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

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grizzled thistle
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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. ๐Ÿ˜„

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

grizzled thistle
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If you've already filled out the form, no need to again! We've got you (and the form will tell you no anyway). ๐Ÿ˜„

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

finite stirrup
grizzled thistle
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Now imagine if you were logged into a second Google email and were able to submit again. JoyStroke

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

unborn bane
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Saturday would be the best ... pleeeaaaase ๐Ÿฅบ

unborn bane
analog holly
unborn bane
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uhhh .... hopefully earliest on Sunday?

analog holly
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Sunday start of the evening

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

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

wise crest
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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 ๐Ÿ˜›

analog holly
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I'm fully booked until 3 February

unborn bane
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I'll just be there and wait that someone will pick me up ๐Ÿ˜…

wise crest
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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 ๐Ÿ˜„

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

unborn bane
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Hotel Siru

rugged island
wise crest
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Hotel Aqua for me

rugged island
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My husband and I will be there from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon, as on Monday the wage labour is calling ๐Ÿ˜„

rugged island
analog holly
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I am interested in how you will experience DB

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

rugged island
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I hope that my "International Reduced Rate Card for Railway Staff" (FIP card) will arrive on time ๐Ÿ˜„

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The first time using trains internationally ๐Ÿ˜‚

unborn bane
# rugged island The first time using trains internationally ๐Ÿ˜‚

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 ๐Ÿซฃ
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 ๐Ÿคฆ

tidal magnet
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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
rugged island
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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 ๐Ÿ˜„

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

analog holly
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Cool

rugged island
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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" ๐Ÿ˜„

naive bane
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Is there HA apparel merch?

grizzled thistle
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No, not apparel. Need to get @analog holly to print out stickers, though. ๐Ÿ˜‰

dawn barn
analog holly
dawn barn
analog holly
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Oh lol, wait, they were closed in october as they weren't needed anymore

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never mind ๐Ÿ˜‚

dawn barn
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Oh yeah, the license classifier stuff?

analog holly
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For sensirion ble and aioruuvigateway

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yess

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

grizzled thistle
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We're finalizing some things today. ๐Ÿ˜„

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

unborn bane
grizzled thistle
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As long as Joost prints them. ๐Ÿ˜„

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Then y'all can post them to Horst.

unborn bane
agile flax
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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
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Just a meetup!

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

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

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

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

analog holly
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@rugged island

naive bane
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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
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wdym 2 legs

wise crest
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Trains I presume?

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I'm taking Eurostar there. Train to London, Eurostar, and then walk/public transit. And the reverse on Monday ๐Ÿ˜Š

naive bane
rugged island
naive bane
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I think so

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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
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International trains is unfortunately still a mess ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

naive bane
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=.=

wet cape
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Are there any details about the meetup yet?

naive bane
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oh no, that's just a talk probsDerp

grizzled thistle
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Not yet, no. Iโ€™m working with Joost on location early this week.

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Tomorrow is a US holiday though so I wonโ€™t be online until Tuesday.

MAYBE SOMEONE CAN DO SOME SEARCHING Thinkies

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-# This was a subcomment about Joost. ๐Ÿ˜‚

wise crest
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Note to self: bother Joost tomorrow

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

grizzled thistle
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Shitposting isnโ€™t working on the weekends.

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Though that is like half of my job.

rugged island
analog holly
unborn bane
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another 5โ‚ฌ-slap ?

naive bane
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rooD no live release party at FOSDEM

analog holly
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Nope

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

naive bane
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how many devices will you bring? probsLUL

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

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I'll be sending over 25 each of the pins and postcards designed for this meetup. ๐Ÿ™‚

hexed olive
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Any news on the meetup time/location?

analog holly
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euh soon_tm

rugged island
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And how many stickers will be there? ๐Ÿ‘€ Would love to take a few for the stickerbox at my local hackerspace

analog holly
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at least 2

naive bane
grizzled thistle
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Yes.

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

finite stirrup
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I know my hostel has a bar for groups so I don't need to walk far afterwards ๐Ÿ˜‚

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

rugged island
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As long as they are not overfilled ๐Ÿ˜„

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

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Duh.

