-------------------------------------------- Planning FOSDEM 2020.01.05 20:17:39 CET -------------------------------------------- This year I will be attending FOSDEM [0] again. I have booked tick and hotel. Now I have to plan what do, what talks to watch, which devrooms to visit and other side events to see. This year I'm excited to watch the Decentralized Internet and Priv devroom [1]. Most, if not all, of the talks in this devroom in pas years were very anti-GAFAM [2]. Of course I agreed with many of th arguments made against Google in particular, but I still had a ver positive bias towards the company. Unfortunately this positive mindset has changed: I don't have a negative bias, but I'm not so excited about the company anymore and share some of the concerns I rejected in the past. Let's see how this change of mind impacts my perception of the arguments presented. The sad news is that both Go [3] and BSD [4] devrooms will also happen on Sunday, so I'll have to watch the video recordings of th talks. What about Saturday? I'm still not sure, some things caught my attention: the Free Software Radio [5] and the Graph Systems and Algorithms [6] devrooms. There is also the Retrocomputing [7] one. What about people? I have some friends who are attending. Anyone f the gopherspace heading there? Please let me know! [0] https://fosdem.org/2020/ [1] https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/decentralized_internet_ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_tech_companies [3] https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/go/ [4] https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/bsd/ [5] https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/free_software_radio/ [6] https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/graph_systems_and_algor [7] https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/retrocomputing/