Convener: Evan Prodromou (@evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org)

Participants who chose to record their names here:

• James Marshall (@jamesmarshall@sfba.social, james@jmarshall.com)
• Matthias Pfefferle (@pfefferle@mastodon.social)
• Hannah Aubry, (@haubles@hachyderm.io)
• Mark Corbett Wilson (@mcorbettwilson@mastodon.social)
• Saskia Welch (@saskia@newsmast.social)
• Luis Quintanilla (www.lqdev.me, @lqdev@toot.lqdev.tech, @lqdev.me)
• Ian Forrester (@cubicgarden@mas.to)
• Charles Iliya Krempeaux (@reiver@mastodon.social)

Notes

• EP: FOSDEM is huge Free and Open Source grass-roots event.
• EP: What kept people from coming?
  • distance
  • price
• EP: What was good?
  • UJ: scale
  • MP: meeting in person
  • SW: people
• EP: What was a problem?
  • UJ: Running a lot between spaces
  • SW: Sitting in the lecture theatre on tech stuff got kind of repetitive, inject more fun into it
  • HA: Injecting more fun, is it a good time to work more directly together?
  • EP: Too much programming in one place
  • MP: More discussion space
  • MP: Side event for having a beer and hanging out
  • IF: You had to know about the off-site event
  • IF: No seats!
  • IF: Multiple streams
• EP: What happens next year?
  • UJ: Great to hear non-mainstream platforms, like Funkwhale
  • HA: More community talks, more about people problems, non-technical talks
  • EP: more fediverse presense at EU Open Source Week — get fedi advocates there
  • Ian thinks theres an opportunity to test a event alongside different kind of events, backed up by Hannah who suggested moving away from dev events
  • Figure Digital
• EP: What other events can we pair with?
  • IF: More of a package that you could replicate in future events
  • IF: Re:Publica, Mastodon party
• Evan considers tech celebs could be a good way to go?
• HA: What is a brand or company that has adopted the fediverse?
  • UN Open Source
  • PublicSpaces.net - Conference is June 2026
  • Society 5.0
  • WebSummit - Possible due to the startup summit?
  • Flipboard might be interested to do something
• LQ: Similar conferences in the Americas?
  • https://www.oreilly.com/conferences/oscon.html