅

[naive bane]

I may have some automations that assume I'm the only person in my place

[analog holly]

Like, it's not that it's that bad, but some things are based on my alarm and my position

[rugged island]

Ah okay 🙂

My automations are quite primitive. light switches to lights, then outside a motion sensor for the outside lights at the door, then the doorbell which sends notifications to the phones and plays a sound on the light switches with integrated speakers, and a notification for bringing out the trash 😄

[rugged island]

Only one week left to FOSDEM 😄

[finite stirrup]

Less when you take into account it starts on Saturday 🥳

[naive bane]

less than 5 days till I get on the train

[rugged island]

I messed the weekdays up 😂

[rugged island]

For us as well, right from work into the train on Friday 😄

[naive bane]

yea, I'll go to the office in the morning, then pass my home station on the way to Brussels 😂

though it looks like I'll travel without my personal laptop

[unborn bane]

if someone else plans to arrive by car, don't forget to register your car
https://www.visit.brussels/en/visitors/plan-your-trip/practical-info/low-emission-zone

[finite stirrup]

Information about the unofficial FOSDEM afterparty on Saturday: https://bytenight.brussels/

[wet cape]

Any timerange / day when the home assistant meetup would be?

[finite stirrup]

Last I heard Saturday evening

[analog holly]

Yes, I am looking into that today

[unborn bane]

i know there are still 5 hours left today ... buuuut .... are there any news on this 😬

at least - is Saturday fix?

[grizzled thistle]

Saturday for sure.

That's what we are looking for.

Or rather that's what I am forcing Joost to look for. 😂

[wise crest]

It's called delegating!

[unborn bane]

https://tenor.com/view/shin-jimin-jimin-whip-whiplash-whipping-gif-12463359

[soft bison]

I'll be around Saturday, but will not be there Saturday evening 😕 Edit: Should I be happy about that?

[analog holly]

It will be amazing

also keep in mind that we are around FOSDEM and we are also in the city on friday already

[soft bison]

Right, I'll be around from about 9 PM (Friday) arriving by train

[grizzled thistle]

Just make sure you snag swag from Joost then!

[naive bane]

but you didn't send him any shirts to hand out

[grizzled thistle]

I did not, no.

We ran out of time for those mostly because we haven't found a good merch replacement yet.

Springtee isn't working for us anymore. Too many issues over the past year with it now.

[wise crest]

My travel prep is happening!

[naive bane]

I've booked long distance trains. I don't know how to get around locally

[wise crest]

I just have to train to London, tube, Eurostar, and then figure out how to get to my hotel

[naive bane]

Train to Cologne, another to Brussels, then figure out local

[finite stirrup]

Drive to the neighboring city and take the train (it will take me almost 2 hours 😒), my hostel is walking distance from the station.

[wise crest]

I think my journey should take around 6 hours in total

[naive bane]

2h drive or train?

[finite stirrup]

15 minute drive, train will depend on delays and which I manage to get. Knowing myself I'll probably miss some 😅

[unborn bane]

go downstairs to the underground parking garage, sit in my car ... 8 hours later ... arrival at the hotel underground parking garage ... more or less 😬

[naive bane]

Yea, my journey is >6h

I just hope they provide the board restaurant at seat feature...

[unborn bane]

i've also already marked the important places for this weekend 😬

[naive bane]

There's only 2
Your hotel and the university

[finite stirrup]

And the (currently unknown) location for the HA meetup!

[unborn bane]

there is a 3rd in the "middle-east"

[finite stirrup]

I would add the Hackerspace in the West-northwest as well

[analog holly]

I'm really curious what that is about

last year it looked really sketchy so we didn't go

[finite stirrup]

It's my first time at FOSDEM so I don't have the slightest idea (also never visited HSBXL).

[naive bane]

I was there 2020 😮

[analog holly]

FOSDEM or HSBXL?

[naive bane]

fosdem

[analog holly]

ah

[unborn bane]

i've also given up to try to get/read/understand the schedule tabels of FOSDEM 🙈

[analog holly]

this will be my fifth time

use the app

[unborn bane]

this doesn't help to decided which talk i want to visit ... there are hundrets of talks ... i'm lost in this 😄

[analog holly]

Okay so let me type out my ultimate guide to FOSDEM

[unborn bane]

see #1325940723857621022 message

[naive bane]

Sadly the office is closed the entire time I'm in brussels. Can't look at that

[analog holly]

FOSDEM is like playing a battle royale game. There are hundreds of people wanting the same thing. My strategy is to check every room individually and check if there are things I like. Then I make a list of things I really really want to see. I usually went with a friend with similar interest, so it was just making sure we both saw things we really wanted to see. If its a popular talk (like does it sound popular?), make sure to either be in the room already the talk before the one you want to see or be quick and in front of the door.

Furthermore, make sure you bring your laptop or a powerbank so you can do something when the talk you wanted to go to isn't what you hoped it was. Also make sure to reserve a little time to go to building K, where all the stickers and projects like Postgres and VLC are. OpenHAB is also there if happen to be into home automation.

[naive bane]

remind me, what was the lunch situation at FOSDEM?

