#FOSDEM opening talk from the other side. It's really good to be back in person.

#FOSDEM infrastructure review talk, this time largely delegated to Basti Schubert (not on Mastodon). His first public talk!

@fosdem #FOSDEM closing talk about to start. We're letting the NASA talk run over schedule to a packed room

@fosdem Maybe I'll remember to keep all the #FOSDEM talks in in one thread? Let's see :)

#FOSDEM 2024 opening talk! We had 20-33% first timers!

As per usual, many, many people standing at the back and at the sides. (sorry for the blurry second photo, I hurried too much)

@RichiH @fosdem
how to follow live ?

@tofeo @RichiH go to the schedule, there should be chat links under them, that will redirect you to matrix rooms where you can also have video...

@fosdem we forgot if he lost a bet or why we ended up here...

Anyway, if you need urgent Pokemon help, come to #FOSDEM K Infodesk. All Pikachus are standing by.

@fosdem It's a bit of a #FOSDEM tradition by now.. in 2020, I put into an internal platform that I needed $something plus Gerry in a duck suit and he replied that if anything he'd only wear a moose suit.

Anyway, challenge me on those things at your own risk :)

@fosdem #FOSDEM Monitoring and Observability opening, Sunday morning are always slow; we had the room full and lines outside in no time

@fosdem #FOSDEM hack. We couldn't refill the hand towel dispensers in the toilets. So the #FreeCAD people designed a key for us, #Prusa people @3dprinting #3dprinting it for us, and the cleaning staff could refill everyone's hand towels.

@fosdem #FOSDEM infrastructure review; good crowd and many questions as per usual. I had to leave early to the FOSDEM highlights, but Basti covered the rest.

@fosdem #FOSDEM highlights. We tried something new, and it was a bit bumpy, but it was fun! I was volunteered to MC it, which meant I had three talks back to back. I like stress I guess.

@fosdem #FOSDEM closing talk. I promised not to blur the sides photos this time ;)

@fosdem #FOSDEM debugging... Part of K lost power. We traced it to one circuit breaker, and kept putting it back in while dividing and conquering towards finding the fault.

As @SwiftOnSecurity keeps saying, there's an advantage in being tall. Instead of going up and down the ladder all the time, I simply grabbed a broom and kept pushing the lever up again and again and again until we found it. A power strip had developed a short...

@fosdem and finally, #FOSDEM staff dinner. I've been looking forward to this weekend for weeks, and I am sooooo happy it's finally over.

People will unload the vans tomorrow, sort and count and account and repair and such over the next week or so. We'll do a mix of in-person and remote post mortem in two weeks. And then we don't want to think about FOSDEM until August...

@RichiH @fosdem A big thank you to everyone who helped out :)

@RichiH @fosdem thank you sooo much

@RichiH @fosdem congratulations to you all. My first #FOSDEM having wanted to come for years! But as a regular attendee of linux.conf.au the timing never worked.

You have done an amazing job. Truly epic scale.

I hope after pack ups and reflections you all get much needed rest.

@cymplecy @RichiH @fosdem
This is wonderful! However, all these unmasked crowds make me feel physically ill.
Who will be doing the post- @fosdem #FOSDEM #COVID19 count?