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c/programming · by Neha@sh.itjust.works · 221d

FOSDEM 2026, one of the world's largest software meeting will start in 2 days in Brussels 🇧🇪. This edition features 1176 speakers and 1063 events

https://fosdem.org/2026/

The vast majority of events (talks, hacking sessions, open discussions) are held inside “developer rooms” (“devrooms”), which are mini-conferences organized and managed by open source projects themselves.

It’s also FREE !! 🥳

And there are cookies 🍪

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theherk@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 221d

Actually going this year. Have wanted to for many. Really looking forward to it.

IanTwenty@piefed.social · 6 pts · 220d (2 replies)

Hoping this tool lives up to its own hype:

PyInfra—where your infrastructure is actually code. Real Python. With loops that don’t require learning a DSL. With functions that are... wait for it... actual functions. With error handling that doesn’t involve praying to the YAML gods

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/VEQTLH-infrastructure-as-python/

Performance:

https://docs.pyinfra.com/en/3.x/performance.html

Pyinfra performance comparison. A graph showing pyinfra faster than ansible and close to fabric comparing time to run simple cmds (y-axis) against number of hosts (x-axis)

FizzyOrange@programming.dev · 7 pts · 220d (1 reply)

Given the quality of your average Python code this sounds like a terrible idea.

fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 220d

Compare it to your average clickops delpoyment, ansible, tf, or crossplane though

pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 221d (5 replies)

Which talks are y'all looking forward to?

Jayjader@jlai.lu · 8 pts · 221d

Quite a few! And so many overlap! Thankfully they're all supposed to be live streamed and recorded. An excerpt of my personal schedule:

This is just Saturday...

litchralee@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 221d

Since that whole vibe-coded Cloudflare Matrix nonsense and associated attempted retcon -- see here for context -- I am looking forward to a talk on how Matrix actually works.

Specifically, I'd like to know what aspects of a secure, decentralized message platform are particularly hard. That's in the context of whether Matrix can ever grow into a bona fide Signal competitor (nb: Signal remains the gold standard), and also whether Matrix would function well as a Discord replacement, even if it doesn't have as strong of group chat privacy and encryption protections.

erebion@news.erebion.eu · 2 pts · 221d (1 reply)

Apparently some interesting XMPP talks, but I haven't had a closer look at the schedule yet

erebion@news.erebion.eu · 3 pts · 221d

I'll spend more time talking to people, plotting Linux phone world domination type stuff and planning to take people off WhatsApp with XMPP folks, tbh

nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 2 pts · 221d

Hoping for a big announcement from CalyxOS

onlinepersona@programming.dev · 3 pts · 220d

Will they finally be uploading their talks to peertube? Or will I need to use YouTube again?

Kissaki@programming.dev · 2 pts · 220d (1 reply)

And there are cookies 🍪

Do they share my cookies with third parties? /s

theherk@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 219d

What funny is it is Mozilla giving away free cookies with a sign that says, “Only accept my cookies”.