[analog holly]

There's a ton of food trucks in the middle. (not the fancy ones, just some fast food)

Long queues and generally on the bit expensive side, but not tooooo expensive

There are 2 or 3 places where the study association of the ULB has places where you can get beer, sandwiches and bottled water

Those are usually quite okay

[unborn bane]

🍻

[unborn bane]

are there already some plans for a ... let's say - pre-meetup on Friday evening? Just getting "a" beer and a snack/dinner? 😬

[grizzled thistle]

"a" beer lol

I think we have a solid place for Saturday evening, y'all.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/R4wo8ejmxpDyK5tf7

They don't take reservations but have a large enough space that there should be room.

They also said they don't have a ton of tourists yet, so it shouldn't be super full.

[unborn bane]

i like the name 🙂

[grizzled thistle]

Maybe y'all will have Big Delirium.

[wise crest]

They have a few venues 🤣

[analog holly]

Oh I remember the floris bar

we drank all kinds of fruit beer

and a freshmen year got absynth there

[naive bane]

how old is freshman? 17?

[analog holly]

18

[unborn bane]

it seems to be the almost exact middle point of Brussels ... it MUST be good ☝️

[lethal ledge]

160m and 2 minutes walk from my hotel not sure I will make it. 😄

[analog holly]

sounds like we have a place to crash if we cant reach our hotel

[rugged island]

Good morning! Unfortunately, we can't come to Brussels, as we both have gotten sick. Would have been great to meet you all, but there will be always another opportunity to meet. We wish you all lots of fun!

[analog holly]

Get well soon Sid 🍀

[rugged island]

Thanks!

[wet cape]

Do I need cash on the campus or is ApplePay usually accepted?

[analog holly]

I can't remember any trouble with this, so yes, I believe they have contactless payment thingies

[heady timber]

So no definitive time/date yet ?

[finite stirrup]

Saturday evening is the definitive time and date.

Actual time expressed in HH:MM: no clue.

[analog holly]

Ouch, apparently there are problems with flights to belgium

[unborn bane]

❔

[analog holly]

some technical issue

[naive bane]

Clearly big govt against small FOSS

[heady forge]

so is there any schedule done to meet all together?

[analog holly]

Saturday evening, say 19:00~20:00 at little delirium

I assume everyone is at the conference

So be sure to share talks you are going to visit

[grizzled thistle]

Want to post up the location and time in one message we can pin here?

[naive bane]

can you set it up as event? or is it too small scale for that?

[finite stirrup]

Is the meetup only 1 hour or is that a starting time range?

[analog holly]

time range

[grizzled thistle]

A little too small scale - don't want to confuse the other 130k here.

[finite stirrup]

There is just too much at too many places at the same time. I spent an hour last week just scrolling through the list. Also not a big fan of the FOSDEM Companion/Schedule apps. Giggity makes it a bit more visual and easier to plan.

[analog holly]

but be sure to share your wanna sees

last year I even completely overlooked the ESPHome one

[finite stirrup]

My Saturday list (with probably lots of overlap but limited myself to this for now): What's new in nextcloud, MapTCHA, 15-minute city in 15 minutes, panoramax, LGPL enforced in Germany, Ladybird a new independent browser, typed HTML in my python, comparing Fuschia components and Linux containers, adopting BlueZ in production, TKey an open security token, reverse engineering CAN communication, Immich selfhosted photo/video management, interacting with Tesla vehicles using ESPHome, Fediscovery improving the fediverse, Meshtastic, Manyfold, Dangerzone

[analog holly]

oeh ladybird sounds interesting

Immich as well

[grizzled thistle]

interacting with Tesla vehicles using ESPHome

[analog holly]

wait there is an esphome one?

[grizzled thistle]

Oooh, want me to email Andrew?

[analog holly]

who

[grizzled thistle]

He's the CTO (iirc) for Ladybird.

He was at the talk I did.

[analog holly]

oh, I am just interested in the talk for now 😛

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4664-interacting-with-tesla-vehicles-locally-over-ble-using-esphome/

[finite stirrup]

Sunday: Boxer, Heimdall, OIDC flows, WebAuthn, ZeMarmot, 25 years of JavaScript, how to write a killer README, Matrix state of the union, State of Synapse, post processing GNSS train positions, FOSDEM infrastructure overview, ten years as a certificate authority

[unborn bane]

can we please concentrate on the really important things first ☝️ ☝️ ☝️

[finite stirrup]

I think they're doing a special livestream tomorrow evening, and wanted to drop by their stand on Saturday. Other stands I want to visit: meshtastic, mastodon, WHY2025 and Team:Badge (not badge.team), fossasia, panoramax, and VideoLAN.

[analog holly]

oh right

I am doing 5 things at the same time

[unborn bane]

https://tenor.com/view/snob-mimimi-what-do-i-have-to-do-with-that-gif-11621946

[analog holly]

fixing beta issues, reviewing PRs, making dinner, trying not to forget to make tea and respond here

[unborn bane]

you need more cores to parallize the tasks 😛

[finite stirrup]

Spin up another sidekiq instance.

