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| 2 | +layout: post |
| 3 | +title: "FOSDEM - 2024" |
| 4 | +subtitle: "Code and Waffles, again!" |
| 5 | +date: 2024-02-07 21:00:00 |
| 6 | +categories: [events] |
| 7 | +--- |
| 8 | +# The Trip |
| 9 | +FOSDEM is one of the largest open source conventions out there, its been tradition for CompSoc to travel there each year for a while now and this year was no different. We started organising mid October and by the time the trip came round we had **29 people** ready to go, essentially twice the number compared to last year. |
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| 11 | +We split across two hostels, [Sleep Well](https://www.booking.com/hotel/be/sleep-well-youth-hostel.html) and [Condo Gardens](https://www.booking.com/hotel/be/citygardensflats.en-gb.html). Both relatively central. These two groups stayed apart for most of the trip, each run by two or so committee members, making organisation a lot easier. |
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| 13 | +# Days |
| 14 | +Day one was spent travelling from the University, the computing department paid for a coach to Manchester airport and from there we flew to Brussels arriving for 9am (having left at 1am!). We had a whole day free so explored [The Atomium](https://atomium.be/home/Index), ate food and rested. The Atomium had a jaw-dropping light show inside which kept a lot of us in there for almost an hour. |
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| 21 | +Next two days followed with FOSDEM itself, this involved talks, stalls and socialising, with days ending with resting in [delurium](https://www.deliriumvillage.com/bar/delirium-cafe/) for some and tourism for others. The talks students went to ranged from low-level compiler and kernel work to higher level web or python work. Students spent most of their time in talks on |
| 22 | +- Mobile Development |
| 23 | +- Emulation |
| 24 | +- GCC and its inner workings |
| 25 | +- Archiving and data storage |
| 26 | +- Embedded systems programming |
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| 28 | +A number of students spent full days in one room, watching all the talks on a set subject they were interested in learning more about, this was true for Mobile Development and Emulation. |
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| 33 | +Day four left us with a free day for exploring, students went to museums, shopping centres and park. One group organised to take part in an escape room and another travelled to a car museum. We then slept relatively early for a 5am journey home. |
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| 40 | +# Notes for next year |
| 41 | +- Wolf Food Sharing Market is somewhere worth considering for food, they could reserve for 30 and have a large range of food types for all dietary requirements |
| 42 | +- Eurostar could definitely have been a possible alternative to taking a plane. Price wise they didn't end up much different outside of transport to London which could have been paid for by the uni since they paid for the coach this year. |
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