FOSDEM (Brussels, Belgium) is probably the best community driven FOSS event in Europe. It's massive, chaotic and fun.

Like previous years, FOSDEM is organised at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Coordinates: 50°48′48.14″N 4°22′51.88″E

Coordinates: 50°48′48.14″N 4°22′51.88″E

FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration. Just turn up!

Date

4 & 5 February 2017

All information on https://fosdem.org/2017/.

Call for participation published at https://fosdem.org/2017/news/2016-07-20-call-for-participation/

Lectures & lightning talks about MediaWiki or Wikimedia

Wikimedia Foundation presentation by Filippo Giunchedi at FOSDEM

Another Wikimedia Foundation presentation

• Prometheus at WMF
• TLS for MySQL at large scale
• Cumin: Flexible and Reliable Automation for the Fleet

Wikis devroom

• None?
  • PHP and friends?
  • See also Mozilla (discourse, HTTP/2, Persona, rendering and motivation all affect us too), Legal, LibreOffice,
  • Individual related talks: OSOR, OSM, UX clash, Pandas

Wikimedia stand

• None, officially: https://fosdem.org/2017/stands/ (there's a Tiki wiki one though)
  • If we don't pick a "default" stand, I'll probably be around those with people I know best: LibreOffice/KDE/Fedora, FSFE, Mozilla/GCI/GSOC, Debian/Haiku, Conservancy. Nemo 13:28, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Participants at FOSDEM

No registration is required, but here you can tell other MediaWiki / Wikimedia users that you are going to attend the conference.

• André Klapper
• Siebrand
• Multichill
• TheDJ
• Lydia Pintscher
• Jan Dittrich (WMDE, UX)
• Léa Lacroix / Auregann (Wikidata, communities)
• Charlie Kritschmar
• Samu (WMDE)
• Nemo (will probably try multiple devrooms and the legal session)
• Filippo Giunchedi
• Parent5446 (participates the Sunday to the PGP key signing event)
• Dereckson (participates the Sunday to the PGP key signing event)
• Effie Mouzeli (not staff member at the time)
• Riccardo Coccioli
• Geertivp (talk)