[grizzled thistle]

MEETUP DETAILS
Little Delirium starting @ 19:00

[heady timber]

Ohhh that's in "Rue des Pitas" ( "Shoarmas street" )

[finite stirrup]

No, it's the cheese market street (oh you mean not literally)

[heady timber]

Yep not literally but that's how we named it 🙂

[analog holly]

Goooooooood Morning

[unborn bane]

https://tenor.com/view/coffee-coffee-cup-cup-of-coffee-coffee-mug-hot-coffee-gif-1424954753048007115

I'm in the last preparation steps and will start in ~1h

[wise crest]

I'm on my first train of the day 🥱

[analog holly]

I'm only now packing my stuff

[wise crest]

I have to be at the Eurostar 75 minutes before departure, so I packed last night. In hindsight I think I overpacked snacks as they take up about half of my case 🤣

[analog holly]

Loooool

[wise crest]

I don't want to be hungry on the train! 🤣🤣

[analog holly]

Understandable

[wise crest]

Plus I can throw some in my bag every day for the next few days 🤪

[unborn bane]

aaaand GO 🏎️ 💨

[analog holly]

Achtung

Baustelle

[naive bane]

Y'all are going so early
My train's still more than 4h away :0

[wise crest]

The Eurostar was cheaper earlier in the day for me! Plus I can go sight seeing after I arrive 😊

[wise crest]

Train 1 and the underground done. Just waiting for the train to Brussels now!

[dawn barn]

Airside at Helsinki-Vantaa

[dawn barn]

... Which day? 😅

[analog holly]

Saturday!

[analog holly]

beer from a wine glass?

[dawn barn]

I'm Bohemian like that 💅

[unborn bane]

440km done, 340km left ... time for a short refill break - fuel for the car, food for me 😅

[wise crest]

I've made it to France, about half an hour to go to get to Brussels.

[analog holly]

hon hon hon 🥖

[unborn bane]

do you know these guys? 😅

[analog holly]

we have an integration for that

[wise crest]

Don't mess with me when I'm hangry 🤣

Out of the 5 people in my train carriage I eyeballed as likely FOSDEM attendees, 3 got off in Brussels 🤪

[analog holly]

looool

[wise crest]

I wasn't stereotyping, but some people stereotype themselves 😅

[dawn barn]

The Emacs beard or the Vim sticker is generally a dead giveaway...

[wet cape]

🚂

[naive bane]

🚆 1. Departing soon.

[naive bane]

I cannot bring my personal laptop, so I just have corpa stickers :0

[wise crest]

My hotel has a 24 hour croissant bar.

[wise crest]

Beards and general dress sense in this case!

[naive bane]

Black?

[wise crest]

It's the "very old black hoody that doesn't look like it fits very well"

[naive bane]

Oh. Mine isn't old.
But I dress in swag only
I need swag pants though.... Missy!

[dawn barn]

Well crud... 😂

[finite stirrup]

Waiting for the train here, got held up at work.

[wise crest]

Hahaha. I'm sure you'll be fine. Unless you're actually an alien plotting to kidnap us?

[grizzled thistle]

Look at this nerd.

Wearing last year’s merch and everything.

[naive bane]

Hmm. I might have made a mistake packing
Didn't consider the "more" I might need to take home

[wise crest]

This is why half my case is snacks. Which I already started working on whittling down!

[naive bane]

I had to leave a bit hastier than planned, so I don't have much in terms of snacks...

[wise crest]

You can always buy a bag from a shop or grab a merch tote!

[grizzled thistle]

So there was a mess up with the delivery of the pins for the meetup. This means I will need to work to get people's addresses during the meetup so that I can get them shipped out to those who attended.

[naive bane]

I'll blame Joost for any and all spam I receive then

[wise crest]

Always blame Joost
Especially if it's Missy's fault 😇🤣

(In reality the pin blame lies with me. I was supposed to be the go between but had to go to the doctor's on Monday when UPS came and then they failed to re-deliver it!)

[grizzled thistle]

If only they had rang your camera bell!

[unborn bane]

finally, arrived and got my room.
@rugged island We've to talk about your suggestion of the hotel Siru 🙈

[naive bane]

2nd 🚆 another 3 hours to Brussels

[finite stirrup]

Just strolling through Brussels looking for food. Any recommendations?

[unborn bane]

now the most important question - where to get a bear and a snack now?

[naive bane]

Indian

[grizzled thistle]

[naive bane]

Hmm, my eyes spy no other likely fosdem participant
Boring train

[unborn bane]

sorry, sit 8hours in the car ... my brain is in power save for now 😬

but the question still remains - where to get a bear and a snack 🙈

[wise crest]

Well, @analog holly mentioned something about possible beers this evening. So my plan is for wait to him to tell us where he is is and then join the masses as we converge on him

[finite stirrup]

Not the biggest fan of Indian food

Gonna check out Wolf, should have some options there

[unborn bane]

Sounds like a good plan 👍

[analog holly]

I might be going near beurs

[finite stirrup]

Some FOSDEM people were going to delirium cafe today according to that Matrix thing

[analog holly]

I'm now still eating Greek food with friends

[wise crest]

There are several by the way, would be worth making sure it's the right one

[analog holly]

Probably delirium village

[lethal ledge]

Cheers 🥂

[unborn bane]

if get some coordinates, then I'll be there 😅

[grizzled thistle]

Joost will have a QR code for y'all that I will also post in here once it's live so I can collect addresses to send those attending the pin you should be getting.

[grizzled thistle]

Here's what y'all will be receiving, though.

