[HLUG] FOSDEM

[Ceri Williams]

The seating is much more comfortable this year, (hopefully) no issues 
with full room signs, so you might find the following useful to find what 
you want to watch:

Giggity (Schedule viewer for conferences and other events) - 
https://f-droid.org/packages/net.gaast.giggity

(also available via Play Store)

Enjoy FOSDEM 21!

4 Feb 2021 18:39:08 Julian Robbins via Herefordshire 
<herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>:

> 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