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.

A review of the events that took place this year, related to software engineering and architecture.

The conferences, talks, and events

These are some of the events I participated in:

• (2 Apr 2016) PROTOSEC 2016¹: A technical conference about networking, protocols, security, and related topics.
• (July 2016) EuroPython 2016: I attended several talks, trainings, workshops, and presented a talk.
• (10 Sep 2016) Python Córdoba meetup²: interesting meetup where I presented my talk at EuroPython and attended the sprints afterwards.
• (14 Sep 2016) ArqConf Meetup ¿Cómo es trabajar distribuido globalmente? Caso Open Stack³: Hosted in the Red Hat's offices in Buenos Aires, this talk was a very interesting one, on which I learned about the collaborative way of working of the Open Stack team, around the globe.
• (17 Nov 2016) Python Barcelona meetup.
• (9 Dec 2016) Barcelona Spark meetup⁴
• (22 Dec 2016) Python Barcelona December meetup⁵: I presented my talk about clean code in Python (yes, again :-), and there were two other interesting talks. Mine was the first one of the evening. The second talk, was about zc.buildout, an interesting tool for managing packages and environments in Python, which I first heard of at PyconAr (Python Argentina group) 2012. The third and last talk, presented a project named aiocache⁶: a cache system implemented in asyncio, that supports multiple back-ends. The talk walked us through the code, its architecture, and some use cases with demos.

Code wise

I started with a small contribution to the coala project⁷, and during the EuroPython sprints I contributed to aiohttp with a pull request.