[wise crest]

Ok, I thought my hotel was falling into "just about adequate" but I'm now feeling a lot better about it. The PoE router is just kind of sitting behind the TV, with a screw that would mount it to something (but nowhere to mount it), but I have a router!

[naive bane]

Wait, did I fuck Up by not bringing a power adapter?

[unborn bane]

You mean this one?
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Htw22TZFujAAKosNA

[wise crest]

You may need to make friends! Or ask the desk of where you're staying if they have one you can borrow.

[lethal ledge]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/uccBAMyZLkkgnp3V9

[analog holly]

Yes, but I'm not there yet

[analog holly]

As in, it's a square

And there's an Irish pub, karaoke bar and a beer thing near

And we're planning to go to the bear thing

Beer

[wise crest]

What I love about Brussels, it's a 22 minute walk, or 22 minutes on transit.

[unborn bane]

30min walk from hotel Siru (where I'm)

[naive bane]

Nah, it's compatible. Lucky

[wise crest]

Lucky!

[unborn bane]

On my way @lethal ledge

[wise crest]

I'm very pleased I remembered to bring my EU heads for my power bricks. I very nearly forgot somehow.

[lethal ledge]

Great, we are 3-4 Swedes on the right down the room.

[unborn bane]

Do you have a Swedish flag with you? 😅

[soft bison]

I'll arrive at 21:06 by train at the central station

[naive bane]

Almost

[unborn bane]

Cheers 😅

[unborn bane]

What is the next address? First 🍺 is done... now need a snack 😅

[analog holly]

We just had dinner, now time for 🍺

[finite stirrup]

I also finished dinner. Going back to the hostel to meet up with someone from Fri3d Camp but might join later.

[unborn bane]

Where?

[analog holly]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/PdtUfiZsS15espBA6

I'm directly left btw

[unborn bane]

😅

[analog holly]

Yes that's ne

[wise crest]

Well that's good, I just had to reboot my phone at the bar to find out where y'all are 🤣

[finite stirrup]

Still at beer capital or going home soon?

[analog holly]

Yes!

The first

[unborn bane]

Where are you?

[wise crest]

To your right 👀

Oh wait, not me 🤣🤣

[naive bane]

Found someone clearly here for fosdem on the train
Barefoot shoes, Engelbert Strauss Jacket and overloaded cargo pants 😂

[wise crest]

This is what I meant by "general wardrobe"! Sometimes your clothes/appearance just scream the event you're going to 🤪😂

[grizzled thistle]

When we were in SF for Universe, we were often identified as being attendees to the conference or in the tech industry.

[grizzled thistle]

This form is to collect y'all's addresses to send you your pin. QR code for handier access.

[grizzled thistle]

And yes I will be verifying you attended. @ people who randomly stumble on this and aren't here. 😂

[analog holly]

[wise crest]

Joost has picture proof I can be photoshopped into meet-up pictures. 😇😈

[grizzled thistle]

You don't count, these are being sent to you! 😂

[wise crest]

True. I can be the master of chaos!!

[warm herald]

@analog holly drop the pic

[warm herald]

Caught the pokemon

[analog holly]

That's a rare one

[analog holly]

@wet lantern

[wet lantern]

Hm?

[analog holly]

I wanted you to join this chat smh

[agile flax]

People got drunk yesterday. It will be a headach’ish fosdem 😉

I will drive by today, will anyone from the HA team be present in the afternoon? It would be cool to say hi and share a beer

[naive bane]

Oh yeah, y'all said to Share plans
My hit list (not cleaned for possibility)

[heady forge]

Landed yesterday, first time to FOSDEM, and came with my working company... Seems to be a culture (no excuse) to have a beer for the event 🍻

Hope to see you around, if you see someone with a GitHub shirt maybe it's me 😁

[analog holly]

We're not presenting but we will be there

[agile flax]

hey @analog holly yes I know that, I've read the previous exchanges around here 😉

[analog holly]

Ooeh the Web browser one sounds good

[analog holly]

Oh i missed the "be present"

Yes there are several working on HA

[agile flax]

I will walk between several places, especially grafana (as I developped a noise monitoring app that generates a grafana dashboard), proxmox, ... but as a long time ha user, it would be cool to meet some people from this project as well.

[naive bane]

You are aware of #1325940723857621022 message in the pins?

[analog holly]

It collides with the immich one

[agile flax]

hey, well, the link brings me to a single meetup place right ? (yesterday -> beers ina. bar rue des pitas)

is that right ? 🙂

[finite stirrup]

It's tonight 1/2, small detail that's missing in the pinned post :p

Yesterday it was more of a pre-meetup in beer capital.

[agile flax]

I also reached out to the immich guys that comminicated a lot about them being present on site, but I'm not sure I'll have a lot discuss as their project is already quite polished, excepted forthe background sync issues, it's almost "perfect" imho

😛

[analog holly]

Warming up

[naive bane]

😦 though I'm using photoprism
I had tried Immich as well, not sure what turned me off in the end

[analog holly]

I had to turn off immich on my ha instance

[agile flax]

I will be traveling out of Liege with my fam' and my wife and kid will attend a museum, so, for me, no beers. It will be a couple of hours in the afternoon, waving, say hi, and go back to liege afterwards.

[finite stirrup]

Do we already have an immich integration?

[naive bane]

Uhh

[analog holly]

It's on my to-do list

[naive bane]

I have to get proper CPU use monitoring set up for my cluster...