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๐Ÿ˜‰

rugged island
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My voice is loud enough ๐Ÿ˜‚ I don't need a microphone when presenting things ๐Ÿคช

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

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

rugged island
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Ah okay ๐Ÿ˜„

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From the Chaos congress I know meetups as quite organized events ๐Ÿ˜„ But I understand :3

grizzled thistle
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We're organized adjacent.

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๐Ÿ˜„

rugged island
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Haha

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But then it is not so awkward to bring my husband with me ๐Ÿ˜„

analog holly
rugged island
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The unfinished smart home ๐Ÿ˜…

analog holly
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Is it ever finished?

rugged island
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Yeah okay, that's another question ๐Ÿ˜‚

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But my backlog still has quite some items ๐Ÿ˜„

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

rugged island
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Naw

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Yeah, it's a bit of a motivation when there is the pressure that the stuff should work ๐Ÿ˜„

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Either it works or I have to revert to a working state ๐Ÿ˜…

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

rugged island
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Ah okay ๐Ÿ™‚

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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 ๐Ÿ˜„

rugged island
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Only one week left to FOSDEM ๐Ÿ˜„

finite stirrup
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Less when you take into account it starts on Saturday ๐Ÿฅณ

naive bane
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less than 5 days till I get on the train rooD

rugged island
rugged island
naive bane
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yea, I'll go to the office in the morning, then pass my home station on the way to Brussels ๐Ÿ˜‚

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

unborn bane
finite stirrup
wet cape
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Any timerange / day when the home assistant meetup would be?

finite stirrup
analog holly
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Yes, I am looking into that today

unborn bane
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i know there are still 5 hours left today ... buuuut .... are there any news on this ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

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at least - is Saturday fix?

grizzled thistle
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Saturday for sure.

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That's what we are looking for.

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Or rather that's what I am forcing Joost to look for. ๐Ÿ˜‚

wise crest
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It's called delegating!

soft bison
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I'll be around Saturday, but will not be there Saturday evening ๐Ÿ˜• Edit: Should I be happy about that?

analog holly
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It will be amazing

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

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

grizzled thistle
naive bane
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but you didn't send him any shirts to hand out rooD

grizzled thistle
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I did not, no.

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

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

wise crest
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My travel prep is happening!

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

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

naive bane
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Train to Cologne, another to Brussels, then figure out local probsLUL

finite stirrup
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Drive to the neighboring city and take the train (it will take me almost 2 hours ๐Ÿ˜’), my hostel is walking distance from the station.

wise crest
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I think my journey should take around 6 hours in total

finite stirrup
unborn bane
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go downstairs to the underground parking garage, sit in my car ... 8 hours later ... arrival at the hotel underground parking garage ... more or less ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

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

unborn bane
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i've also already marked the important places for this weekend ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

naive bane
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There's only 2
Your hotel and the university

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

unborn bane
finite stirrup
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I would add the Hackerspace in the West-northwest as well

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

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

naive bane
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I was there 2020 ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

analog holly
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FOSDEM or HSBXL?

naive bane
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fosdem

analog holly
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ah

unborn bane
analog holly
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this will be my fifth time

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use the app

unborn bane
# analog holly use the app

this doesn't help to decided which talk i want to visit ... there are hundrets of talks ... i'm lost in this ๐Ÿ˜„

analog holly
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Okay so let me type out my ultimate guide to FOSDEM

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

analog holly
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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
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probsT remind me, what was the lunch situation at FOSDEM?

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

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

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

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Those are usually quite okay

unborn bane
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are there already some plans for a ... let's say - pre-meetup on Friday evening? Just getting "a" beer and a snack/dinner? ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

grizzled thistle
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"a" beer lol

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

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

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

unborn bane
grizzled thistle
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Maybe y'all will have Big Delirium. lul

wise crest
analog holly
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Oh I remember the floris bar

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we drank all kinds of fruit beer

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and a freshmen year got absynth there

naive bane
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how old is freshman? 17?

analog holly
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18

unborn bane
lethal ledge
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160m and 2 minutes walk from my hotel not sure I will make it. ๐Ÿ˜„

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

rugged island
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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
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Get well soon Sid ๐Ÿ€

rugged island
wet cape
analog holly
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I can't remember any trouble with this, so yes, I believe they have contactless payment thingies

heady timber
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So no definitive time/date yet ?

finite stirrup
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Saturday evening is the definitive time and date.

