Fosdem 2019 – I was there

Every year the Fosdem became more problematic because of missing space in devrooms that blocked me to follow the talks but not only to me but also to other people.

.@mozilla to @fosdem we are waiting for you #fosdem2019 pic.twitter.com/MVDEIJT7Wi

— ChristopheVilleneuve (@hellosct1) February 2, 2019

We can say that is a good sign because there is always more interest but start to be a problem in the long run.

https://twitter.com/ioana_cis/status/1091962892822417408

For who wants to know the numbers of this event there is the talk: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/closing_fosdem/

For me this was the 5 Fosdem, with 2 talks and met a lot of friends.

In the packed @mozilla dev room @fosdem, waiting for @mozTechSpeakers @Mte90Net to give a talk on “Firefox is your Marionette”

— alispivak (@alispivak) February 2, 2019

This are my talks with the videos already available:

• Firefox is your Marionette: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/firefox_is_your_marionette/
• Coaching for Open Source Communities 2.0: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/community_coaching_open_source_communities_2/

The talks that I suggest to see in the various devroom (I still to see few of them):

• 2019 – Fifty years of Unix and Linux advances – Keynotes
• Hackers gotta eat – Community
• Back From the Dead – Community
• DNS and the Internet’s architecture: the DoH dilemma – DNS
• PWA caching strategies – JavaScript
• LibreOffice: the origins of a community fork – Legal and policy
• HTTP/3 – Mozilla
• Yet Moar CSS Features – Mozilla
• VLC 4.0 – Open Media
• GBForth: Using Forth to understand the Game Boy – Retrocomputing
• Fighting spam for fun and profit – Security
• MicroPython – Python for Microcontrollers – Lightning talks
• Nuspell: the new spell checker – Lightning talks

My talk about coaching got few tweets:

https://twitter.com/miss_jwo/status/1092064585459347457

https://twitter.com/WianWS/status/1092065874700365824

So many great talks in the community room #FOSDEM Climbing up 5 floors is definitely worth it! Here’s @Mte90Net talking about coaching for open source communities. pic.twitter.com/ZZEHxPzEtg

— Tecknuovo (@tecknuovo) February 3, 2019

Reading list:

Mozilla has a leadership reading list. Which is recommended. @Mte90Net #FOSDEM #Community pic.twitter.com/LhaM6rbKAr

— leslielauralive (@leslielauralive) February 3, 2019

https://twitter.com/miss_jwo/status/1092063072800395264

https://twitter.com/miss_jwo/status/1092060650371727360

Respect peoples time.

Organise a schedule before the meeting and share it ahead of time!@Mte90Net #FOSDEM #Community

— leslielauralive (@leslielauralive) February 3, 2019

Find propositive people and encourage them.

Ask those people to join the discussion.

Be transparent about discussions.

Remember to say thank you. @Mte90Net #FOSDEM #Community

— leslielauralive (@leslielauralive) February 3, 2019

Coaching for OS community:

Everyone works together, you are not an usual member by a veteran of the community. You know your community status and the people of the community
@Mte90Net #FOSDEM #Community

— leslielauralive (@leslielauralive) February 3, 2019

https://twitter.com/miss_jwo/status/1092062215308496896

You are a part of the team.

The coaching way is about guiding, not judging. Focus on the skills not the person.

We need to get into the habit of delegate and entrust the people around you. @Mte90Net #FOSDEM #Community

— leslielauralive (@leslielauralive) February 3, 2019

My favorite slide from the talk Coaching for #OpenSource #community by Daniele Scasciafratte at #FOSDEM pic.twitter.com/UxlR2gpSPh

— Sveta Smirnova (@svetsmirnova) February 3, 2019

Now at #FOSDEM @Mte90Net talk https://t.co/K52TMErHk2 Coaching for Open Source Communities 2.0 pic.twitter.com/uD11QWljOp

— Sergi Alonso (@sseerrggii) February 3, 2019

With what I came at home this time?

We can share few thougts about the people numbers that is growing but also to the bug bounty project of Europe Union EU-Fossa 2.

We can talk about all the talks about promotions and how to get new volunteers that the open source world became more interesting only that is missing a way to do network outside tech conference list this.

Also that the talks got high quality every year more and more and about specific topics, this probably because of internet that low down the difficult to find resources about first level topics.

Few tweets tweet to close:

Another #FOSDEM is finished! Awesome to be here for another year with @mozilla and here with all the #mozillians around Brussels! Thanks you so much Mozilla <3 pic.twitter.com/U9IQJfksom

— Edoardo Viola (@edovio) February 3, 2019

https://twitter.com/slsoftworks/status/1092180142997291008

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