Massive success for Matrix at #FOSDEM this year again! Look at these happy faces!

🍕 Great discussions, crates and crates of drinks, and 70 pizzas in total for the #fringe event.

👕 100 t-shirts sold, thousands of stickers given away, and hundreds of minutes of fascinating conversations at the #booth

👪 A super packed #devroom with 4h of great talks, and a main track talk whose demo was selected for the highlights of the event

🥄 Zero spoon left, I’m DRAINED!

Can’t wait for next year!

It's been great meeting you all in person at #FOSDEM yesterday.

I hope to speak with more of you today, even if it's just a greeting 😄

"5 years from now everyone will communicate via Matrix"

@matrix
@fosdem
#matrix #fosdem #fosdem2024

Some photos from @ed talk on defining open source AI.

#OpenSource #OpenSourceAI #FOSDEM #AI

Final Thundertalk alert! ⚡ 🎙️

@bogo wants to bring fun and possibility to e-mail, so join him for the last talk in the FOSDEM Modern Email devroom(H.2213) at 16:45. Find out more and how to watch online here: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-1711--ending-it-s-all-about-the-email-ugh-what-/

Thank you to everyone whose come out to our talks, in-person and virtually! You've helped make this FOSDEM even more memorable! 😊 💙

#Thunderbird #FOSDEM

FOSDEM 2024 - [Ending] It's all about the email. Ugh, what?

^fosdem.org

Some shots from Day 2 of #FOSDEM. It has been great to be part of the Open Website Alliance

Breaking Barriers: Content Management Systems and Accessibility talk by Martin Helmich and Lukas Fritze.

and

Wrestling giants: How can free open source CMSes remain competitive with enterprise clients? by Owen Lansbury

Great to multiple CMS collaborating and sharing insights

#OpenWebsiteAlliance
#DrupalAssociation @drupalassoc
#CMS #OpenWeb #OpenWebAlliance
#Typo3 #WordPress #Joomla #Accessibility

Whether you're trying to get through the afternoon slump in Brussels or trying to wake up or stay awake in other parts of the globe, Team Thunderbird is a fan of putting your caffeinated beverage of choice in a stylish mug!

What are you sipping and sipping from? Share your Thunderbrews with us!

#Thunderbird #FOSDEM

The @matrix FOSDEM devroom is starting SOON, head to building H, room 1309 for 4 hours of Matrix talks!

Full schedule is at https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/matrix/

#fosdem #matrix #devroom

FOSDEM 2024 - Matrix devroom

^fosdem.org

Thundertalk Alert! ⚡ 🎙️

At 13:30, @cketti kicks off our talks in the FOSDEM Modern Email devroom (H.2213) with an intro to Thunderbird for Android! 📱

Find slides and links to watch the stream and join the room chat here: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2497--clients-introduction-to-thunderbird-for-android/

#Thunderbird #FOSDEM #Android

FOSDEM 2024 - [Clients] Introduction to Thunderbird for Android

^fosdem.org

#XMPP at #FOSDEM

#Pizza over XMPP - just call our booth in the realtime lounge! 😉

🍕 🍕 🍕

https://xmpp.link/#xmpp\40sip.linphone.org@sip.cheogram.com

#jabber #chat #sip #phone #interoperability
#providers #rtc #realtime #decentralization #opensource

#XMPP at #FOSDEM

Find all talks from the Real Time Communications (RTC) devroom here: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/real-time-communications/

#jabber #chat #interoperability
#providers #rtc #realtime #decentralization #opensource

#XMPP at #FOSDEM

Second day with the #realtime lounge in building K, level 2 - come and get #stickers!

https://xmpp.org/2024/01/xmpp-at-fosdem-2024/

#jabber #xep #federation #decentralization #chat #standards #opensource

Email Address Internationalisation is one of the few standards that are actually simplifying SMTP/IMAP instead of making it more complex. #FOSDEM #EAI

https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2534--protocols-unicode-in-email-rcpt-to-gr-gr-org-/

Good news everyone, a fresh batch of t-shirts made it to the Matrix booth at FOSDEM!

We have some Medium and Large t-shirts back “in stock” in addition to the Small and XXL sizes left over.

Aaand we have a credit card reader that works! Amazing how far tech is bringing us these days. Come by and say hi, grab stickers and get yourself a t-shirt while waiting for the devroom to start this afternoon 😎

#fosdem #matrix #booth #stand #tshirt

Don’t miss the @matrix main talk in Janson at 10:00, and the Devroom at FOSDEM today in room H.1309 between 13:00 and 17:00 local time.

