A View on FOSDEM 2020

Another year, another FOSDEM edition. As always, since this conference grew so big (fact: if you tried to watch all videos in a row, it'll take you about 9 weeks!), chances are, every review you read from the conference will contain something different, and therefore, complementary.

This is what I was able to experience. Let's take a look.

A recurrent theme in FOSDEM seems to be the high concurrency. There were lots of people attending, which made it difficult to make it into some dev-rooms, as they were overcrowded. In addition, some very popular dev-rooms got regular-size rooms where not enough people could fit (for example the PostgreSQL one, as opposed to last year). Because of this, I missed quite a few opportunities.

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