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Episode: 4297
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Title: HPR4297: Let me tell you a bit about FOSDEM
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4297/hpr4297.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 22:37:30
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4297 for Tuesday 21 January 2025.
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Today's show is entitled, Let me tell you a bit about Phostom.
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It is part of the series Phostom.
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It is hosted by Troller Coaster and is about 9 minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summer is.
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I would like to invite you all over to Brussels to attend Phostom.
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Hi, Hacker Public Radio listeners.
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Today I'm going to give you a short talk about Phostom.
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I'm from Brussels.
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I'm from Hacker Space Brussels and I've been going to Phostom for it feels like ages.
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So what's Phostom?
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Phostom is the free and open source developer's European meeting.
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The name already says it.
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It's actually made for developers but don't be fooled.
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I mean only part of the audience there are developers and don't be fooled again because
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only part of them come from Europe.
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They're coming from all over the world.
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Phostom is a cornerstone event in the open source calendar and today I'll share a bit
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about its history.
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It's a current program and the unique ecosystem it has inspired, including of them and other
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side events like Bite Night.
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So grab your favorite beverage and let's get started.
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Phostom was founded in 2001 by Raphael Bodewa as Ausdem initially.
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The first event was held at the ULD University Liber de Brucel and had roughly 200 attendees.
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Well it has grown to become one of the largest open source events in the world with over
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8000 people but who's counting I think there's a few more.
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And the core values from in the beginning and by the way still at the ULDB in Brussels,
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it's free to attend, it's completely volunteer run and it's a vendor neutral.
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So it has the idea of allowing sponsorship but these sponsors should never influence
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the content.
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This year there's like over 50 dev rooms, each dev room, a dev room is like its own mini
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conference dedicated to specific topics or communities.
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There's a dev room on embedded systems, on Python, on decentralized internet, on documentation
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and much more.
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There's also like the keynotes and those are like the big cannons of course.
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So these are talks from prominent figures in the open source community and they're addressing
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the future of open source collaboration and technology.
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Cool one.
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This year for the first time I think so is the Phostom Junior track.
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It's with workshops and talks designed for younger attendees but for kids I think there's
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one caveat.
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All content is in English so for adults English is usually not a hurdle in the open source
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community or in the tech world but talking about my kids they wouldn't understand a lot
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of the English talks.
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So keep that in mind if you're taking your kids along for one of these.
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And then there's also a long history already of the lightning talks like these 15 minute
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presentations showcasing a variety of projects and ideas.
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I really love Phostom and I'm really looking forward to the event this year February 1st
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and so a lot of events have sprung out of Phostom because at this point there are thousands
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of developers and volunteers who gather around their community and we see each other maybe
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for the first or the only time a year where this community physically meets each other.
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So we have people coming in the week before Phostom for example to the Hackerspace
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Brussels where they have like an extra day or two even maybe hacking on their projects
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hacking on free cat or rheumatrix community and they'll be working on their own project
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with all the developers together and don't have to explain to you that this is really giving
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these projects a boost.
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If you work hard this is like one of the slogans in open source.
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If you can work hard you can also play hard.
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One of the events from our Hackerspace also is Bite Night.
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The Saturday evening of Phostom you can all come if you're a member of the open source
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community because this is a private party and only for people in the Phostom community
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having the opportunity to have a drink have some fun dance a little bit make some music
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don't have to tell you about nerds dancing but what happens in Hackerspace stays in Hackerspace
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it's a casual event.
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It's known as Bite Night, it's hosted at the Hackerspace.
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This is just like 200 meters away from the metro stop so the Hackerspace is in your location
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not the same one as the previous years.
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Here you can see some fun projects that are running on Blinkenlite's music projects.
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Also you can have a nice talk you can have a good drink Belgian beers meet some other
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friends.
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Another evolution I would like to mention about Phostom is where a number of people were
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not really happy about how the tone of Phostom became a little bit more corporate.
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So they started off Phostom and they called it off them and prioritizes on informal, experimental
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and non-commercial discussions.
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It's decentralized with workshops, art installations and unconference style sessions.
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It reflects the diversity and adaptability of the open source community.
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It's a fork, this is what open source communities do.
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If they have something and are not happy about some of the features they just create a fork,
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you see where the fork goes, you see where the core project goes and sometimes both exist
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next to each other, sometimes they merge together again but in this case they really stay
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existence as two separate things.
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At the same moment in the same location, more or less it's both in Brussels.
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They're really complimentary, I mean it's not a competition, I mean you can buy your
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free ticket at Phostom and you can buy your free ticket for off them and you can be evil
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and visit both.
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No, there's, I mean they're really complimentary.
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So have a look at the off-them page, oxygen.ofthem.net, have a look at the Phostom page, Phostom.org
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and see what topics are of interest to you and have a visit.
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Phostom, I mean it's important because it's about open source, I mean there are so much
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projects, there's so much corporate power around cloud services about the world gardens,
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about closed source, preparatory software and this is the occasion to actually be there
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meet your developers, tell them about that favorite feature you're missing, have a drink
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with them, thank them for all the great work they're doing and just maybe even volunteer
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for Phostom, you can take a shift in the coat hangers area or you could help the infodesk
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just go over there, collaborate, it's about transparency, it's about freedom, maybe even
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a donation, exchange ideas, launch projects, strengthen communities, I mean you're related
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now to submit a call for the lighting talk or something but maybe next year you could
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also do that, it's a space for everyone, both for really seasoned contributors but also
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for newcomers, for people who just want to thank their favorite developer, so I'd like
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to invite you all to come over to Brussels and hey the fun part, if you can't make it
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to Brussels, these guys are doing this technical incredible thing where they are a live streaming
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50 dev rooms at the same time, from you you will be, so you can watch every every stream
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every dev room I think just on their site, so you just go to Phostom.org and then you click
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through on this schedule, you'll have this timetables, you pick what you want to see,
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you can just watch the live stream from there, this is one of the things that started
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off during COVID, so while many bad things happened during COVID, this is one of the good
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things that happened, a lot of events that were out of reach of people all around the
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world, now can be watched live and they're doing this all purely using open source and free
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software, there's also like a great Android app or the Phostom Companion at Skull that
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where you can lock out your favorite docs and create your own schedule, so thank you
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people from Phostom for organizing this event for the 23rd time, since 24th time, so next
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year we're having the 25th anniversary, so let's have a party, see you around, maybe
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see each other at Phostom and if you can make it watch it online, there's certainly something
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that you'll enjoy.
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