This year it seems there are some official recordings on the FOSDEM channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/fosdemtalks/videos

I've also seen some unofficial stream dumps here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYOPCKYceoPwLI-A7tck3wg/vid...

Enjoy the conference!

If anyone's interested, I'm doing a lighthearted fifteen-minute talk at 15:30 UTC tomorrow about how to do email validation (for signup forms and things like that).

Here's the link to the stream:

https://live.fosdem.org/watch/k1105

It was a great talk, it's in my top 3 of the weekend :)

Haha, thank you, I'm glad you liked it!

Here's a satirical summary of the agenda:

http://n-gate.com/fosdem/2018/01/28/0/

I enjoy it when n-gate make fun of us on HN, but it seems a bit mean-spirited to post this on a FOSDEM thread.

I can agree slightly on some of this, but it quickly miss the point completely and is not even funny or satire.

It is quite simple: just skip the people and or technologies that make you vomit in your mouth and go for the interesting parts instead.

FOSDEM is huge and there is usually something somewhere that will be interesting. PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Grafana, Firefox, (tomorrow Rust). Nothing to complain about, and it is free.

Apparently there's a "security check". I have to wonder what's being "secured".

Looks like a Referer header prank

A poorly implemented prank. :-( It's a permanent redirect, which browsers cache forever (or until you purge the cache).

Tons of talks and the ones I heard today were really good.

And sadly tons of promising talks which are impossible to enter