I think it's outgrown the university though. It's practically impossible to get into the developer rooms unless you arrive early and camp there all day.
I agree. It was my first FOSDEM, but I was a little frustrated that I caught maybe 20% of the talks I actually wanted to see. I didn't even get into the PostgreSQL room, despite turning up 15 minutes early for one of the talks.
That said, just complaining about a free conference on Hacker News won't help. I'd like to do my part and help by donating, but only accepting wire transfers is a lot more friction that it should be :(
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I think it's outgrown the university though. It's practically impossible to get into the developer rooms unless you arrive early and camp there all day.
I agree. It was my first FOSDEM, but I was a little frustrated that I caught maybe 20% of the talks I actually wanted to see. I didn't even get into the PostgreSQL room, despite turning up 15 minutes early for one of the talks.
That said, just complaining about a free conference on Hacker News won't help. I'd like to do my part and help by donating, but only accepting wire transfers is a lot more friction that it should be :(
They take cash there in person I think.
Yeah, when I was trying to get out of the Go dev room on Sun, I was nearly pushed back in by the hoards that were trying to get into it.