[agile flax]

It runs on another server, unraid, at home. With a dedicated gpu and a 5950x

no problem with those specs ^^

[analog holly]

Oh damn

Yes this is just a raspberry

[naive bane]

Mr. 💰 over here

[agile flax]

nope mister "Ive invested in a chia mining server because I was dumb" over here

[analog holly]

Ah fun

[agile flax]

and kept the server 😉

but yes, I have a decent server running in the basement, and aside that, a little N100 running proxmox / opnsense and HAOS

that's about it

[finite stirrup]

I pity the raspberry. Also have an unraid set up (no dedicated GPU) but it's not doing much atm. Was gonna use it for pirate stuff 🦜 but found Stremio in the meantime.

[naive bane]

😂

[agile flax]

(so I can crash the media server whenever I want, without crashing HA)

[analog holly]

How is that a feature

[agile flax]

well, the feature is crystal clear, the unraid server can crash, and my home keeps "working"

I am stupid, and being stupid means I've moved all my wired switches to zigbee devices

[analog holly]

But it sounded like you did it on purpose every so often

[agile flax]

as soon HA and Z2M crashed, there is no way to light the rooms anymore

and then, my wife complains

soooo, the decicated N100 saved my ass a couple of times 🙂

[analog holly]

Hehe

Also

Be sure to hit me up for stickers

[agile flax]

also, before you guys improved the backups, it always was nice to get the nice proxmox nightly VM backups

[analog holly]

Wait until 2025.2

It will be great

[agile flax]

cool, not sure about how you look, but let's try to find each other if we can (I also do speak dutch, no worries about that) :p

[analog holly]

.

[agile flax]

I believe I'll have to wear a mickey mouse tee or something, just to look different from all these bearded dudes with pinguins on their t-shirts 😄

[analog holly]

I'll wear my HA hoodie today

[agile flax]

cool, I'll look for you Joost !

I plan to be there around 14h or something and will drop a message here when on site anyway

see you there ! will be fun !

[naive bane]

Is it warm enough for just a hoodie?
I feel like I'll be annoyed by my choice of clothing either way...

[analog holly]

And my jacket

[naive bane]

And my Bow!

Though I feel like they'd yell at me if I bring it...

[analog holly]

Are we talking bow and tie or bow and arrow

[dawn barn]

Why not both

[wise crest]

Guess who forgot to set an alarm and closed the shutters? 🤣🤣🤣

[finite stirrup]

Rosemary?

[wise crest]

Bingo! The good news is I did sleep well, and the first talk I wanted to attend is at 11 🤣🤣

[naive bane]

🏹

[agile flax]

It looks like I have something to fix upfront taking the road to brussels

Classic

[analog holly]

Lmao

Is it cache?

[agile flax]

Looks like the shroom cards that are fucked up for whatever reason to me ? 😉

Shrooms, took shrooms?

[wise crest]

Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?

[agile flax]

Its worse that that, I’ve noticed the states screen was freezing my brower(s) instances

And now it keeps disconnecting

Haha yes I just did restart the vm

Forget about the disconnections i had no 4g coverage 🤣

The mushroom cards are the bad guy here I believe, will check this when at home

Its back with no apparent reason

Good! I can take the road to the fosdem 👌🤘

[analog holly]

Lmao

[wise crest]

"How did you know where to go?"
"I just followed the herd of nerds including one wearing a traffic cone hat"

It's the mix of ages and languages that give it away 🤣

[analog holly]

LOL

[wise crest]

Is anyone else in the Swiss Maps talk?

[wise crest]

Well I migrated to documentation and the speaker is throwing fire to grab everyone's attention 🤣

[lethal ledge]

Not sure that I was prepared for this amount of people. 😶‍🌫️

[wise crest]

There are a lot. I was planning on hiding out in this room but they've opened all the windows and it's freezing so I may have to migrate!

[dawn barn]

It would be interesting (and scary) to chart the CO2 levels etc. in the auditoriums...

Hi from the Community room btw

[wise crest]

I don't object to the windows being somewhat open, but we're talking wide open! And I'm right in front of them 🤣

[analog holly]

Looool

[naive bane]

You don't have outside clothes with you?

[analog holly]

Free cookie

[finite stirrup]

I usually refuse cookies

[naive bane]

This one is quite ok

[agile flax]

Ok ! In which building are you @analog holly ?

[analog holly]

H

[agile flax]

Immich! I just landed

Which direction when i entered the building?

[finite stirrup]

Just go straight into aula 2215: https://nav.fosdem.org/l/h2215/@2,283.78,137.17,3.27

[agile flax]

🤓

[analog holly]

I'm outside it now

[agile flax]

Ah lets meet in front of the billding

Building 😉

[analog holly]

I'm in front of the room

White hoodie

[wet cape]

Any suggestions for the end of the day?

[analog holly]

Be sure to join the esphome talk in 15 minutes

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4664-interacting-with-tesla-vehicles-locally-over-ble-using-esphome/ #FOSDEM

@fleet field

[wet cape]

Thanks, nearly missed it.

[analog holly]

It will be quite busy btw

[wet cape]

Is it still in H1302?

[finite stirrup]

Yes

Quite full already

[lethal ledge]

Full.

[analog holly]

Nooooo

[analog holly]

Did you make it?

