[HLUG] FOSDEM

[Julian Robbins]

Hi All

Couple of things to mention that may be of interest, i'll put the other one
on a separate post

Firstly, it's FOSDEM this weekend.

This was sent via the Lugmaster list

  https://fosdem.org/

Normally a large UK contingent travels to Brussels, but this year it's all
happening online.

Please spread the word and join in!

After a lot of debate we opted to use the matrix platform with
customisations that embed streams of videos and live moderated jitsi calls.
Each talk has 3 phases.
- A pre-recorded video, streamed widely.
- Moderated Q&A where a host asks the speaker questions based on what
  was submitted in the chat during the broadcast.  This is also streamed
  widely.
- Hallway discussion afterwards where attendees can join the speaker in
  a jitsi call (while the next talk begins in the live stream).

You can just watch the broadcasts from live.fosdem.org, or participate
in the text chat via freenode #fosdem-* or the video chat via matrix
chat.fosdem.org.  Or catch up on the videos afterwards.

Julian