FOSDEM 2027 will take place on 30 & 31 January 2027 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪 : opensource@programming.dev

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 1 point 6 hours ago

Bleh, sponsored by google, no thx.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 point 12 hours ago (5 children)

There will be a sea of Mac laptops and probably a bunch of vibe coders. Plus, it won't be streamed to contribute a maximum to carbon emissions. Yay.

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[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 1 point 5 hours ago (4 children)

Was it the case last year? I haven't been in a while, but last time I was there it was definitely more people running Arch on Thinkpads than MacBooks.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 point 58 minutes ago (3 children)

My experience was turning around while sitting at the front and seeing nearly exclusively CrApple logos. I left the event with he impression that the only people being able to pay to show up to the event were Mac owners.

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[–] seszett@sh.itjust.works 1 point 15 minutes ago (2 children)

But Fosdem is free and Brussels is a cheap city, so I don't see why people would have to "be able to pay to show up"?

In my experience there are very wide differences in audience between sessions, and I mostly see people with beards and ThinkPads, for my part.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 point 9 minutes ago (1 child)

Not everybody lives in Brussels?

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[–] seszett@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 minutes ago

Well of course, but it's probably one of the easiest cities to reach for the most people, given its location. It's not like it was in Perth or Irkutsk, Brussels is not per se an expensive place to reach, and most visitors are probably just from France, Benelux or Germany.

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