[lethal ledge]

Yes

[analog holly]

@wet cape where are you btw?

[wet cape]

I just left, somewhere outside.

[agile flax]

It was nice to meet you people! Good vibes at this fosdem!

[wise crest]

I am back at my hotel dumping my bag and figuring out food before the meet up!

[finite stirrup]

I'll leave after this Meshtastic talk

[finite stirrup]

Definitely won't make 19h

[heady forge]

Oh! Probably I was behind you! Let's meet at the after 🍻

Going to take a nap before... Too exhausted 😴

[crimson sand]

Hey there, just found this chat. Is there still space to join you guys? Might be a bit late to the party 😅

[grizzled thistle]

ALWAYS ROOM

Show up!

[analog holly]

I am on my way from FOSDEM to the thing

[unborn bane]

I'm also on my way 😅

[heady forge]

Same!

[wise crest]

After a minor detour back to my hotel room for my phone, I'm on my way!

[heady forge]

Am I too early?

[naive bane]

I'll be late. Food taking longer 😮

[grizzled thistle]

FYI - we have budget for drinks and food for y'all. Don't stress so much about things if you were. :3

[dawn barn]

On the way! 🚍

[wet cape]

Arriving soon.

[wise crest]

You may be first, but you're just setting the trends!

[wise crest]

Joost has the company credit card? 😈

BRB, asking if the bar sells ESP32s

[dawn barn]

Oh no...

[finite stirrup]

I should be there in 5'

[wise crest]

There are shinies! And Missy just told me she has a picture of my front door which is not at all ominous 🤣🤣🤣

Does he know he's not supposed to eat the stickers like popcorn?

[dawn barn]

Finnish candy deployed. 😈

[grizzled thistle]

Don't forget to get me your address if you are there! You need a cute pin to go with your Brussels postcard!

[wise crest]

This may take us a while! Do we need to install the integration through HACs?

[heady forge]

Just ask and we'll share P2P!

[warm herald]

Hi

[dawn barn]

Oh no, just copy to custom-components/mouth/

[wise crest]

Joost's fidget toy: https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/

[grizzled thistle]

He's always fidgeting with that!

[wise crest]

And this evening is no exception! But a few folks were unfamiliar so I thought I'd share the link 😅

[heady forge]

Those folks have name... Users 🌚

[wise crest]

Hey, they did a whole stream about it! And blog posts!

I just mod here, I've got no clue what's going on 🤣🤣🤣

[heady forge]

Thanks all for the meeting, it's been really nice meeting you! See you tomorrow at FOSDEM! 🍻

[soft bison]

Thanks the meeting, had a very nice time. Enjoy tomorrow! 🍻

[wise crest]

The latest version of painting by pixels is out now!

Success!
Followed by

I think it should be one pixel higher
And
oh! Now I found there's a way to save badges!!

But, it was successful!!

[grizzled thistle]

[warm herald]

For sale:

[finite stirrup]

I also have a big stack of stickers if anyone is interested

[wet lantern]

Thanks I will make great use of it

[analog holly]

Ffs

[analog holly]

Thanks all for coming to the meet up by the way 🙂

I hope you had a great time

[hexed olive]

Definitely, thanks for organizing ❤️

[finite stirrup]

It was very nice meeting up in person! Thanks everyone.

If you could attend only one talk today, what would it be?

[analog holly]

Are you that hungover?

[analog holly]

Also massive thanks to @grizzled thistle for helping me organise this 🙂

[finite stirrup]

I was kinda bored at the hostel so still went to the afterparty in HSBXL but I'm fine.

[analog holly]

How was that?

Apparently I know one of the bar people there

[finite stirrup]

It's a very cool venue and I liked the music

[hexed olive]

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4319-post-processing-gnss-train-positions/ is the one I'm looking forward to the most from my schedule today

[analog holly]

Oh this looks interesting

[hexed olive]

Probably not for everyone but the question says "you" 😄

[finite stirrup]

That one's also on my shortlist.

[unborn bane]

Thanks for organising this meetup - it was great 👍
Unfortunately I wouldn't make it to the FOSDEM today - need to leave alteady. Hopefully next year 🤞 😁

[wise crest]

My laptop decorations have been upgraded!

[analog holly]

Lmao that Pikachu one

[finite stirrup]

This is mine now. The shiny open home foundation sticker is perfect for hiding the fact I abused my laptop last week.

[analog holly]

Euh

How did you abuse your laptop?

[finite stirrup]

I might have thrown something on top of it that was kinda hard and sharp, my laptop is just weak. (But maybe my subconscious is trying to break it so I can buy a Framework laptop)

[analog holly]

You would think your laptop would be fit

As its a yoga

Do you have a picture of your abuse

[finite stirrup]

No, all is covered up, this sticker is never coming off. In fact I don't even know what you're talking about? (It was just 2 nicks in the case)

[wise crest]

Hehe, I love it 😄

[finite stirrup]

The ZeMarmot short animation film was kinda awesome.

[unborn bane]

so you ducked taped it with this nice shiny open home foundation sticker 👍

[finite stirrup]

How many minuten do they get? I'm attending the killer readme

[analog holly]

5

[analog holly]

Yea I'm missing that one, I'm in the python devroom

I'm also going to check out the open source design track

[finite stirrup]

That's in UD?