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Actual time expressed in HH:MM: no clue.

analog holly
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Ouch, apparently there are problems with flights to belgium

unborn bane
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โ”

analog holly
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some technical issue

naive bane
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Clearly big govt against small FOSS

heady forge
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so is there any schedule done to meet all together?

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

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I assume everyone is at the conference

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So be sure to share talks you are going to visit

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

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

finite stirrup
analog holly
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time range

grizzled thistle
finite stirrup
analog holly
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but be sure to share your wanna sees

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last year I even completely overlooked the ESPHome one

finite stirrup
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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
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oeh ladybird sounds interesting

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Immich as well

grizzled thistle
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interacting with Tesla vehicles using ESPHome
ankha_shocked

analog holly
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wait there is an esphome one?

grizzled thistle
analog holly
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who

grizzled thistle
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He's the CTO (iirc) for Ladybird.

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He was at the talk I did.

finite stirrup
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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
finite stirrup
# analog holly Immich as well

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
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oh right

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I am doing 5 things at the same time

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

unborn bane
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you need more cores to parallize the tasks ๐Ÿ˜›

finite stirrup
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Spin up another sidekiq instance.

grizzled thistle
heady timber
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Ohhh that's in "Rue des Pitas" ( "Shoarmas street" )

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

heady timber
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Yep not literally but that's how we named it ๐Ÿ™‚

analog holly
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Goooooooood Morning

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

wise crest
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I'm on my first train of the day ๐Ÿฅฑ

analog holly
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I'm only now packing my stuff

wise crest
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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 ๐Ÿคฃ

analog holly
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Loooool

wise crest
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I don't want to be hungry on the train! ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ

analog holly
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Understandable

wise crest
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Plus I can throw some in my bag every day for the next few days ๐Ÿคช

unborn bane
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aaaand GO ๐ŸŽ๏ธ ๐Ÿ’จ

analog holly
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Achtung

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Baustelle

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

wise crest
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The Eurostar was cheaper earlier in the day for me! Plus I can go sight seeing after I arrive ๐Ÿ˜Š

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

dawn barn
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Airside at Helsinki-Vantaa

analog holly
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Saturday!

analog holly
dawn barn
unborn bane
wise crest
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I've made it to France, about half an hour to go to get to Brussels.

analog holly
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hon hon hon ๐Ÿฅ–

unborn bane
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do you know these guys? ๐Ÿ˜…

analog holly
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we have an integration for that

wise crest
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Out of the 5 people in my train carriage I eyeballed as likely FOSDEM attendees, 3 got off in Brussels ๐Ÿคช

analog holly
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looool

wise crest
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I wasn't stereotyping, but some people stereotype themselves ๐Ÿ˜…

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

wet cape
naive bane
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๐Ÿš† 1. Departing soon.

naive bane
wise crest
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My hotel has a 24 hour croissant bar.

wise crest
naive bane
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Black?

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

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

dawn barn
finite stirrup
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Waiting for the train here, got held up at work.

wise crest
analog holly
grizzled thistle
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Look at this nerd.

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Wearing last yearโ€™s merch and everything.

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

wise crest
naive bane
wise crest
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You can always buy a bag from a shop or grab a merch tote!

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

wise crest
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Always blame Joost
Especially if it's Missy's fault ๐Ÿ˜‡๐Ÿคฃ

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(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
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If only they had rang your camera bell!

unborn bane
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finally, arrived and got my room.
@rugged island We've to talk about your suggestion of the hotel Siru ๐Ÿ™ˆ

naive bane
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2nd ๐Ÿš† rooComfy another 3 hours to Brussels rooH

finite stirrup
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Just strolling through Brussels looking for food. Any recommendations?

