{"id":3150,"date":"2017-01-26T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2017-01-26T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T20:12:00","slug":"mageia-meet-up-and-talk-at-fosdem-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2017\/01\/26\/mageia-meet-up-and-talk-at-fosdem-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Mageia meet-up and talk at FOSDEM 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

FOSDEM<\/a> (Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting) has always been Mageia’s event of choice to get together with the community of contributors (and yes, in the Mageia world users definitely count as contributors too). This year’s edition, like always in Brussels, Belgium, will be yet another great occasion for us to meet and discuss Mageia together.<\/p>\n

No stand…<\/h3>\n

There is one small disappointment for us though, in that the FOSDEM staff could not accept our usual request for a Mageia stand. They always get way more demands than they have stands available and need to make some difficult decisions. We are not the only Linux distribution to be left on the bench this year, and this is fully understandable; as the open source ecosystem grows and reaches well beyond the scope of Linux distributions, there are many new cross-platform projects which prefer FOSDEM as a way to reach their own communities.<\/p>\n

… but an official talk!<\/h3>\n

On the plus side, we will make up for the lack of an official stand with a talk in the distributions devroom by two Mageia team leaders, Anne from the dev team and Samuel from the bugsquad, titled “Mageia, successes and lessons learned 6 years after forking<\/a>“. For those who can’t make it, the talk will be recorded and the videos will be shared by the FOSDEM staff as soon as they are ready; for those who can, here are the details:<\/p>\n