I still want to drop by the Immich stand, check if they have any shirts left.

[analog holly]

Yes

[analog holly]

Oh right

Where are they

Ooh they replaced mattermost

[finite stirrup]

Should be in K (same building as open source design if i'm not mistake)

[analog holly]

I was like, I thought I saw everything yesterday

[wise crest]

I didn't see any earlier

Stickers and badges, but no shirts

[analog holly]

I want sticker

[finite stirrup]

I'll settle for a sticker

[wise crest]

You may want to move fast 😉

[analog holly]

They give away hoodies

And I'm jealous

The lightning lightning talks are awesome

[finite stirrup]

Still have shirts

[analog holly]

They fit my attention span

[split ermine]

You doing one on HA?

[wise crest]

We should make him do one!

[analog holly]

My goal this year is to give a talk

Abilio also sent one conference in Berlin which is open for papers

And I'm interested

But I need to know what to talk about

And that's the hard part

[split ermine]

Home Assistant !

[analog holly]

In a year I would love to do one about how the integration quality scale works and what effect it had

[split ermine]

That’s a good one

[analog holly]

But I can't do it now as the effect hasn't played out yet

[split ermine]

You can talk now about how awesome HA is. Pick any part 😛

[analog holly]

CSV download functionality

Like I want to give tech talks that leave you like "ah, i learnt something"

So I'm hoping the smarthome devroom will be future

[finite stirrup]

At Fri3d Camp we always have multiple talks/workshops and a show& tell about HA.

[split ermine]

People want to know how it is being part of HA development day to day

That’s a unique perspective you have Joost

Were running the most active open source project. How are we still alive

[naive bane]

I'm considering a KDE shirt

[analog holly]

Oh I'm thinking back to the bagel I had for breakfast and I'm getting hungry again

[wise crest]

I've wandered off on a food quest myself after exhausting the snacks I had in my bag

[analog holly]

Did you exhaust them all?

[finite stirrup]

I just wanted to ask if you had anything left for me

[analog holly]

I still have salmiak candy

[wise crest]

Well I have snacks in my hotel room. But I ate an entire pack of bread sticks today and thought real food was needed

Grissini to be slightly more accurate

[finite stirrup]

I'm gonna nominate Joost, maybe even Franck or Paulus!

[unborn bane]

when you come home, smooth light is turned on, the heating is alread set to comfort temperature, a nice voice welcomes you at home and starts playing the radio... I like
Thanks for that great weekend 🙂

[finite stirrup]

I thought for a moment you were talking about having a significant other waiting for you at home, instead it's some fancy automation I didn't set up for myself yet.

(feel free to share a blueprint)

[unborn bane]

Even there multiple voices in my head, there is noone waiting at home 😅

[unborn bane]

I recommend you to checkout the proximity integration documentation - SmarthomeJunky did a great job on creating an how-to video about the integration 😉

[analog holly]

Someone brought it to the UI

But, this weekend has been awesome

[naive bane]

And the trip home begins
Eurostar is kinda comfy

[wise crest]

My Eurostar is tomorrow afternoon, coming out was comfy so I'm hoping the return will be too!

[unborn bane]

my laptop lost its sticker-virginity 😅

[analog holly]

Shiny

[unborn bane]

which one is it?

[analog holly]

@tawny pebble do you have the link by you at any chance?

[tawny pebble]

https://www.wearedevelopers.com/world-congress

the CFP: https://sessionize.com/wearedevelopers-world-congress-2025/?utm_campaign=WWC25&utm_medium=WAD&_hsmi=329348435&utm_content=329349813&utm_source=wwc_lp

[unborn bane]

🙃

[tawny pebble]

and I think that a "Being a maintainer of the biggest open source project" talk would be interesting!

[finite stirrup]

It's actually 509, 469 is only for a group purchase of 4+

[unborn bane]

88 instead of allowed 80km/h in the road construction on the way home 😅 🙈

[analog holly]

Achtung! Baustelle!

[unborn bane]

Achtung, Blitzer in der Baustelle 😅

luckily "only" 20€ 🙈

[analog holly]

that's okayish

[unborn bane]

Yeah ... I think so 👍 I know in other countries there are much higher fines

on the other hand, I was going ~260km/h because of unlimited roads in Germany 🙈 but this high speed was only one/two times, else the average was ~140-150

[main dawn]

Would have been 200€ in Sweden 😅

I’ll take a speeding ticket in Germany any day instead

[analog holly]

Do it for 10 days and it's the same

[unborn bane]

for 178,50 € you can go 26 - 30 km/h to fast in Germany 😅

[agile flax]

driving at 260kmph is stupid, even in germany

and thanks god, wallonia is going for a zero tolerence plan just like the vlaanderen soon, + they are adding 150 radars on the roads. Hopefully, this will help people stop speeding

[agile flax]

and let me guess, people in sweden respects the speed limits. 🙂

[naive bane]

found the obstacle going 180 in the left lane

[main dawn]

Not really 😜

[unborn bane]

I agree for most of the time 😉 but on a 3 lane autobahn/highway, with almost no traffic, on a Sunday without any truck traffic ... I think it is ok to do it for a very limited and short time (it was only ~2km)

[agile flax]

yeah, the temptation is great in DE, I get that, just to "test" your car once. Nut driving at such speed is not only criminal, it's a danger for yourself, and an ecological nonsense

[naive bane]

Nut driving?