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

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

unborn bane
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but the question still remains - where to get a bear and a snack ๐Ÿ™ˆ

wise crest
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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
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Gonna check out Wolf, should have some options there

unborn bane
finite stirrup
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Some FOSDEM people were going to delirium cafe today according to that Matrix thing

analog holly
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I'm now still eating Greek food with friends

wise crest
analog holly
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Probably delirium village

lethal ledge
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Cheers ๐Ÿฅ‚

unborn bane
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if get some coordinates, then I'll be there ๐Ÿ˜…

grizzled thistle
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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
wise crest
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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
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Wait, did I fuck Up by not bringing a power adapter?

unborn bane
wise crest
analog holly
analog holly
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And there's an Irish pub, karaoke bar and a beer thing near

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And we're planning to go to the bear thing

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Beer

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

unborn bane
wise crest
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Lucky!

unborn bane
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On my way @lethal ledge

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

lethal ledge
unborn bane
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Do you have a Swedish flag with you? ๐Ÿ˜…

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

naive bane
unborn bane
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Cheers ๐Ÿ˜…

unborn bane
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What is the next address? First ๐Ÿบ is done... now need a snack ๐Ÿ˜…

analog holly
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We just had dinner, now time for ๐Ÿบ

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

unborn bane
analog holly
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I'm directly left btw

unborn bane
#

๐Ÿ˜…

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 ๐Ÿคฃ

finite stirrup
#

Still at beer capital or going home soon?

analog holly
#

Yes!

#

The first

unborn bane
wise crest
#

Oh wait, not me ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ

naive bane
#

Found someone clearly here for fosdem on the train
Barefoot shoes, Engelbert Strauss Jacket and overloaded cargo pants ๐Ÿ˜‚

wise crest
#

This is what I meant by "general wardrobe"! Sometimes your clothes/appearance just scream the event you're going to ๐Ÿคช๐Ÿ˜‚

grizzled thistle
#

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

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. eyes_sus @ people who randomly stumble on this and aren't here. ๐Ÿ˜‚

analog holly
wise crest
grizzled thistle
#

You don't count, these are being sent to you! ๐Ÿ˜‚

wise crest
#

True. I can be the master of chaos!!

warm herald
#

@analog holly drop the pic

analog holly
warm herald
#

Caught the pokemon

analog holly
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 headachโ€™ish fosdem ๐Ÿ˜‰

#

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 ๐Ÿป

#

Hope to see you around, if you see someone with a GitHub shirt maybe it's me ๐Ÿ˜

analog holly
agile flax
#

hey @analog holly yes I know that, I've read the previous exchanges around here ๐Ÿ˜‰

analog holly
analog holly
#

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
analog holly
agile flax
#

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

#

is that right ? ๐Ÿ™‚

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
# analog holly It collides with the immich one

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

#

๐Ÿ˜›

naive bane
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
analog holly
naive bane
#

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

agile flax
# analog holly

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

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no problem with those specs ^^

analog holly
#

Oh damn

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Yes this is just a raspberry

naive bane
#

Mr. ๐Ÿ’ฐ over here

agile flax
#

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

agile flax
#

and kept the server ๐Ÿ˜‰

#

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 ๐Ÿฆœ but found Stremio in the meantime.

agile flax
#

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

analog holly
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 ๐Ÿ™‚

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

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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 ๐Ÿ˜„

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...

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? ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ

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 ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ

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 ? ๐Ÿ˜‰

#

Shrooms, took shrooms?

wise crest
#

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

agile flax
#

Its worse that that, Iโ€™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 ๐Ÿคฃ

#

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 ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿค˜

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 ๐Ÿคฃ

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 ๐Ÿคฃ

lethal ledge
#

Not sure that I was prepared for this amount of people. ๐Ÿ˜ถโ€๐ŸŒซ๏ธ

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...

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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 ๐Ÿคฃ

naive bane
analog holly
#

Free cookie

finite stirrup
naive bane
#

This one is quite ok

analog holly
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
agile flax
#

๐Ÿค“

analog holly
#

I'm outside it now

agile flax
#

Ah lets meet in front of the billding

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Building ๐Ÿ˜‰

analog holly
#

I'm in front of the room

#

White hoodie

wet cape
#

Any suggestions for the end of the day?

