Wow, what an amazing weekend!  The Free and Open source Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM) has been an event that I had heard about for quite a few years, but the opportunity to attend as part of the Mozilla team was awesome. The team was split between a talk room (which from all reports was very busy) and manning a stand in one of the exhibition spaces.

As a member of the Support team at Mozilla, it was great to be able to talk and meet with so many users. As the doors opened each day, you could see people heading straight towards us, keen to learn about what we are working on (and I guess to get some very special stickers!). Having a copy of Firefox Reality (our browser for VR headsets) on my phone really helped and I was able to help people with Firefox on various platforms.

I thoroughly recommend any members of the free and open-source community try to get to FOSDEM. It is understated, with a very home-made feel, but at the same time, many big software players are keen to be there to provide a forum where many ideas collide. For all the “this distro is better than that distro” you hear about in open source, FOSDEM is a place where we are all in it together.