[agile flax]

haha, But 😉

I’m particularly sensitive to this topic. People can be foolish in general, but even more so on the road, where their recklessness endangers the lives of others. This is absolutely unacceptable. Everyone has the right to a safe and peaceful environment, and neither should be compromised by selfish and irresponsible drivers

[naive bane]

but it's not criminal

[tidal magnet]

Driving 260 isn't stupid depending on the road and what car.
Wgy your happy they adding more radars? That's a joke I hope, it's already ridiculous on the road now with people driving 40 where 70 is allowed (before it was 90...) And on the highway everyone driving left while 2 lanes are open etc I lose an hour and half everyday because of those people so I mostly go over the speed limit to get some time back

[naive bane]

keep to the speed limit. When ther'es one

[tidal magnet]

Then I lose even more time 😢

[agile flax]

loosing time ? jesus christ...with people like you we are in good way to a more respectful society. you are loosing time...

[tidal magnet]

What's disrespectful about that? I don't bring people in danger.
What's disrespectful is those that drive 90 in the left lane while the 2 right ones are empty or what about some time ago someone cut me off and I had to full break with 3.5T so I came close to it's bumper and then the dude breakchecks me I take over from the right, stop add gas's station and then he put 2 middle fingers up 😅 don't judge about something if ya don't know the full situation, driving in Belgium the last 6 years is no fun at all

[analog holly]

Let's not start this discussion here shall we?

[tidal magnet]

Anyways doesn't matter not the place here

[agile flax]

yeah I agree not the place. We wont agree anyway.

so lets skip the topic

[analog holly]

Thanks

[agile flax]

installaing spook for the first time ! after all these years I'm afraid about what it will actually discover ^^

hahaha wtf !

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I can say I do not have 3902 lights at home.

[tawny pebble]

FOSDEM? 👀

[agile flax]

yeah wrong chan, my mistake 😉

by the way, what is the best "casual / off-topic" chat room over here I could be heading to ?

[naive bane]

#the-water-cooler is the 🦝 chat

[agile flax]

makes sense 😛

thanks @naive bane

[finite stirrup]

Was the pin already sent out?

[grizzled thistle]

No, there have been a few complications.

One of them will be announced at State of the Open Home. I hope to have them all shipped out by end of month.

(Basically, financing changed and I have to wait for a couple things now.)

[finite stirrup]

Announced at SotOH? Does that mean there will be an edition for sale? Is there some physical gathering planned?

[grizzled thistle]

LOL

[finite stirrup]

Or you will announce one of the complications? 😅

[grizzled thistle]

The reason bringing the finance changes will be announced.

The date for Home Assistant Community Day will also be announced!

[unborn bane]

The date for Home Assistant Community Day will also be announced!
🥳 I assume there will also be details announced? 😬

[finite stirrup]

Or at least the general location area to see if it's feasible.

[unborn bane]

the location area will be the 3rd planet in our solar system ^^

[analog holly]

I can fix a luchtbed

For you

[grizzled thistle]

My goal is to have every country to have one meetup at least.

[grizzled thistle]

No, kind of, yes?

😂

[wise crest]

195 meet-ups?!

[wet cape]

A lot of pins to ship..

[grizzled thistle]

No pins for this one 😔

[grizzled thistle]

/sigh So I tried to get the pins from Rosemary to me in Ireland while here and it’s stuck in shipping limbo - it never made it to my hotel.

Now I have to work with the hotel to get it to me whenever they finally get it.

[hexed olive]

Schrödinger's pins

They may or may not exist

[grizzled thistle]

Merch is cursed.

[finite stirrup]

Speaking about merch... ?

[wise crest]

Don't ask questions about the merch

[grizzled thistle]

lmfao

[wise crest]

The pins are cursed

They fall into shipping black holes consistently it seems

[grizzled thistle]

The new merch store has been delayed because the company that we were trying to work with blew up our partnership with them spectacularly.

It’s honestly a little impressive how quickly they did this lol.

[wise crest]

Are we talking die hard or avengers style explosion?

[grizzled thistle]

So I get to start from step 1 again. But we have a new company we’re in talks with already.

[finite stirrup]

Were they running their HA installation supervised and got mad support will end?

[grizzled thistle]

….Thanos snap levels.

[wise crest]

Wowzas

[wise crest]

Nah, they installed it on an orange pi on raspbian and got mad it didn't work right

[grizzled thistle]

Absolute surreal experience.

[naive bane]

Wouldn't it be better to get them to Joost If they are now in the union?

[unborn bane]

https://tenor.com/view/tell-me-more-michael-scott-the-office-steve-carell-gif-5407074

[analog holly]

don't forget that there are still a few people around there, not sure when they would arrive tho

[grizzled thistle]

Some still need to get to me.

[wet cape]

@grizzled thistle Will there be another meetup at FOSDEM'26?

[finite stirrup]

Not sure about an official meetup, but there will definitely be community members at FOSDEM 26.

Maybe it'll be possible to collect our pins from last event 🤔😂

[analog holly]

yes 🙂

[grizzled thistle]

Unfortunately, Royal Mail has been holding the package since June and no one there will help me over email. 😒