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

lethal ledge
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
# agile flax

Oh! Probably I was behind you! Let's meet at the after ๐Ÿป

#

Going to take a nap before... Too exhausted ๐Ÿ˜ด

crimson sand
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 ๐Ÿ˜…

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 ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

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! ๐Ÿš

wet cape
#

Arriving soon.

wise crest
#

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

wise crest
#

BRB, asking if the bar sells ESP32s

dawn barn
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 ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ

#

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

dawn barn
#

Finnish candy deployed. ๐Ÿ˜ˆ

grizzled thistle
wise crest
heady forge
warm herald
#

Hi

dawn barn
wise crest
grizzled thistle
#

He's always fidgeting with that!

wise crest
heady forge
#

Those folks have name... Users ๐ŸŒš

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 ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ

heady forge
#

Thanks all for the meeting, it's been really nice meeting you! See you tomorrow at FOSDEM! ๐Ÿป

soft bison
#

Thanks the meeting, had a very nice time. Enjoy tomorrow! ๐Ÿป

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!!

grizzled thistle
analog holly
warm herald
#

For sale:

finite stirrup
#

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

wet lantern
analog holly
#

Ffs

analog holly
#

Thanks all for coming to the meet up by the way ๐Ÿ™‚

#

I hope you had a great time

hexed olive
#

Definitely, thanks for organizing โค๏ธ

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
analog holly
finite stirrup
analog holly
#

Apparently I know one of the bar people there

finite stirrup
#

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

hexed olive
#

Probably not for everyone but the question says "you" ๐Ÿ˜„

analog holly
finite stirrup
unborn bane
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
finite stirrup
#

The ZeMarmot short animation film was kinda awesome.

unborn bane
analog holly
finite stirrup
#

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

analog holly
#

5

analog holly
#

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

finite stirrup
#

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

analog holly
analog holly
#

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
#

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 ๐Ÿ˜‰

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
#

Thatโ€™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 ๐Ÿ˜›

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

#

Thatโ€™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
dawn barn
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 ha
Thanks for that great weekend ๐Ÿ™‚

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
unborn bane
analog holly
#

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 ๐Ÿ˜…

analog holly
#

Shiny

analog holly
#

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

unborn bane
#

๐Ÿ™ƒ

tawny pebble
#

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

finite stirrup
unborn bane
#

88 instead of allowed 80km/h in the road construction on the way home ๐Ÿ˜… ๐Ÿ™ˆ

analog holly
#

Achtung! Baustelle!

unborn bane
#

Achtung, Blitzer in der Baustelle ๐Ÿ˜…

#

luckily "only" 20โ‚ฌ ๐Ÿ™ˆ

analog holly
#

that's okayish

unborn bane
#

Yeah ... I think so ๐Ÿ‘ 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 ๐Ÿ™ˆ but this high speed was only one/two times, else the average was ~140-150

main dawn
#

Iโ€™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 โ‚ฌ you can go 26 - 30 km/h to fast in Germany ๐Ÿ˜…

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
naive bane
#

found the obstacle going 180 in the left lane rooKek

unborn bane
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? probsT

agile flax
#

haha, But ๐Ÿ˜‰

#

Iโ€™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 probsFail

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
#

rooD keep to the speed limit. When ther'es one

tidal magnet
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
# agile flax loosing time ? jesus christ...with people like you we are in good way to a more ...

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 ๐Ÿ˜… 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 !

Entities
43,958

Binary sensors
11,652

Devices
4,171

Lights
3,902

Media players
3,918

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

tawny pebble
#

FOSDEM? ๐Ÿ‘€

agile flax
#

yeah wrong chan, my mistake ๐Ÿ˜‰

#

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

naive bane
agile flax
#

makes sense ๐Ÿ˜›

#

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. heart_gay

#

(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? ๐Ÿ˜…

grizzled thistle
#

The reason bringing the finance changes will be announced. rooSweatSmile

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

unborn bane
#

The date for Home Assistant Community Day will also be announced!
๐Ÿฅณ I assume there will also be details announced? ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

finite stirrup
unborn bane
#

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

analog holly
#

For you

grizzled thistle
wet cape
#

A lot of pins to ship..

grizzled thistle
grizzled thistle
#

/sigh So I tried to get the pins from Rosemary to me in Ireland while here and itโ€™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. weepsblood

hexed olive
#

Schrรถdinger's pins

#

They may or may not exist

grizzled thistle
#

Merch is cursed.

finite stirrup
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.

#

Itโ€™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 weโ€™re in talks with already.

finite stirrup
grizzled thistle
wise crest
wise crest
grizzled thistle
naive bane
analog holly
grizzled thistle
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 ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ˜‚

grizzled thistle