State of the union, DMA, Matrix in the public sector and more… don’t miss out! Full schedule at https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/matrix/

The fantastic booth gang will still be there all day to welcome everyone else. Come by and say hi!

#fosdem #matrix #devroom #booth #stand

FOSDEM 2024 - Matrix devroom

^fosdem.org

I made a bridge from #XMPP to the protocol that pagers use (POCSAG 📟), which at least I think is cool 🙃

The live demo is on display at #FOSDEM today if you happen to be there (K building upper floor, in the Realtime Lounge).

We also have a phone with a JID that you can call. I mean a *proper* phone! ☎️

Going to write a blog post after #FOSDEM2024 about how it was all done.

Hey #gnome and #kde people, since you are at #fosdem could you maybe discuss what would it take to make a common toolkit (Linux toolkit?) that would appeal to both #c and #cpp devs? Basically covering both platforms so we could converge. Maybe #swiftlang? Fork of #Kotlin native? Seems to me we would be better off with people writing mobile apps for Linux desktop, than people writing web apps and electron garbage on desktop.

Fully aware of https://xkcd.com/927/

Standards

^xkcd

Version 1.2.0 of the xdg-utils is out!

Please test them! (But don't deploy yet)

Thank you to everyone else who contributed and thanks to Simon for the trust and maintainer work!

We need more eyes on that code!

The xdg-utils are children of their time, shellscripts that by large don’t follow a “modern” scripting style …

… which means that there is a lot of work to catch up on and any changes should be reviewed by more people than they currently are.
In case you want to help:
Just pick something that seems interesting and doable for you and open an issue/merge request.

Things that need to be done:

• Read the code and try to find mistakes (Usage of external tools, escaping, …)
• Find mistakes in open merge requests.
• Review, research and fix issues.
• Improve tests
• Improve documentation
• Rebase old merge requests
• Improve Cygwin and MacOS support
• etc.

#freedesktop #xdg #xdgUtils #xdg_utils #linux

And while I’m at it i might also hijack #fosdem for this.

xdg-utils v1.2.0 · xdg / xdg-utils · GitLab

xdg-utils 1.2.0 contains contributions from over 20 people (thankyou) some of the highlights are listed below. better support for Plasma6, Deepin, LXQt partial...

^GitLab

#fosdem
#ipv6mostly by @Oskar456

https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-1798-improving-ipv6-only-experience-on-linux/

For me the traditional #IPv6only is good enough on Linux, but...
...the corner cases and DNSSEC.

On the other hand:
https://konecipv4.cz/en/

I prefer dns64 and removing A-Records. (it solves also some corner cases, but it breaks DNSSEC completely 😬)

GNOME Beers is starting in an hour! Join us at Pommodoro (Rue du Progrès 31, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Bruxelles, Belgium) starting at 8:00 PM. All are welcome to join, we’d love you to come along and socialize, meet staff, and chat with core contributors. https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/01/29/gnome-at-fosdem-2024/

#GNOME #FOSDEM #GNOMEBeers

The slides from my second #FOSDEM talk of the day - What can digital open source projects do to reduce our environmental footprint - is up. It is a lightnight talk, so not a lot of text, but, I think the notes are available.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jvx7REtxdNaHCzgsW-G7ax5Y1wHuC_y5NgAA2pr0UGI/edit?usp=sharing

So great to be on the stage with @moodle #OpenFisca #TruBudget & #OSPOPlusPlus

What can digital open source projects do to reduce our environmental footprint

What can digital open source projects do to reduce our environmental footprint FOSDEM Feb 3, 2024 — 5 Minute Lightning Talk The world is slowly waking up to the realities of our climate crisis.

^{Google Docs}

“I would love to have the environmental impact numbers for Drupal, that the Wagtail has for Wagtail”

@mgifford speaking about accessibility and web sustainability at #FOSDEM. Figured the @wagtail group would appreciate this. More below, with a link to his talk

https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3317-web-accessibility-and-environmental-sustainability-and-with-popular-cms/

My slides from my first talk at #FOSDEM talk this year - Web Accessibility and Environmental Sustainability and with Popular CMS

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SVEFGOODVwADJvuf36k5QCigMrBjtTgTahpaKPgSMPA/edit?usp=sharing

It was a great opportunity to share how #accessibility & #sustainability are related.

Web Accessibility and Environmental Sustainability and with Popular CMS

Web Accessibility and Environmental Sustainability and with Popular CMS FOSDEM Feb 3, 2024 Web Accessibility has a lot of complexities, and most CMS do not have the capacity to invest in it sufficiently.

^{Google Docs}